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Promax&BDA conf to help channels be heard
The Promax&BDA conference seeks to address all the challenges that the broadcast industry is facing today.

Activision, Nielsen's new service for US advertisers
Activision has announced that it will team up with Nielsen Entertainment to develop a new initiative. This will allow video game companies in the US to supply advertisers with audience measurement metrics to help them assess the impact of in-game ad exposure.

JWT launches Amplify in the US
Walter Thompson (JWT) has announced the formation of an expanded brand entertainment content development and placement practice in the US.

Spot buy rates on DD News hiked 66 per cent
Buoyed by the success of the DD News in terms of viewership ratings, Prasar Bharati has introduced a revised rate card for the channel, with approximately a 20 per cent hike for packages and a whopping 66 per cent increase in spot buy rates.

Riot to develop entertainment programming for US tween boys
Talk about targeted programming. Riot Media, a recently launched company based in New York, will develop, produce and market multi-platform entertainment programming and media products for tween boys..

US kids increasingly becoming glued to the TV
Media-savvy children in the US are tuning into television programmes and are using increasingly sophisticated media at a younger age


TV Ratings
Top 10 Programmes (21 March 2004 to 27 March 2004)
Doordarshan's Top 10
Top 10 In All TV Homes
Top 10 in Cable & Satellite Homes

Top 100 Programmes (21 March 2004 to 27 March 2004)
Ten Sports
DD1
Star Plus
Sony
Sun TV
Source: www.indiantelevision.com

Today's Newsbreakers.......India
Cheap's out, high-end goods jazz up topline
Do celebrity ads really work?
Mass rally breaks the BRANDobast
Bollywood means business
Source: The Economic Timesc
   
Telcos push ad spend to limits
Source: Hindustan Times
 
Withdrawn Abby gold impacts creative agency hierarchy
Hitachi Atom: Size does matter
Source: agency faqs
Cloudy Future? Coke Sees Less Fizz In Limca Push
Big Bite: McDonald’s In Institutional Tie-ups
Ayurveda Cosmetics On Moon Mission!
Auto Cos Driving Into IPR Regime
Source: Financial Express
   
No need to ship your models from Mars
Mother Dairy to launch dairy whiteners?
Now suits, blazers from Peter England
Source: The Hindu Business Line
 
And the vote goes to...
Source:Times of India
International News
Coty Narrows $10 Million Review
Wal-Mart Pulls Sponsorship Of Statue Of Liberty Group
Hershey Foods To Sign Latin Singer Thalia
Source: Ad Age
 
Petsmart Eyes 6 Shops for Creative
Source: AD week
 
Ad expenditure soars in 2003
Source: CHINAdaily
 
Reebok Caught In The Draft
$27M Nationwide Effort Will Not Run Nationwide
Source: Brand week
 
Radio campaign paying off, likely to continue, mayor says
Source:Yorkegion.com
 
Saatchis are back, advertising new image
Music channels fight for ad sales in Europe
Source: IHT
 
Advertising Jungle
Source:San Jose Mercury News
 
Miami AD: Hurricanes offer contract to Haith
Source:AP via Florida Times
 
Cradle recipient turns advertising idea into potential partnership
Source:Utusan .com
 
Infomercials Clean Up Their Pitch (but Wait, There's More)
Source:NY Times

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