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  • Rishab Gulshan of BCCL passes away in a road accident

    Rishab Gulshan of BCCL passes away in a road accident

    Mumbai: Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL) head of group strategy and digital growth Rishab Gulshan, has passed away in a road accident, wherein he was riding a bike on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in Rewari, Haryana.

    Rishab had joined the BCCL group in 2019, prior to which he was working with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) leading their Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) practice in India. At the time of joining BCCL, his role was known to be that of handling the digital transformation initiatives across the group’s companies.

    An IIM Bengaluru graduate and with approximately two decades of experience in business growth and transformation, he had worked with global marquee technology companies including telecom companies, IT/BPO/engineering service providers, mobile devices and services companies, software players, and a variety of start-ups. 

    Rishab Gulshan’s family lives abroad, and also has an 11 -year -old son. They have been informed about his death.

  • AVOW onboards Sandeep Negi as associate director of sales, India

    AVOW onboards Sandeep Negi as associate director of sales, India

    MUMBAI: Mobile OEM user acquisition specialist, AVOW has appointed Sandeep Negi as its new associate director of sales, India. Negi will lead all of AVOW’s business development initiatives in the country as part of the company’s domestic expansion plans while positioning AVOW as a household name in the mobile OEM marketing ecosystem in the region. He will operate out of AVOW’s branch office in Bengaluru, and become its fifth member in this local office.

    Negi joins the company with 10-plus years of experience cutting across the agency, mobile, and online advertising arenas, with an extensive focus on international business development and global growth strategies. Prior to this, Negi had successful stints across some of India’s leading media companies, including Bennett Coleman and Co. (Times Group), Star TV Network (now part of Disney), and 9X Media. In his previous roles, Negi has played a pivotal role in assisting some of India’s most prominent players in the mobile app industry to access new markets & significantly scale their revenues.

    Speaking on the new appointment, AVOW co-founder Ashwin Shekhar said, “We are pleased to have Sandeep on board in the senior management team. AVOW is on a hyper-growth path in the mobile OEM marketing space. Within a short period of two years since entering the Indian market, AVOW has serviced many leading industry players such as Amazon Prime, Navi, upGrad, Byju’s, Matrimony.com, MPL, and WazirX, among many others, offering incremental user growth and engagement for their mobile apps.”

    “In line with our growth plans, we needed an experienced top management muscle to drive our expansion plans aggressively in India. Sandeep’s in-depth industry experience in business development, strategy, and strong expertise in driving growth are great value additions to AVOW and our team. He will play an important role in our efforts to educate mobile marketers and app developers about the benefits of mobile OEMs when integrated into their mobile marketing mix,” he added.

    In his new role at AVOW, Negi said, “AVOW’s one-stop solution for mobile OEM aggregation is steadily growing its presence in the mobile app ecosystem in India. Strengthening the company’s status as the most viable and lucrative advertising alternative to traditional play stores will be on top of my agenda. We are witnessing an increased interest from players within the financial, health, edutech, gaming, and m-commerce sectors in this market.”

    “Our aim will be to provide mobile app companies with a unique opportunity to access untapped mobile advertising inventory at scale and deliver a powerful consulting service by advising on how mobile marketers and app developers can best invest their marketing mix across alternative advertising channels for incremental user growth and engagement. I am delighted to be a part of AVOW’s growth trajectory in India and to be able to contribute to its mission,” he further said.

  • IdeateLabs ropes in Dr. Bhaskar Das as new chairperson

    IdeateLabs ropes in Dr. Bhaskar Das as new chairperson

    Mumbai: Digital-first marketing solutions provider IdeateLabs has announced that Dr. Bhaskar Das has joined the company as chairman. He will be mentoring the senior leadership team in augmenting the company’s offerings across data, content, and community solutions.

    IdeateLabs works across a body of clients, offering turnkey digital transformation solutions that enable brands to embrace the ever-evolving business environment. The company said that it operates as a preferred partner for brands, taking up the responsibility of impacting business outcomes using web 3.0 technologies and direct-to-consumer conversations for the brands.

    IdeateLabs MD Amit Tripathi said, “IdeateLabs is enhancing capabilities across functions to build the most comprehensive solutions stack for the brands we work with. In order to navigate the challenges that such growth brings, it was imperative to bring an experienced eye to guide the company’s journey toward becoming a true marketing partner. Having known Dr. Das for more than a decade, we are absolutely delighted at his acceptance of working with the company to build the company’s vision as we diversify solutions with a customer first digital transformation strategy.”

    Das added, “I am glad to have joined hands with this rapidly growing organisation. The company is committed to bringing innovative solutions for building brand conversations and is at par with the current market trends, especially in the world of metaverse and web 3.0 trends. I look forward to working cohesively with the senior management to sketch growth strategies for the group’s expansion in the Indian and international markets.”

    Das is a well-known professional in the marketing and advertising industry. He has been associated with The Times of India (BCCL) as president and board member for over three decades; Zee Media as the group CEO; and Republic TV as the group president. Prior to joining IdeateLabs, Das was associated with Unica Token as director of content creation.

  • Goafest Diaries: Sony pictures wins ‘Broadcaster of the Year’, Mindshare bags ‘Tech agency of the Year’ awards

    Goafest Diaries: Sony pictures wins ‘Broadcaster of the Year’, Mindshare bags ‘Tech agency of the Year’ awards

    Mumbai:  Ending an eventful day two of Goafest 2022 on a high note, Sony Pictures Network India (SPNI) grabbed the ‘Broadcaster of the Year Abby’. Mindshare was named as the ‘Tech agency of the year’ while, FCB Group India bagged ‘Specialist PR agency of the year.’ In the mobile category, Cheil India won the ‘Mobile specialist of the year.’ Famous Innovations bagged the Grand Prix in the direct category and in addition to winning the ‘Design specialist agency of the year.’

    A total of 32 Broadcaster ABBYs, 19 Design & Design Craft ABBY’s, 40 Digital & Digital Craft ABBYs, 31 Direct ABBYs, 7 Mobile ABBYs, and 32 Public Relations, 16 Technology ABBYs, were awarded on Thursday night at the event held at Grand Hyatt, Goa.

    Heres a look below at each category:

    BROADCASTER ABBY Awards – 2022

    Zee Kannada grabbed a gold in the ‘Best launch of a TV Channel’ sub category, while TV18 broadcast picked up two of the coveted metal for ‘Best launch of a TV program’ using multi-media and ‘Best original music score for a TV Program’ sub categorys- the latter for its Byju’s Young Genius -A News18 Initiative.

    Sony Pictures Network India won two golds for Uefa Champions League Sona Mana Hai Campaign 2019 and Love For Cricket campaigns in the ‘Best TV sports channel program promo.’

    Three Silver metals were picked up by Sony Pictures Network India, while Arha Media & Broadcasting, Zee Kannada picked up two each, and TV18 Broadcast, Disney Broadcasting bagged a silver each.

    DESIGN CRAFT ABBY Awards – 2022

    The category did not see any gold winner. Famous Innovations won three silver, while TLG India media picked up one silver.

    DIGITAL ABBY Award – 2022 category

    In the DIGITAL ABBY Award – 2022 category, Famous Innovations grabbed the only gold in the Social Media – Social Media (Co-Creation / Crowdsourcing / Response etc.) sub category for campaign titled #LonelyNoMore for the brand Burger King.

    In the same sub category, one silver each was picked up by Cheil India and Fulcro, while in the Digital Technology -(Installations) sub category Tribes Communications and Mindshare won a Silver each.

    In the search sub category GREY Group won a silver metal. The ‘Best in Creator Partnerships’1 sub category saw agencies SoCheers, TLG India, Motivator and Kinnect Media pick up a Silver metal each.

    The ‘Best in Moment Marketing’ sub category saw Schbang and Famous Innovations win a silver each, while Kinnect Media won the metal for the ‘Best in Platform Innovation.’

    TECHNOLOGY ABBY Awards – 2022

    The category saw two gold winners- Sangbad Pratidin and Cheil India. Sangbad Pratidin won this in the sub category ‘Best Use Of Technology  For Community Management/Building’ and Cheil India Private Limited won it for ‘Best Creative Use Of Tech  Innovation.’ The silver in the category registered seven winners- Cheil India Private Limited, Idealake Information Technologies, Mindshare, Tribes Communications, Sangbad Pratidin, Interactive Avenues – A  Reprise Network Company and Mindshare.

    PUBLIC RELATIONS ABBY Awards – 2022

    The PR category had four gold and eleven silver awards. Interestingly, all gold awards were picked by FCB Group India for their campaigns for Political Shakti + The  Times Of India, Mumbai Police.

    In the same category, FCB Group India also won two silver. Tribes communication, GREY Group and Cheil India Private Limited too picked two silver awards each and the rest of the three silver awards were won by ^atom network, The Glitch and TLG India Private Limited.  

    MOBILE ABBY Awards – 2022

    In the mobile category there were two golds won by Cheil India Private Limited and FCB Group India. The category also had two silver awards and both were bagged by Cheil India.

    DIRECT ABBY Awards – 2022    

    Famous Innovations bagged the Grand Prix in this category. The direct category had three gold and 10 silver awards. Two among the three golds were bagged by FCB Group India and Famous Innovations earned the third gold award in the category. In the same category, FCB Group India bagged three silver. Cheil India Private Limited and Famous Innovations also won two silver each in the direct category, TLG India Private Limited bagged one silver and Mindshare also got one silver.  

    DIGITAL CRAFT ABBY Awards – 2022

    In the digital craft category, there were two silver won by BC Web Wise for their Safer Internet Day campaign and Cheil India Private Limited for their Samsung Goodvibes campaign.  

    DESIGN ABBY Awards – 2022

    In the design category, there was only one silver which was bagged by TLG India Private Limited for their Amazon Story Boxes campaign for Amazon Seller.

    Here’s the entire list of winners on Day two of the adfest:

    DAY 2 Broadcaster ABBY Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 Design CRAFT ABBY Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 Design ABBY Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 DIGITAL CRAFT Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 DIGITAL ABBY Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 DIRECT ABBY Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 MOBILE ABBY Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 PR ABBY Awards – 2022

    DAY 2 TECHNOLOGY ABBY Awards – 2022

  • Virtual Fireside Series: A week of exploring the new world order in the marketing space

    Virtual Fireside Series: A week of exploring the new world order in the marketing space

    NEW DELHI: The world of advertising and marketing is going through a massive transformation as the new normal of the pandemic-era syncs in. A business that was based on millions of face-to-face meetings and gazillions of group discussions has gone digital almost completely. Now client relationships are being built across screens and internal meetings are getting virtual. A sea change in consumer behaviour is also expected as they learn to live on bare essentials. 

    All this has been leading to a change in client behaviour too. There is a more than ever increased focus on digital mediums, traditional mediums are expected to transform, and the changing consumer sentiments are leading to great creative transformations too. The publishers are also reworking on their strategies. 

    To understand this new order of the marketing and advertising world, Indiantelevision.com will be hosting a series of fireside chats with the stalwarts of the industry, who will be answering some interesting questions by our founder CEO and editor-in-chief Anil Wanvari. The audience will also get a chance to directly interact with the speakers as the discussions will be live on our social media channels and website. 

    Starting today, the first live discussion will have Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd president-response Partha Sinha giving an overview of the print and digital publishing industry. It will go live at 6:30 pm and you can register for the same here.

    The next discussion scheduled for tomorrow 4:00 pm is with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd chief growth officer advertisement revenue Ashish Sehgal. Register here. 

    On 2 September, we will be going live with Dentsu Aegis Network CEO APAC and chairman India Ashish Bhasin who will highlight the global perspective along with Indian market sentiments. You can register for the 11:00 am live here.

    The last episode, going live at 5;00 pm on 3 September will feature IPG Mediabrands CEO-India Shashi Sinha giving an extensive insight into the Indian market and changing scenarios. 

    Keep watching this space for more information. 

  • Print media to get back on its feet sooner than expected

    Print media to get back on its feet sooner than expected

    NEW DELHI: While print media lost around 80 per cent of its advertising revenue during the Covid2019 period, it made for the lost monies by reducing the number of pages in its supplements, thus minimizing the bad impact on business, shared Dainik Bhaskar Group promoter director Girish Agarwal in a live discussion with Motivator managing partner Radhika Ramani organised by The Advertising Club Bangalore. The discussion titled Reimagining Print with Siva & Girish, also saw the presence of BCCL chairman executive committee, Sivakumar Sundaram. 

    Agarwal highlighted, “Advertising used to amount to about 75 per cent of our earnings, which went down to 12-13 per cent during the Covid2019 period. Now, we used to subsidise our cost for our readers by Rs 2-3, and by reducing the number of pages, we have made that subsidy almost zero without increasing the cost for subscribers. Now, the advertising revenue stood very low relatively and that helped us.” 

    Both Agarwal and Sundaram showed great positivity towards the future of print as a medium to disseminate news and advertising in the coming future. Agarwal dismissed all the rumours of print publications shutting shops by saying, “The circulation which went down to almost 60-65 per cent of the regular in the month of March, touched 70-75 per cent in April. If we look at the shift in the following months, till the first week of July, most of the Indian language publications have already crossed the mark of 80 per cent.”

    He added that the rest 20 per cent circulation is at places like railway stations and offices, which will commence by the month of August and soon the circulation will reach the 100 per cent mark. Agarwal also insisted that advertisers should be active on print now, as those who won’t take the opportunity will anyway lose sales in the coming weeks. 

    He said, “Most of the advertisers have started advertising already with us. The local advertisers are very much active and the big brands are coming up too. And those who are not advertising will surely lose out on sales and business.”

    Sundaram highlighted that brands should be leveraging newspapers for hyperlocal reach and should be working on more regional content to benefit out of it. He highlighted that most of the national level brands see India as a homogeneous cluster, or divided into north and south India, which needs to be changed. 

  • JPR Channel approaches TDSAT against TRAI directive on landing page

    JPR Channel approaches TDSAT against TRAI directive on landing page

    MUMBAI: Joining the league of Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd (BCCL) and All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF), multi system operator (MSO) JPR Channel has challenged the landing page directives of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) as per its new tariff order. The MSO is worried that the decision might impact its revenue.

    TRAI, in December last year, had barred all broadcasters and distributors of TV channels from placing any registered TV channel whose rating is being measured on the landing page or the boot-up screen. BCCL and AIDCF had challenged the order in Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), a few days after the announcement of the order.

    TDSAT has listed all the three matters for hearing on 12 March 2019. It has also asked TRAI to provide a copy of the reply in the other appeal to JPR. JPR can then file a rejoinder within 10 days.

  • News18.com Brings Ashish Naik OnBoard As The National Sales Head

    News18.com Brings Ashish Naik OnBoard As The National Sales Head

    National, 23 April, 2018: News18.com, India’s leading digital news platform, expands its top management with the addition of Ashish Naik as National Sales Head. He comes with over 17 years of experience in media sales and has formerly worked with organizations such as Tata Infomedia, BCCL, Business Standard and NDTV Media Ltd. Prior to joining News18.com, Ashish has been a part of Times Internet Ltd, where he served in the capacity of Regional Manager West, and was eventually promoted to National Sales Head. 

    A Science graduate from Mumbai University, he has done his post graduation in Marketing Management from MET Mumbai. In his current role at News18.com, Ashish aims to bring onboard a maximum number of advertising partners and consolidate the network’s position as a leader in the space. 

    News18.com has recorded 50 million monthly users, which is an (outstanding) increase of 249% in comparison to last year. The growth numbers recorded by the platform stand testimony to the network’s lazer-sharp focus on delivering extensive and quality political news coverage supplemented by new-age technology and consistent updates to the platform. In only two years, the platform has also touched another milestone – that of 30 million monthly users on mobile, a significant 170% increase in comparison to last year. The platform also (transcended/surpassed) its own high benchmark, with the Budget Day witnessing a record total of 5.2 million users, in a single day, on the platform.            

    Speaking about the platform’s growth and expansion, Rajiv Singh, Business Head News18.com and CricketNext said, “Last year has been great for News18.com with the platform touching new milestones and setting higher benchmarks in terms of audience engagement and reach. Now, after Gujarat and HP elections we are looking forward to Karnataka elections. And now, with Ashish as the new addition to the team, we are looking at taking things a step ahead and bringing in more and more engaging and captivating formats for our consumers.”

    Commenting on the occasion Ashish Naik – News18.com’s National Sales Head said, “I am certainly excited to begin a new chapter in my career with News18.com. With the digital boom still in its nascent stages in the country, it is certainly a great time to be a part of the sector. In my new role at the company, I intend to promote innovative 360 degree properties, which tend to result in higher audience reach and engagement. At the same time, I also intend to adopt a more consultative approach in grasping the requirements and needs of the clients, since a property is a complete success when it appeals to all the stakeholder involved including the consumers.”

    About NEWS18.com

    NEWS18.com (formerly known as ibnlive.com) is the digital destination of CNN News18 (formerly known as CNN IBN) with hard news as its core offering and interactivity as its key component. Along with a bevy of mobile- and multimedia-enabled content, News18.com is a multi-platform offering that, for the first time, provides viewers/users an opportunity to contribute to the news process and interact with editors and reporters. Manned 24×7, NEWS18.com is powered not just by NEWS18 journalists but also by Network18’s team of over 1,000 news professionals. NEWS18.com is also recognized for its one-of-the-kind offerings such as CricketNext, Compare India, and Indiwo amongst others.

    About Network18 Digital
     
    Network18 Digital (N18D) is the digital arm of Network18, one of India’s most diversified media conglomerates with interests in television, Internet, films, e-commerce, magazines, mobile content and allied businesses. N18D is among the largest multi-platform destinations for objective breaking news, opinions, financial data and infotainment for the evolved digital news consumer. Network18 Digital houses assets such as moneycontrol.com, firstpost.com, news18.com etc., and is constantly seeding new ideas to be the dominant force in the digital space. It caters to all sections of society, especially to the digital savvy consumer, the millennials and Generation Z users who access and consume content on the go. 

  • TRAI landing page norms stayed till 22 December 2017

    TRAI landing page norms stayed till 22 December 2017

    NEW DELHI: The direction on landing page norms issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) of India has been stayed till 22 December 2017 following an appeal in the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT).

    Even as the tribunal admitted the petitions for hearing, it said: “Since there is a prayer for stay of the impugned direction dated 8 November 2017 issued by TRAI, let the matter be listed on 22 December 2017 under the head “for orders” to consider that prayer in light of the reply of the respondent.”

    “Till then, the impugned direction shall not be given effect to,” it added further.

    Chairman Shiva Keerti Singh and members B B Srivastava and A K Bhargava gave TRAI two weeks’ time for filing the reply. Further time of two weeks is granted to the appellants to file the rejoinder.

    On November 8, TRAI had issued a direction to all broadcasters and distributors of television channels to not place any registered satellite television channel. TRAI had said the orders would be implemented within 15 days.

    The direction was challenged in TDSAT by Bennett Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), Den Networks Limited (Den), All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF), Fastway Transmission Private Limited, and Satellite Channels Private Limited.

    Den has appealed that the “impugned direction issued by the respondent, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, are beyond the jurisdiction of the authority as given to it under TRAI Act.” It further said that the TRAI direction was curtailing the “freedom of the distributor of TV channels to position the channels over their network”.

    TRAI had said in its November 8 direction that it had been repeatedly brought to the authority’s attention by various stakeholders that satellite TV channels are placed on the landing page and this practise was influencing the television audience measurements/television ratings.

    TRAI in its direction had also concluded that “this practice may affect the orderly growth of the sector and is against the spirit of the policy guidelines for TV rating agencies.”

    Also read:

    TRAI tightens landing-page norms

  • IPR case: HC issues summons to Republic TV, hearing on 26 May

    MUMBAI: “Times Now” Channel owner Bennett Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), owner of, on Thursday, filed a suit against Arnab Goswami’s “Republic TV” in the Delhi High Court for infringement of intellectual property and violation of contract of employment. After a hearing, the matter was scheduled for next hearing on 26 May.

    The court however questioned BCCL as to why, for over two years, they had not telecast these stories themselves even though they had the information, now allegedly used by Republic TV. Justice Manmohan stated that these stories were of national interest and public disclosure of such stories was important, Bar and Bench reported.

    BCCL said that Arnab and his team were using intellectual property at Republic TV, which they had acquired during the course of their employment with Times Now. BCCL showed the court a few clippings of “Republic TV” telecast regarding the circumstances of Sunanda Pushkar’s death.

    BCCL advocate Rajiv Nayyar stated that Republic TV must not act contrary to the clauses of the contract of employment. He also mentioned that BCCL had already filed a police complaint in Mumbai under sections 378, 379, 403, 405, with sections 406, 409, 411, 414 and 418 of the IPC, besides Section 66-B, 72 and 72-A of the IT Act, alleging theft, criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of property and infringement of intellectual property.

    High Court justice Manmohan issued summons to the defendants Republic TV and observed that it was well settled that an employee had to maintain confidentiality after he left the employment. He also observed that misuse and misappropriation of trade information would amount to infringement.

    However, stating that it was a preliminary stage, and he could not proceed against Republic TV without hearing them, Justice Manmohan questioned BCCL as to why they had not given a notice to Republic TV before marching to court. He also observed that the evidence produced before the court was insufficient, the Bar and Bench report added.

    Justice Manmohan maintained that if it was proved later that there was a misuse of data by Republic TV, appropriate relief would be granted.