Olympics: India will see 50% rise in ad spend

Thanks to Yash Raj Films' Chak De India, the 2008 Olympics will see a 50 per cent increase in ad spend from India. Traditionally, India spends up to Rs 20 crore (Rs 200 million) on the biggest......

'I am here for a long time. I'm here to give them grief!'

Piyush Pandey retiring?! 'I'm not going anywhere,' says O&M's South Asia executive chairman. IMAGE: Sonal Dabral, chairman, left, and creative officer of DDB Mudra Group with Piyush Pandey, the......

Tara Sinha, doyenne of Indian advertisement, passes away at 88

Sinha, who had both agency and client experience having worked at Coca-Cola in the 1970s and early 1980s, was the first woman to set up a national advertising agency. Tara Sinha, best known as the......

As Sorrell's reign ends WPP stares at an uncertain future

Whatever happens to WPP, the marketing communications business will no longer be the same again, says Sreekant Khandekar. Rarely has that awful cliche, “end of an era”, been more......