Manish Vij – Co-Founder SITG On Blazar & Future Of Digital Advertising In India

Recently Quasar which is a digital agency which was acquired by the WPP group launched another agency by the name, Blazar. Now its not uncommon in the traditional agencies to launch new smaller agencies...
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Quasar and Contests2Win Launch New Digital Agencies – One Too Many?

Interactive agency Quasar has launched a new digital agency, fittingly called Blazar (a Blazar is a compact Quasar). According to Manish Vij (Co founder of Quasar) ”Blazar will have creative, media...
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IndiaMART To Spend 50% Of 25 Crore Marketing Spend On Digital!

Further to my previous post on TradeIndia’s Chinese section, here comes more updates from the B2B space, IndiaMART have allotted a budget of around Rs. 25-30 crore for advertising and marketing activities...
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IAMAI Mobile Ad Conference – Making The Most Of The Newest New Media

The 3rd panel at IAMAI Mobile Ad conference was Mobile – Making the most of the newest new medium. The panelists were as follows: Session Moderator Ravi Kiran, CEO-South East & South Asia &...
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Smile Interactive Initiates Incubation Centre For Digital Startups

SITG the company behind digital agency Quasar and startups like Tyroo and Zoomtra has initiated an incubation centre in Gurgaon. Smile always has been in the business of incubation and this move just takes...
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Quasar Media appointed “Agency on Record” by Apollo DKV

  Quasar Media, a subsidiary of the Smile Interactive Technology Group, has been appointed by Apollo DKV Insurance Corp. as their AOR (Agency on Record) for a year and will be responsible for developing...
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Id8Labs Looking To Raise USD 6-8 million!

Id8Labs which was formed after the break up between webpercept and Percept holdings is scouting for private equity investors and looking to raise upto USD 6-8 million through private equity in the next...
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EXCLUSIVE- More Competition In Digital Advertising? LBi – The International Full Service Interactive Agency To Launch Soon in India

The online/interactive advertising space went through a sort of a consolidation phase recently with bigger traditional advertising players acquiring digital only agencies or digital agencies raising the...
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WATShow Episode 15 – Manish Vij Quasar Business Head Talks About WPP Acquisition & Digital Media Growth

WATShow is Back! And this time we caught up with Manish Vij! The new found mega success story of the digital media space! For those who are unaware Manish Vij was the Business Head of Quasar which recently...
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Cricket Cricket and more Cricket! – Reebok jumps into blog marketing

Well Reebok are the latest to join the online bandwagon of Cricket oriented marketing. Well I do wish that this at least inspires India to a better performance later today when they face Sri Lanka in an...
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