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MindShare Fulcrum has appointed Rajni Menon as Trading Services Director. An alumni of MICA, she has created enviable body of work across trading and commuication planning. Having worked on successful brands like Pepsi, Motorola, Coke and Maruti, among others, Menon brings rich and diversified experience.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 1:32 PM

Uditanshu Mehta has been appointed by SAB, the Hindi GEC youth channel, as Programming Head. Mehta has over 12 years of experience in the television industry. Prior to this, he was with UTV as Assistant VP, responsible for developing and executing all types of shows on air. He started his career as a freelancer for fiction and non-fiction shows. After that he moved to Miditech as Producer.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 1:31 PM

Leendert de Voogd has been appointed Global Sector Head of TNS's Political and Social sector. Based in Brussels, he will be responsible for driving sector business growth and leveraging the strengths of the expert teams around the world. De Voogd has spent the last four years as MD of TNS Opinion, TNS's Political and Social co-ordination centre which runs the Eurobarometer, a major public opinion tracking service for the European Commission. TNS is a global market insight and information group.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 1:30 PM

Global public relations and public affairs consultancy Burson-Marsteller has appointed Simon Pangrazio as President and CEO, Asia-Pacific, effective from January 1, 2008. Pangrazio, who has been with the firm for 11 years, will report to CEO Mark Penn, and will be part of the company's global leadership team. He succeeds Bill Rylance, who becomes Chairman, Asia-Pacific, and the company's Vice-Chairman for Global Development. Pangrazio is based in Hong Kong and will assume leadership of the firm's wholly owned network of offices throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The network includes offices in India, Singapore, Indonesia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Australia.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 1:29 PM

Varun Mehta, who had quit Rediffusion DYR in July 2007, has now joined Mudra as Creative Director. Mehta will report to Rajesh Sonawane, Executive Creative Director, Mudra. Prior to Rediffusion, Mehta had worked with JWT for a year and has experience of handling projects like Airtel, Indian Airlines, Bacardi and Day One. At Mudra, he would be working on brands such as Star News and Philips.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 1:27 PM

Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the world’s luxury product group with more than 50 of the world's largest and oldest luxury brands, has appointed Manishi Sanwal as General Manager, LVMH Watch & Jewellery India Pvt. Ltd, responsible for the Indian and Southern Asian markets (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Sanwal has been with LVMH since 2002. He was Brand Manager for TAG Heuer in India and then moved to China as Brand Manager, TAG Heuer China. He has earlier worked in various capacities in Larsen & Toubro, Swatch Group and Samsung.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 1:25 PM

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced four new Corporate Members – Microsoft, Deutsche Welle, Providence Equity Partners and US-based religious TV network TBN – along with one upgraded membership from Corporate to Patron status.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 9:06 AM

Nielsen and Google have announced a multi-year, strategic relationship to bring demographic data to the Google TV Ads advertising platform. Through this tie-up, Google intends to provide advertisers and agencies with comprehensive information to help them create better ads for viewers, and maximise the return on their advertising spends.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 9:05 AM

Microsoft has announced its plans to acquire a $240-million equity stake in Facebook. The companies are also expanding their multi-year advertising deal to cover international markets and make Microsoft the exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for the online social network.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 9:04 AM

Tata Indicom is on a rebranding drive and has adopted some innovative marketing strategies to build the brand further. The telecom company is revamping its retail network and re-energising the brand experience. Moreover, Tata Indicom is now all set to paint the town blue in a bid to communicate its rebranding exercise.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 9:02 AM

id8labs, an interactive and digital marketing services company, has acquired the business franchise of eDesign Tree Inc in India and is looking forward to partnering with eDesign to launch id8labs in the US. Amit Shrivastava, Co-founder of eDesign Tree, will now be the CEO of id8labs Inc.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 9:01 AM

UTV Software Communications Ltd has reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 176 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, up 335 per cent from Rs 40.37 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. The jump has been due to the strong growth in the movie business as revenue, too, has jumped 89 per cent to Rs 735.2 million.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 8:59 AM

The Walt Disney Company (India) has appointed Mahesh Samat as Managing Director. Samat will be based in Mumbai and will report to Andy Bird, President, Walt Disney International.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 8:57 AM

STAR India has promoted Uday Shankar as CEO, and Jagdish Kumar as COO. The announcement was made by STAR CEO Paul Aiello, who has also been serving as CEO of STAR India. Shankar who joined STAR India as COO in May 2007, will assume the CEO role with immediate effect, and will be responsible for STAR's overall business in India. Shankar will report to Aiello.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 8:56 AM

As Delhi gets ready for the 3rd Vodafone Delhi Half Marathon, where nearly 28,000 participants are expected to take part, title sponsor Vodafone Essar has been on an overdrive to promote the mega event since its re-branding from the earlier Hutch.

Tuhina Anand Oct 26, 2007 8:54 AM

Percept Knorigin and Adify have come together for creating vertical ad network, adChakra.net. The network will be used to create scalable and targetable advertising, and sponsorship opportunities for advertisers.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 8:53 AM

It was a blot on Gujarat and still horrifies Indians with the brutality unleashed. The 2002 Godhra riots are once again in the spotlight, thanks to a special exposé by Tehelka. Carried out over the last six months, the sting op is being aired on Aaj Tak and Headlines Today over three days starting October 25. A special Tehelka issue on the Godhra sting is hitting the newsstands today, October 26.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 8:51 AM

A compact version of the Hindi daily Amar Ujala has been launched in Kanpur. The publication Group has identified a clear segment of readers following a test launch in the city. The price of the compact version has also been kept lower as compared to the competitors, at Re 1.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 8:50 AM

Prasoon Joshi, Executive Chairman, McCann Erickson India, has been elevated to Regional Executive Creative Director-Asia Pacific. He was previously Regional CD for South & South-East Asia. Joshi now will hold creative charge of all McCann operations in Asia Pac.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 8:48 AM

Ten Sports has announced it has won the telecast rights of all international cricket matches played in South Africa and Zimbabwe for markets in Asia, including India and Pakistan, and the Middle East. With this, half the Test playing nations will feature live and exclusive on the channel.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 8:47 AM

In a bid to consolidate its resource tank, MPG India has made senior level appointments. Hema Ravikumar joins MPG-South as Vice-President, while Ronak Motta has been appointed as General Manager of Havas Entertainment.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 8:45 AM

Following the recent restructuring at Carat India, which saw PV Narayanmoorthy taking over as MD, Carat India has announced the appointment of Radhesh Uchil as General Manager (West & South). In this new position, Uchil will undertake the running of the Mumbai and southern operations of Carat.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 8:44 AM

The surcharge issue of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation’s (IBF) saw one day without advertising on top channels. While this spoke volumes about the IBF’s seriousness on this issue, a survey from Lintas Media Group’s Intellect shows that the brand recall of advertisers was not affected despite the one-day blip in advertising.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 26, 2007 8:43 AM

Indian creativity is a beacon of light for us. Right now India is the highest award winning country for us. Ideas require leap and good strategic foundation. India is now exporting creative product, leadership and influencing our global platform.

exchange4media Staff Oct 26, 2007 12:00 AM