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  • Viacom18 veteran Sonia Huria to join Amazon Prime Video to head India comms

    Sonia Huria
    Sonia Huria

    By A Correspondent

     

    Sonia Huria, Head of Corporate Marketing, Communications and Sustainability for Viacom18, will move to Amazon Prime Video to lead all communication efforts for its India business. Huria will be a part of the global communications team – leading PR and Communications for Amazon Prime Video in India. She will report to Tobias Tringali – Head of Amazon Prime Video PR Asia Pacific & Canada who is based in Seattle.

    Widely regarded as one of the most influential PR heads in the M&E space, Huria has moved up the ladder at Viacom18 from heading PR for Colors in 2008 to the entire Viacom18 brand portfolio including corporate and then the key roles of corporate marketing and sustainability.

    In the areas of sustainability, Huria successfully created a model of multi-partner-funded behaviour change communication content at Viacom18… from the Navrangi Re! series to the more recent MTV Nishedh. In addition to managing internal and external communication, she also spearheaded trade marketing and digital media for the organisation.

    Huria serves as a managing committee member at The Advertising Club. Under her leadership, Viacom18 has won several awards on the global and India stage. She has been featured in Impact magazine’s Top 50 Women Leaders in Advertising, Media & Marketing for four years in a row.

     

  • Indian music service Saavn has announced the launch of its new advertisement platform, Impact, which enables brands to identify, connect and engage with its users

    Saavn launches new ad platform

    By A Correspondent

     

    Indian music service Saavn has announced the launch of its new advertisement platform, Impact. This platform enables brands to identify, connect and engage with its 10.5 million users in India and across the globe.

     

    Impact is an innovative approach to digital and mobile advertising that gives brands 100 percent share-of-voice. Using Impact, brands get complete and exclusive access to all advertisement units on the Saavn web site and mobile apps for a set time period. These include Custom Skin, Web Display, Web Audio, Mobile Spotlight, Mobile Display, and Mobile Audio. Impact is a powerful model that allows brands to build positive associations with their products and services through music. The model has proven to create strong brand awareness, shape brand preferences and increase purchase consideration through undivided mindshare of listeners of Saavn across platforms.

     

    “In India, we all know that music plays an integral and meaningful part in every individual’s life. Impact is a powerful solution that enables the advertisers to build an emotional connection with their target audience during a passionate, social and engaging musical experience,” Vinodh Bhat, co-founder and CEO of Saavn, said. “The Saavn Impact model is based around engagement, curation and social sharing rather than the archaic click-through. Brands are able to measure ROI in meaningful ways, such as increases in perception, awareness, recall and purchase intent. The byproduct of our strong focus on the consumer experience is helping brands grow their businesses.”

     

    Some of the major brands utilizing Saavn to reach million of engaged users in India include: Samsung, Lay’s, Pantene, Pepsi, Nokia, Vodafone, Airtel, Hyundai, Domino’s Pizza, 7Up, Nielsen, MakeMyTrip, Max NewYork Life, Google Plus, Nokia, Vanish, Groupon, Intel and several others.

     

    Saavn delivers a comprehensive catalogue of Bollywood, Indian and regional South Asian music, licensed from more than 200 content providers. Saavn users can search, browse, and play a catalog of more than 1 million tracks; create and save their own playlists; and share their music tastes seamlessly via Facebook.

     

  • dgMatix's proprietary technology is capable of tracking click frauds, measuring campaign performance on various parameters

    DGM India launches dgMatix ad network

    By A Correspondent

     

    DGM India announced the launch of its premium brand ad network – dgMatix, which will utilize DGM’s proprietary technology to deliver impactful and transparent campaigns. dgMatix’s proprietary technology is capable of tracking click frauds, measuring campaign performance on various parameters like creative-wise performance, publisher-wise performance, and so on.

     

    Anurag Gupta, MD, DGM India said: “dgMatix Ad Platform is significantly different from the other platforms available in the Indian market for the advertisers. It uses proprietary JavaScript injection technology to put an ad on the publisher’s website without interfering with the existing ad units or existing design of the website. Additionally, there are no costs for publishers for serving dgMatix ads. The ad units created by dgMatix are additional high impact units on the publisher’s website that is interoperable with multiple platforms like Flash, HTML5. Our technology optimizes the publisher’s inventory and provides maximum eCPM and eCPC”.

     

    dgMatix’s proprietary technology is hosted on the cloud to generate faster response time. The ad server resides on Amazon and the delivery system works from Amazon Cloud Front which allows to automatically route end users to the closest available location, thus ensuring the fastest delivery of ads without any drop outs.

     

    dgMatix is capable of delivering high impact, disruptive units on identified websites along with detailed reporting including IP addresses. dgMatix offers two kinds of solutions to Brand advertisers: Impact & Reach.

     

    dgMatix delivers the following Impact solutions on identified selected tier 1 and tier 2 websites:

    • Brand Box: A high impact slider unit that can play rich media ads to static images. The slider unit delivers phenomenally high CTRs.
    • Brand Bar: dgMatix uses intelligent technology to serve ads in the margin/free space on the left & right side of the website content.
    • Brand Bang: dgMatix offers the highest impact ad options for advertisers viz. site captures/take-overs and high impact flash/HTML5 ad units.

     

    dgMatix delivers the following Reach solutions:

    • dgMatix has a reach of over 30 million Internet users on a monthly basis
    • The exclusive pricing strategy includes charging advertisers on authenticated & verified deliveries as per client’s analytics reports
    • The Pricing models include Cost per visitor, Cost per click, Cost per thousand impressions etc. Detailed during and post-campaign reporting, including IP addresses etc.

     

    DGM India works with over 15,000 websites across India and has delivered measurable results to over 300 blue-chip Indian brands over the past 5 years on a pay-for-performance basis.

     

     

  • Agnello Dias represents the new face of adland and has done some terrific work, writes Pradyuman Maheshwari

    Mediaah!: Aggie – well-deserved Impact Person of the Year

    By Pradyuman Maheshwari

     

    So it’s Agnello Dias as Impact Person of the Year. For the first time in the seven-year history of Impact Person of the Year, an adperson has won the coveted accolade. Guess there have been times when people have come very close, but given the way the selection is done whoever is top of mind in the second half of the year, generally forges ahead (see disclosure).

     

    Deserving choice, and in every way echoes the sentiment of the industry. Aggie, with his Airtel ad, has been the toast of adland. I did a quick dipstick on Tuesday asking for names of the top creative folk in the country. The sample: 11 people from three metros. And this is what 90 per cent of the people said: Piyush Pandey, Prasoon Joshi and Agnello Dias.

     

    Feel sorry for the rest of the immense creative talent that India has, but guess these things happen and I don’t think anyone minds it. While Piyush is around, there is a laaarge creative pool at Ogilvy. Ditto in JWT, Mudra and the mom-and-pop shop based in Patna and Panjim.

     

    Should it have been one of the others?

     

    Haresh Chawla, outgoing Group CEO, Network18 and Viacom18

    Madhukar Kamath, MD & CEO, Mudra Group and Chairman, AdAsia

    Man Jit Singh, CEO, Multi Screen Media

    Rajiv Verma, CEO, Hindustan  Times

    Ronnie Screwvala, CEO and Founder Chairman, UTV

    Sandeep Goyal, Non-Executive Founder Chairman, Dentsu India

    Vineet Jain, Managing Director, Times Group

     

    Guess since it’s the fraternity who decides on who the award should go to, I think the question should be asked to each of us and not the exchange4media group management. For me, Agnello Dias represents the new face of Indian advertising. He is young, dynamic and has done some super work when with JWT and now as an entrepreneur running Taproot.

     

    What you can ask them (and the editorial team) is why they chose Haresh Chawla as Editorial Choice and not Vineet Jain, Sandeep Goel, Ronnie Screwvala, Man Jit Singh, Rajiv Verma and Madhukar Kamath? I think Haresh Chawla deserved it awesomely and since he’s moving out of the Network/Viacom/Web/etc 18 group, there can be no nasties like he was given the award to get more ads.

     

    So just as you may ask as to why cricketer x wasn’t selected for the Australia series, there will be questions asked as to why Haresh and why not Vineet Jain or Ronnie or Madhukar or Rajiv Verma or Sandeep Goel or Man Jit Singh?

     

    Pointless discussion. Many congratulations to Agnello Dias and Haresh Chawla.

     

    (Disclosure: I worked with the exchange4media group until May this year and ran the Impact Person of the Year for the last three years)

    Photograph: Bharat Kapadia

     

    The PR Channel

    Must mention here that I have been think of a specialised PR publication ever since Hanmer & PR founder-bossman Sunil Gautam asked me a question of whether it would work here in India. I didn’t think it would as a standalone, but in a broadbased site like MxMIndia, it should.

     

    SRK: India’s biggest endorser

    His Ra.One may not have worked as well as he would have, but the publicity around it was phenomenal. Clearly the biggest we’ve seen in India. Little wonder that an Economic Times report says that SRK emerged as the most visible celeb on TV followed by Katrina and Kareena. I missed reading it in the Mumbai edition of ET, but here’s a web link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/advertising/shah-rukh-khan-fmcg-cos-lead-tv-advertising-charts/articleshow/11041079.cms

     

     

    Buzz me if you have a story to tell and gossip to share. Confidentiality assured. Andar ki baat will stay under. There are various ways you can reach me: pradyumanm[at]mxmindia.com, BBM @ 23050B5D, pradyumanm[at]gmail.com, @pmahesh, 98338 76278.

     

    Disclaimer: Although Pradyuman Maheshwari is CEO of MxMIndia other than being editor-in-chief, he chucks those hats while writing Mediaah! So, the views expressed here are entirely his own and not those of the website and the team that runs it (especially the National Sales Head!).

  • Pradyuman Maheshwari is delighted that IMPACT’s recently released seventh anniv issue is a great read.

    7 reasons why the IMPACT 7th anniversary issue is unputdownable!

    By Pradyuman Maheshwari

    Shocked and surprised that I am writing nice things about what is perceived as competition? The problem with the Indian media is that we are too full of ourselves and don’t like to say good or bad things about the tribe. Especially about our past employers 🙂

    However, I had good fun putting together the fifth and sixth anniv issues of the magazine and I was happy to see the seventh anniversary issue getting better than the previous years.

    #1 The anniv issue is a veritable ready reckoner of the industry, the people who make it and what’s happening in and around it.

    #2 It’s a must-read for any newcomer to the business.

    #3 The 7th anniv issue is bigger and thicker than the 6th. (aside: So will the 8th anniv issue have 400 pages?)

    #4 The issue: Nice, cool design. Interesting lot of writers… beyond the biggies and the usual suspects. Good cover and great idea to crowdsource the design.

    #5 Being the only standalone weekly magazine for the advertising, media and marketing business, IMPACT’s a must-read. Okay, I’ve not been reading the print edition in the recent past, and I access the PDFs online… but that’s good enough.

    #6 Preeti ‘VGC’ Vyas’s design is as refreshing as it was unveiled last December.

    #7 It’s the first test of a leader. Is your product as good as it was six months after you left it? I believe it is. And I am happy to see it’s in very good, safe and able hands of a publisher, editor, designer and a bright team. So when I update my LinkedIn profile, I can safely say that I was associated with the magazine for a bit. Wink, wink.

    Greetings to the IMPACT team and all those who helped put it together. Thanks for ensuring that the flag continues to fly high.

     

    MxMIndia editor-in-chief and CEO Pradyuman Maheshwari was until April 2011 group chief editor with the exchange4media groupÂ