Havas Group India launches sports culture, entertainment agency

Havas Group India launches sports culture, entertainment agency

Havas Group India has announced the launch of a UK-based creative agency, Cake, in the country. Cake India will be the country’s first creative agency specializing in sport, culture, and entertainment. The agency will be part of Havas Creative Group India, which has been growing exponentially on the back of client wins, acquisitions, and s...


Insta to introduce payment feature within messages

Insta to introduce payment feature within messages

Instagram is getting a payment feature that will allow users to buy from small businesses through direct messages, parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has said.

Users of the photo-sharing app need to message the business, add customizations if required and place the order in the chat,...


Amazon appoints Dipashree Das as Head of Partner Marketing, APAC & ANZ, AmazonFuse

Amazon appoints Dipashree Das as Partner Mktng. head

Amazon has recently roped in Dipashree Das from Netflix as Head of Partner Marketing, APAC & ANZ, AmazonFuse. Das shared about this move on her LinkedIn profile and wrote, “Super pumped to share that I started last week at Amazon Singapore, where I will be heading Partner Marketing for APAC and ANZ, as part of...


Network18 consolidated revenues for Q1 up 10%

Network18 consolidated revenues for Q1 up 10%

Network18 Media & Investments Limited, the holding company for TV18 that runs the company’s broadcast business, including India’s largest news network, on Tuesday announced a 10 percent increase in consolidated revenues for the first quarter ending June 2022.

The company said its...


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TRAI gets in-house research centre; names new principal advisor

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has formed an in-house study centre to facilitate proactive research activities into new and evolving technologies that are likely to further disrupt the telecommunication and broadcasting sectors. A senior TRAI official informed the Economic Times newspaper that th...


British MPs for continuance of BBC public funding

British MPs for continuance of BBC public funding

Members of the Communications and Digital Committee of the UK House of Lords (Upper House) while frowning down on BBC’s “stagnation and decline”, have, however, favoured continuance of public funding of the broadcaster, apart from additional alternatives.

The new report, titled ‘Lice...