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  • Rahul Kansal joins Network18 as group brand advisor

    Rahul Kansal joins Network18 as group brand advisor

    MUMBAI: Network18 announced the appointment of Rahul Kansal as brand advisor for the group.

    Kansal joins Network18 from Future Consumer Ltd. Prior to that, at Times Group, he was the force behind campaigns like ‘Aman ki Asha’, ‘Teach India’ and ‘Lead India’ among others.

    Many of these initiatives have received widespread acclaim, including India’s first-ever Grand Prix at Cannes. In his new role, he will mentor the array of brands within the network and develop innovative properties to strengthen their positioning and connect with the consumers. He will report to Network18, CEO – news and group editor-in-chief Rahul Joshi.

    At Times Group, he was responsible for the financial health, editorial strategy and marketing for the Group’s newspapers: The Times of India, Mirror, Maharashtra Times, Navbharat Times and some smaller regional and English publications. During his tenure of 15 years at the company, The Times of India emerged as the world’s largest-circulated English newspaper.

    Rahul has been an advertising and marketing professional for 38 years.  He graduated from SRCC, Delhi University in 1977, and after an MBA from IIM Calcutta in 1979 worked with some of India’s leading ad agencies such as JWT, O&M, and Mudra DDB before joining The Times Group.

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  • GoaFest’14 Day 3: Digital Law & Kenneth grabs Grand Pix; JWT takes home 40 Abbys!

    GoaFest’14 Day 3: Digital Law & Kenneth grabs Grand Pix; JWT takes home 40 Abbys!

    GOA:  Indiantelevision.com had reported last month on how digital agencies were really looking forward to the ninth edition of GoaFest. It can be noted that out of the 329 awards given away 38 winners were from the digital category.  Interestingly on the day three of GoaFest 2014 Digital Law & Kenneth was the only agency that took home a Grand Pix. The agency won the Grand Pix for its ‘Half stories- The journey of doing right’ campaign for Tata Capital. 

     

    This is a clear indication that Indian agencies are not cracking the digital code. In the digital category Grey Digital got four Abbys, while Web Chutney Studio and Law & Kenneth grabbed three Abbys each.

     

    In another news JWT took home 40 Abbys where as Taproot grabbed 29 Abbys. In the Film category JWT, Taproot and Happy Creatives all received four Abbys each.

     

    For Film craft category Good Morning Films got eight Abbys, Chrome Pictures seven and Nirvana Films four.  On the other hand in the Print category JWT India received eight Abbys, FCB Ulka five and Ideas@work seven.

     

    Interestingly in the Radio category too JWT India made a good performance and received five Abbys. Scarecrow Communications and Linen Advertising- Lintas Group, on the other hand got four Abbys each in this category.

     

    View the detailed winners list here:

    View the list of total metal tally (company wise) here:

  • Lodestar UM wins 11 Media Abbys; HT Media takes home 6 publisher awards

    Lodestar UM wins 11 Media Abbys; HT Media takes home 6 publisher awards

    GOA: The ninth edition of GoaFest has come as a good surprise for Lodestar UM. The agency won 11 Media Abbys and has thus come out as the clear winner in the crowd.  Mindshare with seven Media Abbys came second, while Milestone Brandcom and PHD India won five Media Abbys each to secure the third position.

    Of the total 50 Media Abbys which were given out on Day 1 of GoaFest, PHD India emerged as the only agency to have received a Grand Pix.  The agency bagged the award for its ‘Be Beautiful’ campaign. This year GoaFest received 619 entries from agencies for Media Abbys out of which 150 were shortlisted. 50 of them made it to the winners list.  

    The final judging process was done only in the presence of media agencies heads. Only one representative from a network group was taken on board, who couldn’t vote for any of its agencies’ entries. There were two preliminary rounds before the finalists were chosen. The shortlisted entries were put on the official website of GoaFest for easy access and transparency.  

    The other set of awards that were given out on Day 1 were from the publisher category which is a new entrant in Abbys this year. The category received around 63 entries. In this category, while BBCL got five awards, Hindustan Media Ventures received six. 

    The Advertising Club and chairman of the Awards Governing Council president Pratap Bose mentioned that the effort to add publisher category is to reward the work coming from a platform that connects the media and advertising agencies.

    Click here for to the Media Abby result Sheet