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  • YC Deveshwar, Sam Balsara and Piyush Pandey were amongst winners at the inaugural awards

    IAA awards media & marketing honchos at leadership awards

    Srinivasan K Swamy with I&B Minister Manish Tewari

     

    By A Correspondent

     

    ITC CEO YC Deveshwar, Madison World CEO Sam Balsara and Ogilvy & Mather CEO Piyush Pandey were amongst the award-winners at the first ever International Advertising Association (IAA) Leadership Awards held in Mumbai on Saturday. Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari was chief guest of the evening.

     

    The International Advertising Association is the world’s only globally-focused integrated advertising trade association with membership representing Advertisers. Agencies and the Media. Well-known research firm The Nielsen Company and consulting firm Ernst & Young were associated with the event that was organised and sponsored by the Colors general entertainment channel.

     

    Popular television artist Mini Mathur emceed the evening as the fraternity was welcomed by IAA’s India chapter president Srinivasan K Swamy and Colors CEO Raj Nayak. In his address, the I&B minister asked the industry to mull over pressing issues like ad duration in channels, effective viewership measurement, adding that the government will not institute any regulations without consulting the industry.

    Award Categoy Awardee
    Marketer of the Year: Travel & Hospitality  Manish Kalra, Make My  trip
    Marketer of the Year: Banking  Sujit Ganguli, ICICI Bank
    Marketer of the Year: Insurance  Rita Bhattacharya, LIC
    Marketer of the Year: Media & Entertainment  Gayatri Yadav, Star India
    Marketer of the Year: Household Products  Amit Syngle, Asian Paints
    Marketer of the Year: FMCG – Personal Care  Arun Srinivas, HUL
    Marketer of the Year: FMCG – Food & Beverages  Chandramouli Venkatesan, Cadbury Kraft India
    Marketer of the Year: FMCG – Consumer Durables  Rahul Saighal, Samsung Appliances
    Marketer of the Year : Auto Two Wheeler Anil Dua, Hero Motocorp
    Marketer of the Year: Auto Commercial vehicles  UT Ramprasad , Tata Motors
    Marketer of the Year: Auto Passenger Vehicles  Mr. Mayank Pareek, Maruti Suzuki
    Marketer of the Year: Telecom Products  Anuradha Aggarwal, Vodafone
    Media Agency Head of the Year  Sam Balsara, Madison World
    Creative Agency Head of the Year  Piyush Pandey for Ogilvy & Mather India
    Best CEO  Y C Deveshwar, ITC
    News Anchor of the year  Rajdeep Sardesai, CNN-IBN
    Editor of the year  Jaideep Bose, The Times of India
    Mediaperson of the year  Shobhana Bhartia, HT Media
    Brand Endorser of the year – Female  Katrina Kaif
    Brand Endorser of the year – Male  Salman Khan
    IAA Hall of Fame  Pradeep Guha

     

    Also amongst the winners was Bollywood actor Salman Khan who made his first ever appearance at an awards function with IAA Leadership Awards. The actor known to have bagged maximum endorsements and is on a high with brands queuing to sign him, bagged the award for the Brand Endorser of the Year – Male. Katrina Kaif was awarded Brand Endorser of the Year – Female. Mr Pradeep Guha, former IAA president who has been CEO, Zee Entertainment and President, Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd was admitted to the IAA’s Hall of Fame with the lifetime achievement award.

     

    Marketers from across 12 categories were among the awardwinners as also were Editor of the Year (Jaideep Bose) and News Anchor of the Year (Rajdeep Sardesai). Shobhana Bhartia, chairperson of  HT Media, was awarded the Mediaperson of the Year award. The table above has the list of winners.

  • In an ongoing effort to make the Advertising Council of India (ACI) more relevant and useful to its constituents, its new website (www.adcouncilofindia.org) went live on the occasion of Dussera

    Advertising Council of India launches new website

    By A Correspondent

     

    In an ongoing effort to make the Advertising Council of India (ACI) more relevant and useful to its constituents, its new website (www.adcouncilofindia.org) went live on the occasion of Dussera.

     

    Pradeep Guha of the ACI said “I believe this will be very useful in the times to come. Right now, the site gives one an overview of what the ACI is all about. It has information about the interesting Fast Track programme ACI is running (as a part of the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations, AFAA) and has a useful link to the AdAsia 2011 site. More important, it has the first initiative of the AFAA knowledge Center.”

     

    AFAA has forged a partnership with WARC, a company headquartered in London and providing ideas and evidence to the marketing community for 25 years. WARC has offered AFAA the trend report for Asia called the Asian Toolkit for the AFAA Members.  As ACI is a member of AFAA, the Asian toolkit is now available to all members of ACI. The toolkit can be accessed via the ACI site and is a summary version which associations can distribute to their members.

     

  • Janet Lee, a veteran in the advertising and professional training industries, will conduct the intensive five-day residential programme

    AFAA’s programme to turn young talent into achievers

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA) is launching its first-ever Fast Track Professional Excellence Programme, which aims to re-orient young professionals build on their basic skills in marketing and advertising.

     

    The Advertising Council of India (ACI), whose members include Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA), Advertising Club Bombay, Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), Indian Broadcasters Foundation (IBF), India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA) and Standing Committee on Advertising (STACA), will be sponsoring four young professionals on an all-expenses-paid trip to Malaysia where the inaugural programme will take place between September 3 and 7, 2012.

     

    Janet Lee, a veteran in the advertising and professional training industries, will conduct the intensive five-day residential programme.

     

    “This holistic training programme is aimed at identifying young talent and converting them into potential leaders. I believe they would emerge from this program far more productive and happier. They will receive a truly international experience with exposure to industry leaders.” explained AFAA Chairman Pradeep Guha.

     

    To participate, young professionals (below 35 years of age) with a valid passport, and at least five years’ experience need to send a brief note, not more than 75 words on what they feel is wrong with their industry and more important what they could do to solve it, along with particulars of themselves to acifastrack@gmail.com.

     

    Short-listed candidates would be interviewed by an ACI panel and four professional will be chosen.

     

     

  • Following its new mandate, the Executive Committee of AFAA has planned out a slew of initiatives that would be rolled out in the months ahead

    AFAA plans new initiatives in the region

     

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA) held their first executive committee meeting atKuala Lumpuron May 22. The newly elected chairman of AFAA Pradeep Guha said: “There was a sense of purpose and urgency at the meeting.” Following its new mandate, the Executive Committee of AFAA has planned out a slew of initiatives that would be rolled out in the months ahead.

     

    The first one is a skills re-orientation initiative that would be held in September inKuala Lumpurwhere young professionals would be exposed to a program that has been carefully crafted keeping in mind the needs of the profession. The Advertising Council of India (ACI) which representsIndiaon the AFAA International Council would be setting in motion a process to send three young professionals representing advertising, media and marketing respectively to attend this program.

     

    There would be a master class conducted by senior professionals with 30 students from countries all overAsia. This would provide a unique cross-cultural flavour to the program which would benefit the participants enormously.

     

  • The General Body of the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA) has unanimously elected Pradeep Guha, representing the Advertising Council of India, as the Chairman of its newly mandated Executive Committee for a period of four years.

    Pradeep Guha is Chairman of AFAA

    By A Correspondent

     

    The General Body of the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA) has unanimously elected Pradeep Guha, representing the Advertising Council of India, as the Chairman of its newly mandated Executive Committee for a period of four years.

     

    Talking to MxM India on the agenda for AFAA, Mr Guha said, “We will have a steering committee meeting in Bali in May this year where we will take a decision on the way ahead. However, I do feel that there is a need for some joint action across Asia on issues concerning the changing media environment particularly with regard to self regulation and advertising.”

     

    He continued, “There is a real need for an umbrella body like AFAA which represents the interests of marketers, agencies and the media to play a more proactive role in the Asian subcontinent.”

     

    Raymond So who represents Taipei Association of Advertising Agencies was elected Deputy Chairman. The new four-person committee consists of Bharat Avalani, Anthony Kang (representing Association of Accredited Advertising Agents, Singapore), Soon Dong Lee (representing Korea Federation of Advertising Associations) and Ramesh Narayan (representing the Advertising Council of India ).

     

    Founded in 1978, AFAA has representations in 15 Asian nations including Japan, Korea, Taipei, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and UAE. Its primary objectives are to unify all Asian associations involved in the various aspects of advertising and upgrade the standards, ethics, and practices of advertising and to bring about a meaningful contribution from advertising activities to both regional and national socio-economic development. Under its aegis, AdAsia, Adfest and the Asia Pacific Media Forum is held.