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Publicis India has been appointed as the creative agency for travel portal Cleartrip.com following a multi-agency pitch. The two other agencies in the fray were Euro RSCG and TBWA. The account is pegged above Rs 15 crore. Beehive Communications was the incumbent agency.

Tasneem Limbdiwala Mar 28, 2007 1:49 PM

Roca has launched designer bathrooms through a 50:50 joint venture with Parryware. Roca’s designer bathrooms and high-end sanitary products can now be acquired through selected distributors in India’s main cities.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:54 AM

LG Electronics will be one of the official sponsors of the 60th Cannes Film Festival to be held from May 16-27 this year in Cannes, France. Supported by an impressive lineup of LG Full HD TV’s, LG will allow all attendees to feel at the centre of the action. TVs in sizes will be located at different areas of the palais des festival, displaying footage of nominated movies and event proceedings.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:52 AM

Confectionery major Candico is to expand its current range of products. It is eyeing entry into new product categories and to launch around seven new products this year.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:50 AM

BIG 92.7 FM has acquired the exclusive rights for Yash Raj Films’ forthcoming film ‘TaraRumPum’. There will be a weeklong build up prior to the launch of the music.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:48 AM

Zone Reality has announced that it will focus on localisation of the channel content to make it more appealing and relevant for the Indian audience. It will launch two locally produced shows that will go on air in June this year, and a new look will be given to the channel.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:46 AM

UTV launched its new business vertical, UTV Palador - a 360-degree initiative in world cinema under the brand name of ‘Olive Collection’ - on March 27. It will have the world’s largest library of world cinema under one roof, with over 1000 film titles from 20 countries that have won over 3000 (cumulative) awards including the likes of BAFTA, Cannes, Pusan, Berlin, Venice and Toronto

Tasneem Limbdiwala Mar 28, 2007 9:44 AM

After a stint of almost three years, the time since Walt Disney launched its India operations, Rajat Jain, Managing Director, Walt Disney Television India, has decided to move on.

Noor Fathima Warsia Mar 28, 2007 9:43 AM

The India Today Group is gearing up to launch a morning daily. In a strategic investment by a foreign media group, it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail of UK, to launch mainline newspapers in India.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:41 AM

Discussions on user-generated content (UGC) itself have been generating immense content over the past few days at the Ficci-Frames and a session on this saw panelists voicing opinions on the massive growth of this sector in India and elsewhere in the world.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:39 AM

The Indian media and entertainment industry, in particular the film entertainment sector, is evolving. There is no denying that. But growth today faces a two-way problem – roadblocks in growth and the problems that growth brings along. Producer-Director Shekhar Kapur, given his experience in India and evolved markets like the US, cautioned on these problems while Producer-Director Farhan Akhtar presented the Indian standpoint.

Noor Fathima Warsia Mar 28, 2007 9:38 AM

Regional cinema finds its appeal within a niche audience making it customised in many ways.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:37 AM

An argument was brewing deep as the stage saw the presence of five eminent speakers from tinsel town coming in from across the globe on the second day of Ficci-Frames 2007 and both the domestic and international perspectives led the chain of thought.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:36 AM

Piracy is a growing global epidemic and the proportion of the menace has reached such a critical point that the very existence of the global entertainment industry is at stake. This is the one point which all the speakers of a session on ‘Defending Intellectual Property: How Far Have We Succeeded?’ have subscribed to.

Judy Franko Mar 28, 2007 9:33 AM

TRAI is exploring the option of allowing voluntary implementation of CAS in non-notified areas following the success achieved in the notified areas of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. It has formed a 15-member consultative panel for the same.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:31 AM

Ogilvy & Mather India has announced two new appointments for its digital services. While Kaizad M Pardiwalla has been appointed President, OgilvyOne India, Prasanth Mohanachandran has been appointed as Executive Director-Digital Services and Neo@Ogilvy.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Mar 28, 2007 9:28 AM

Comics are getting digitised with the growing technological progresses around the world and with no concrete estimates and growth charts to ratify the domestic comics industry, the animation industry is also far from developed.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 9:26 AM

Key industry players and legal experts discuss the key issues regarding the licensing issues in the entertainment and media industry.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 8:57 AM

In this changing new media scenario of emerging distribution systems, the broadcast industry is being left with an interesting new challenge

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 8:56 AM

The converging world offers tremendous opportunities for creation and monetisation of content across various platforms, say industry experts

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 8:50 AM

Innovative marketing and promotional campaigns can be of little use unless they are fuelled with winning content, feel industry experts.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 8:48 AM

Yes, the nascent FM radio space in the country has been seeing galloping growth in the recent past, but has it really helped listeners, and especially in terms of innovative and differentiating content? Industry stakeholders and other stakeholders do not feel so.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 8:46 AM

An argument was brewing deep as the stage saw the presence of five eminent speakers from tinsel town coming in from across the globe on the second day of Ficci-Frames 2007 and both the domestic and international perspectives led the chain of thought.

exchange4media Staff Mar 28, 2007 8:45 AM

That piracy is a fast growing threat and menace is the one point that every stakeholder in the media and entertainment industry, cutting across the geographies

Judy Franko Mar 28, 2007 8:42 AM

Though the domestic media and entertainment industry in well on a growth path, it faces a two-way problem--restrains in the very growth and the problems that growth brings along, feels noted industry people.

Noor Fathima Warsia Mar 28, 2007 8:38 AM