At a time when digitization of cable television is throwing up a major challenge to direct-to-home (DTH) operators, Dish TV has reported a 55.2 per cent...
From transitioning from Unilever in London to the Indian media space, Trinity Pictures CEO Ajit Thakur was lucky enough to get mentorship from two of the...
Launched on 17 June, 2009 Times Group’s business news channel ET Now, has now completed six years in the Indian television industry. ET Now is the...
At a young age he decided to convert his passion into profession. At 21 he made his first ad and by the time he was 23,...
We are in an era where advertising is redefining itself every second day, where regulations are questioned on the basis of its relevance in current scenario...
A former journalist, with experience in print, broadcast, online and mobile, Etan Horowitz is currently serving as CNN Digital senior mobile editor. Horowitz, throughout his career,...
For every one individual, Indian theaters lose 100 because of cheaply available pirated DVDs and illegal streaming. While creative minds are traveling that extra mile to...
Mi Marathi, a Marathi news channel has been working hard to gain cognizance since its revamp from an entertainment channel to a news channel in March...
The youth of India believe in purposive action and are restless for change at all levels, their own lives, society and circumstances. One man, who has...
20 years back when the word entrepreneur was rarely pronounced correctly, a 19 year old man in the midst of great legacy businesses turned out to...
Founded in 1998, Wildcraft is a performance-driven, head-to-toe outfitter. Sixteen years into its existence with over five million customers served, Wildcraft is now set to define...
A veteran in the cable TV industry, someone who dabbled in the sector almost three decades back, Yogesh Radhakrishnan, now the MD and CEO of Pioneer...
Even before many knew about social media, let alone analyse the medium’s power, Rajiv Dingra at the age of 22 knew he was entering into something...
Abhinav Chopra is a people’s man. At Viacom18 as executive vice president – human resources – he is responsible for talent engagement, talent acquisition and training...
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food”, said the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and in a country where culinary palette changes every...
One of the most awaited report, which brings out the trends of advertising spends for the calendar year, was released by media agency GroupM on 2...
Regarded as someone with strong business acumen, great entrepreneurial instincts and affinity towards clients’ businesses, Dhunji Wadia was anointed as Rediffusion-Y&R president in December last year....
Samir Bangara started his career in venture capital with IL&FS Venture Corporation and moved on to becoming an investment banker. Focusing on the tech space with Ernst &...
As a right arm fast bowler, effective outfielder and a lower order batsman, Michael Scott Kasprowicz has had quite a successful career as a cricketer. His...
With India working towards getting into a fully digitised mode, this year’s ‘Convergence 2015’ will act as a destination where companies will showcase some of the...
The year 2014 will go down in history as the year of Indian politics. The main contenders of the two-horse race, Bharatiya Janta Party and Congress,...
The performance of a company depends largely on how happy its employees are. And this precisely is the reason why one of India’s top most General...
Cable TV industry in the country has been the hub of the action for the past one year, especially with the government pushing through digitisation of...
With over 30 years of experience, Sunil Lulla brings skills in media, marketing, communication and management. From spending an early part of his career, which...
He is one of Indian television’s most recognisable face as a news presenter and now the author of the best seller ‘2014: The Election That Changed...
“In the 21 years of this show, nobody has been forced to reply, Rajat knows the art of extracting a reply through his sweet questioning. Another...
From directing fiction shows at Cinevistaas to film production and script writing at Yash Raj and handling events and non-fiction properties at Wizcraft International Entertainment, he...
Three years ago when Star India decided to re-launch one of its redundant channel, Star One, as Life OK with new and fresh content, nobody expected...
Over the past seven years, Viacom18 has grown to be one of the bigger conglomerates in India. The JV which started off as a partnership between...
Born to a dentist father in Delhi, Subhash Ghai entered the film industry in 1970 after attaining his diploma from Film and Television Institute of India...
The last couple of years have been good for sports in India. As more and more leagues are launched, the sports channels have a lot to...
The industry, even after the digitisation in phase I and phase II areas has not yet moved to complete addressability. Channels today are still being offered...
With multi-dimensional understanding of the media business, he has spearheaded and successfully launched innovative and first-in-class profit-bearing initiatives in the Indian media marketplace. Having more...
An IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Narendra Ambwani has spent over 34 years of his career with Johnson & Johnson. He led the rapid growth of Indian operations...
Shy and reserved is what you could use to describe him. Open minded is another term. But Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI) managing director of APAC operations...
Try naming some of the sports played in India and one will be able to count them on one’s fingers. Cricket will top the list...
He took charge in January this year and since then there has been no looking back. The humble and calm, Kartik Sharma, the managing director...
Ten Sports, one of the few sports broadcasters in South Asia recently extended the broadcast rights for the premium football competitions: UEFA Champions League and UEFA...
It has been just six months since he’s taken charge of CNN International operations from south Asia. As bureau chief from New Delhi, Ravi Agrawal has...
In April 2014 he was appointed as the COO of Kings XI Punjab, the team that sparkled on field during the seventh season of the Indian...
Dentsu created waves early this year when the Indian National Congress chose the agency to handle its creative mandate for the 16th Lok Sabha elections. The...
International Management Group or simply known as IMG has been a world renowned leader in sports, fashion and media management with operations in more than 30...
Since its inception over 20 years ago in the United States, Amazon.com has been obsessed with a fervor to serve its consumer and being the ‘earth’s...
Loyalty and incentive programmes from brands are not new to India, right from the points that one accumulates by swiping a credit card to the free...
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell calls him the data analyst expert. Prasun Basu’s relationship with WPP’s brand, media and communications research company Millward Brown, goes back a...
Mansi Shrivastav comes across as a calm, joyful young lady. With reason: the content head of two English entertainment TV channels – Movies Now and Romedy Now...
The kids’ channels’ space in India suddenly became the talk of the town with the Walt Disney Company buying out UTV’s kids’ channel Hungama TV. In...
He is amongst a select lot of advertising professionals who have pole-vaulted over the fence to the broadcast side – and stayed there. In fact, not...
It was in June this year that Jeff Cheong was promoted to president of Tribal Worldwide Asia as part of DDB Group’s leadership and succession strategy...
“I had never gone away”, says the man who is credited with bringing KBC and K shows to the Indian television screens. Sameer Nair, after a...

