M K Dhir, Chairman and Managing Director, Dhir Global has announced the appointment of Vizeum India as the overall brand/communication consultants and media AOR for its brand Giovani. The business will be handled out of the Mumbai and Delhi offices of Vizeum India. This announcement comes on the heels of Vizeum India winning the Luxor/Parker portfolio.
Seven Indian agencies have made it to the winners’ list at the MAA Globes 2009 awards. Among the winners from India are Mudra Communications, Tequila India, Solutions | Digitas, ICICI Bank, Jagran Solutions, Hungama Digital, Candid Marketing. In all, six awards and six Orders of Merit were awarded to Indian agencies. The winners were announced at the 24th annual MAA Globes Awards ceremony in Boston on October 20.
BBC.com, the online extension of the BBC outside of the UK, is set to conduct Digital Master Class, a series across the world aimed at giving a global learning back to the market. In India, the event will commence from October 26, 2009 in Delhi, followed by Bangalore (October 27) and Mumbai (October 28).
If film censoring today is accepted as a way of life for theatre-goers, why are we seeing such ferocious opposition to television censoring, asks Geetanjali Mehlwal. At the end of the day, there needs to be clear demarcations between the free flow of content, the public’s right to exercise choice of entertainment and a valid censorship of content that may negatively impact young India’s impressionable minds.
After strengthening its presence in India, Religare now harbours global ambitions and plans for each of the group businesses to build internationally scalable brands built on the common foundations of Brand Religare.
D&H Blurb Communications has been going strong with its relationship with Future Group. The agency is working with Future Ideas to develop loyalty programmes and other such convergence products for their consumer base. Now, D&H Blurb is also getting into the new medium of contemporary retailing, based on their Future experience.
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.
A marketer’s skills are constantly tested in his bid to cut through the clutter to reach his potential customer. With technological advancements and rampant Internet penetration, ‘webinars’ help marketers reach out to a vast audience in a one-to-many presentation using audio and video, thus saving time and money. Cisco WebEx’s Balaji Kesavraj throws ore light on this.
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.