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AAAI announces ‘Young creative talent contest’
MUMBAI: The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) has for the fifth consecutive year announced the young creative talent contest renewing their endeavour of nurturing and providing an opportunity for international exposure to advertising professionals.
AAAI through this contest will select the official Indian team which will then take part in the Young Creative Talent Contest at Cannes.
The AAAI had noticed that in the past, young creative professionals seemed to falter when it came to converting their ‘print’ idea to an ‘Internet execution.
To overcome this, AAAI in association with The Times Group have decided to send a three- person team instead of the earlier two-person team to take part in the Young Creative Contest at Cannes which would now have specialists in art and copy as well as web-design.
This initiative is being advertised by the Times Group who are the official festival representatives of Cannes in India and have also consented to bear all the expenses of the wining teams’ trip to Cannes.
The theme of this year’s contest is Tsunami Aid Relief.
The participants have to create an ad on the Tsunami Aid Relief
(25 cm height x 16 cm width) in English, along with an online version
(Internet banner of width 468 pixels, height 60 pixels) of the same. The contest is open to people presently employed in AAAI member agencies and INS accredited agencies only.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
