The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has elected its new body. Gujarat Samachar’s Bahubali Shah replaces Mumbai Samachar’s Hormusji Nusserwanji Cama as President. Delhi Press’ Paresh Nath has been elected Deputy President.
Publicis Groupe has acquired majority stake in Delhi-based Capital Advertising. Capital will continue to operate autonomously, but will be aligned with the Asia operations of Publicis Worldwide. Capital’s founding Directors Sunil Sachdeva and Prasad Subramaniam will report to Matthew Godfrey, CEO, Publicis Asia.
Cellphone Maker Buys Enpocket With Eye on Mobile Marketing's Potential Windfall
Komli, a display ad network, has launched Search RePlay, an innovative solution that retargets users with the advertisers’ ads on Komli’s display network once the user has already clicked on the advertiser’s search ad.
Arms Communications has entered into a joint venture with K&L Inc to facilitate the latter’s entry into the Indian market. The new entity, K&L Arms, will be launched by October-end 2007 after the completion of all formalities of the JV.
With Mumbai and rest of the country celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi, Star Gold is gearing up to premiere the movie ‘My Friend Ganesha’ on September 23 at 1 pm. The channel has embarked on a series of marketing and promotional activities to create a buzz for the movie.
Disney has planned new programming initiatives. The channel has aired a new show ‘Johnny and the Sprites’ that premiered on September 17. While under its Jetix time band, the channel will premiere the film ‘Flubber’ on September 23.
Vikram Raizada, former Marketing Head of the Murjani Group, has joined IMG India as Vice-President and Head of Fashion. He will be reporting to Managing Director Balu Nayar, and to Maureen Reidy, Worldwide COO, IMG Fashion.
Ultra Motors has entered into a distribution agreement with Reliance Retail in India to market its range of Ultra Powered light electric vehicles (LEVs). Reliance Retail will exclusively sell the Ultra Powered LEVs produced by Ultra Motors, in association with its Indian partner, Hero Cycles.
UTStarcom Inc., a global company in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, has announced a contract to supply its end-to-end IPTV solution RollingStream to Bharti Airtel. RollingStream will enable Airtel to offer a completely new service to its customers comprising live broadcast television, time-shifted TV and video-on-demand (VoD), bundled with the operator’s existing broadband and voice services.
Direct selling FMCG company Amway India has brought out a new TVC. The creative agency behind the TVC is Rediffusion DYR. The big idea behind this campaign is based on a small truth that everyone all wants to be heard.
The global management committee of Euro RSCG is meeting in Mumbai in October 2007. As many as 30 members of the committee would be present, headed by Global CEO David Jones.
Stage is set for television channels in Tamil Nadu to fight it out to claim supremacy. Ever since Kalanithi Maran launched Sun Network around 15 years ago, its flagship Tamil GEC Sun TV has enjoyed monopoly leadership. However, today Sun is facing some serious challenge. exchange4media takes an indepth look at the TV scene in the Southern state.
AOL has recently signed an agreement with HP to offer co-branded, localised versions of its portal, toolbar and search on HP desktop and notebook PCs sold worldwide. Under the agreement, the co-branded portal will be set as the default homepage, and the co-branded toolbar and search will be default settings in various countries worldwide.
MRUC has released the ILT (Indian Listenership Track) results for 2006 Wave 4. Since Wave 4 for Mumbai and Delhi was released in May 2007, the data released now is only for Kolkata. This data shows an increase in listenership for Radio Mirchi in Kolkata. Big FM continues to follow at a distant second place. The biggest gainer is the recently launched Friends FM.
Travel+Leisure, the international travel magazine brought to India and South Asia by Media Transasia, is planning major celebrations and marketing activities to mark the completion of its first anniversary this month. A T+L website is also on the cards.
The Delhi High Court has restrained all cable operators from unauthorised broadcasting of the ongoing ICC World Twenty20 through their cable networks. The tournament is being currently telecast on ESPN and STAR Cricket.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on issues relating to mobile television. TRAI has invited all stakeholders to respond to the issues raised in this consultation paper by September 30, 2007.