WPP recently announced the winners of the WPPED Cream Awards 2008. The Awards were given away at a ceremony held in New York recently. JWT India kept the country’s flag flying high at the internal awards of WPP, bagging the Crème De La Crème for ‘Lead India’ campaign.
Samsung India has announced the launch of, what is popularly termed as ‘Cyber Olympics’, in India – the World Cyber Games 2008. The eighth edition of the World Cyber Games (WCG) is supported worldwide by Samsung Electronics and is being held in India in association with Indiagames.
Big FM has joined hands with Access Atlantech Edutainment (AAT) to roll out a six-week certified RJ training programme to be conducted at AAT campuses across 10 cities in India – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Dibrugarh, Cochin, Coimbatore and Thiruvananthapuram.
Doordarshan has lined up a new devotional series, ‘Guru Manyo Granth’, to commemorate 300 years of Gurta Gaddi Divas of Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The seven-part daily series goes on air on DD National (DD1) from October 24 at 8.30 pm and will cover the entire history and philosophy of Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
As part of its centenary year celebrations, General Motors India had launched the new Chevrolet Aveo U-VA in September. The launch is supported by a new ad campaign featuring brand ambassador Saif Ali Khan. Titled ‘Bada Dil Badi Car’, the campaign is a 360-degree initiative involving TV, outdoor, online and print.
Amid the increasing clutter of reality-based shows, Discovery Travel & Living aims to bring in, what is being touted as the first ever hotel-based reality series – ‘Hotel by the Bay’. Based in The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai, the series take a peek-a-boo look, juxtaposing the worlds that co-exist in a hotel.
Consolidating its proposition of ‘Clarity in a Complex World’, HDTV-ready English news channel NewsX has embarked on a new marketing campaign. Conceptualised by Euro RSCG, the first leg of the campaign has print ads, which would be followed by a 360-degree campaign. The campaign broke on October 17.
3G India 2008, an international conference on the rapidly growing technology, was held in Mumbai on October 17. The conference focussed on various issues concerning the growth and development of 3G technology in India, the opportunities and challenges.
Narayan Kumar, Executive Director and Head of Disruption Practice at TBWA\India, has put in his papers. Kumar has confirmed his movement, but refused to divulge his future plans. His departure comes close on the heels of Sean Colaco and Gopinath Menon moving out from the agency.
VK Chopra, who has over 30 years’ experience in the newspaper industry, has been recently been elected as President of the Delhi Ad Club for the year 2008-09. This is the third time he has been given the mantle of the Delhi Ad Club President. He takes charge from outgoing President Vivek Syal, who is General Manager-Marketing at Hero Honda.