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BBC finalises creative services roster
MUMBAI: Following a competitive tender, five agencies have been appointed to the BBC‘s restructured creative services roster.
“WInterbrand has been appointed for brand strategy work, while the brand identity roster has gone to Interbrand and Devilfish. Karmarama has been hired and RKCR/Y&R reappointed for creative services.
Thirteen companies participated in the tender process, which began with a pre-qualification exercise in July 2010 and shortlisting in November 2010.
The roster will be in place for two years, with the option to extend for a further two. It will start in March 2011. Suppliers will work across the BBC‘s public service portfolio including the full range of TV channels, local and national radio networks, and new media services.
Brands
Acko CMO Ashish Mishra to exit in July
The digital insurer’s marketing chief, who helped build the brand over nearly five years, is heading for the exit.
Ashish Mishra is stepping down as chief marketing officer of Acko, with his departure confirmed for July. He remains in the role for now, and an official announcement from the company is expected shortly.
Mishra joined the digital insurance start-up in August 2020, making him one of the longer-serving marketing chiefs in India’s fintech and insurtech space. Over nearly five years, he played a central role in building Acko’s brand presence in the country’s fiercely competitive digital insurance market. More recently, he was closely associated with Acko Life’s Unmixed brand philosophy, a proposition built around pure protection products stripped of the investment components that have long complicated traditional insurance offerings in India.
Before Acko, Mishra spent over a decade at HSBC in a series of marketing leadership roles spanning the Middle East, including regional marketing manager for credit cards and advance propositions, brand and media manager, and marketing manager for retail banking. Earlier in his career, he worked on the agency side, serving as senior brand service manager at Lowe Lintas and as executive for brand communications at DDB Mudra Group.
His exit leaves Acko with a sizeable gap to fill at a time when the brand is pushing deeper into life insurance and doubling down on its direct-to-consumer positioning. Whoever takes the seat next will inherit a brand that Mishra spent five years building from the ground up. That is not nothing.
