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GoaFest 2010 is all set for the Creative Abby Awards, and has recently made a slew of appointments of the Jury Chairperson for the various awards categories. Piyush Pandey is Jury Chairman – Integrated. K V Sridhar, also known as Pops, will Chair the Print category. Elsie Nanji is Chairperson for Design. Bobby Pawar will Chair Out-of-Home and Ambient Media. Josy Paul is Jury Chairperson for Radio & Agnello Dias, also known as Aggie, will Chair the Film Jury.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 26, 2010 9:20 AM
ESPNcricinfo, in association with General Motors India, has launched ‘Legends of Cricket’, a series of videos portraying 25 of the greatest-ever cricketers to have played the game. Starting March 15, ESPNcricinfo will upload one video every alternate week for the next 50 weeks on www.cricinfo.com.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 18, 2010 10:12 AM
Hewlett-Packard (HP) India has appointed Rajiv Srivastava as its Chief Operating Officer. An industry veteran with 24 years of experience, Srivastava has had an illustrious career spanning varied industries.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 18, 2010 10:11 AM
After conducting the first ever ‘DQ, Will you Click’ quiz in Mumbai on March 11, the exchange4media Group conducted the second round in Bangalore on March 12. The Bangalore round was won by the Sun & TCS team. Winners of the Mumbai and Bangalore rounds will now compete against each other in the finals, which will be held in Delhi on March 19, 2010.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 13, 2010 7:25 AM
AdFest 2010, which was scheduled to take place in Thailand from March 18-20, 2010, has been postponed. The AdFest Working Committee is currently assessing alternative dates for the advertising event, which is likely to be rescheduled to take place in May 2010. The postponement follows news of a planned political rally in Thailand on March 14, which is expected to attract up to one million people to Bangkok.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 9, 2010 9:16 AM
The 9th Digital Roundtable, conducted by eBay, in association with IAMAI, in Bangalore, saw a stimulating conversation on ‘Harnessing the power of the web: Building brand and digital sales’. The panelists stressed that digital brought value to consumers and was about the complete brand experience.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 8, 2010 7:27 AM
Metro Cash & Carry India, the international B2B company focusing on wholesale, is moving beyond transactions to building relationships with its customers. Keeping this as its goal, it has launched Metro Bandhan, an exclusive loyalty programme. The programme is positioned at reiterating and strengthening Metro’s partnership with its customers by offering a range of privileges and value added services to the Metro Bandhan members.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 4, 2010 7:42 AM
Bharti Airtel has announced that Sanjay Kapoor, who has been elevated to CEO (India and South Asia), has taken charge of his new role from March 1, 2010. He was earlier supposed to take charge from April 1. The telecom major has also announced other senior level management elevations effective April 1.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 4, 2010 7:42 AM
Dentsu Communications has bagged the ‘Agency of the Year’ Award, while Titan Industries walked away with the ‘Client of the Year’ Award and Maxus pocketed the ‘Best Media Agency of the Year’ Award at Ad Club Bangalore’s Big Bang Awards 2010, held in Bangalore on February 26, 2010.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Mar 2, 2010 6:11 AM
The Advertising Club, Bangalore has concluded the judging process for the Big Bang 2010, the Awards for creative excellence in advertising and media. A panel of 15 judges judged the entries from over 37 organisations, which are participating in Big Bang 2010 across nine groups and 51 categories.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Feb 23, 2010 7:16 AM
The two-day Brand Summit 2010 of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) gets underway in Bangalore on February 19, 2010. The Summit this year focuses on the topic ‘Marketing Disruption: How will Brands woo Consumers in the Age of Discontinuity?’ The keynote address will be delivered by Adi Godrej, Chairman, Godrej Group.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Feb 19, 2010 7:40 AM
141Sercon, the below-the-line marketing agency, has won the mandate to organise the eighth edition of the Chennai Marathon. The event will be held on February 21, 2010. The marketing spends for the event are estimated at around Rs 3 crore.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Feb 17, 2010 7:13 AM
Sikkim Manipal University Directorate of Distance Education SMU DDE, the public private initiative of Manipal Education, has launched a massive ad campaign to promote distance education. The ad has been created, conceptualised and executed by O&M, Bangalore.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Feb 13, 2010 7:11 AM
CII is organising Brand Summit 2010, a two-day international conference on brand building, with the theme of ‘Marketing disruption: How will brands woo consumers in the age of discontinuity?’ at Bangalore on February19-20 to discuss the challenges faced by the industry in connecting with the customers.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Feb 13, 2010 7:05 AM
The Advertising Club, Bangalore has called for entries for its annual Big Bang Awards, for the creative and media work done by agencies between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. The awards are being sponsored by The Times of India Group for the third consecutive year.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Jan 25, 2010 7:29 AM
International Data Group (IDG) has launched its largest and most popular brand, ‘Computerworld’, in India. Present in over 60 countries, ‘Computerworld’ dates back to 1967. In India, the brand will serve the IT community through a dedicated website, www.computerworld.in that will report on critical updates from across the world of IT and host a range of comprehensive IT resources for its audience.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Jan 20, 2010 7:40 AM
Arindam Sarkar, formerly Senior Planning Director at Ogilvy Delhi, has joined BBDO India as Vice President, Strategic Planning. Ajai Jhala, CEO, BBDO India, has confirmed this development. In a parallel development, Sangeet Pillai, Director - Strategy Planning at BBDO India, is moving back to the US after completing a successful two-year stint with Omnicom’s youngest agency.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Jan 12, 2010 7:29 AM
Bangalore-based agency Happy has been entrusted with creative duties for Diesel in India. The globally renowned fashion label, celebrated for its outstanding and unconventional work, is entering the Indian market through a joint venture with Reliance Brands Ltd and will be known as Diesel Fashion India Reliance Pvt Ltd.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Jan 4, 2010 6:42 AM
Aimed at giving better insight into media services brands in India, the exchange4media Group has released the first edition of ‘exchange4media Indian Media Agency Report’. The report ranks agencies and advertisers according to their annual billings of the calendar year 2008-09 and spends looking at specific sectors.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Dec 30, 2009 8:22 AM
Radio Indigo has appointed a new team of executives in Bangalore. Carl Avari has been appointed as Vice-President - Operations of Radio Indigo. Avari will oversee operations in Bangalore as well as Goa. Also among the newly appointed is Stanley Simon, who would undertake all marketing activities in the station.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Dec 24, 2009 8:05 AM
Following a multi-agency pitch, Aditi Technologies has assigned its PR mandate to Hanmer MS&L Communications Pvt Ltd. The pitch had involved seven agencies and three rounds of selection.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Dec 12, 2009 8:46 AM
The Indian print industry, deemed as the second largest in the world, is expected to grow by an average of 14 per cent by 2015. The future will clearly belong to newer mediums like radio, outdoor and the Internet. Pegged as the medium of the future, online revenues alone are expected to touch Rs 18 billion by 2015. Radio is expected to account for 5 per cent of advertising all over India, whereas outdoor advertising, too, is expected to grow up to 17 per cent by 2015.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Dec 11, 2009 7:48 AM
The Media Market Guide India 2009 by the RK Swamy Media Group, the comprehensive pocket handbook, has now entered its twelfth successful year. Compiled by the Media Direction arm of RK Swamy BBDO, the Guide continues to be a valuable and handy reference book for media and advertising professionals.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Dec 10, 2009 8:25 AM
Ravi Deshpande, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Contract India, will be the Jury President for Direct Lotus at AdFest 2010. AdFest has also announced Sheung Yan Lo as Jury President for Outdoor. Washington Olivetto, President and Creative Director of Brazilian agency W/, has been selected as Grand Jury President at AdFest 2010.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Dec 8, 2009 7:22 AM
Forbes India recently unveiled its India Rich List in Bangalore with a panel discussion on the topic ‘Purpose of Wealth’. The Forbes India Rich list reveals that despite the sluggish economy last year, the combined net worth of India’s 100 richest people stood at $276 billion, which is almost a quarter of the country’s GDP.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Nov 21, 2009 7:59 AM
Carazoo.com has launched Turkey’s first new car portal with interactive animations. (www.arababul.com). The portal, launched on behalf of a client in Turkey, is currently in the beta stage. Carazoo received the mandate to design and develop the portal five months back. Carazoo also has the mandate to host and maintain the portal besides its regular updation.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Nov 20, 2009 8:04 AM
IndiaMART.com, an online B2B marketplace, has entered into a partnership with NDTV to launch an SME portal – www.NDTVSME.com. Powered by IndiaMART.com, this new portal will address the need for a destination portal providing information, transaction and services to the large SME segment.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Nov 20, 2009 7:47 AM
Ozone Media Solutions Pvt. Ltd, an ad network, has launched Eva, an ad channel to reach out to Indian women online. The Eva Channel has also forged a strategic alliance with About.com for exclusive inventory on its web site for India.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Nov 19, 2009 7:32 AM
Starcom Worldwide has roped in Sriram Sharma as General Manager to head its Bangalore operations. Sharma takes over from Ashwini Kamat, who moves on from the organisation after spending over eight years. Sharma’s last stint was with OnMobile Global, a VAS company in the mobile space.
exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Oct 22, 2009 8:34 AM
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