Voltas AC ad gives Cherrapunjee a bad name

Pixelated |  Soumyadip Choudhury

In a city such as Delhi, your air conditioners should be all-weather but not if you happen to be transferred to Cherrapunjee. You may not ...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
Regional stars stealing the limelight with brand endorsements

Regional stars stealing the limelight with brand endorsements

After 8 years of being the face of a popular cola drink, Akshay Kumar has been replaced by Telugu star Mahesh. ...
01:00 PM, Apr 18, 2012

EC bans 'peo-puttar' words in Punjab poll campaign

EC bans 'peo-puttar' words in Punjab poll campaign Chandigarh: First it was 'kaka' and now it is 'peo-puttar' (father-son). The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday directed that the words 'peo-puttar' should not be used in advertisements and campaigning, in an incorrect manner, in the run-up to the Jan 30 assembly poll in Punjab. The direction followed a complaint by the Akali Dal to the EC against the Punjab Congress using the word 'peo-puttar' in its series of advertisements...
01:38 PM, Jan 23, 2012

British trader tired of Facebook-obsessed employees

British trader tired of Facebook-obsessed employees London: A high-profile British entrepreneur has stopped advertising for new jobs because the people who fill his vacancies spend more time checking Facebook than serving customers. Richard Haddock runs a cattle farm near Dartmouth in Devon. He has diversified into running a farm shop and garden centre at Churston. He is one of Britain's most high-profile farmers who led protests in the 1990s, the Daily Express reports. The 54-year-old Haddock...
08:49 AM, Sep 26, 2011

TV channels ordered to clean up sexy deo ads

TV channels ordered to clean up sexy deo ads New Delhi: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has written to the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) to ensure that "overtly sexual" deodorant adverts are modified or taken off air within five days. Taking serious note of racy ads that portray women "as lustily hankering after men under influence of such deodorants," the ministry has said these adverts offend "good taste and decency" and appear "indecent, vulgar and suggestive"....
03:35 PM, May 28, 2011

Ranbir gives dance lessons to Sehwag

Ranbir gives dance lessons to Sehwag New Delhi: Bollywood 'rockstar' Ranbir Kapoor, who will be seen giving batting tips to cricketer Virender Sehwag in a new TV commercial, actually taught him to dance during the shooting of the ad. Ranbir, who has showcased his dancing prowess in movies like Saawariya, Bachna Ae Haseeno and Anjaana Anjaani, has teamed up with the cricketer for Pepsi's cricket World Cup special commercial. "Thoda grace se hila... Kamar bhi hila…...
08:04 PM, Feb 17, 2011

Imran Khan gets in to the ladies compartment

Imran Khan gets in to the ladies compartment Mumbai: Bollywood actor Imran Khan is quite a romantic at heart but, surprisingly, he chose to work on his first Valentine's Day after marriage, rather than pamper his wife Avantika Malik. And guess where was he? In the ladies' compartment of Mumbai's local train! The young heartthrob was busy shooting for a Coke commercial at the Goregaon station here Monday. He was supposed to enter the ladies' compartment -- much...
04:01 PM, Feb 16, 2011

2010 was a turning point for online ads

2010 was a turning point for online ads New Delhi: The online advertising sector witnessed a turnaround in 2010, as increasing confidence in the medium, has made advertisers take digital media more seriously for display purposes, according to a study. Aimed at providing an insight into the user behaviour across advertising sectors, the Ozone Media Performance Users Study (OPUS) is an analysis of nearly a quarter of a million leads generated from campaigns that were run on the...
03:33 PM, Jan 06, 2011

Mamata courts controversy over wearing hizab

Mamata courts controversy over wearing hizab Kolkata: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is embroiled in a fresh controversy after of a railway advertisement carried her photograph in a hizab offering namaz. The newspaper advertisements are about railway projects inaugurated in West Bengal and declare the ministry' so-called gifts on the occasion of Eid. Mamata has long established that she would go to any extent to woo the Muslim voters of West Bengal. But spending money from public...
11:20 AM, Sep 11, 2010

Pugs, zoozoos and now a parrot in the telcom ad

Pugs, zoozoos and now a parrot in the telcom ad The funny acts of the alien-like white, egg-headed creatures with balloon bodies created a phenomenon in the Indian advertising industry. ...
04:23 PM, Jul 19, 2010

We didn't issue ads in Bihar dailies: Modi govt

We didn't issue ads in Bihar dailies: Modi govt Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has taken a strong exception to the advertisements. ...
08:07 PM, Jun 12, 2010

BMC fines Tata Motors for default on ads displayed

BMC fines Tata Motors for default on ads displayed Tata Motors paid fine of Rs 1,12,986 and removed hoardings, said BMC. ...
10:33 AM, Mar 26, 2009

EC certified political adverts valid across country

EC certified political adverts valid across country Parties need not obtain permission from each of the state EC to air ads. ...
06:12 PM, Mar 23, 2009

Tata bats for Buddha, attacks Mamata through ads

Tata bats for Buddha, attacks Mamata through ads Ratan Tata asked people of WB to support the Buddhadeb government. ...
03:35 PM, Oct 17, 2008
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