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SAN FRANCISCO: Hannah Wong, chief communications officer at OpenAI, is stepping away after nearly five years at the company, closing a defining chapter in the tech...
BELGIUM: Havas has tuned into Belgium’s cultural pulse with the acquisition of Digizik, officially launching Havas Play in the market. The entertainment and culture specialist will...
MUMBAI: When growth stories need a rewrite rather than a quick edit, Deloitte has made a decisive hire. The consulting major has appointed Ritwick Udayan as...
MUMBAI: Publicis Groupe India has unveiled a major leadership reshuffle, appointing Atique Kazi as chief executive officer of Performics India and elevating Gautam Surath to chief...
LONDON: Fernando Fernandez doesn’t do pleasantries. When the Unilever chief executive joins meetings, he skips the hellos and launches straight into his mantra: “Volume growth, positive...
MUMBAI: After more than a decade of shaping India’s digital advertising playbook, Atique Kazi has stepped away from WPP Media, bringing down the curtain on a...
MUMBAI: JioStar has named G R Arun Kumar as its new chief financial officer, bringing on board a leader whose career reads like a masterclass in...
BENGALURU: The National Payments Corp of India (NPCI) has landed Viral Maru as its new head of RuPay, betting that her decade-long streak of making plastic...
MUMBAI: Propagate India is turning up the creative volume. The Publicis Groupe India digital agency has handed an expanded mandate to Parikshit Bhattaccharya, appointing him chief...
MUMBAI: Some watches tell the time. Others tell you to keep going when the clock feels stacked against you. G-Shock has rolled out a new brand...
MUMBAI: When football leaves the metropolis and heads to the districts, something shifts. In Malda, the whistle that opened the Bengal Super League did more than...
CHENNAI: Selva Prabu has pressed play on a new chapter in his career, taking charge as director, content marketing for Tamil business at JioStar, overseeing strategy...
MUMBAI: When fitness meets frenzy, the stopwatch barely stands a chance. Hyrox is flexing its muscles in India once again, and Bengaluru is already feeling the...
DELHI: History was made in New Delhi as Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty was elected the first woman president of the Press Club of India, capping a landslide...
MUMBAI: When the story shifts behind the scenes, the industry takes note. Shailja Varghese, chief content officer at Omnicom Media Group India, has exited the organisation,...
HARYANA: Aman Jain is set to join Meta as senior director and country head for public policy, taking charge of one of the most closely watched...
LONDON: WPP Media has deepened its partnership with Google, securing privileged access to YouTube’s creator and content insights to supercharge the group’s creator-led marketing play. The...
GURGAON: Some careers simmer. Neha Kapoor’s has been on full boil. The 17-year experienced advertising veteran has just been promoted to executive vice president at Leo...
NEW YORK: Trends used to take time. Now they arrive fully formed at breakfast and die by lunch. WPP Media has decided to stop chasing them...
GURUGRAM: BMW India has welcomed back head of brand communication and media strategy, Shashwat Varma, who previously shaped the marque’s story in the country. After a...
MUMBAI: The age of generative everything has left consumers feeling decidedly unregenerated. While 53 per cent of people now use AI in their daily lives—rising to...
MUMBAI: Hinduja Group has named Diana Monteiro as its new vice president – branding and communications, drawing on a career that cuts sharply across financial services,...
CHENNAI: Maitri Advertising Works has swept the inaugural ET Shark Awards South, taking home the coveted Agency of the Year title while its chairman, C Muthu,...
MUMBAI: Touchstone LC has tapped Team Pumpkin to steer its digital and performance marketing in India, marking a fresh chapter in the learning solutions company’s growth playbook....
MUMBAI: Samba TV has decided 2025 won’t be a quiet year. The AI-driven media-intelligence outfit has secured an initial $30m from Horizon Technology Finance — with...
MUMBAI: When global advertising giants collide, careers get crushed and brands get binned. Nitin Karkare has emerged from the Omnicom-IPG merger reorganisation with a promotion—and a...
MUMBAI: The music marketing maven announced last month he has left Warner Music India to become head of marketing and streaming at Represent, the Mumbai-based artist...
SYDNEY: Havas is taking no prisoners in Australia and New Zealand. The Parisian advertising leviathan announced yesterday it has gobbled up Kaimera, a 50-strong independent media...
MUMBAI The advertising world, it seems, refuses to read the room. Whilst economists fretted over trade wars and geopolitical chaos, the ad business simply cracked on....
GURGAON: Aanchal Kapoor, who spent over a decade at media houses including GroupM, Madison and OMD, has been named chief executive of Adsgrove Digital, a Gurgaon...
MUMBAI: Tech and broadcast veteran Mrinal Bakshi has joined JioStar as senior director, marking his latest move in a career spanning some of India’s biggest media...
NEW DELHI: Runjhun Sharma is back on home turf, this time in the hot seat. The seasoned South Asia hand, long plugged into RT Moscow’s frontline...
DELHI: Ashok Bagriya, a journalist who cut his teeth as legal editor at Hindustan Times and CNN-News18, has been named chief executive of RT India. The...
INDIA: Nielsen’s Gracenote has launched Content Connect, a new platform that promises to drag connected-TV advertising into a more precise, program-level era. The tool gives agencies,...
NEW YORK: The Omnicom IPG shake-up is claiming a high-profile casualty. Eileen Kiernan, global chief executive of IPG Mediabrands, is set to leave as the network...
SWITZERLAND: Simone Tata, the Swiss-born business force who turned Lakmé into a household favourite and built Westside into a modern retail staple, has died at 95...
MUMBAI: Project Worldwide has unveiled its new India and South Asia “Project Hub” in Bangalore, bringing together the company’s specialist agencies under one roof to offer...
MUMBAI: Jai Maharashtra has landed a heavyweight. Shailesh Hegde, who spent nearly a decade and a half at ABP Network, has joined the Marathi news channel...
MUMBAI: While the world’s entertainment industry trudges along at a modest pace, India’s is positively sprinting. The country’s entertainment and media (E&M) sector is projected to...
PARIS: Havas has pounced on Bearded Kitten, scooping up the multi-award-winning experiential agency in a move that proves live brand experiences are no longer the industry’s...
MUMBAI: If the compass had a favourite executive, it would probably point to him. In a move that tightens its creative grip across India’s fastest-growing regions,...
MUMBAI: India’s digital trust ecosystem just got a brain upgrade. In a move that blends strategy with swagger, IDfy has appointed Tridib Mukherjee as its chief...
NOIDA: Ashish Sehgal has stepped into a powerful new role as chief executive officer of Times TV Network and chief growth officer at Times Media &...
MUMBAI: InCred Money has made a credible move, by cashing in on WPP Media.The fast-growing investment platform has appointed WPP Media as its performance marketing partner,...
MUMBAI:The media marriage is official, and India has its ringmaster. Kartik Sharma has been handed the keys to Omnicom Media India, the freshly minted behemoth born...
MUMBAI: Omnicom Media India has tapped Rishit Mehta as its new chief financial officer, signalling a tighter grip on operations as the network races to scale...
MUMBAI: Nidhi Maheshwari has taken a new seat at the brand strategy table, announcing her move to director of brand marketing at JioStar. It marks another...
MUMBAI: If stories sell, Laqshya StoryWorks has just hired two men who know exactly how to turn a page. The content arm of Laqshya Media Group...
MUMBAI: If December had a horn, Hyundai seems to have blasted it first and loud with its new ‘December Delight’ campaign, a year-end push that turns...
MUMBAI: If careers had soundtracks, Ruchi Singh’s would be a genre-blending chartbuster. And this week, she’s dropped her newest track: stepping into the role of creative...
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Communications leader exits after three years spanning MD office strategy and media outreach.
Cricket star named face of Delhi Khel Mahakumbh to fuel youth talent hunt.
Kolkata-based beverage maker reports stronger revenues and profits for December quarter.
A crime thriller steps out of the shadows as Telugu storytelling claims centre stage.
From boards to bytes, chess readies for a nation-first showdown in Riyadh.
Leadership change follows layoffs, protests and a bruising battle over trust.
Revenue rises 4.3 per cent to Rs 10,209.33 crore while deferred tax gain lifts bottom line sharply
Akshay Kumar and stars launch awards at NSCI Dome on Feb 28
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NEW DELHI: Hamdard Laboratories gathered a cross-section of India’s achievers in New Delhi on Friday, handing out the Hakeem Abdul...
MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
