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BCCI – Women’s IPL: Viacom18 grabbed media rights of Women’s IPL, deal valued at Rs 951cr for 5 years

Viacom18's media rights include three categories - linear (TV), digital and combined (TV and digital) - and were sold globally, including India. (Representative Image: Ash Seddon via Unsplash)

Jay Shah, the Secretary of BCCI, announced Viacom18’s winning bid with each match valued at Rs 7.09 crore for the 2023-27 period.

Effie India 2022: Mondelez India, Ogilvy Group, Leo Burnett India took the spotlight

At Effie India Awards 2023, Mondelez India took home the Client of the Year title with 218 points.

Mondelez India picked the ‘Client of the Year’ title; Ogilvy Group became ‘Agency of the Year’; and Leo Burnett India took home the Grand Effie for Whisper India.

Shehnaaz Gill features in Tata Tea Premium AI-backed Lohri campaign

Through this initiative, users can enjoy AI driven hyper-personalized Tappas made in their own name, celebrating an occasion of their choice that can be seamlessly shared with their loved ones.

Tata Tea Premium built a microsite allowing consumers to create and share their own personalized music video ‘Tappa’, sung and performed by actor Shehnaaz Gill.

Edtech Advertising: ASCI’s report on bad practices in edtech ads points to deeper issues

The industry body states in the latest report that like traditional education ads, edtech ads overemphasise marks and ranks, with mathematics and science dominating the subjects depicted in advertisements. (Representative Image: Ahmed Hindawi via Unsplash)

ASCI flagged off edtech brands for ads full of tall claims, stereotypes, over-emphasis on marks/ranks, perpetuating an unhealthy view of education.

Edtech ads: ASCI flags off edtech brands’ advertising for tall claims, stereotypes, focus on marks and ranks

ASCI's report states that while the marks-linked narrative is not unique to EdTech, spending crores of rupees in perpetuating this narrative can be considered undesirable for society at large. This pattern is seen as problematic by several experts and parent groups that are able to look beyond the immediate impact of advertising promises. (Representative image: Compare Fibre via Unsplash)

ASCI released EdNext a study to spotlight edtech brands’ bad practices and attempts to lay down a responsible approach to edtech advertising.

Advertising on Elon Musk’s Twitter: Why are brands still on the micro-blogging platform?

Experts suggest that this GST will apply if the total annual income from various sources, including income from X, surpasses Rs 20 lakh. (Representative Image: Bastian Riccardi via Unsplash)

Industry experts weigh in on the challenges of advertising on Elon Musk’s Twitter.

Shark Tank judges Vineeta Singh, Peyush Bansal and more: Ads that feature brands’ founders and CEOs

Founders have often taken part in their brands advertisements. It has evolved from cheeky one-liners to being active parts of a storyline.

Take a look at some of the ads that featured founders of brands in ads as themselves.

Punt Partners’ Sidharth Rao: I’d like to believe that I donned the hat of Webchutney’s CHRO

Sidharth Rao said,"Madhu, my co-founder, and I believe given how nascent the martech landscape is, marketers will need time to build inhouse skills to leverage these products to their fullest extent and ensure they work well with all the other products they are using. This will lead to a dual problem - poor outcomes for the marketer and churn for the product provider."

Sidharth Rao, co-founder of Punt Partners, who also founded celebrated ad agency Webchutney, talks about untapped potential in martech, hiring the right talent and his legacy.

Mast & Meh: Lenskart, Zomato, Smallcase, Red Label, Pidilite, Sofit India

Stills from the Mast and Meh ads this week. Take a look at unskippable commercials and the ones we wish we could have skipped.

Find out who made the cut and who got cut in Storyboard18’s weekly picks of the best and boring ads.

S4 Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell: India is increasingly seen as an alternative to investment in China

"India is very well positioned and with very strong growth potential. India will be the third largest economy of the world by 2025. I remain a raging (India) bull," said Sir Martin Sorrell. (Image source: Twitter)

Martin Sorrell, currently Executive Chairman of S4 Capital and former CEO of WPP shares his views on how the past year’s woes and opportunities shaped the advertising and media landscape.