News

Visa Focuses on Strengthening Payments Security as Consumer Behaviour Evolves During Pandemic

Addressing more than 1,500 partners and clients in its first virtual edition of the Asia Pacific Visa Security Summit last week, Visa stressed the need for robust payment experiences in a changing commerce environment.

Mindtree to Acquire L&T’s Cloud-Based IoT And AI Platform Nxt Digital Business

Mindtree and NxT Digital Business‘ combined offerings will bring scale and market agility to meet the growing end-to-end digital transformation demands of customers.

Organizations Undergoing Holistic Digital Transformation Are Best Prepared For The Future Of Work: Report

As organizations transition to this new environment, business leaders and employees are adjusting to large-scale digitalization and, in many cases, even a cultural reset.

Discovery And AT&T‘S WarnerMedia Come Together To Create A New Premier Global Entertainment Company

The agreement will combine WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading nonfiction and international entertainment and sports businesses to create a premier, standalone global entertainment company.

Ogilvy Appoints Liz Taylor as Global Chief Creative Officer

Piyush Pandey will take on the new role as Chairman of Global Creative at Ogilvy and continues to serve as Chairman of Ogilvy India.

Sudhir Sitapathi Named Managing Director & CEO of Godrej Consumer Products Ltd

Sitapahi who previously served as Executive Director – Foods and Refreshments at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) stepped down after 22 years with the company.

Mogae Media Acquires Rediffusion

Rediffusion will now be integrated into the Mogae Media group, with founding partner Arun Nanda remaining as Chairman and Goyal taking over as the company’s Managing Director.

Articles

How Companies Can Maximise ROI Across Budget Sizes

In this new era of adaptability, marketers must quickly find the right balance to drawing and retaining the consumer’s attention, while maintaining lean and cost-effective marketing strategies to maximise ROI.

2020 Has Been a Year for Setting a Vision for the Future: Chetan Sharma

Chetan Sharma, Founder & CEO of India Ahead News and Founder of Educate.tv was the moderator for the session on University and Communication on the first day of INDICOMMS 2021.

Data And Text Will Be The Key In Future, Says Joy Mukherjee

Joy Mukherjee, Creative Director of Zee Group was speaking at INDICOMMS 202, a two-day Media, Entertainment, and Communication Summit organised by SMX Networks

Animation, VFX, Gaming, Television, Digital Technologies – Will Rule The Perch Of The Entertainment Industry: Dilip Chenoy

Dilip Chenoy, Secretary-General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) spoke on the first day of SMX India Communication Summit 2021.

OTT Platforms Are The Perfect Opportunity For Low-Budget Films: Aftab Asghar

New York-based filmmaker and video producer, Aftab Asghar spoke about the future of low budget films on the first day of SMX India Communication Summit 2021 in the session Entertainment Next, focused on new-age entertainment and communication.

Interviews

Businesses Should Have the Agility to Cope and Adapt New Imperatives to Survive, Says Dr Bhaskar Das

Dr Bhaskar Das, Group President, Republic TV, Executive President, Dainik Bhaskar Group, spoke about the challenges of 2020 and the future ahead of the media industry

The Critical Point is Connecting Gamification in the Context of the End-User: Vaibhav Bhargava, ICICI Bank

Vaibhav Bhargava, Product Head – Privilege Banking, Branch Sales Strategy & Transformation, L&D at ICICI Bank, spoke about how gamification can be leveraged in the BFSI sector especially to build customer connect and enhance HR processes

A Good Brand Adapts to Every Situation, Says Ushoshi Sengupta

Ushoshi Sengupta, former I Am She–Miss Universe India and the founder of USP Productions and Playfest, shared her journey to success.