Mumbai: Online banking platform Fi has launched its latest campaign during the Indian Premier League (IPL) season with a difference. With disruptive thinking being at the core of startups like Fi, the neobank has come up with a fresh take on the conventional television commercial.

The campaign urging users to ‘save smart’ is a set of PowerPoint (PPT) presentations that air as ads that break the clutter. Built for the digital-first generation, Fi makes finance more accessible to users. The ad itself is focused on its target audience of upwardly mobile salaried millennials and working professionals who have been stuck at home creating PPT presentations for their work. Executed entirely on PPT, the campaign is live across Disney+ Hotstar, YouTube, and Instagram for the duration of the latest season of the IPL.  

“The IPL is a fairly high-decibel, high-energy event on TV. Brands (us included in the past) spend big money on producing and airing ads. We were looking at ways to say that Fi is a savings account that’s all about saving smart," stated Fi cofounder and CEO Sujith Narayanan. "Fi’s features help users save smart through unique and intuitive ways that users will enjoy. Our campaign sort of walks that talk, by airing the ad in the form of a presentation, a tool we’re more than familiar with by now thanks to working from home for a year and a half.”