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The Winning Card Media Companies Are Trading Their Inventory for Equity Rs 40 THE January 16-31, 2009 The fortnightly from www.thebrandreporter.com 26 Media companies are trading their inventory for equity in companies big and small. How large will media-for-equity get? PLUS 34 36 30 OOH 8 Saying it with Style 12 CYBER CAFES Desktop Potential 22 HONDA The Ultimate Stunner 24 PRINT PROFILE COFFEE CHAINS BIDAAI Battle for Bengaluru 25 Maheshwer Peri Ad-less Show The Winning Card ADVERTISING All set to tap the knowledge How a Rs 1,000-crore business The serial that helped STAR Tackling the Slowdown 40 market with Pathfinder. grew without mass advertising. stay at the top. EDITORIAL The fortnightly from afaqs! This fortnight... Volume IV, Issue 12 What a difference just 10 years can make to a business that is more than 100 years old. EDITOR Sreekant Khandekar 1999: print was regarded in the West as a solid, dependable – if slightly boring - business with a steady revenue stream; in India, it still had to emerge from its local cocoon and excit- PUBLISHER ed no one except publishers themselves. Prasanna Singh 2009: newspapers are gasping for breath in the West whereas in India, publish- EXECUTIVE EDITOR ing companies are raring to go. It’s not just about circulation: the West seems M Venkatesh exhausted by its troubles whereas in India, there is an anything-goes attitude. No Deputy Editor business idea is too outrageous to consider. Sanjay Gupta The difference between the two is optimism about the future. CREATIVE CONSULTANTS That is possibly one explanation why an exceptional idea such as ‘private PealiDezine treaties’ was born in India and not in the West. The idea of ‘private treaties’, creat- LAYOUT ed by Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd (BCCL), publisher of The Times of India, is Vinay Dominic this: help high-growth entrepreneurs grow brands by giving advertising support and LOGISTICS take equity in return. Rajesh Kanwal The cover report in this issue is the most detailed look yet at the phenomenon of ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES private treaties. Hansika Koli We have chosen to look at it now because, following the lead of BCCL, which Noida: (0120) 4077834 has invested in more than 200 enterprises, a number of major media companies 4077837 Gaurav Prabhu have dipped their toes in the business. Last fortnight, afaqs!, The Brand Reporter’s Mumbai: (022) 40429702-5 sister brand, also reported an attempt to launch Morpheus, a Rs 900-crore media [email protected] equity fund, which will try to arm mid-sized companies with advertising space. GroupM’s media agency Maxus is advising Morpheus. Marketing Office B-3, First floor, Sector-4, Is private treaties a fashion that will go away or does it mark a big shift in the nature of Noida-201301. media companies and the way they operate? Read inside to find out. Tel: (0120) 4077800. Mumbai 39, A to Z (Industrial) Premises Co-op Soc Ltd, Lower Parel, Mumbai - 400013. Sreekant Khandekar Tel: (022) 40429701-5. Subscription Enquiries Sakshi Kohli be utopian but the execution is done Tel: (0120) 4077837 LETTERS so brilliantly that it makes me feel all [email protected] this might be possible someday. Shikha Sharma Registered Office Unique Spoof Ghaziabad Banyan Netfaqs Pvt Ltd, 494, The piece on makemytrip.com Mandakini Enclave, Alaknanda, spoofing Ghajini with its viral What Guidance? New Delhi 110 019. ©2004 ‘Gajodhar’, to promote oktatabye- This has reference to the story on Banyan Netfaqs Pvt Ltd, all rights bye.com, was quite unique. It’s government guidelines for news reserved throughout the world. encouraging to see Indian creative channels. It took an event of the scale Reproduction in any manner without minds making the best out of things of 26/11 for the so-called guidelines permission is prohibited. Printed and in fashion and news, to leverage their to be issued. However, in the dog- published by Sreekant Khandekar on brands. An illustrious international eat-dog media world, it would be behalf of Banyan Netfaqs Pvt Ltd at example being Wonderbra spoofing interesting to see how much strain 7-A/13, Ch. Ratan Singh Complex, the award-winning Cadbury ‘Gorilla’ the ‘leash’ can take when similar Jawala Heri Market, Paschim Vihar, ad to promote itself. Learning from Ghajini future events unfold. Media houses New Delhi-110 063. Kusumasab The marketing of Ghajini story indeed got away by saying that since there Printed at Paras Offset Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata reveals how big the showbiz is getting were no rules, we broke none. Of C-176, Naraina Industrial Area, with each mega release. The estab- course, self-restraint and common Phase I, New Delhi 110 028. Inspiring Idea lishment of multiplexes, presence of sense were forgotton in the battle for Exclusive distributors in India: This is regarding the story on the multiple media organisations and eyeballs. Now that there are rules, India Book House Pvt. Ltd. recent Idea TVC ad. Though I innumerable marketing gimmicks have surely some smart person would be New Delhi: (011) 23313014/5, understand what Raghu Bhat of meant that the public just can’t ignore looking for loopholes. Mumbai: (022) 24925651, Contract Advertising means by say- a big-budget film. 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