Viral Pandya Bids Adieu To Cog Culture; Ogilvy Chief Piyush Pandey Conferred With The LIA Legend Award; Punit Goenka On ZEE's 32nd Anniversary & More

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Lamenting the loss of creativity in the contemporary digital advertising agency ecosystem, Viral Pandya, one of India’s renowned Design professionals, has called it a day at Cog Culture. Confirming the same, exclusively to Marketing Mind, he mentioned that he now intends to embrace and execute design-first thinking in areas beyond advertising.

With this, Ogilvy Chief who is also known as the ‘Big Daddy of Indian Advertising’- Piyush Pandey has been conferred with the LIA Legend Award this year. He has been associated with Ogilvy since 1982 and is credited with putting Indian advertising on the world map with over 600 national and international awards to his name whilst being the first Asian to chair the Cannes jury in 2004.  

As Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEE) celebrates 32 years, MD and CEO, Punit Goenka, emphasised the Company's focus on enhancing profitability through strengthened business performance, with the goal of delivering increased value for all stakeholders.

Here’s our ‘Scoop’ of news, hot off the press & curated especially for you! Happy reading :)

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Amazon Ads Makes Available Its AI-Powered Image Generation Capability To Indian Advertisers On Beta Mode

• Unilever Reappoints WPP’s Mindshare As Media AOR In The US, UK, China & India

• Cable Operators Initiate Tariff Hikes Amid Increasing Costs From Broadcasters 

• Former Lintas & Paytm Insider Execs Launch Content-Led Growth Firm- Buzzlab 

• Adobe Appoints Stagwell As Global Lead For Its DME’s Creative & Social Content

• TRAI Releases Consultation Paper On Formulating Digital Radio Broadcast Policy For Private Radio Broadcasters

• Vishal Mehta To Succeed Ajit Balakrishnan As Chairman & MD At Rediff.com

• Kedar Apte Becomes SVP & Head Of Charging Infrastructure (Auto & Farm Sector) At Mahindra Group 

• Mindshare’s Rahul Jagdish Mishra Joins Kotak Life As AVP- Brand Marketing

• Hamid Touil Assumes The Role Of Region Head- India Sub Continent At Ferrero Group

• MediBuddy Appoints Nijil George As Senior Vice President & Head Of Operations

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