KidZania, which has successfully established itself in Mumbai, is now all set to explore other metros in the country. Expanding its footprints in India, the brand has targeted Delhi NCR as their next destination. In a span of less than a year, KidZania has reached out to more and more children with their unique activities by providing interesting and innovative platforms.

In an exclusive interaction with Adgully, KidZania India spokesperson Viraj Jit Singh, Chief Marketing Officer briefed Star TV about the recent initiatives undertaken at KidZania.

At the onset Singh spoke about KidZania and the role it plays in shaping and developing the lives of children. “If we look at the concept of KidZania, it’s all about empowering, inspiring and educating children through real-life Role-Play experiences and we look at partnering brands that help bring realism and authenticity to our activities. This exceptional opportunity helps us in further building our promise of “real experience” and it allows kids to build self-confidence and encourages creativity in them,” he said.

On asking him their plans about their next activation he said, “Next we are establishing in Delhi-NCR and working closely with the IRPPL group at the entertainment city. We are still in the design phase and will start construction soon.”

KidZania Mumbai features premier global and local brands and their key industry partners include: Big Bazaar, Birla Sun Life Insurance, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Central, Coca-Cola, Godrej Security Systems, Hardy’s, Hyundai, Kellogg’s’ Chocos, Mad over Donuts, Radio City, Star India, Times of India and YES Bank.

“With partners like Star TV who have been there since the launch of KidZania we are planning take the kids experience to another level. All our initiatives have just closed the circle and it has empowered the children. All the activities which we carry out with our partners work well for us and for our partners as well,” added Singh.

Recently, KidZania collaborated with STAR Sports and co-created a unique platform for kids that helped in nurturing children’s self-confidence through exposure to a real-life TV show experience at Star India Studio, KidZania Mumbai.

Sharing more on the different kinds of interests kids have been developing at Kidzania, Singh explained, “It’s not like kids want to learn certain selective things and I wouldn’t say that its specific type of it. Children are different and their passion changes every single day or week. What we know is that, children like activities that allow them to feel like adults and make them take things seriously leading to a sense of accomplishment. It’s like a job where you get currency for work done which you can take to the departmental store and redeem for something you can take back. When child passion changes they tend to do something different.”

The entire activity at Kidzania makes children enjoy and learn new things in five hours set time and they are able to do around eight to nine activities. Since September 2013, children have participated in multiple repeat occasions like birthday parties and school trips with their families.

KidZania a destination for kids is also a great place for content generation. When asked whether they were planning to come up with their own kids channel in the near future, Singh replied, “Though we are in the business of entertainment, we are unfortunately not in the business of media. Many television channels have approached us to use KidZania as a destination to shoot whether it’s shooting films, programmes or ad films. We will start opening up to it soon but now we just want to establish our brand first. We will be not able to create content as we are not in that business but will have destination wherever we can. Star TV is our long term partner and I hope we can create other platforms too. It all depends upon the creative and content team. For us YouTube will be our channel where we will look at trying to create content from Kidzania about our brand and experience,” he answered.

Although strengthening the brand is priority at KidZania other forthcoming plans are also on the anvil. With regard to this Singh briefed, “For us I think one thing we eventually want to do is our activation called Kidzania Go, which allows you to take certain experience outside the centre. Our next stage is to take Kidzania to the people. It could be a small format activation in malls, schools or societies and eventually in the rest of Maharashtra and other states. We just did a big campaign to push the brand in summer where we used radio, OOH and digital and I think our major concern is to build the brand and take the experience out.”

Approximately 3L kids experience the activities at KidZania and it has been an immense achievement for the company to have managed to achieve sufficient success in India in a short period of time.