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chck out this link frnds.. all the major ppl in advtsing and media hv written awesome articles..

the topics are:



The mystery of the vanishing agency
- Lynn de Souza, Director of Media Services, Lintas India Pvt Ltd. - 7/27/2006

The Word-of-Mouth Factor

I have found that Word-of-Mouth works fastest when integrated into standard brand building communication.
- Sumit Roy, Founder Director, Univbrands - 6/28/2006

The birth of the Global Indian

From whining about the globalisation of India to celebrating the Indianisation of the Globe: tracing and defending the role of media and advertising
- Mythili Chandrasekar, VP and Executive Planning Director, JWT Chennai - 5/29/2006

Be a leader, others will follow you as an evangelist
- Prof. Sushil Bahl, Consultant, International School of Business and Media, Pune - 4/24/2006

Towards a meaningful industry integration
- S. Yesudas, COO, Media Direction - 4/1/2006

Showtime Everywhere @ Davos 2006
- Atri Sengupta, Director, Showtime - 2/21/2006

A door to “impact” full media plans
- S Yesudas, Business Advisor (Director), Initiative Worldwide, Jakarta - 1/17/2006

A profession does not become redundant, its practitioners do
- Svetleena Choudhary, Media Group Head, Initiative, Delhi - 12/9/2005

Jaago Grahak Jaago – bring accountability in media
- Rajul Kulshreshtha, General Manager, GroupM Team LG - 11/8/2005

YOUR PASSPORT TO POWER
- Sushil Bahl, Consultant, International School of Business & Media, Pune - 10/18/2005

Media specialist: Changing paradigms
- S Yesudas, Business Advisor (Director), Initiative Worldwide, Jakarta - 10/7/2005

“It’s the customer, stupid”
- Justin Rabindra, Regional Knowledge Manager, Asia Pacific,OgilvyOne Worldwide - 8/8/2005

The Changing Indian Woman
- Kishore Chakraborti, Associate VP and Director, Consumer Insight, McCann Erickson India - 7/12/2005

Vision & Mission: Breaking the joojoo
- Manosh Sengupta, General Manager – Marketing Communications, IDEA Cellular Limited - 6/22/2005

It’s about time we took the customer seriously, and started treating him like he mattered
- Justin Rabindra, Regional Knowledge Manager, Asia Pacific,OgilvyOne Worldwide - 5/18/2005

Too much of a good thing? Research Vs “gut feel”
- Abraham M. Alapatt, Client Services Director, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, Chennai,& Practice Group Partner, Ogilvy Business Network - 4/27/2005

Does brand management need a shave and a wash?
- Ashish Misra, VP Marketing, Mason & Summers Alcobev - 4/6/2005

Is creativity all about creatiwitty?
- Surojit Sen, Creative Supervisor (Copy), Rediffusion DY&R, New Delhi - 3/15/2005

Taking the tech out of technology advertising
- Abraham M. Alapatt, Client Services Director, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising & Practice Group Partner – Ogilvy Business Network, Chennai - 2/22/2005

Singapore Airlines – An Excellent Asian Brand
- Martin Roll, CEO, VentureRepublic, Singapore - 12/18/2004

Changing Black into White!
- Sushil Bahl, Faculty, Marketing Area, Nirma Institute of Management,Nirma University - 11/27/2004

STAR POWER – Will the force be with you?
- Anupma Suneja, General Manager, Synovate - 10/29/2004

The True Value of Account Management
- Anisha Motwani, Vice-president, EURO RSCG, New Delhi - 10/4/2004

K-Kapoor Factory, B-Bollywood, C-Cricket…but no crorepatis!
- Rakesh Khar, Programme Director, School of Communications, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida - 9/16/2004

A Closer Look at Awards
- Indu Balachandran, Executive Creative Director, JWT Chennai - 8/26/2004

Moving towards ‘virtual’ PR agencies
- Sushil Bahl, Faculty–Marketing Area, Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 8/11/2004

Pepsi and the art of Cool
- Rohit Ohri, Senior VP & Area Director-Delhi, J Walter Thompson - 7/21/2004

Cannes of creativity (no worms need apply)!
- Ashish Misra, Vice-President Marketing, Katra Liquor - 7/8/2004

"Budget blues and the rest of the year"
- Anant Rangaswami, Director, Event Management Development Institute - 6/24/2004

Understanding Commercial Break Viewing on Television Setting Norms that Promote Effective Buying
- P V Narayanmoorthy, Regional Director, Strategic Resource, Carat - 6/7/2004

“The list of their restrictions can go on forever…….Perhaps they deserve all those many crores that they receive for endorsements. It offsets their suffering, I guess. Except, how come they have all the restrictions and all the money, and I have all the choice, not the power to exercise it?”
- Anant Rangaswami, Director, Event Management Development Institute - 5/29/2004

‘Comparing different and unrelated companies often is an acceptable approach if you are looking simply at the operating features of the business rather than their financial performance.’
- Sushil Bahl, Faculty–Marketing Area, Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 5/15/2004

"A fully interactive brand channel on UK satellite today exists in what is essentially a walled-garden of some 200 channels, rather than the Wild West of 17 million websites. It reaches more than seven million homes and will drive commerce both electronically and through the brand’s outlets."
- Bhaskar Majumdar, CEO, Recreate Solutions - 4/21/2004

The index could be based on a rating that takes into account agreed parameters/attributes, past-present media coverage/favourability and relevance, ground situation in terms of successful/unsuccessful seasons/tenures, future prospects, etc.
- Rajesh S Lalwani, Director, Strategy & Business Development, brand-comm - 4/10/2004

Instead of a Unique Selling Proposition, let’s start thinking about our Unique Feelings Proposition.
- Suresh Dinakaran, President, Communicate, Dubai - 3/11/2004

Creating the right buzz through WOM
- Prof. Sushil Bahl, Faculty, Marketing Area, Nirma Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad - 2/24/2004

"India Shining is worth more than a Lion"
- Swapan Seth, Co-CEO, Equus Red Cell - 2/10/2004

Connecting with the Rural Folks
- R V Rajan, CMD, Anugrah Madison Advertising Pvt. Ltd. - 1/13/2004

THE “INCREDIBLE” BRAND!
- Sushil Bahl, Faculty, Marketing Area, Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 12/20/2003

7 Highly Effective Ways of Killing a Brand
- Ashish Misra, , - 11/27/2003

"AND WE DRINK THIS STUFF !!"
- Prof. Sushil Bahl, Faculty, Marketing Area, Institute of Management, Nirma University - 11/5/2003

Sorry, Cannes Save You.
- G S Shridhar, CEO, Purple Blaze Advertising Consultancy - 10/24/2003

The Context of Existance
- Swapan Seth, Co-CEO, Equus Red Cell - 9/24/2003

"Oh, you don't work Saturdays" and other taunts!"
- G S Murari, Director, Fidelis Advertising and Marketing - 9/13/2003

Attack of the delight providers
- Ashish Misra, Vice President, The Henley Centre - 7/30/2003

"Creativity on demand with creative aerobics and imagination management"
- Prof. Linda Conway Correll and Sushil Bahl, , - 7/23/2003

"Lessons in Advertising"
- Anand Halve, Co Founder, Chlorophyll - 7/3/2003

"Fees, and not a 15% commission, I am told, are now the order of the day."
- Sumit Roy, Founder Director, Univbrands - 6/2/2003

"The AOR or media agency will continue to grow in importance because this is where one talks money."
- Arun Kumar, Associate Media Director, MPG, Delhi - 5/15/2003

"Does your Marketing Strategy know your Consumer?"
- Ashish Misra, Vice President, The Henley Centre. - 4/26/2003

"Is there an insidious move to undermine the very edifice on which print is built? That of credibility. Is there an attempt to 'commoditise' news? "
- Indrajit Lahiri, Professor of Broadcast, Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communications - 4/15/2003

"Is there an insidious move to undermine the very edifice on which print is built? That of credibility. Is there an attempt to 'commoditise' news? "
- Amitava Guha, GM,, Key Accounts Hindustan Times - 4/1/2003

"Asian companies need to move up the value chain through strategic branding."
- Martin Roll, CEO, VentureRepublic - 3/26/2003

"THE PRICE IS RIGHT (OR IS IT?)" A closer look at the perils of misusing the pricing variable in the marketing mix.
- Anand Halve, Co Founder, Chlorophyll - 3/1/2003

"If today, agencies are under fire, are we, the client, not as responsible for this crisis?"
- Manosh Sengupta, GM, Marketing Communications, Idea Cellular - 2/19/2003

"Media marketing has finally come of age."
- Rajul Kulshreshtha, CEO, Optimedia Indonesia - 1/30/2003

"Great advertising ideas are not just original and interesting, most importantly they are relevant."
- Samit Sinha, Managing Partner, Alchemist Brand Consulting - 1/11/2003

"Look London, Talk Tokyo: The eternal schizophrenia of the advertising creative person"
- Kiran Khalap, Founder, Chlorophyll - 12/28/2002

How often do we pause and ponder about industry issues that have a bearing beyond just our rigmaroles? Share insights that can further the common understanding? Or, at the very least, point at things that need to be set right. View Point - an exchange4media platform, will fill this void and become a source of understanding, action and perhaps some inspiration.
- Swapan Seth, Co-CEO, Equus Red Cell - 12/16/2002

"I think a lot of our clients are far more inquisitive about the future of media than us media professionals..."
- Sandip Tarkas, President, South Asia, MPG - 12/2/2002

"But now, it sometimes seems to me that the creative and servicing teams are completely divorced from the media"
- Shovon Chowdhury, Exec VP & GM, Bates India - 11/12/2002

"Broadcasters are today putting the distribution and pay related issues as top priority and factor in new concepts like 'Opportunity To See'"
- Amitabh Srivastava, - Network Development, GM Aaj Tak - 10/21/2002

Phadnis comes from Planning and Strategy background, having worked with Starcom, HTA and Rediffussion. Phadnis joined TV Audience Measurement [TAM] as Director, S-Group in early 2002 quitting Starcom as Media Director.
- Atul Phadnis, Director - S-Group, TAM - 10/1/2002

An ardent bridge player, a producer, a writer and a teacher - one could go on and on about Amit Khanna. Khanna has a wide lineage- he has worked in theatre, radio, television, journalism, advertising and films. He has been on the executive committee of IBF, Indian Music Industry, and Film Federation of India. He set up Plus Channels in '90s and quit in 2000 to launch Reliance Entertainment with Reliance. Khanna the Chairman of the Convergence Committee of FICCI. And also he is the Member of the Core Group of Ministry of I&B, on GATS and Ministry of Commerce. His contributions and association is a long list.
- Amit Khanna, Chairman, Reliance Entertainment - 9/16/2002

Unless media independents enlarge their scope and act as clear partner with the brand both in terms of efficiency in planning and providing actual savings, they will not be heard or seen by practical clients
- V.Balasubramanium, National Director, ATG - 8/19/2002

exchange4media has been calling me for my Viewpoint, but like a true advertising person, I have no time! So I decided to write it in sleep (if you can walk in sleep why can't you write in sleep?) If it hurts your sensibility or you disagree with my views, please disregard this as a piece of junk - because I know it is impossible to pour water in a glass full of water - to give gyan to advertising gyanis.
- Amit Ray, VP-Media Services, Mudra - 7/24/2002

"How does a media professional go about seducing his two primary constituents; the client & the client's customers?"
- Sai Nagesh, GM, Maximize - 7/8/2002

Creating Media Assets
- CVL Srinivas, COO-North&South, Madison Media - 6/24/2002
 
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