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Madison Media wins multiple accounts
MUMBAI: Over the last two months Madison Media has won multiple businesses, including Hamilton (comprising Milton and Treo brands); Piramal Realty as well as celebrity lifestyle company USPL (comprising Wrogn and Imara) in Mumbai.
In Bangalore, the agency has won the accounts of ilovediamonds.com and Phaneesh Murthy’s healthcare portal zigy.com. The agency has also won Delhi based shoe company Aerobok with the brand Aqualite.
Commenting on winning new accounts, Madison World chairman and managing director Sam Balsara said, “I am delighted that we have won so many new accounts and it is heartening to know that many of these have been won without a pitch, based on our agency credentials.”
In 2015, Madison Media Group has been on an account winning spree, having won a host of new businesses including Snapdeal, Shaadi.com, Oyo Rooms, Viber, Lenskart.com, Zivame.com, Metro Cash & Carry, Gaana.com, Cricbuzz.com, Amul Hosiery, Bandhan Bank, amongst others.
With gross billing of Rs 3,750 crores, Madison Media Group in India handling media planning and buying for blue chip clients including Godrej, Mondelez (formerly Cadbury), ITC, Marico, SnapDeal, McDonald’s, TVS, Raymond, Piramal Healthcare, Levis, SpiceJet, Domino’s, Bharti AXA and many others.
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Sameer Nair shares heartfelt note as he exits Applause Entertainment
After nine years building the streamer’s content engine, one of India’s best-known TV men is moving on
MUMBAI: Sameer Nair is out. The chief executive of Applause Entertainment, the content studio backed by Kumar Mangalam Birla’s media empire, has announced his departure after nearly nine years at the helm, closing the chapter on one of Indian entertainment’s more quietly consequential careers.
Nair, who built Applause from the ground up in its current avatar, oversaw a slate that spanned Indian originals and international adaptations, threading together a hub-and-spoke business model that partnered with streaming platforms, broadcasters and production houses alike. The results were uneven, as they always are in content, but the ambition was not.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nair was generous to his outgoing patron. He thanked Birla for being an “inspirational boss and a great patron of the arts,” and signed off with a cheerful “Au Revoir” and a promise to remain Applause’s biggest cheerleader. Whether that sentiment survives the next chapter remains to be seen.
No successor has been named. Applause Entertainment did not immediately comment.
Nair built the machine. Now someone else has to run it — and in a streaming market that is simultaneously consolidating and convulsing, that is no small ask.
