The IPS Round 1 2009 data sees a neck and neck fight between the top two language dailies for the first position. Lokmat has a slight lead over Daily Thanthi. Among Hindi magazines, Saras Salil retains its No. 1 position, while among English magazines, India Today, too, maintains its leadership position.
There are no major surprises or upsets in the IRS Round 1 2009 data released by MRUC on May 8, 2009. Dainik Jagran continues as the No. 1 Hindi daily, while The Times of India maintains its lead among the English dailies.
The 34th Annual One Show announced the winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Pencils in New York on May 6. India, which had 12 entries in the Finalists list, managed just one Pencil. DDB Mudra Mumbai’s entry titled ‘Bush’ for the Islamic Research Foundation bagged a Bronze Pencil in the Public Service (Radio – Single) category.
It is learnt from industry sources that Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) is scouting for an agency to handle it OOH duties. The pitch is for the all the brands under the HUL portfolio. The size of the business is estimated to be in the region of Rs 50 crore.
In three press conferences in three weeks, Rahul Gandhi showed he has emerged out of the shadows of his family to be his own man. BV Rao writes an open letter to Congress party Chairman Sonia Gandhi, imploring her to end the older Gandhi’s political internship.
S Yesudas has put in his papers at Media Direction, the media arm of RK Swamy. Yesudas, who was CEO of Media Direction, had been with the company for a little over three years ago. He informed that he planned to continue in the media business, but had not decided on his next destination.
May 16 is around the corner. By the afternoon of May 16 a clearer picture on who is going to govern us for the next five years might not emerge. It might take a week. But a week, as they say, is too long in politics. If the BJP/NDA is in a position to form the government, then it remains to be seen whether it can pursue the agenda that Advani laid down at the Assocham AGM in 2008, says veteran journalist Sandeep Bamzai.
The One Show is finally over and Agnello Dias has bid farewell to the long gruelling hours of judging and the final culmination of all the hard work into the One Show Awards night. The award winning creative guru shares the experience of his first ever One Show Award night exclusively with exchange4media.
It was not the usual set agendas and listed speakers that kicked off discussions at The One Club-organised Creative Week NYC. This is the first time that the One Club has organised a Creative Week, and this is the first ‘unconference’ for the creative fraternity. Nearly 200 creative officials from across countries got together on May 7, 2009 and decided on some of the subjects that they would discuss in the course of the day.
Creativity is the connective tissue in the world of communication and ideas. We are a creative agency and are focusing all our efforts behind the people and their behaviour, as we all know that creativity has the power to transform human behaviour. So, that’s our focus going forward… We need to be and are being very aggressive in hiring the best talent and study the need of acquisition that makes sense and thus, behave in the way of making the company stronger and be in a better position to grow faster when the recession ends. This would be the future post the recession.