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Havas Play inks strategic partnership with SGSE helmed by Mahesh Bhupathi

These academies will serve as hubs for identifying and nurturing talented young athletes, paving the way for their progression to national and international levels of achievement.

The partnership aims to curate premium sports and entertainment IPs.

Havas India appoints John Thangaraj as chief strategy officer of Havas Creative Network India

John Thangaraj will be based out of Gurugram and report to Rana Barua, Group CEO, Havas India, South East Asia and North Asia (Japan & South Korea).

John Thangaraj will be responsible for driving the strategic mandate of the creative network and will also work closely with Havas Village India leaders to drive integration.

Dentsu Creative India promotes Surjo Dutt to chief creative officer at Dentsu Creative Webchutney

Dutt will continue to report to Amit Wadhwa, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dentsu Creative India.

In his new role, Dutt will spearhead the creative vision of the agency, ensuring the delivery of innovative and integrated solutions that foster business growth for clients. Additionally, he will mentor and guide the creative teams.

Cars24 launches multi-brand car service and repair brand ‘Fourdoor’ with ‘बे-CAR’ campaign

The campaign is already live on social media platforms such as Youtube and Instagram.

बे-CAR’ campaign highlights and addresses these pain points creatively and humorously and introduces Cars24’s latest service ‘Fourdoor’.

70 percent leaders are investing more in visual communication tools than the previous year: Canva Report

The majority of leaders (97%) expect employees in non-design roles to possess some design acumen in order to be effective communicators in their organizations.

The ability to communicate visually is now table stakes in the workplace, regardless of role, as per the report.

Govt. committed to serve the people, first cabinet decision dedicated to poor: Vaishnaw

“Our intent is to encourage it; that is giving more opportunities to express, share and create new intellectual property,” the minister said.

Welcomed by Secretary Sanjay Jaju and other senior officials of the Ministry, Vaishnaw reiterated the Cabinet decision for construction of three crore rural and urban houses.

Swiss Beauty’s CEO Saahil Nayar steps down

Saahil Nayar, who is the co-founder of IDAM House of Brands, during his stint, he led all front-ended aspects of business including marketing strategy, brand marketing, performance marketing, e- commerce sales, new brand launches etc.

Saahil Nayar began his career at Tata Teleservices and went on to work across Nitya Marketing, Kama Ayurveda, Revlon and The Moms Co.

Cheil expands its operations, opens new Cheil X office in Mumbai

Cheil India was setup exclusively to manage the Samsung business in India. Cheil X on the other hand, works as an independent full-service agency under the Cheil SWA group to manage the fast growing new client mandates in India.

This new office will allow Cheil X to tap into the Mumbai market, which is the business and financial capital of India and home to several big-name companies in the country.

Delhi HC protects journalist Rajat Sharma’s personality rights, stops ‘Baap Ki Adalat’

Multiple videos were circulating on social media of a Lok Sabha election results day discussion on Sharma-owned India TV news channel that claimed that Sharma used foul language against Nayak.

The HC passed the order after Independent News Service Private Limited, which owns India TV news channel and Sharma approached court alleging the infringement of its trademark rights and logo

Gary Vaynerchuk bullish on India; VaynerMedia launches new office in the country

Salman Moin, Country Manager, India, VaynerMedia APAC; Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO, VaynerMedia; Tim Lindley, Managing Director, VaynerMedia APAC

VaynerMedia previously operated in strategic partnership with local agency Step1, that will now operate as VaynerMedia India.