IT sector advertising in print saw a growth of 39 per cent during January-June 2010, as compared to January-June 2009. Laptops/ notebooks category contributed for more than half of the overall IT sector advertising in print during this period. Dell Computer Corporation was the number one advertiser.
RAM data for Week 31 shows Radio Mirchi continuing its lead in the Mumbai market in the morning slot between 7 am and 11 am. The FM station had a 17.5 per cent market share. Placed second was Red FM, which secured a market share of 14.9 per cent, while Radio City followed with a market share of 13.9 per cent.
Spread over two days on August 12-13, a total 66 case studies have been presented at Emvies 2010. This year, a record 397 entries had been received. With the spirited rounds of presentations over, now the ad industry is looking forward to the awards ceremony, which will be held in Mumbai on August 27, 2010.
Emvies 2010 has been witnessing frenetic activity with the commencement of the case study presentations. While Day 1 saw 33 case studies being presented on August 12, Day 2 saw the momentum continuing. Some of the categories in which the case studies were presented included Best Media Strategy - Consumer Products, Best Media Strategy- Consumer durables, Best Media Strategy- Services and Best Media Strategy- Media/ Media Property.
Mumbai-based Kreate Advertising has been keeping busy these last two months, adding a slew of new accounts. The agency has bagged the creative duties for clients like Mitashi Edutainment, Camlin Ltd (2mm mechanical pencils), Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital and Gold Genie India, among others. The agency was started by Dhaval Mehta eight years ago.
Prabhat Khabar launched its Ranchi edition in all colour on 14 August 2010, the day of its 26th anniversary. With this development, newspaper war in Jharkhand seems to have intensified, since this development came just before the proposed launch of Dainik Bhaskar, scheduled for 22 August 2010. Prabhat Khabar is also planning to upgrade Jharkhand editions at Jamshedpur & Dhanbad to increase the colour pages.
Following the exit of Prakash Dharmarajan, Ogilvy & Mather has moved Ramamoorthi to head its Chennai branch as President. Ramamoorthi was heading the IBM business at the agency’s Bangalore office prior to his new assignment.
One of the biggest news earlier this year was Colgate Palmolive aligning its media duties with MEC (earlier known as Mediaedge:cia), and then some time back the company realigned its creative business, and parked it out of Rediffusion Group into Bates 141. Neither development was preceded by a pitch process. While not many in the industry are clear on why the account moved, but from a WPP viewpoint, this was an interesting development.
Advertising Agencies Agency of India awarded Piyush Pandey the Lifetime Achievement Award 2010. That felicitation took place on August 13 in Mumbai, and was lauded by the industry's best. Industry veteran Chintamani Rao, who heads R K Swamy Media Group/ Media Direction, writes on his experiences with Piyush Pandey, and the path that Pandey took to the stars.
Amidst existing rumours of Rediffusion retaining the creative mandate for Yatra.com, the news of TBWA\ becoming the new creative partner for the travel portal has come in. According to senior sources in the industry, TBWA\ has replaced the incumbent agency to pocket the business pegged in the region of Rs 15-20 crores.
With new corruption allegations surfacing every day, Commonwealth Games 2010 is fast deteriorating into ‘Con Wealth Games’. However, the situation is still salvageable, according to the three leading brand consultants that exchange4media spoke to. Here’s what they had to say…