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Mindshare India wins at the I-Com Data Creativity Awards 2018
Mumbai, 12 April, 2018: Mindshare, India’s largest media agency, a part of GroupM, won the award in the ‘Emerging Market Regions Award Category’ for their innovative campaign for CEREBRO, a content recommendation engine at the 9th edition of the I-Com Data Creativity Awards, part of the I-COM global Data Summit 2018 held at San Sebastian, Spain. Mindshare was the only Indian agency to win at this prestigious awards function. The award also contributed towards Mindshare Global winning the ‘Smart Data Agency of the Year’ and GroupM winning ‘Smart Data Agency Network of the Year’ titles respectively.
The awards are presented to organizations which bring competitive advantage to their clients through their creativity and by leveraging value from data.
Mindshare International also won Data Hackathon for Lufthansa.
Mindshare India won the award for a content recommendation & personalization solution called ‘Cerebro’ which was created to enhance their client Hindustan Unilever’s pilot for their OTT brand Krispy. ‘Cerebro’ helped Krispy to increase Monthly Active Users and stickiness to the platform. It recommends the type of content likely to drive viewership, the most suitable sources of the content and a personalized delivery of the content to consumers based on their content preferences.
Commenting on the win M A Parthasarathy, Chief Product Officer, Mindshare South Asia said, “This award is a testament to the focus on data & analytics of our team. Mindshare receiving the award among global competitors is particularly heartening, and shows we are leading the way on the creative use of data. We at Mindshare are very focused on delivering great quality and efficient results to our clients with our integration of data, technology and content and awards like this only encourage our efforts to push harder and set new standards.”
About Mindshare:
We were born in Asia in 1997, a start up with a desire to change the media world. Now we are a global agency with 116 offices in 86 countries and billings of $35bn (source: RECMA). We aim to be our clients’ lead business partner, to grow their business and drive profitability through adaptive and inventive marketing. We do this through speed, teamwork and provocation because in today’s world everything begins and ends in media. We create new things and have fun doing it. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the media investment management arm of WPP, the world’s leading communications services group. Visit us at www.mindshareworld.com and follow us on Twitter @mindshare_In and https://www.facebook.com/MindshareIndia/ and LinkedIn.com/company/mindshare.
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Hiili names Sanjay Hemady as country manager India
Media veteran to drive digital decarbonisation push
MUMBAI: Climate tech firm Hiili has announced its entry into India, appointing industry veteran Sanjay Hemady as India country manager to steer its growth in one of the world’s fastest-expanding digital markets.
Hemady, a familiar name across India’s media and consulting circles, will lead Hiili’s India operations from Mumbai. His mandate is clear: help Indian companies measure, manage and reduce the carbon emissions generated by their digital services.
Hiili offers a scientifically validated platform, certified by the UC3M-Santander Big Data Institute, that enables businesses to improve the efficiency of their digital infrastructure while cutting emissions. As organisations race to meet ESG targets, the company positions itself as a practical bridge between climate pledges and measurable action.
“I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as country manager, India at Hiili,” Hemady said in a LinkedIn post, adding that the company aims to move beyond broad sustainability promises towards precise, science-based decarbonisation.
Hemady brings more than three decades of experience spanning print, television, radio and digital media. He has previously served as chief executive officer at HIT 95 FM, assistant general manager at CNBC TV18, and held leadership roles at MTV India and The Indian Express, among others. Most recently, he worked as an independent business consultant advising firms across media and technology.
With India’s digital economy expanding at pace, the environmental cost of data, streaming and online services is climbing quietly in the background. Hiili’s bet is that carbon efficiency will soon sit alongside cost efficiency in boardroom conversations.
For Hemady, the move marks a shift from selling airtime and ad inventory to championing climate accountability. If successful, Hiili’s India play could make digital growth not just faster, but cleaner too.
