Indiantelevision.com's Media, Advertising & Marketing Watch Interviews Archives for the year 2003
 
* "The many creative styles at O&M are because Piyush Pandey leaves us alone"
(30 December 2003)
Pushpinder Singh
O&M Creative Director
     
* "Advertising is not about promoting yourself; it is about promoting the product"
(13 December 2003)
Bharat Dabholkar
Ad and theatre personality
     
* "Finally scripts are being written with potential for entertaining a discerning, bored and fidgety audience"
(18 November 2003)
Jeet Surendranath
Far Video Films director
     
* " One account in a year is good enough provided it is a quality brand with a vision"
(9 October 2003)
Hemant Misra
Mudra Comm. president (north and east)
     
* "Media has grown by leaps and bounds and matured simultaneously"
(6 October 2003)
Lynn de Souza
Lintas Group Director of media services and healthcare
     
* "Channels, rather than agencies should be concerned about media audit firms "
(6 September 2003)
Shashi Sinha
FCB Ulka ED and Lodestar Media chief executive
     
* "Channels, rather than agencies should be concerned about media audit firms "
(6 September 2003)
Shashi Sinha
FCB Ulka ED and Lodestar Media chief executive
     
* "One of the most important traits of a broadcast journalist is the maturity to put responsibility before the anxiety of speed"
(2 September 2003)
Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
Media education consultant
     
* "We define work in terms of the impact that the advertising has on the lives of people"
(30 August 2003)
Santosh Desai
McCann Erickson India president
     
* "Brand growth , not billings or awards, decides the leader"
(11 August 2003)
Jagdip Bakshi
JWT senior vice president
     
* "Perception, not billings, is a better way to judge an agency"
(9 August 2003)
Vibha Desai
O&M executive director, north India
     
* "We know how to make global trends locally relevant"
(5 August 2003)
V Sunil
O&M creative director
     
* "Media innovations have become an expected deliverable from any media agency"
(31 July 2003)
C V L Srinivas
Madison Media COO (north and south)
     
* "CAS will surely bring in more transparency but industry would be hit in the short term"
(19 July 2003)
Vivek Srivastava
Triton executive director
     
* "Indian audiences want to step out of their homes"
(16 July 2003)
Shonjoy Bhattacharjii
Film marketing and distribution consultant
     
* "Qube Cinema is a revolutionary and path-breaking digital/electronic cinema format"
(16 July 2003)
Senthil Kumar
Real Image Media Technologies director
     
* "CAS will segment the market and finally television will end up doing what print already does "
(7 July 2003)
Pradeep Guha
The Times of India group presidentand former Ad Club, Bombay president
     
* "The intention of the new managing committee is to increase Ad Club memberships beyond the 5,000-mark"
(7 July 2003)
MG Parameswaran
The Ad Club, Bombay president and FCB Ulka executive director
     
* "Most clients and media professionals fear to take the 'innovative' route. There is hardly any risk taking"
(21 June 2003)
C V L Srinivas
Madison Media chief operating officer (North and South)
     
* "The mass media component of the ad pie will be 50% or less in the next 3-4 years"
(20 June 2003)
M Suku
WPP Media-owned BroadMind national director
     
* "Advertisers are apprehensive due to CAS and rightly so"
(14 June 2003)
Anita Nayyar
Starcom India executive director (North)
     
* "In the near future, entertainment will be the plank on which clients can ride"
(9 June 2003)
Kaushik Roy
Mudra executive director and CCO
     
* "The focus on outdoor advertising is diffused because most of the ad agencies still focus on TV, print"
(4 June 2003)
Brij Mittle
DS Mittle director and RAPA council president
     
* "Lowe has bagged Rs 1 billion worth of new business in the last six months"
(31 May 2003)
Pranesh Misra
Lowe group president and COO
     
* "We have already clinched several deals and renewed contracts for the forthcoming year"
(24 May 2003)
Joy Chakkraborthy
Star India VP ad sales, all India
     
* "Indian advertising has become television-oriented!"
(21 May 2003)
Sumanto Chattopadhyay
O&M senior creative director
     
* "Are all media specialists dropping their pants just to gain business?"
(21 May 2003)
Raju Bhakta
Media Compete general manager
     
* "Post CAS, we shall be looking at exit clauses in our deals with broadcasters!"
(21 May 2003)
Sulina Menon
Carat CEO
     
* "The remarks of WPP Media executives on the IRS must be disregarded!"
(17 May 2003)
Amit Ray
MRUC technical committee member
     
* "Humour is the central theme and the backbone of our programming thrust"
(15 May 2003)
Kanta Advani
SABTNL president - sales and marketing
     
* "If I'm not going to get more audiences, why should I pay more?"
(10 May 2003)
Andre Nair
WPP marketing communications south Asia CEO
     
* "The new launches will not affect international news channel share"
(9 May 2003)
Seema Mohapatra
BBC World head of advertising sales, India
     
* "The word client servicing will disappear and domain specialists will emerge"
(8 May 2003)
Ranjan Kapur
O&M Asia-Pac vice chairman and O&M India executive chairman
     
* "India is a great source of talent, the quality of strategic skills developed are amongst the top in the world"
(5 May 2003)
Deepika Nikhilender
MindShare Singapore general manager
     
* "The ratings game is over. The future belongs to a mix of TVRs, subscriptions and 'perceived value' of a channel based on the loyalty factor"
(28 April 2003)
Jeffrey Crasto
MPG India's regional media buying director for India and South Asia
     
* "Currently, media specialists are not sure whether they are doing justice to certain excellent media properties on niche channels"
(28 April 2003)
V Ramani
MPG India's executive director
     
* "We had to transform ourselves overnight from media managers to business managers"
(26 April 2003)
Bashab Sarkar
Maximize India MD
     
* "It is sad that all the old and new channels look like clones"
(12 April 2003)
Meenakshi Madhvani
Carat Media Services India CEO
     
* "One has to take away as much as one can from competition"
(8 April 2003)
Monica Tata
Star India senior
VP - ad sales
     
* "I am the first entrepreneur and perhaps the only one so far who has been very open about accepting his faults"
(31 March 2003)
Subhash Chandra
Zee telefilms chairman and managing director
     
* "We need to change our focus from just thinking about TV"
(31 March 2003)
Andre Nair
WPP marketing communications south Asia CEO
     
* "Entertainment malls now an integrated marketing and communication medium"
(25 March 2003)
Prakash Mirpuri
E-City Entertainment head - corporate partnerships and communications
     
* "In some ways the 15 per cent agency commission model has some advantages over the AOR model"
(18 March 2003)
Arpita Menon
Lodestar media director
     
* "Leo Burnett India has acquired a reputation for turning around brands"
(14 March 2003)
Arvind Sharma
Leo Burnett India chairman and CEO
     
* "The ad industry saw light at the end of a long dark tunnel in 2002!"
(8 March 2003)
Ramesh Narayan
Canco Advertising MD and AdAsia 2003 planning committee chairman
     
* "What media specialists are we talking about? The media people are the same that were there before!"
(28 February 2003)
Amit Ray
Optimum Media Solutions executive vice president
     
* "Media specialists have become media-neutral!"
(19 February 2003)
Jasmin Sohrabji
MediaCom senior VP
     
* "The year 2002 saw the emergence of three or four strong media groups"
(14 February 2003)
Ashish Bhasin
Initiative Media president
     
* "2002 was good but we hope to grow more from business acquisitions in the coming year"
(31 January 2003)
Sam Balsara
Madison India CMD
     
* "The biggest agencies do not necessarily produce the best ideas"
(23 January 2003)
Ravi Kiran
Starcom business development head
- Part Two
     
* "My role is going to be that of an entertainment VJ presenting views of several cricket personalities, celebrities and adorable fans"
(9 January 2003)
Mandira Bedi
MAX Extraaa Innings presenter
     
* "I want to be a part of the mania that will envelope all cricket-crazy nations "
(9 January 2003)
Sandhya Mridul
MAX Extraaa Innings presenter
     
* "Advertisers must remember that every match is not a India-Pakistan match"
(3 January 2003)
Amit Ray
Optimum Media Solutions executive vice president
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