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  • Fabindia has awarded its creative business to Publicis after a multi-agency pitch. The business will be handled out of Publicis Delhi office

    Fabindia awards creative mandate to Publicis

    By a correspondent

     

    Fabindia has awarded its creative business to Publicis after a multi-agency pitch. The business will be handled out of Publicis Delhi office.

     

    Speaking on the development, Subrata Dutta, CEO Fab India commented, “Fabindia is an iconic lifestyle brand that celebrates India and we want to leverage its inherent strengths. In Publicis, we have found the right partners to do this. We are looking forward to their contribution on our brand.”

     

    Partha Sinha and Bobby Pawar, Directors at Publicis South Asia, in their joint statement said, “Fabindia is the definitive Indian brand. To reinterpret a brand’s strength is once in a life time opportunity and we are looking forward to working on it. Our objective will be to engage the audience in a fresh, surprising and rewarding manner.”

     

    Nakul Chopra, CEO-South Asia, Publicis added, “Fabindia have indeed been a definitive benchmark in their market. At Publicis, we have a history of setting standards in the lifestyle and retail space. We are very proud to be associated with Fabindia and together we hope to create path breaking work.”

     

  • Five thousand trees have been planted after an audit measured the carbon footprint of the event by identifying all sources of event-related greenhouse gas emissions

    Kyoorius Awards turns 100% Carbon Neutral

    By A Correspondent

     

    Even as the Call for Entries has been issued in right earnest with a creative campaign crafted by Bengaluru-based Happy, the D&AD backed Kyoorius Advertising Awards has pledged to be a 100 percent carbon-neutral event. As many as 5000 trees have already been planted, with more on the way. And participants can contribute Rs 500 towards planting five trees, thereby making their entry carbon-neutral as well.

     

    According to a communiqué, the audit measured carbon footprint of the event by identifying all sources of event-related greenhouse gas emissions. Major emission sources included travel to the host city, local road transportation, energy consumed by the event venue and energy used through stays at local hotels or homes. Smaller emission sources include transportation of goods the event needs, event organizer travel during planning and preparation, energy consumed by the event office, paper use and waste generation.

     

    Said Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder CEO, Kyoorius: “We are in the process of conducting an carbon emission audit of Designyatra and our other events and by August 2014 we will ensure that all Kyoorius events and awards will be carbon-neutral – a first in India and amongst the very few globally”.

     

  • The final categories announced include that of Branded Content and Entertainment, Creative Effectiveness, Innovation, Mobile & PR

    Colvyn Harris, Aditya Swamy & Radhika Shapoorjee in final Cannes jury list

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the final names of jury members that will make up the 17 juries coming together in Cannes, France, for this year’s Festival and Awards. The final categories announced include that of Branded Content and Entertainment, Creative Effectiveness, Innovation, Mobile & PR.

     

    “This completes a line-up of highly esteemed, creative individuals who collectively are going to judge the world’s greatest work and ultimately set new, global benchmarks,” said Terry Savage, Chairman of Lions Festivals.

     

    “We look forward to working with them all and seeing what they rank as the ground-breaking, innovative entries from this year’s submissions.”

     

    In the Branded Content & Entertainment Lions jury, Doug Scott, President & Founder, Ogilvy Entertainment, Global is the Jury President and features Aditya Swamy, Executive Vice President & Business Head, MTV, from India. For the Creative Effectiveness Lions Jury, David Sable, Global Chief Executive Officer, Y&R, Global is the Jury President and features Colvyn Harris, Chief Executive Officer, South Asia, JWT from India.

     

    For the Innovation Lions Jury, Tom Bedecarré, Chairman, AKQA and President, WPP Ventures, AKQA, Global has been appointed Jury President while for the Mobile Lions Jury, Jaime Robinson, Executive Creative Director, Pereira & O’Dell, USA has been appointed Jury President. Vineet Gupta, Managing Director, 22Feet Tribal Worldwide, India is also on the jury of Mobile Lions.

     

    In the PR Lions Jury, Renee Wilson, President, North America, MSLGroup, USA has been appointed Jury President and includes jury member Radhika Shapoorjee, President South Asia Corporate, Ipan Hill & Knowlton Strategies from India.

     

  • Ije replaces Karl Heiselman following his recent departure from Wolff Olins to Apple

    Ije Nwokorie appointed new Design jury head at Cannes

    By a correspondent

     

    The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has appointed Ije Nwokorie, the new Global CEO of Wolff Olins as the Design Lions jury president. Ije replaces Karl Heiselman following his recent departure from Wolff Olins to Apple.

     

    Born in America, Nwokorie spent his early years in Nigeria, an experience he credits with underpinning his creative outlook, as it is a world where commerce, culture and creativity are necessarily intertwined with everyday life. He completed his architecture training at Columbia University and has worked on urban regeneration projects in Africa, special effects in New York and computer gaming in London. Nwokorie joined the Wolff Olins team in 2006 as a senior strategist, was appointed managing director of Wolff Olins’ London office in 2010 and became global CEO in 2014.

     

    In his new position, Ije Nwokorie will lead Wolff Olins’ global business forward into an exciting new chapter; to inspire, as well as drive, facilitate and deliver strategy and innovation for big corporations. Wolff Olins is responsible for brands such as (RED), Orange, GE, Mercedes-Benz, New York City, London 2012, Tate, Unilever, Target, Hero MotoCorp, Tata Docomo and AOL.

     

  • The second annual Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in association with The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) – Chennai, were presented to the winners

    Winners of Second Annual Shriram Sanlam Awards announced

    By A Correspondent

     

    The second annual Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism were presented in four categories at a glittering function organised by the Shriram Group and South Africa’s Sanlam Group. Chief Guest Dr. Arvind Mayaram, Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, graced the august occasion. Several prominent personalities from the world of banking and finance including regulators and corporate India also graced the occasion.

     

    The second annual Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in association with The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) – Chennai, were presented as follows: Aarati Krishnan for her story “A very strange bull market” published in Hindu Business Line in the category of Financial Markets; V Keshavdev for his story “India Inc’s MahaKumbh” published in Outlook Business in the Banking category; Bibek Debroy for his story “Control and food inflation” published in The Economic Times in the Economic Policy category; and M Rajshekhar for his story “Great rural land rush: 3 to 100- fold rise in farm land prices may not bode well” published in The Economic Times for Sectoral Issues.

     

    Each category winner received cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh along with a citation. Parameters for the awards included Insight, Analysis, Depth, Uniqueness, Originality, Comprehensive and Balanced Approach, Level of research, Follow up of story by others leading to wider discussion, Overall Impact of the story apart from the above.

     

    Lifetime Achievement Award was conferred to Eminent Editor T. N. Ninan who received a prize amount of Rs. 2.5 lacs.

     

    Commenting on the awards,  Arun Duggal, Chairman, Shriram Capital Ltd., said, “We are very happy to have received 228 nominations from business and financial journalists in the second edition of ‘Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism’. Shriram Capital and Sanlam Group recognize the multi-faceted role that financial journalists play in setting up the knowledge base in reporting key issues of the Indian economy, policy making, banking, financial markets and sectoral issues. One of the key attributes of the Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism is the integrity and independence of the judging panel. It consists of business leaders, corporate governance and sustainability practitioner, academia as well as editor. After all, such diversity is needed as a business journalist is an instrument of change and an influencer of influentials!”

     

    Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai played an important and independent role in the selection process by scrutinizing the nominations and making them available for the Jury Members for their consideration.

     

     

  • Neil joins some of the world's top creatives at the awards show including past D&AD President and jury foreman – Rosie Arnold

    Neil Dawson joins the Kyoorius Advertising Awards jury

    By A Correspondent

     

    Kyoorius has announced the addition of Neil Dawson – Partner, Dawson Pickering to its illustrious list of jury members at the Kyoorius Advertising Awards. Neil joins some of the world’s top creatives at the Kyoorius Advertising Awards including Past D&AD President and jury foreman – Rosie Arnold – Deputy Executive Creative Director, BBH, Abhijit Avasthi – National Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, Agnello Dias – Chairman & Co-Founder, Taproot India, Graham Kelly – Regional Executive Creative Director, Isobar, Senthil Kumar – National Creative Director, JWT, and Sonal Dabral – Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, DBB Mudra Group and Woon Siew Hoh – Regional Executive Creative Director, Hakuhudo.

     

    Apart from three years of working in South Africa, Neil has spent the whole of his career in London. His ‘Wedding’ ad for Volkswagen Surprisingly Ordinary Prices has, for over a decade, been the most awarded print ad in history. His ‘Fish’ commercial re-launched the Keep Walking campaign for Johnnie Walker globally and as Chief Creative officer on the Philips account Neil won back- to-back Cannes Grand Prix in 2009 for Philips Carousel and 2010 for Philips Parallel Lines.

     

    With long time creative partner Clive Pickering, Neil has recently launched London’s newest ad agency – Dawson Pickering.
    With over 34 categories spanning Press Advertising, Outdoor Advertising, Film Advertising, Radio Advertising, Direct Marketing & Activation, Integrated and craft related categories including Art Direction, Craft for Advertising, Film Advertising Craft – the Kyoorius Advertising Awards will reward the in each category.

     

  • Punit Goenka, MD & CEO, ZEEL, received the The Economic Times '40 under Forty' – India's Hottest Business Leaders Award 2014 at a function in Mumbai

    Zee CEO Punit Goenka recipient of ET’s 40 under Forty’ awards initiative

    By A Correspondent

     

    Punit Goenka

    Punit Goenka, MD & CEO, ZEEL, received the prestigious The Economic Times ’40 under Forty’ – India’s Hottest Business Leaders Award 2014 on April 29th at a glittering function held at the Four Seasons, Mumbai. He was presented the award by Deepak Parekh, Executive Chairman, HDFC. The list of the 40 winners was finalized by a study conducted by The Economic Times and Spencer Stuart to identify India Inc’s upcoming leadership.

     

    Out of the original list of 2000 leaders, the final 40 were identified based on a combination of quantitative business results (growth, margins and turnaround) as well as qualitative attributes (innovation, reputation, people leadership, and contribution to the ecosystem). The jury was chaired by Deepak Parekh, Executive Chairman of HDFC while the other eminent members on the panel were Anjali Bansal, Managing Director of Spencer Stuart India, Subodh Bhargava, Chairman, Tata Communications, Janmejaya Sinha, Chairman of Boston Consulting Group, Asia Pacific, Harish Manwani, COO, Unilever and Non-Executive Chairman, Hindustan Unilever, D Shivakumar, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo India and Sanjeev Bhikchandani, CEO and Co-Founder, Info Edge India.

     

    Other notable names who received the honour are Sachin Bansal, Co-Founder & CEO, Flipkart, Schauna Chauhan, CEO, Parle Agro, Aditya Ghosh, President, IndiGo Air and Siddharth Roy Kapur, MD, The Walt Disney Company India, amongst others.

     

  • Kyoorius in partnership with D&AD has announced that the 2014 Kyoorius Advertising & Digital Awards jury sessions will be open for public viewing in Mumbai

    Kyoorius Awards jury meet now in Mumbai, sessions to be open for public viewing. Digital jury announced

    By A Correspondent

     

    As the deadline approaches to receiving entries to the Kyoorius Advertising & Digital Awards (it’s today, May 5), the D&AD-backed Awards has announced that its jury meet will be held in Mumbai and not in New Delhi. In an attempt to bring in complete transparency and in line with the standards set by D&AD internationally, the advertising and digital awards jury sessions will be open for public viewing after prior online registration.

     

    The jury sessions will be held at the NSCI in Mumbai from May 13 to 15 for advertising and May 16 and 17 for digital.

     

    Members of the industry and media are invited to be a part of the jury sessions and afforded a unique opportunity to view entries first-hand, understand the judging process, and watch the debate amongst the jury members, who comprise some of the top international, regional, and Indian creative minds.

     

    From defining the format and scope of the Awards, to the selection of judges and jury process Kyoorius & D&AD continue to work closely with the industry itself to facilitate and enable creativity in India. These efforts are aimed at inspiring and supporting the creative community, with a focus on creative education. All entry fees are fed back to the industry, in the form of educational programmes such as Kyoorius FYIdays.

     

    For the Kyoorius Advertising Awards the jury will be lead foreman and D&AD’s Past President – Rosie Arnold – Deputy Executive Creative Director, BBH, Abhijit Avasthi – National Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, Agnello Dias – Chairman & Co-Founder, Taproot India, Graham Kelly – Regional Executive Creative Director, Isobar, Neil Dawson – Partner, Dawson Pickering, Senthil Kumar – National Creative Director, JWT, Sonal Dabral – Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, DBB Mudra Group and Woon Siew Hoh – Regional Executive Creative Director, Hakuhudo.

     

    The Kyoorius Digital Awards will be led by Jury Foreman & D&AD’s current President – Laura Jordan Bambach – Creative Partner, Mr. President, Benjy Choo – Founder & Creative Director, Kilo Studio, Carlton d’Silva – Chief Creative Officer, Hungama Digital Services, Graham Kelly – Regional Executive Creative Director, Isobar and Karl Gomes – Chief Fanatic, Fanatics.

     

  • The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications

    Tata Capital wins big at The Communicator Awards 2014

    By a correspondent

     

    Tata Capital’s Half Stories initiative, part of the ‘Do Right’ initiative, won the Award of Excellence (Gold) in the Integrated Campaign category at The Communicator Awards 2014. The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications. Founded two decades ago, The Communicator Awards receives over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world.

     

    The ‘Do Right’ initiative emanates from the brand philosophy of Tata Capital – ‘We only do what’s right for you’ and aims to spread the spirit of ‘doing right’ in society at large. ‘Half Stories’ – the journey of doing right – is a 2000km bike journey that aims to discover simple stories of unfulfilled needs of everyday people from some of the remotest parts of India. Through digital media, specifically social media, the initiative helped showcase these stories, and then by letting ordinary citizens step in and support their needs and dreams, effectively script a happy end to these ‘half stories’.

     

    Speaking about the achievement, Veetika Deoras, Head of Brand Marketing and Corporate Communication, Tata Capital said, “The ‘Do Right’ initiative is a key initiative for Tata Capital and our aim through the initiative is to help propagate the philosophy of ‘doing right’ by inspiring people to do right, provide platforms to doing right and doing right ourselves. Half Stories is a platform that allows us as ordinary people, to get connected with simple stories of simple needs of other people and together script a happier end. It is about two halves, which ordinarily would have never met, meeting. We are deeply encouraged by this recognition and want to thank the Communicator Awards panel for their vote of confidence in the campaign and supporting us.”

     

    The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of Visual Arts, an invitation-only group consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Conde Nast, Disney, Estee Lauder, Lockheed Martin, MTV Networks, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Time, Wired and Yahoo!

     

    The Communicator Awards honors work that transcends innovation and craft – work that made a lasting impact, providing an equal chance of winning to all entrants regardless of company or agency size and project budget.

     

  • The leading creative agency has sent entries for the D&AD-backed Kyoorius Awards staying away from the Creative Abby to be held at Goafest

    Ogilvy to participate in Kyoorius Awards. Leo Burnett entries in too

    By A Correspondent

     

    Okay, it’s official. Ogilvy is participating in an Indian creative advertising awards event this year.  This was confirmed to MxMIndia by Abhijit Avasthi, National Creative Director, Ogilvy via the agency spokesperson.

     

    It may be recalled that Ogilvy had chosen to not participate in the Creative Abby last year (2013) and this is the second successive year when the agency – which has traditionally dominated the awards tally – has stayed away.

     

    According to a Kyoorius official, Leo Burnett, which was rumoured to be staying away from all awards this year, has sent in entries.

     

    Although the entries closed yesterday (May 5), given some requests from a few agencies, a few entries will be accepted till early tomorrow morning (May 7).

     

    Meanwhile, the entries for the Abby at Goafest have also closed and according to numbers that Goafest organising committee members have informally told us, the aggregate number of entries for all the Abby РCreative, Media, Digital, Broadcast, PR and others Рis in the region of 2700. An Advertising Club officebearer told MxMIndia that a communiqu̩ will be issued on the numbers.

     

  • The 43rd IAA World Congress in Beijing China, WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell took the opportunity to present to the gathering his key-note address

    WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell outlines 10-point keynote at IAA World Congress

    By a correspondent

     

    With some of the powerful and influential names like Jim Elms, Global CEO, Initiative; Andrew Ward, Vice President Marketing, Etihad Airways; Ben Hughes, Deputy Chief Executive, Financial Times; Doug Pearce, CEO,OMG China; MykimChikli, CEO Zenith Optimedia China; Tim Andree,Executive Chairman, Dentsu Aegis Network etc gathered at the 43rd IAA World Congress in Beijing China, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell took the opportunity to present to the gathering his key-note address, which was more a ‘ten-point list’ on issues concerning the ad industry.

     

    The points included: 

    – Shift to East, South and East – meaning a potential shift in power in the world. The USA is still the center, but undeniably power is beginning to move. With a focus still on “BRICS and the next eleven”. WPPsees a G2 world in the future.

     

    – Overcapacity and shortage of human capital – in key industries such as automotive there is massive capacity, but changing lifestyles, and aging populations.
    – Rise and rise of the web – 12 years ago WPP’s web business was close to zero and now it is 30 per cent.

     

    – Growth of retail power – and the changing relationship now between retailers and consumers as populations move to urban areas, with busy two earning families using the e-commerce more and more.

     

    – Importance of internal communications – data – people talk about “data” and we are now applying more technology to data and its role in our organization’s communications.

     

    – Global and local structures – WPP sees the rise of Africa -which represents significant opportunities with a dramatic shift in power taking place.

     

    – Relative power of finance and procurement – the balance of marketing functions and finance is now very much out of balance, and this needs to be addressed- in all parts of the world. Not just the western economies.

     

    – Growth of government – WPP has government clients in almost every country.They are more significant players than ever. In some parts of the world, such as China, there is also an element of “Government run capitalism”.

     

    – The acceptance of social responsibility – the issue and attention towards sustain ability is considerable now. And for companies to “do good” is still”good” for business.

     

    – Industry consolidation – this was a big news day with the announcement that the Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group merger is not proceeding.

     

  • This year's entries have also been characterized by a significant number of web-based and online journalists pitching their stories too

    Press Club Mumbai’s RedInk Awards on June 7

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Press Club RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2014, instituted by the Press Club Mumbai, have received a good response with over 800 entries from 75 print and internet publications. This year’s entries have also been characterized by a significant number of web-based and online journalists pitching their stories into the ring. This shows online journalism and web-based platforms becoming increasingly active and popular as vehicles of mass communication.

     

    The Awards have now moved to the stage of evaluation and judging, a humungous task by any standards. The Press Club has convened a transparent process of forming juries consisting of 3-member panels for each of the 10 sections of awards. The juries are a mix of industry experts, well-known knowledge leaders and senior journalists. The distinguished panels include eminent names such as ShyamBenegal for the ‘Entertainment and Lifestyle’ section, Rahul Dravid for the sports category, Dr Swati Piramal judging ‘Health and Wellness’ entries, Dr KC Chakrabarty, RBI Dy. Governor  for ‘Business’ section, noted lawyer Satish Maneshinde for ‘Crime’ and celebrity lensman Pablo Bartholomew sitting on the photography jury.

     

    The Grand Finale for the RedInk Awards will be held on June 7 at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, at the NCPA, in Mumbai.

     

    The Awards, which offer Rs One lakh to each of the winners, is in its 4th year now, and is the only recognition of merit for journalists from a professional platform. The Awards this year have expanded to include new categories like ‘Human Rights and Environment’. Juries will judge breaking news stories and features separately this year as the 2 categories involve different skill sets.

     

    Star India is the Presenting Partner for The Press Club’s Red Ink Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2014. The awards partners are Yes Bank, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Aditya Birla Group, Zee Entertainment, BSE, Eros International and the Adani Group; communication partners are DNA and exchange4media.