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The IRS 2010 Q1 data sees most of the Top 20 dailies register growth, with just six dailies witnessing a decline in AIR (Average Issue Readership). Dainik Jagran maintains its leadership position. The Times of India and Hindustan Times are the only English dailies in the Top 20 dailies list.
Shanta Saikia May 5, 2010 8:54 AM
Xanadu Consulting Group Pvt Ltd, touted as India’s only executive search services group focused purely on media and advertising, turned eight on April 8, 2010. Going forward, the group plans to consolidate the market that it services and build on the philosophy of empowering media organisations and building great careers.
Shanta Saikia Apr 9, 2010 8:58 AM
Kushal Sanghvi has joined StratosHear as Executive Director - Business Development, Media and Alliances. He came on board on April 7, 2010 and is in the process of settling in. Sanghvi moves from Media Contacts, where he was Managing Director. In his new role, Sanghvi will be responsible for forging alliances with telecom companies to grow the business.
Shanta Saikia Apr 8, 2010 8:45 AM
Close on the heels of the General Motors win, Madison Media has added another large business to its kitty – Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd (STFC), India’s largest player in commercial vehicle finance. The size of the business is approximately worth Rs 50 crore. It is for the first time that the business has been consolidated to a media AOR.
Shanta Saikia Apr 7, 2010 8:52 AM
Coca-Cola India has come up with a unique initiative for its energy drink Burn. Christened ‘Burn Curate’, this initiative seeks to provide an opportunity for young students of fashion designing to show their creative abilities. The winning design will be displayed at the Wills India Fashion Week (WIFW) - March 2010 Season across five days and will be entitled to a cash prize of Rs 50,000
Shanta Saikia Mar 17, 2010 9:43 AM
The year couldn’t have started on a better note for Pinstorm. The Mumbai-headquartered digital brand management firm has been awarded the Red Herring Global Top 100 Award at a ceremony in San Diego, USA, on January 16, 2010. An elated Mahesh Murthy, Founder, Pinstorm, shares his firms plans for the year ahead and the key focus areas in an exclusive conversation with exchange4media.
Shanta Saikia Jan 19, 2010 7:53 AM
As I sit down to write about my wishes for 2010 amid fireworks going off around me as people ring in the New Year, all I can think about is that may 2010 keep bringing in fireworks of the ‘news’ kind – good news of course. It’s been a while since we’ve had some consistent good news in the industry, says Shanta Saikia.
Shanta Saikia Jan 1, 2010 9:36 AM
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, IBN Network, has been re-elected President of the Editors Guild of India for a second term at the elections held in the Capital on December 22, 2009. Coomi Kapoor, a columnist with The Indian Express Group, has been elected the General Secretary. Rohit Bansal has been re-elected the Treasurer for yet another term.
Shanta Saikia Dec 23, 2009 7:43 AM
Is e-Commerce driving value for customers came up for some deliberation at the National Conference on Digital Commerce, held in Delhi on November 27, 2009. Some of the questions that were raised included whether digital commerce companies were a making a difference to online Indians, and whether they were creating enough trust among customers.
Shanta Saikia Nov 30, 2009 9:01 AM
The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2009 R2 data, released on November 23 show The Times of India pipping Hindustan Times to the post in Delhi and registering a 3.63 per cent growth in the average issue readership (AIR) numbers in the process. HT, on the other hand, has shown a decline of 2.86 per cent in its AIR.
Shanta Saikia Nov 25, 2009 8:08 AM
Focussing on bottomlines has become all the more important during the slowdown, or is it? The CEO Panel rounded up the two-day Indian Magazine Congress 2009, where industry honchos discussed at length ‘Is bottomline fixation here to stay. The panel was moderated by Chris Llewellyn and had as it members Ashish Bagga, Hoshang Billimoria, Maneck Davar, Pheroza Billimoria, R Rajmohan and Smiti Kanodia.
Shanta Saikia Nov 7, 2009 10:58 AM
Alternate revenue streams have become important for magazines’ bottomlines and survival in these tough times. A session on this topic, moderated by exchange4media Group’s Anurag Batra, discussed the various streams at length. The panellists included Maheshwer Peri of Outlook Group, Shyam Malhotra of CyberMedia and WWM’s Tarun Rai. The session was the penultimate one on Day two of the Indian Magazine Congress. <br> <a href=http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/news/fullstory.asp?section_id=5&news_id=36393&tag=32417&pict=4 target= _blank><b>IMC 2009: MRUC & NRSC merger – What does mean for magazine publishers?</b></a> <br> <a href=http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/news/fullstory.asp?section_id=5&news_id=36390&tag=32411&pict=4 target= _blank><b>IMC 2009: ‘Magazine advertising is not about transferring TV content on magazine’</b></a> <br> <a href=http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/news/fullstory.asp?section_id=5&news_id=36391&tag=32412&pict=5 target= _blank><b>IMC 2009: In s
Shanta Saikia Nov 7, 2009 10:26 AM
Juan Senor of Innovation Media Consulting had several examples to share in his presentation on ‘Innovation in Magazines using Technologies’. Speaking on Day two of the Indian Magazine Congress 2009, Senor spoke not just about the ‘SOUL’ of the magazine business, but also explored the various ways in which to bring it out.
Shanta Saikia Nov 7, 2009 8:57 AM
IMC 2009: We in the Govt need to be more proactive & not let the magazine sector suffer: Ambika Soni
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni was quite upbeat about the Indian media industry at her special address to the distinguished gathering at the fifth Indian Magazine Congress, being held in Delhi on November 5-6, 2009. She went as far as to state that the growth of the Indian media and entertainment industry had surpassed that of the Indian economy’s growth.
Shanta Saikia Nov 6, 2009 10:47 AM
Bosco D'mello has joined Lintas Media Group (LMG) as Executive Vice-President. He will be heading LMG's Mumbai operations. D'mello will partner NP Sathyamurthy, President & COO of Lintas Media Group, to elevate LMG's offering to the next level to their clients. His last stint was as Head of Marketing & Communications at Reliance Money, the broking and financial services arm of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
Shanta Saikia Oct 22, 2009 8:19 AM
Bosco D’mello has joined Lintas Media Group (LMG) as Executive Vice-President. He will be heading LMG’s Mumbai operations. D’mello will partner NP Sathyamurthy, President & COO of Lintas Media Group, to elevate LMG’s offering to the next level to their clients. His last stint was as Head of Marketing & Communications at Reliance Money, the broking and financial services arm of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
Shanta Saikia Oct 21, 2009 10:26 AM
Close on the heels of a major redesign initiative for the CNN International channel, plans are on for redesigning the CNN website as well, which is expected to be unveiled in about two weeks’ time. William Hsu, VP – News Advertising Sales for Asia Pacific, CNN International, explains more on the organisation’s new media plans and more.
Shanta Saikia Oct 19, 2009 8:02 AM
The various offices of Lintas Media Group have been adding new businesses in recent times. Close on the heels of Bangalore, the agency’s Kolkata and Chennai offices, too, are on an account winning spree adding on clients like Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd, Amrit Group of Companies, etc.
Shanta Saikia Oct 6, 2009 7:28 AM
Sruti Mass Communications, a Kolkata-based agency, has recently bagged the advertising duties for Paharpur Cooling Towers following a pitch call. The agency will be undertaking complete brand profiling and refocusing its advertising strategy and spending to provide more visibility to its huge brand equity.
Shanta Saikia Sep 8, 2009 8:13 AM
The Indian media and advertising industry garnered just Rs 7,452 crore in the first half of 2009, according to the Mid-Term Review of the Pitch Madison Media Advertising Outlook 2009. Internet was the only media format to record growth in H1. However, Sam Balsara, Chairman, Madison Media, is upbeat and expects the industry to net Rs 12,325 crore in the second half.
Shanta Saikia Sep 2, 2009 8:34 AM
ACK Media, one of India’s leading entertainment and education companies for young audiences, and Turner International have entered into a strategic content partnership to produce two animated films and 26 half-hour episodes of the Amar Chitra Katha stories. The first of the two films is slated to be aired in the first quarter of 2010.
Shanta Saikia Aug 7, 2009 8:20 AM
Raghu Menon has taken charge as the new Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) from July 6, 2009. Menon, a 1974 batch IAS officer of the Nagaland cadre, takes charge from Tourism Secretary Jawahar Sircar, who had been holding additional charge of MIB.
Shanta Saikia Jul 8, 2009 7:38 AM
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has listened to the media industry’s demand and abolished fringe benefit tax (FBT) in his Budget speech at Parliament on July 6, 2009. However, a duty of 5 per cent has been imposed on import of set-top boxes.
Shanta Saikia Jul 7, 2009 8:47 AM
It was an exciting day at exchange4media to have two international advertising stalwarts – Jack Klues and David Kenny – guest edit the website and interact with the team here on April 2, 2009. Both have been keenly following the Indian market for long and have some very interesting observations to share about the Indian market as well as the global scenario.
Shanta Saikia Apr 3, 2009 8:32 AM
In probably a first of its kind development, Warner Bros Entertainment Inc has issued a public notice against remaking its 2006 Oscar winner ‘The Departed’. The notice appeared in a leading national daily on March 3 and does not name any specific person/s, who are producing a film in Hindi based on ‘The Departed’.
Shanta Saikia Mar 4, 2009 8:14 AM
The Lok Sabha poll dates have been announced and this year, two of the three pet passions of Indians will collide – politics and cricket. While the five-phased polls will be held between April 16 and May 13, the Indian Premier League Season two is slated to be held between April 10 and May 24.
Shanta Saikia Mar 4, 2009 8:06 AM
It was an ‘inauguration’ as spectacular as it was historic – Barack Hussein Obama taking oath as the first African-American President of the US on January 20. Media went on an overdrive to air the ceremony live from Capitol Hill, with all news channels in India beaming the same images simultaneously.
Shanta Saikia Jan 21, 2009 7:23 AM
From providing innovative solutions to social issues like caste conflict and education for all, Idea Cellular has taken forward its ‘social advertising’ on a grand scale, wherein a minister solicits the public’s opinion on important issues. Truly a democratic ‘idea’. With 2009 being an election year, the latest Idea campaign is resonating in an unusual way.
Shanta Saikia Jan 7, 2009 6:53 AM
This is my fourth year with exchange4media, and what a time it has been! I head the news desk here and have my hands full editing and rewriting copies, meeting deadlines. Some say a desk person’s job is a thankless one. My reward is seeing the clicks go up and the reporter getting easy access to more news on the basis of his/ her report.
Shanta Saikia Jan 1, 2009 7:52 AM
In keeping with its motto of ‘Local people, local choice, local voice’, Radio Misty has joined hands with the Jalpaiguri and Coochbehar police for the Police Friendship Cup football tournament involving the local teams of these two districts. The on ground event has generated quite a buzz for Radio Misty, which has been airing live match updates.
Shanta Saikia Dec 25, 2008 7:13 AM
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