Nishant Jayaswal
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Portfolio · 2011 → 2026
Brand at the intersection of
craft
and
scale
.
I.
PRISM
era
2022 → Present
01
PRISM
Rebranding OYO as a global house of brands, in a category that punishes any move that confuses the customer.
2024
Corporate rebrand
Global
↗
02
Motel 6
Post-acquisition brand integration across a six-decade American brand — $5M+ in annual savings, year one.
2023 – 24
Integration & campaign
United States
↗
03
Sunday
A new premium hotel brand, built around the insight that modern breaks are defined by weekends. From one to 200+ properties across nine countries.
2023 – 24
Brand launch
UK · UAE · ID · MY · IN
↗
04
CheckIn
A premium collection brand designed to extend OYO's leadership beyond the budget core into higher-ARR segments.
2023 – 24
Brand launch
Global
↗
05
AI-first
Rebuilding the global brand organisation around AI-native workflows. 80% cost out, 90%+ team retention, faster shipping across 35+ countries.
2024 – 25
Operating model
Global
↗
06
Belvilla
Vacation rental brand for the European market — 80,000+ unique holiday homes, positioned on distinctive character rather than generic inventory.
2022 – 23
Brand integration
Europe
↗
II.
OYO
era
2017 → 2022
07
India's second home
The repositioning that turned OYO from a booking app into infrastructure for daily life — test prep, jam sessions, me time, quiet time. Award-winning work.
OYO era
Repositioning
India · Malaysia · Indonesia
↗
08
OYO Rooms → OYO
A concerted digital rebrand plus left-of-centre influencer work — turning OYO Rooms into a sassier, younger, more contemporary version of itself.
OYO era
Digital rebrand
Global
↗
09
#KyaBaatKarRaheHo
The India campaign that rewrote how OYO showed up in family conversations — with local-language variants across India and Indonesia.
OYO era
Integrated campaign
India · Indonesia
↗
10
OYO US launch
Zero TV spend. Four newly minted YouTube influencers. A stateside foray that got a young Snap-happy audience to notice a brand no one had heard of.
OYO era
Market launch
United States
↗
11
Sanitized Before Your Eyes
Two pandemic-era interventions — the in-hotel hygiene commitment that became a retention strategy, and OYO CARE, a newspaper-as-DIY-health-kit that reached 8.3 million readers.
2020 – 21
Crisis brand response
Global
↗
12
Gender
Righting a category bias inside the OYO brand — from casting to call scripts. Not a campaign. A multi-year discipline.
OYO era
Brand-inside-out
India
↗
13
Sub-brands
Nine curated stay concepts — Townhouse, Silverkey, Times Square, Vegas — that quietly seeded the eventual house-of-brands model.
OYO era
Brand architecture
Global
↗
14
OYO Wizard
Loyalty programme for value seekers — 9.5 million sign-ups since day one. The launch template that OYO replicated for every consumer product after.
OYO era
Loyalty programme
India
↗
III.
Wieden+Kennedy
era
2014 → 2017
15
The W+K years
Brand planning across Nike, Audi, IndiGo, and DBS. Foundational grounding in insight-led strategy, cultural signal, and internet-native brand building.
2014 – 17
Brand planning
India
↗
IV.
Foundation
years
2011 → 2013
16
FCB Ulka & Mullen Lowe
Management Trainee to Account Executive. Training in account management and integrated brand communications across Indian consumer categories.
2011 – 13
Account management
India
↗
V.
Recognition
along the way
4A's Jay Chiat
2022 Grand Prix and three Gold — strategic excellence, judged by the North American planning community.
WARC Effectiveness
Silver, Sustained Growth — for work that moved the numbers over time, not in a single quarter.
Effie India
Seven metals across categories — effectiveness recognised by the Indian marketing community.
Kyoorius Design Awards
Thirty-six elephants — for craft in identity, campaign, and integrated brand work.
Sammies
Four Gold — for excellence in marketing communications across the Indian subcontinent.
Currently
VP & Global Brand Head at PRISM.
Get in touch
nishantjayaswal@gmail.com
+91 98107 75409
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Delhi, India