MUMBAI: Sony India has set aside Rs 1.5 billion or 33 per cent of its total marketing budget for the festive season as it seeks to...
MUMBAI: Nearly four-fifth (78 per cent) Indians claimed their planned expenditure during this festival season will be less than Rs 10,000, according to the ‘Mood of...
MUMBAI: Dabur India is relaunching the health rejuvenator and energiser brand, ThirtyPlus. It is presenting the brand in a ‘youngeen‘ avatar with Malaika Arora Khan, who...
MUMBAI: VML Qais has appointed Natasha Kapur as business director. This appointment marks the expansion of VML Qais‘ India operations to Delhi. The Delhi office will...
MUMBAI: Fourth Dimension Media Solutions has appointed Sreekant R as national sales head. Sreekant will be based out of Mumbai. His last assignment was at Ignitee...
MUMBAI: The Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) gained 23 GRPs last week after losing viewers to live T20 World Cup cricket matches in which India played...
MUMBAI: Percept/H has announced the appointment of Debashis Paul as its chief operating officer (COO). Indiantelevision.com had reported on 17 August that Paul is joining Percept/H....
MUMBAI: Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) has announced that its India CEO Mallikarjunadas CR will assume full responsibility for running the agency in India. Mallikarjunadas replaces CVL...
MUMBAI: ZenithOptimedia has won the media mandate of e-comerce portal Jabong.com. The account win is on the back of multi-agency pitch that saw participation of incumbent...
Mumbai: MEC, media and planning agency and a founding partner of GroupM, has announced the launch of its global research study Partnership Intelligence. Partnership Intelligence is...
MUMBAI: CVL Srinivas, who has put in his papers at Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG), will join GroupM to succeed Vikram Sakhuja as its South Asia CEO....
BENGALURU: FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, announced the special ‘FedEx Student Offer‘ and launch of the ‘FedEx International Student of the Year‘ campaign in...
MUMBAI: France-based Publicis Groupe has acquired 100 per cent stake in Malaysian digital agency Arachnid. Established in 1996 in the capital city Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian...
Mumbai: Adwallz, an organised wall painting advertising solution agency, has recently bagged six new accounts taking the total number of clients to nearly 50. The newly-added...
MUMBAI: Unilever, which had initiated a global review in early 2012 in line with company policy to evaluate media agency arrangements periodically, has split the business...
MUMBAI: Months after Omnicom‘s buyout of DDB Mudra Group, brand consultancy Water Interbrand will be renamed Interbrand India from 1 January 2013. Interbrand India will come...
MUMBAI: Global technology-driven multi-specialty healthcare company Allergan has appointed Aegis‘ Carat Media Services as its media AOR in India. Currently the communication is targeted at the...
MUMBAI: The business sentiment may have turned positive following a slew of FDI policies but advertisement spends are not going to change dramatically. The festival season...
MUMBAI: Deepti Jalota has joined Mogae Media as vice president – sales. Jalota will be based at the Mogae Media headquarters in Gurgaon. She moves in...
Mumbai: IT major HCL Infosystems has appointed Saatchi & Saatchi as the creative agency for its tablet business – branded as ME. Saatchi & Saatchi won...
MUMBAI: WPP’s global marketing communication agency, Grey, has acquired a majority stake in the German-based digital media agency, k102 GmbH. Founded in 2006 by Lars Moltrecht...
Mumbai: eBay, an eCommerce marketplace, has unveiled its festive marketing campaign. Targeted to 18 – 40 years “value-seeking” shoppers, the campaign is designed to encourage consumers...
MUMBAI: Triton Communications has elevated Pankaj Arora to the position of national planning director. Arora moves on to head planning in the agency from his current...
MUMBAI: Salman Khan has returned as brand ambassador to promote Coca-Cola‘s soft drink brand Thumps Up in India. The Bollywood actor had endorsed the brand for...
MUMBAI: Blossom Kochhar Group of Companies, dealing with aromatherapy-based cosmetics and oils, has appointed Carat Media to handle its media planning and buying duties. The Aegis...
MUMBAI: Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) has reshuffled its senior management team. As a part of the restructuring, Starcom North executive director (ED) Tarun Nigam is moving...
MUMBAI: Lowe Lintas and Partners has created the Tee Virus campaign for Titan‘s watch and youth accessories brand Fastrack. The brief given to the agency was...
MUMBAI: With the fourth edition of the champions Twenty20 League not taking place in India, IPL franchises are limited in terms of activities that they can...
MUMBAI: The DDB Mudra Group has conceptualised and executed the re-launch campaign for OxyLife bleach. The objective was to re-introduce the brand with a new identity...
Mumbai: Marico‘s Set Wet has launched a new advertising campaign created by Taproot India. Taking a ‘slice of life‘ from the young consumers, the new ‘Envy‘...
MUMBAI: R. Sreekant has quit Ignitee Digital Solutions as general manager – new business development. Sreekant‘s last day at the digital marketing and media agency was...
Mumbai: Bata India, manufacturer and retailer of footwear, are introducing a new collection of Angry Birds merchandise. They are offering school shoes, casual shoes and accessories...
NEW DELHI: Brushing aside allegations of corruption in its television audience measurement system, TAM Media Research CEO L V Krishnan on Friday said the parameters of...
MUMBAI: Virgin Media which claims to be the first provider of all four broadband, TV, mobile phone and home phone services in the UK has unveiled...
Mumbai: MEC, a leading media buying and planning agency and a founding partner of GroupM, has estimated 30 per cent increase in the debut ratings of...
MUMBAI: Luxury motoring brand Infiniti says that it is currently enjoying success in the sporting arena, through their sponsorship of Formula One construction team Red Bull...
MUMBAI: Reliance Communications has launched a new television commercial titled ‘All Share Postpaid Plan‘. The TVC has been conceptualised and created by Grey India. This is...
MUMBAI: TVS Motor Company has appointed Dentsu Communications to handle creative duties of its WEGO brand of scooters. Dentsu will work on various campaigns for WEGO...
MUMBAI: Hindustan Unilever (HUL), India‘s largest advertiser on television, has returned to Star Network after three months of absence and hard negotiations from either sides. The...
MUMBAI: Colors has launched a 360 degree marketing campaign to promote its biggest property – Salman Khan-hosted ‘Bigg Boss-6‘. With the central theme of ‘Alag Che‘...
MUMBAI: Viacom18‘s Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) Colors returned to the second position in the GEC hierarchy after four weeks, helped by the finale weekend of...
MUMBAI: In 2004, it was a stormy period for Indian ad agencies as the multinational invasion was in full force. Lintas India had already been taken...
MUMBAI: Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL), which nationally operates its telecom services under the MTS brand, pioneered the launch of its new service called ‘MTS mAd‘....
MUMBAI: The recently-launched agency ITSA has conceptualised and executed Tradus.com‘s second series of film which offers the proposition ‘Remove the middleman and get wholesale prices.‘ The...
MUMBAI: Bipin Pandit, who was the general manager of The Advertising Club, has been named as the chief operating officer. The announcement comes close on the...
MUMBAI: Hindustan Unilever Ltd‘s (HUL) Pepsodent Germicheck Magnet and Ponds Gen White advertisements and Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare‘s Boost advertisement were among those which were disapproved by...
MUMBAI: Havas Digital‘s mobile marketing network Mobext India carried out a study titled ‘Role of the Connected Device in the branding and buying cycle of a...
MUMBAI: Coca-Cola, Apple and IBM lead brand consultancy Interbrand‘s 13th annual Best Global Brands report. While Coca-Cola retained its top position, Apple jumped to number two...
MUMBAI: The Calcutta High Court has ruled in favour of the Media Research Users Council, dismissing the petition filed by ABP Pvt Ltd challenging the findings...
MUMBAI: Umbrella Design has appointed ex-Grey executive creative director Karan Rawat as president and ECD. Based in Mumbai, Rawat will report to Umbrella Design founder and...