MUMBAI: Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Rajasthan Royals has terminated its agreement with one of its ad partners, RN Sports Club, due to non payment of...
Mumbai: Ormax Media, a media and entertainment consulting firm, has launched syndicated research-based software Celebritix. Celebritix will allow brands to evaluate and select the best celebrities...
MUMBAI: Four decades after Rajesh Khanna ruled over Indian hearts with his romantic brand of movies, the forgotten and lonely superstar warmed up Indian audiences again...
MUMBAI: Media communications group WPP‘s digital arm WPP Digital has bought majority stakes in the two holding companies of marketing technology firm Acceleration. The two holding...
NEW DELHI: Media Planning Group‘s (MPG) outdoor arm, MPG Active has appointed Krishnamurthy Kari as its chief operating officer. Kari was earlier with Aircel as the...
MUMBAI: Lintas Initiative SVP Ankur Bhartiya has decided to move on from the agency to join Vizeum India as EVP. According to industry sources, Bhartiya is...
MUMBAI: Tata Global Beverages‘ brand Tata Tea has awarded its digital duties to independent digital solutions provider 22feet Digital Solutions after calling for a multiagency pitch...
NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma is the new brand ambassador for the Japanese sanitary napkin brand ‘Sofy‘. She has replaced Prachi Desai as the brand...
New Delhi: Pune-based Rasoi Magic Food (India) Pvt Ltd, manufacturer of ready to cook spice mixes, will spend around 40 per cent of its sales revenue...
MUMBAI: Paris-based global media communications group, Publicis Groupe, has reported a 19 per cent rise in profit to 275 million euro in the six months ended...
MUMBAI: Digital agency Indigo Consulting has appointed Nitin Singh as business head, Delhi NCR. Singh comes in from Media2win, where he was responsible for digital execution...
MUMBAI: Ignitee Digital Services, a digital marketing and media agency, has appointed Ranjoy Dey as the chief operating officer. Based in Ignitee’s Gurgaon office, Dey will...
MUMBAI: Cadbury Dairy Milk has launched a new television commercial ‘nayi dosti ka shubh aarambh‘ created by Ogilvy India. The new TVC celebrates the beginning of...
MUMBAI: Computer brand Acer has launched its latest marketing campaign in India featuring its brand ambassador Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan. As part of the campaign, Roshan...
MUMBAI: WPP‘s global research agency Millward Brown has acquired Chilean consumer insights company Cadem Advertising. Millward Brown is a global company focused on brands, media and...
MUMBAI: Online fashion portal Rock.in has awarded its creative duties to integrated agency Digital Driftwood (DDW). DDW account manager on the Rock.in business Firoz Merchant said,...
MUMBAI: Swimming against the slowdown tide in the economy, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) giant Hindustan Unilever has upped its ad spends by 29.5 per cent...
MUMBAI: Mogae Media is launching a specialist mobile planning unit focused on SEO/SEM and has named it Mobiwise. The unit will be located at the Gurgaon...
MUMBAI: With a share of 18.6 per cent, GroupM‘s Mindshare is the leading media agency in India, as per the RECMA Global Billings Rankings 2011. The...
MUMBAI: Personal care and oral care product manufacturer Colgate-Palmolive has increased its advertising spend by 32 per cent in the three-month period ended 30 June 2012....
MUMBAI: Indian FMCG major Dabur India has upped its ad spends in the first quarter of the fiscal by a whopping 51.31 per cent over the...
MUMBAI: Yamaha has appointed Deepika Padukone as the brand ambassador of its scooter range – Ray – in India. John Abraham will continue to be the...
MUMBAI: In order to expand its product offerings, the mobile ad network Seventynine has launched its Analytics service. Seventynine’s analytics is available on Android and HTML5....
BENGALURU: Hafele India, a distributor of furniture fittings, hardware and architectural ironmongery, is intending to shift its focus from business-to-business (B2B) to business-to-consumer (B2C) operations. The...
MUMBAI: Mindshare Exchange partner Rohan Noronha has moved on from the agency. Noronha is likely to Komli Media soon. He was associated with brands like ICICI,...
MUMBAI: Saatchi & Saatchi India has appointed Vidhya Sankarnarayanan as VP – integrated brand strategy at its Mumbai office. Sankarnarayanan will be involved in driving brand...
MUMBAI: A weakening Indian economy has prompted GroupM to cut by almost half its India ad growth forecast for 2012, from 12 per cent to 6.6...
MUMBAI: Samsung Galaxy S III is launching a new worldwide ad campaign with David Bekham to make London 2012 “Everyone‘s Olympic Games”. Conceptualised and created by...
MUMBAI: MTR Foods has partnered with Fox Star Studios, the makers of animated franchise The Ice Age, to market its range of Badam drink mix. The...
MUMBAI: As one of the most awaited Hollywood movies ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ releases in India, the brands are leveraging the opportunity by partnering with it...
MUMBAI: Havas Media Asia Pacific has appointed Naman Sharma as the head of research and analytics for Asia Pacific. Based out of Singapore, Sharma will lead...
MUMBAI: MTV, the youth entertainment channel, in association with Firefox Bikes, has launched a new range of co-branded adventure bikes. With this launch, MTV Consumer Products...
MUMBAI: Delhi based integrated advertising agency From Here On Communications has won the creative and media mandate for eyewear brand Aureole Inspecs. The account size is...
MUMBAI: Cycle Pure Agarbathies, India’s leading incense brand, has come in as ground associate sponsor for the upcoming India-Sri Lanka men’s cricket tournament consisting of 5...
MUMBAI: Delhi-based integrated advertising agency, From Here On Communications, has won the creative and media mandate for eyewear brand Aureole Inspecs. The account size is between...
Mumbai: Post its partnership with Warner Bros for the The Dark Knight Rises (TDKR), Cadbury Bournville has has rolled out its first television commercial to generate...
MUMBAI: Global media communications group Omnicom has posted a net profit of $282.7 million for the second-quarter of fiscal 2012. The net profit has rose 2.8...
MUMBAI: Three OOH agencies from Gurgaon – NS Publicity, Salt OOH and Explomedia – have come together to form a new OOH agency by the name...
MUMBAI: WPP’s wholly-owned pure play digital network VML Qais launched its operations in India. The India operations will be headed by VML Qais Asia CEO Tripti...
MUMBAI: Zee TV has held on to the second position in the Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) hierarchy, adding 15 GRPs after strengthening its weekend programming....
MUMBAI: Taproot is launching a new division, Taproot India Plus (TRIP). TRIP, headed by Purushottam Joshi, will handle creative execution and services, specialising in non –...
MUMBAI: Akzo Nobel India, the maker of Dulux Paints, has signed on Bang in the Middle as its digital communication partner. The agency would be responsible...
MUMBAI: State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur has appointed eight agencies on its creative roster following a multi-agency pitch that took place in Jaipur. The empanelled...
MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprise (Zeel) has appointed Interactive Avenues as the digital agency for its two channels – Zee TV and Zee Cinema. The account was...
MUMBAI: In the acquisition storm swirling across the advertising world, there are two strong currents that are pushing from below to force change in adland: the...
MUMBAI: Kolkata-based men‘s fashionwear manufacturer Turtle has awarded the duties for its social media and online promotion to digital marketing agency Cogmat. As part of the...
MUMBAI: Digital marketing agency Creativa India has been awarded the duties for the entire spectrum of online activities for the Indian arm of the UK-based publisher...
MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan has been roped in as the brand ambassador of jewellery retail chain Kalyan Jewellers. The announcement is in tandem with Kalyan‘s focus on...
MUMBAI: Getit has appointed Aidem Ventures as its corporate advertising sales representative for the next 5 years. Through this mandate, Aidem will be responsible for marketing...
MUMBAI: Asset Management Ventures, a new venture of the Sanjay M. Lal-led Assetz FZC, has bagged the rights to manage cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s entire brand portfolio....