Bio:
Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and CEO of The Quint. She has driven digital innovation at Quintillion Media from starting the innovation lab, to launching a health vertical – FIT, to driving the fight against misinformation with a fact check initiative – WebQoof.
Webinar: ReInventing News for Young India
LIVE on 6 Aug, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Moderated By: Richa Arora, Co-Founder of Metapixel Studios & Content Director of a@c films
Joined By: Faye D’Souza, Senior Journalist
The rules of news consumption are not the same. Driving the online appetite for news are India’s millennials -a mobile-savvy, young audience that are more serious than ever about disinformation, fake news and propaganda. As part of the Promax Asia Creative Playbook –– we welcome Faye D’Souza, independent journalist and Ritu Kapur, Co-Founder Quint to deep- dive into the innovations necessary to keep India’s youth engaged. How are journalists overcoming challenges and creating compelling news stories as the COVID-19 crisis continues? As former TV Channel Executives, both Faye and Ritu take us through their gradual but definite shift to online news and what it takes to stay true to their journalism and still be successful at building a solid community online.
Bio:
Faye D’Souza is an award winning journalist, who has changed the way news is covered on Indian Television by focusing the audience’s attention on the issues that matter to the citizens rather than those that fuel the emotions of partisan debates. Faye’s calm, researched style of hosting news shows prioritises information over opinion.
Webinar: ReInventing News for Young India
LIVE on 6 Aug, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Moderated By: Richa Arora, Co-Founder of Metapixel Studios & Content Director of a@c films
Joined By: Ritu Kapur, Co-Founder & CEO, Quintillion Media
The rules of news consumption are not the same. Driving the online appetite for news are India’s millennials -a mobile-savvy, young audience that are more serious than ever about disinformation, fake news and propaganda. As part of the Promax Asia Creative Playbook –– we welcome Faye D’Souza, independent journalist and Ritu Kapur, Co-Founder Quint to deep- dive into the innovations necessary to keep India’s youth engaged. How are journalists overcoming challenges and creating compelling news stories as the COVID-19 crisis continues? As former TV Channel Executives, both Faye and Ritu take us through their gradual but definite shift to online news and what it takes to stay true to their journalism and still be successful at building a solid community online.
Bio:
As Ex Group Head, On Air Promotions and Marketing, NDTV Network, Richa understands that “ you can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything.” Richa has a wide repertoire of production and content experience that ranges from making award -winning environment films, traveling the world to produce and direct lifestyle shows and running the most successful promotions department for NDTV Network. With more than 25 international awards that include New York Film Festival, World Media Festival, Promax Asia, Promax World, Goa Fest etc, Richa comes with a combination of solid production expertise and creativity.
Webinar: ReInventing News for Young India
LIVE on 6 Aug, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Moderated By: Richa Arora, Co-Founder of Metapixel Studios & Content Director of a@c films
Joined By: Faye D’Souza, Senior Journalist
Ritu Kapur, Co-Founder & CEO, Quintillion Media
The rules of news consumption are not the same. Driving the online appetite for news are India’s millennials -a mobile-savvy, young audience that are more serious than ever about disinformation, fake news and propaganda. As part of the Promax Asia Creative Playbook –– we welcome Faye D’Souza, independent journalist and Ritu Kapur, Co-Founder Quint to deep- dive into the innovations necessary to keep India’s youth engaged. How are journalists overcoming challenges and creating compelling news stories as the COVID-19 crisis continues? As former TV Channel Executives, both Faye and Ritu take us through their gradual but definite shift to online news and what it takes to stay true to their journalism and still be successful at building a solid community online.
Bio:
In the world of promotions and marketing, Rob’s been pretending he knows what he’s talking about for something like three decades now. Holy crap that’s a long time to get away it. But, it’s now one of those things that has gone on for so long, everyone’s afraid to just question why. So just humour him and nod your head once in a while if he corners you in a bar. He’s mostly harmless. He’ll probably just tell you he’s trained more Rocket Award winners than you can count on two hands and that the teams he’s proudly created all across Asia consistently break new ground in this industry each and every day. Oh, and he’ll probably also go on about how his proud he is of his present team in Malaysia. And then he’ll leave you alone.
Webinar: Exceptionally Asia Series – Malaysia
LIVE on 23 July, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Hosted By: Michelle Lim-Buxton
Joined By: Faizul Jais, Founder, Parallax Pictures
On our first webisode, we look at a country of diversified culture and cuisine, ancient rainforests and bustling cities that is Malaysia.
Bio:
With well over a decade and a half of experience as a creative director in the broadcast and advertising industry across Asia, Faizul has directed and produced multiple award-winning promotional campaigns and television content for a multitude of networks such as National Geographic Channel, Fox International Channels, NBC Universal, Star TV, Channel [V], Media Prima and Astro. Since leaving his desk job at Nat Geo, Faizul now hops around the region earning his keep in the world of advertising as a film director and runs his own production outfit, Parallax Pictures.
Webinar: Exceptionally Asia Series – Malaysia
LIVE on 23 July, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Hosted By: Michelle Lim-Buxton
Joined By: Rob Middleton, Creative Director, Astro
On our first webisode, we look at a country of diversified culture and cuisine, ancient rainforests and bustling cities that is Malaysia.
About James&Wilkinson Media
JWM enable TV and streaming companies across the Globe, to exploit the potential of their owned media space, through improving communication with audiences, developing promotional strategies, optimising media space & developing internal knowledge & capability. Ultimately our goal is to help broadcasters drive audiences to consume content, enhance their brand health and maximise revenue.
Webinar: A Marketing Health Check: Future Proof Your Audiences & Revenues
LIVE on 9 July, Thursday, 5:30PM (GMT+8)
This interactive webinar, from JWM, will help you to assess the health of your promotional strategy and its current ability to fulfil your business and marketing goals, not only for 2020 but to ensure you are also focusing on future success.
Bio
Gourav Rakshit is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom18 Digital Ventures. As part of the role he is responsible for driving the growth agenda of the network’s digital businesses. Since joining Viacom18 Digital Ventures Gourav has built a strong and robust digital ecosystem with VOOT, India’s first and only multi-platform kids’ app, VOOT Kids and the recently announced VOOT Select. Under his aegis VOOT has witnessed exponential growth with achieving a new viewership benchmark of 100 Million MAU’s, emerging as the most engaged premium AVOD platform with 100 billion minutes of watch time in the year.
Webinar: The Disruption Opportunity
LIVE on 2 July, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Led By: Rajiv Bakshi, CEO of Reliance Big Synergy
Joined By: Aparna Acharekar, Programming Head of ZEE5 India
Saugata Mukherjee, Head of Original Content of SonyLIV
India is a very diverse country with not just distinct content preferences but also contrasted lifestyle, media consumption habits, and above all budgets and value propositions. It has been noted that the current, deeply unfortunate and unprecedented, crisis has led to visible and positive outcomes for the OTT Streaming platforms, while there continues to be a debate on what all will hold up and what will slip by when the markets return to normalcy.
Bio
Saugata Mukherjee is the Head of Original Content at SonyLIV. Prior to this Saugata led the development of Original Content at Hotstar and was instrumental in setting up the first content slate for Hotstar Specials. He has also worked for the Star TV network for several years leading channel programming teams before moving to Hotstar. Before joining the Star TV network, Saugata used to be the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Pan Macmillan India, one of India’s top publishing companies.
Webinar: The Disruption Opportunity
LIVE on 2 July, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Led By: Rajiv Bakshi, CEO of Reliance Big Synergy
Joined By: Aparna Acharekar, Programming Head of ZEE5 India
Gourav Rakshit, COO of Viacom18 Digital Ventures
India is a very diverse country with not just distinct content preferences but also contrasted lifestyle, media consumption habits, and above all budgets and value propositions. It has been noted that the current, deeply unfortunate and unprecedented, crisis has led to visible and positive outcomes for the OTT Streaming platforms, while there continues to be a debate on what all will hold up and what will slip by when the markets return to normalcy.
Bio
A Content aficionado, Aparna Acharekar is the Programming Head at ZEE5. In her current role she is leading the content team for the platform and have been associated with Zee group since 2006.
Webinar: The Disruption Opportunity
LIVE on 2 July, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Led By: Rajiv Bakshi, CEO of Reliance Big Synergy
Joined By: Gourav Rakshit, COO of Viacom18 Digital Ventures
Saugata Mukherjee, Head of Original Content of SonyLIV
India is a very diverse country with not just distinct content preferences but also contrasted lifestyle, media consumption habits, and above all budgets and value propositions. It has been noted that the current, deeply unfortunate and unprecedented, crisis has led to visible and positive outcomes for the OTT Streaming platforms, while there continues to be a debate on what all will hold up and what will slip by when the markets return to normalcy.
Bio
As the CEO of Reliance Big Synergy, one of India’s oldest and most respected content development and production companies, with a legacy of 5,000 plus hours of path- breaking and high-impact content, he leads a team of creative visionaries with the mission to transform the company into a content powerhouse.
Webinar: The Disruption Opportunity
LIVE on 2 July, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Led By: Rajiv Bakshi, CEO of Reliance Big Synergy
Joined By: Aparna Acharekar, Programming Head of ZEE5 India
Gourav Rakshit, COO of Viacom18 Digital Ventures
Saugata Mukherjee, Head of Original Content of SonyLIV
India is a very diverse country with not just distinct content preferences but also contrasted lifestyle, media consumption habits, and above all budgets and value propositions. It has been noted that the current, deeply unfortunate and unprecedented, crisis has led to visible and positive outcomes for the OTT Streaming platforms, while there continues to be a debate on what all will hold up and what will slip by when the markets return to normalcy.
Webinar: The Art & Science of Human-Centric Storytelling
LIVE on 18 June, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Hosted By: Ananya Dasgupta, News Editor & Content Specialist
Joined By: Megha Tata, Managing Director – South Asia, Discovery
The long period of self-isolation and social distancing brought on by the pandemic has made us acutely aware of our innate desire and need for rich human-to-human connections. Join Senior Editor Ananya Dasgupta and her guests from some of the biggest media & creative brands as they take a look at innovations that facilitate a more human-centric approach to storytelling.
Bio:
Megha Tata joined Discovery Communications India as Managing Director of South Asia on April 01, 2019. A media & entertainment industry veteran, Megha has held leadership roles at organisations such as BTVI, HBO, Turner International and Star TV, in an illustrious career spanning more than 28 years.
Webinar: The Art & Science of Human-Centric Storytelling
LIVE on 18 June, Thursday, 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Hosted By: Ananya Dasgupta, News Editor & Content Specialist
Joined By: John Malone, Global Creative Director & Director at CNN Create
The long period of self-isolation and social distancing brought on by the pandemic has made us acutely aware of our innate desire and need for rich human-to-human connections. Join Senior Editor Ananya Dasgupta and her guests from some of the biggest media & creative brands as they take a look at innovations that facilitate a more human-centric approach to storytelling.
Webinar: The Art & Science of Human-Centric Storytelling
LIVE on 18 June, Thursday, 3:00PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Hosted By: Ananya Dasgupta, News Editor & Content Specialist
Joined By: Megha Tata, Managing Director – South Asia, Discovery
John Malone, Global Creative Director & Director at CNN Create
The long period of self-isolation and social distancing brought on by the pandemic has made us acutely aware of our innate desire and need for rich human-to-human connections. Join Senior Editor Ananya Dasgupta and her guests from some of the biggest media & creative brands as they take a look at innovations that facilitate a more human-centric approach to storytelling.
Bio
Emile is focussed on creating innovative moving image, sound, art, immersive and augmented reality experiences for public, commercial, advertising and entertainment platforms. He further oversees executive curation of the VANDAL Art Gallery in Redfern, Sydney.
Webinar: The Future of Creativity… in Augmented Reality
LIVE on Thursday, 11th June, 3:o0PM (IST) / 5:30PM (GMT+8)
Creativity is more important than ever before, but it’s not easy to be creative under the physical confines we currently face. Augmented Reality allows us to connect with people, increase engagement and enhance human emotion now more than ever. Showcasing impressive examples and case studies, this session demonstrates how augmented reality alters human behaviour and will shape the future of creativity as never seen before.
Tim Hughes a global expert in creative brand strategy and founder of The Brief Doctor. His background is in TV promotions, branding and marketing. He is a lifetime achievement award–winner, and former chair of Promax UK.
Webinar: Marketing in the Age of Covid (28 May)
Webinar: Covid & Creativity (4 June)
Webinar: Covid & Creativity
Hosted By: Tim Hughes, Founder of The Brief Doctor
Joined By: Dan Aldridge, Senior Creative Director, Warner Media
Joe Goddard, Director Asia Pacific of James & Wilkinson Media
Lisa Frederickson, Creative Director
Pauline Russell, Creative Director of The Brief Doctor
In this exclusive round-table webinar, Promax industry leaders discuss how Covid is affecting them, their teams and their creativity. Well, hear what they are doing to stay creative in these unprecedented times.
Webinar: Covid & Creativity
Hosted By: Tim Hughes, Founder of The Brief Doctor
Joined By: Craig Black, Designer, Lettering Artist, Typographer
Joe Goddard, Director Asia Pacific of James & Wilkinson Media
Lisa Frederickson, Creative Director
Pauline Russell, Creative Director of The Brief Doctor
In this exclusive round-table webinar, Promax industry leaders discuss how Covid is affecting them, their teams and their creativity. Well, hear what they are doing to stay creative in these unprecedented times.
Webinar: Covid & Creativity
Hosted By: Tim Hughes, Founder of The Brief Doctor
Joined By: Craig Black, Designer, Lettering Artist, Typographer
Dan Aldridge, Senior Creative Director of Warner Media
Lisa Frederickson, Creative Director
Pauline Russell, Creative Director of The Brief Doctor
In this exclusive round-table webinar, Promax industry leaders discuss how Covid is affecting them, their teams and their creativity. Well, hear what they are doing to stay creative in these unprecedented times.
Webinar: Covid & Creativity (4 June)
Hosted By: Tim Hughes, Founder of The Brief Doctor
Joined By: Craig Black, Designer, Lettering Artist, Typographer
Dan Aldridge, Senior Creative Director, Warner Media
Joe Goddard, Director Asia Pacific of James & Wilkinson Media
Pauline Russell, Creative Director of The Brief Doctor
In this exclusive round-table webinar, Promax industry leaders discuss how Covid is affecting them, their teams and their creativity. Well, hear what they are doing to stay creative in these unprecedented times.
Webinar: Covid & Creativity
Hosted By: Tim Hughes, Founder of The Brief Doctor
Joined By: Craig Black, Designer, Lettering Artist, Typographer
Dan Aldridge, Senior Creative Director, Warner Media
Joe Goddard, Director Asia Pacific of James & Wilkinson Media
Lisa Frederickson, Creative Director
In this exclusive round-table webinar, Promax industry leaders discuss how Covid is affecting them, their teams and their creativity. Well, hear what they are doing to stay creative in these unprecedented times.
