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  • Indian ridesharing app Ola begins operations in Sydney

    Indian ridesharing app Ola begins operations in Sydney

    MUMBAI: Following a successful launch in Perth, Indian ridesharing platform Ola has announced the official launch of its operations in Sydney, and has hired a local team to build partnerships and support driver-partners.

    Sydney riders can experience the new service at an introductory offer for free rides from today where customers can download the Ola app from the Android or Apple App store, register for an Ola account and begin booking rides. Rides can also be booked to and from Sydney Airport, for drop off and pick up in the designated ridesharing area.

    Ola’s focus is on investing in driver-partners and supporting them with new technology, training, and ways to increase earnings. Since its launch in Perth, the service has received a strong response from driver-partners with over 7000 registrations. By enabling driver-partners to provide the best experience possible, customers, in turn, will have a high-quality ride at an affordable price.

    Excited to officially start operating on the east coast with the launch in Sydney, Ola vice president, head of international Chandra Nath says the company is pleased with how the service has been received by customers, driver-partners and the community in Perth, and can’t wait to continue building on these experiences and learnings for their second city launch.

    In the coming weeks, Ola will continue to roll out a number of new initiatives for both customers and driver-partners. For customers, the company will provide new promotions, clear ways to share feedback, and a higher-quality ride, while for driver-partners; Ola will introduce new earnings programs, community town-halls, fuel offers and other vehicle services.

  • Dentsu Aegis launches agency to serve $200 billion B2B sector

    Dentsu Aegis launches agency to serve $200 billion B2B sector

    MUMBAI: In a bid to cater to the business to business (B2B) market, which is accelerating at speed and commanding $200 billion in estimated marketing spend, Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd. has launched Interprise, a full-service global agency specialising in B2B solutions to address expanding marketing demand in this area.

    Headquartered in London and with offices in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney, Interprise will expand into other major markets during 2016.

    In addition to increasing client needs, the launch of the new agency was prompted by the increasing investment in their B2B divisions by more than 50 per cent of the world’s top global market brands and their proactive marketing activities.

    The establishment of the new agency will further strengthen the services already being provided by the Dentsu Group in the B2B domain, increase synergies with other Group companies, and expand its footprint.

    Looking ahead, the existing specialist B2B media team across the Carat Enterprise network will be integrated within Interprise to support new and existing brands with their B2B requirements. With B2B capability in creative services, media planning and buying, search, data, programmatic, events, content and out-of-home advertising, Interprise will provide new solutions in all the major markets.

    Interprise will be headed by Stuart Giddings as global president.

  • Dentsu Aegis launches agency to serve $200 billion B2B sector

    Dentsu Aegis launches agency to serve $200 billion B2B sector

    MUMBAI: In a bid to cater to the business to business (B2B) market, which is accelerating at speed and commanding $200 billion in estimated marketing spend, Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd. has launched Interprise, a full-service global agency specialising in B2B solutions to address expanding marketing demand in this area.

    Headquartered in London and with offices in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney, Interprise will expand into other major markets during 2016.

    In addition to increasing client needs, the launch of the new agency was prompted by the increasing investment in their B2B divisions by more than 50 per cent of the world’s top global market brands and their proactive marketing activities.

    The establishment of the new agency will further strengthen the services already being provided by the Dentsu Group in the B2B domain, increase synergies with other Group companies, and expand its footprint.

    Looking ahead, the existing specialist B2B media team across the Carat Enterprise network will be integrated within Interprise to support new and existing brands with their B2B requirements. With B2B capability in creative services, media planning and buying, search, data, programmatic, events, content and out-of-home advertising, Interprise will provide new solutions in all the major markets.

    Interprise will be headed by Stuart Giddings as global president.

  • Adfest 2016: 37 directors aspire to be ‘Fabulous Four’

    Adfest 2016: 37 directors aspire to be ‘Fabulous Four’

    MUMBAI: Thirty seven aspiring directors from eight cities are in the running to become Adfest 2016’s ‘Fabulous Four.’

     

    ‘Fabulous Four’ is a visionary mentoring program run annually by Adfest, which is designed to nurture up-and-coming directors.

     

    Every year, Adfest invites new directors and assistant directors to submit a five-minute short film script inspired by the theme of the festival, which is slated as ‘Creative Intelligence’ for this year.

     

    A total of 37 scripts were submitted from Brisbane, Dhaka, Fukuoka, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo this year, which is up from 33 last year.

     

    All 37 scripts will be judged by the Film Craft and New Director jury, which is led by jury president Sihabutr Xoomsai, Thailand’s award-winning director at Triton Film in Bangkok.

     

  • Discovery Science to premiere ‘Strip the City’

    Discovery Science to premiere ‘Strip the City’

    MUMBAI: Discovery Science is gearing up to premiere Strip the City on 5 December at 9 pm. The show will showcase eight major cities and unveil the hidden technology that protect the people from the onslaught of nature’s most terrifying threats.

     

    The viewers will be taken deeper into the city, bringing to light an alien landscape of underground volcanoes, hidden rivers, subterranean cliffs, fragile fault lines, and ancient catacombs. The show will also hear from leading engineers and geologists as they will be seen examining the ingenious designs, innovative technologies and teams of forward thinking professionals who are instrumental in keeping each city alive and well.

     

    Strip the City will utilise the best of computer-generated imagery (CGI) to break down each city, layer-by-layer, to reveal a geological universe normally hidden under water, tarmacs and concrete. Each episode will peel the glass and walls off buildings, roll up the tarmac on roads, drains oceans and rivers, and slices through bedrock to look below some of the world’s major cities like Dubai, London, Rome, San Francisco, Sydney and Toronto and will also uncover what keeps them running smoothly.

     

    The show’s few episodes include Desert City: Dubai, Earthquake City: San Francisco, Harbour City: Sydney, Ice City: Toronto, Underground City: London and Ancient City: Rome.

  • ‘The Lunchbox’, ‘Monsoon Shootout’ travelling to more festivals overseas

    ‘The Lunchbox’, ‘Monsoon Shootout’ travelling to more festivals overseas

    NEW DELHI: The Lunchbox directed by Ritesh Batra appears to be garnering much more attention than it would have got at the Oscars. The film has visited many international festivals and is set to go to two more soon.

    The Lunchbox will compete at the 24th Stockholm Film Festival being held from 6 to 17 November, and at the American Film Institute Festival from 7 to 14 November.

    Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout and Remo D’Souza’s Any Body Can Dance (ABCD) will screen under the Asian Images section in Stockholm.

    The Lunchbox, making its Nordic Premiere at the festival, will compete with films like Paul Wright’s For Those in Peril, Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo and Amat Escalante’s Heli. The section showcases directors making their first, second or third feature film.  .

    Monsoon Shootout has earlier been screened at Cannes, Durban, Sydney, Jerusalem and London Indian Film Festivals. Remo D’Souza’s Any Body Can Dance (ABCD) is a 3D dance film directed and choreographed by Remo D’Souza and produced by UTV.

    Meanwhile, a total of 32 titles will be screened in the World Cinema section of the AFI. The complete programme includes 119 films (83 features, 36 shorts) from 43 countries.

    The Lunchbox, featuring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, had its world premiere at the International Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival and has since travelled to several important festivals including Telluride, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Zurich and BFI London.

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ breaks online piracy records in many countries

    ‘Game of Thrones’ breaks online piracy records in many countries

    MUMBAI: The season premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’ is breaking records on multiple fronts, with a million downloads on BitTorrent in less than a day and proving that never before have so many people shared a file at the same time with more than 160,000 simultaneous peers.

    Data gathered by TorrentFreak further shows that Australia has the highest piracy rate of the popular download destinations, while London tops the list of pirate cities.

    One of the reasons cited for the popularity among pirates is the international delay in airing. Outside the US, fans of the show sometimes have to wait a while before they can see the latest episode. HBO is trying to close these gaps as best it can.

    The new season premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’ has, as expected, generated quite a bit of activity on various BitTorrent sites.

    Thousands of downloaders went out to grab a copy of the show, breaking the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever in the process. A few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded, the OpenBitTorrent tracker reported that 163,088 people where sharing one single torrent. A total of 110,303 were sharing a complete copy of that particular torrent while 52,786 were still downloading.

    Previously, the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm belonged to the season premiere of the TV-show ‘Heroes’ with 144,663 peers.

    Counting all the different releases, it is estimated that the latest ‘Game of Thrones’ episode has been downloaded over a million times already.

    Delays are just part of the problem though. The fact that the show is only available to those who pay for an HBO subscription does not help either. This explains why many people from the US prefer to use BitTorrent.

    The US comes out on top, followed by the UK and Australia. The number three spot for Australia is impressive and with a population of just over 22 million people it has the highest piracy rate. Looking at other cities, most downloads come from London, before Paris and Sydney.

    But according to HBO, piracy is not killing the show. While HBO would prefer if everyone paid for ‘Game of Thrones’, their programming President Michael Lombardo does not fear piracy. He sees it as a compliment and does not believe it negatively impacts DVD-sales.

  • Craft Worldwide goes global, sets up 2 offices in India

    MUMBAI: McCann Worldgroup has consolidated its production assets under a single business unit called Craft Worldwide and has launched it globally including India with offices in Mumbai and Delhi.

    The agency with a client-centric operating model and an emphasis on the craft of execution will have a network of integrated production hubs in 23 markets, capable of producing every type of print, digital and video media available.

    Apart from Mumbai and Delhi, Craft’s main offices are located in New York, London, Singapore, Toronto, Manchester, Paris, Milan, Oslo, Manila, Bucharest, Santiago, Budapest, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Shanghai, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Detroit, Bangkok, and Melbourne, with plans to expand further in 2013.

    All Craft Worldwide offices are linked through an innovative technology platform, called the Craft Cloud.

    “Success in global adaptation and production requires the dedication of true craftspeople who care deeply about their clients’ brands and who work tirelessly to drive maximum savings for our clients,” said Craft Worldwide CEO Fred Schuster. “We have assembled a team of the industry’s best, each with a rich and robust background in advertising, adaptation, design and production.”

    Craft Worldwide currently offers clients capabilities in a number of key areas:

    – A marketing operations consulting group that develops go-to-market models that yield maximum efficiency
    – An adaptation design capability that extends the reach of existing tactics into new audience and communication segments, while maintaining brand consistency
    – A world-class translation offering providing translation, transcreation and cultural consulting services
    – Access to a distribution network that can deliver a final asset to literally anywhere in the world
    – A technology platform that streamlines these capabilities and links them together through a cloud-based, highly secure interface

    To deliver these capabilities, Craft currently employs more than 570 full-time employees and is already working for many of the world’s leading brand marketers, such as Coca-Cola, L’Oréal, Aldi, General Mills, and Microsoft XBox, as well as supporting the Commonwealth Agency.

    With its global launch, Craft Worldwide becomes McCann Worldgroup‘s eighth major marketing solutions offering. “Craft is the perfect example of how we can leverage our talent, our global footprint and our ability to work quickly and cost-efficiently to drive our clients’ businesses forward,” said McCann Worldgroup Chairman & CEO Harris Diamond.

    “One key differentiator for Craft is our ability to design bespoke operating models for our clients. These unique plans leverage our vast network of low-cost hubs and have proven success both in maintaining brand consistency and in driving maximum efficiency,” explained Craft Worldwide COO Quinn O’Brien.

  • CNN scores with air travelers

    CNN scores with air travelers

    CNN International has another set of numbers to thump its chest about. The International Air Travelers survey (IATS Asia 7) – conducted by the European Data & Research Ltd (EDR) between March and April 2000 in the international departure/gate areas of ten major airports in Sydney, Melbourne, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei – has revealed that CNN reaches more than twice the number of international air travelers than its nearest rival the Beeb.

    The survey shows that CNNI reaches 37 per cent of international air travelers on a weekly basis as against BBC World’s 19 per cent and CNBC Asia’s 15.4 per cent. IATS Asia 7 also confirmed that CNN International reaches 50 per cent of all senior business executives surveyed, the CNN press release states.

    “This is a very positive result for CNN International. (It) endorse(s) our investment in regionalisation, which has meant a significant amount of extra spending to increase the localized content available to our viewers, ” says CNN International managing editor, Asia Pacific Bill Baggitt.

  • ‘Alias’ celebrates 100th episode this week in the US

    ‘Alias’ celebrates 100th episode this week in the US

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC has anniounced that its action packed show Alias will air its milestone 100th episode on 26 April 2006. In India the show airs on AXN.

    In late February, cast members from the present, as well as the past, gathered together with the “Alias” crew to reminisce and celebrate the landmark occasion on the APO set at the Disney Studios. Creator/executive producer J.J. Abrams, along with Stephen McPherson, president, ABC Entertainment, made humorous-yet-touching speeches about working with everyone involved with the show for the past five seasons.

    In the 100th episode, Sydney’s maternity leave is cut short when she learns that Will has been abducted by her nemesis, Anna Espinosa. Meanwhile, Sloane finds himself one step closer to obtaining the cure for daughter Nadia. The lead characters is played be jennifer Garner.