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The week saw some top level movements during the week.

  • Change of guard at HUL; Nitin Paranjape named CEO and MD
  • Farid Kureshi quits Times OOH as COO
  • D Sriram quits Starcom MediaVest; change in Ravi Kiran's portfolio
  • VGC Chief Operating Officer Atul Hegde resigns
  • Raktim Das quits India Today Group to join Zee Business as Business Head
  • Neel Chowdhury to join Network18 as VP-Marketing on CNBC brands
  • Shashi Kalathil joins Future Group's Galaxy Entertainment as CEO
  • Sabyasachi Ghosh joins ABP Group as VP Ad Sales-Dailies
  • Nandu Narasimhan quits Saatchi & Saatchi Delhi as Creative Director-North

    Account movement remained sluggish during the week.

  • RK Swamy BBDO & MPG roped in as AORs for UTV Movies; Rs 30 cr media spend
  • Grey Worldwide bags creative duties of Millennium Spire
  • BAG Films appoints Media Nucleus for airtime scheduling system

    Lok Sabha TV caused some consternation asking channels to pay to telecast House proceedings. This being Budget week, the move assumes significance.

  • Pay up to telecast House proceedings, Lok Sabha TV tells other channels
  • Zee TV narrows gap with Star Plus, but is Hindi GEC benefiting?
  • INX News appoints Karan Thapar's company ITV as Editorial Advisor to NewsX

    Business Standard continued with its aggressive expansion drive this week as well. Music lovers in India can now get the Rolling Stone magazine in India.

  • The pink vernacular battle: Business Standard launches Gujarati edition
  • Rolling Stone's Indian avatar to hit Indian newsstands on February 27

    Effies, Budget wishlists, Goafest announcements - it was one very busy week…

  • World Effie Festival 2008: Branding is sacred to me and the UB Group, says Dr Vijay Mallya
  • Goafest 2008: Three-day fest to kick off on April 3; registrations now open on aaaindia.org
  • Budget Wishlist: Print industry wants duties & taxes that impact newspaper production, and FBT to go
  • Budget Wishlist: Radio players call for easing of service tax burden, lower duties for import of equipment
  • Boom in real estate reflect in rise in properties/real estate advertising in print

    Properties/Real Estate advertising in print went up by a whopping 82 per cent during 2007 as compared to 2004. This reflects the boom seem in the real estate sector in India. Omaxe Ltd, Parsvnath Developers and Sahara Infrastructure & Housing were the top three real estate firms advertising in print during 2007.


    It is not a business for the faint-hearted. Here, one has to go through a lot of highs and lows of the business; mainly lows initially, and a few highs. It involves a lot of attention to detail, so one has to be all charged up all the time and be nimble-footed. While identification of your target audience is very critical, you also have to remember that one should be able to monetise from the product because if you are not able to get your money from the advertiser or the subscriber, then you won’t be able to sustain yourself in the long run. So, it’s a roller-coaster ride and we here at UTV are enjoying every bit of it.
    Shantonu Aditya, Executive Director, UTV Global Broadcasting Ltd, and CEO, UTV Entertainment Television Ltd

    5 questions to know our honchos better
    ØThe first thing you did this year?
    I hugged my family
    ØNaughtiest thing you did as a child?
    Sticking chewed bubble gum on seats, locking friends in bathroom, too embarrassing to divulge
    ØA celebrity you wouldn’t want to meet?
    Britney Spears
    ØYour resolution for 2008?
    Make the most of it
    ØMost hyped virtue in the world?
    Doing it the right way – there are no rights or wrongs, only what works and what doesn’t

    Monica Gangwani
    Research Director, Synovate Healthcare, India

    Abhishek Misra has joined IMG India as Director of its golf business. He will be responsible for spearheading the development of IMG’s golf business in India in such areas as events, sponsorship, golf clients, golf course design and golf course management. Prior to joining IMG, Misra was Head of Lifestyle Marketing at Unitech and had played a key role in the successful positioning of the high-end residential portfolio at Unitech. With over 12 years of exposure to sales and marketing, he has risen up the ranks with companies such as Seagram, ITC Hotels and ESPN-STAR Sports.

    Yogesh Manwani, Vice-President, Marketing and Distribution, Media Content and Communications Services (MCCS), has put in his papers. He is currently serving out his notice period. At MCCS, Manwani was responsible for handling the marketing and distribution operations for the Group’s television channels, including STAR News, STAR Majha and STAR Ananda. He has spent a total of four years at MCCS. Prior to MCCS, he was with O&M, where he was in the account management function. Manwani has more than a decade’s experience in advertising and marketing.

    Sanjeev Tiwari has recently joined Synergy Media Entertainment Ltd's My FM as National Music Manager. Tiwari, who will be based in Delhi, will look after the music content of the company's 17 music stations. He had earlier worked with Power 107.8 FM, Kolkata as Assistant Manager, Programming. Later on, he joined Sa Re Ga Ma India Ltd as Senior Consultant and Advisor on radio content production, creation of meta data and creating theme based compilations. Tiwari has over 10 years' experience in this field, having begun his career as an RJ and Producer with Radio Network in 1995. He has also worked with Times FM, HMV FM and Radio Snap.


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