Date-wise News

Pankaj Shukla, former Executive Producer, MH1 News, has joined BAG’s upcoming channel Entertainment 24 as Output Editor. He will be based in Mumbai. After his stint with MH1 News, Shukla moved to the big screen for some time. His debut film as director, ‘Bhole Shankar’, is almost complete and is slated to release in the coming summer. He has previously worked for Zee News as Programming Head and as Associate Editor, Pio TV.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 11:45 AM

Vikram Kharvi has joined Adfactors PR as Senior Account Manager for technology and communications practice. He will be handling clients like Infrasoft Technologies, Rolta India, 24 x7 Learning and Teradata. Prior to joining Adfactors PR, he was with Sampark PR for a year and Reheja Resort as PR Executive in 2005 for two years. He has 10 years of experience in media, starting his career with a small advertising company, Spotsol, in Mumbai. Kharvi later moved to journalism with the shipping weekly ‘Marex Bulletin’. In 2002, he had started a monthly magazine ‘Shipping Today’.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 11:44 AM

Akash Das has joined Publicis Ambience as Senior Creative Director. He will report to Publicis Ambience’s NCDs Ashish Khazanchi and Prasanna Sankhe. Prior to this, he was with Rediffusion DY&R. He has 10 years of experience in advertising. Das started his career at Capital Advertising in Delhi in 1999 as a Visualiser. He spent a year there, moving as Art Director to Leo Burnett in 2000. In 2001, he joined O&M Delhi as Art Director. In 2004, he moved to Saatchi & Saatchi, Delhi, as Group Creative Head for a short period of time. In 2005, he moved to Rediff as Associate Creative Director and went on to become Creative Director.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 11:43 AM

Bhawana Somaaya, who has more than two decades of film journalism experience, is now set to explore the television industry. She is joining Swastik Pictures as Creative Consultant & Head, New Business Development. Somaaya has been associated with magazines like ‘Super’, ‘Movie’ and ‘Chitralekha’ over the years. She has written six books: ‘Amitabh Bachchan-The Legend’, ‘Salaam Bollywood’, ‘Take-25’, ‘The Story So Far’, ‘Cinema Images & Issues’, and the authorized biography of Hema Malini. Her last assignment was as Editor of Screen, the film weekly of the Indian Express Group.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 11:42 AM

Grace Fernandes is all set to join Madison Media as Buying Director from February 25, 2008. Fernandes has over 17 years of experience in the media business -- the last six months of which have been with OMD, the recently launched media brand from Omnicom. Prior to that, she has been with MediaCom for close to 12 years, and before that with Triton. Fernandes stated that her decision to move to Madison was to handle a wider base of clients. She said, "I have had wonderful bosses at OMD, and I am taking a lot of learning from here. And I am looking forward to a new innings at Madison." Fernandes has worked on brands like Johnson & Johnson, Gujarat Ambuja, Parle-Agro and Maxwell amongst others. At Madison, she would be reporting to Harsha Joshi, COO, Buying and Content, Madison Media.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 11:41 AM

Cutting Underperforming Brands, 15% of General Managers in Bid to Maintain Spending

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 6:41 AM

Microsoft India on February 21, 2008 announced the launch of its Microsoft Digital Advertising Platform, which aims to simplify the processes of advertising online and also provides advertisers an opportunity to reach out to a diverse and high quality audience.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 22, 2008 6:36 AM

Chennai-based communication design shop be positive 24 has bagged the business of Fomra Housing & Infrastructure. The Fomra Group, a 50-year old company with an annual turnover of Rs 100 crore, is a leader in industrial, commercial and residential electrical solutions. Now the Group is diversifying into other business interests.

exchange4media Chennai Bureau Feb 22, 2008 6:35 AM

Business Standard Ltd, which has been on an expansion spree recently, seeks to further consolidate its presence in North India, launching its Hindi business daily in Chandigarh on February 21, 2008. As with the Delhi, Mumbai and Lucknow editions, the Chandigarh edition is also priced at Rs 2 and would be circulated six days a week.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 6:33 AM

Integrated marketing agency iris has announced the appointment of Richard Bleasdale as CEO for the Asia Pacific region. Bleasdale is serving his notice period at DDB Group Singapore, where he is Group MD, along with being Managing Partner of Rapp Collins Asia Pacific. At iris, Bleasdale would be overseeing the Sydney, Delhi and Singapore operations, besides the opening of further offices in the region.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 6:31 AM

R Sundar has been promoted as CEO of Times Business Solutions Ltd (TBSL). He has been associated with the Times Group for over 27 years and has been responsible for driving several initiatives in the Group. He is currently, President, TBSL. Rajeev Gaur, another long-time member of the Times Group, has been elevated as COO of TBSL. He is currently Vice-President of TBSL.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 6:29 AM

Yellojobs.com, a professional network for career growth and opportunities, has come out with an interesting online viral video in sync with its referral networking programme.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 6:27 AM

Amit Varma has been roped in as CEO of Audience Measurement & Analytics Ltd (aMap). Raviratan Arora, Founder & Managing Director, aMAP has confirmed his appointment. Varma moves from Reliance Industries Ltd, where he was Country Lead-US, International Business.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 22, 2008 6:25 AM

Creative guru Nick Souter would be addressing a seminar titled ‘Right brain thinking for left brain people’ at the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (AdFest) 2008. The seminar would look at some of the tools that would help create correct environment for creativity in the industry and greater ‘Creative Democracy’.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Feb 22, 2008 6:23 AM

The 9th Marketing and Retail Conclave 2008 concluded on February 21 with an interesting discussion on whether brands and retail developers could be brothers in arms. The session summed up the three-day Conclave, which was organised by Technopak, and which brought together several industry leaders on a common platform.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 6:20 AM

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises, has been awarded the prestigious JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award. Mittal has been given this Award for his outstanding contribution to the Indian industry and for being a distinguished Corporate Leader who has consistently maintained exceptional standards in professional management.

exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Feb 22, 2008 6:19 AM

Kannada television channel Suvarna is initiating the ‘Suvarna Kannadiga’ Award to coincide with the Suvarna Karnataka celebrations. The Award would recognise outstanding contribution towards Karnataka in the fields of sports, literature, technology, health, philanthropy, business, arts and culture.

exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Feb 22, 2008 6:17 AM

MEC drives its business via communication planning not only in India but across all markets. This is with a view to driving revenue, and due to the fact that more and more clients are asking the agency to have an integrated plan that works across multiple channels of media. We also spend a lot of time and money on educating people and driving them along the curve of communication planning. It also helps in generating more revenue.

exchange4media Staff Feb 22, 2008 12:00 AM