Monthly Archives: October 2009

After spending more than two years at Contract Advertising, Manish Bhatt, Senior VP and ECD, has put in his papers and is serving his notice period till November-end. While Bhatt will be pursuing his political dreams in his home state of Gujarat, it seems Contract Advertising is in no hurry to find his replacement. Continue reading →

BV Rao laments the media’s inability or unwillingness to look within and course correct in some cases. While freedom of the press is important in any democracy, this freedom comes with a lot of responsibilities and requires the media to be inward-looking and self-policing. This, however, was overlooked at times either due to lazy and shortcut journalism or to make money by cheating the reader and subverting democracy itself. Continue reading →

“Creatively, India would be in the top five because we now have a very good team there. The agency has been gaining critical mass that we did not have before, and many other roadblocks are out of the way. Even as TBWA\Worldwide, we are focussing and supporting the offices in India in a much stronger way and it is needed. So, you can rest assured that you would be seeing and hearing a lot from India in the days to come,” says John Hunt, Worldwide Creative Director, TBWA\Worldwide. Continue reading →

It appears that notices and orders are becoming a regular affair with Colors. Following the notifications from the I&B Ministry and a notice sent earlier by TV Vision, the Indian Motion Pictures Production Association (IMPAA), too, has sent a notice to the channel over the participation of Raju Srivastava as a housemate in ‘Bigg Boss – 3’. At the core of the issue is TV Vision’s concern that Srivastava, who has been signed as the brand ambassador and mascot of its forthcoming channel Mastiii, would not be able to fulfil the commitments that he has made towards this channel. Continue reading →