MUMBAI : Disney UTV?s Indiagames has set a new benchmark in the app world by crossing 200 million downloads on the Nokia Store! Only nine months back the 100 million downloads mark had been accomplished.

Downloads were recorded from countries right around the world, with the top 10 countries being India, Brazil, Vietnam, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, Pakistan, Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia.

Cricket, Bollywood, Casual and Action are the top four genres of games downloaded with top 10 games being - 
1. DLF IPL 2012 - The official DLF IPL Season 5 cricket game with 9 spectacular teams, each with 11 of the world?s top cricketers who play each other in the exhilarating T20 cricket format to claim their championship.
2. Ra. One Genesis- Based on the popular movie ?Ra.One? -?Ra.One Genesis? is an action packed adventure mobile game where the players play as ?G.One? the superhero with supernatural powers who fights his way through Ra.One?s army of minions.
3. Aladdin The New Adventure- The player plays the lead role of Aladdin and fights enemies with swordplay making his way through several levels based on locations from the movie from the streets and rooftops of Agrabah the Cave of Wonders.
4. Monster Truck Dash - ?Monster Truck Dash? tosses the player right into a high powered Monster Truck; where he drives through some bumpy courses which require both aggression and handling.
5. Phineas & Ferb - Cute and adorable game filled with humor, adventure, crazy scientific contraptions physics and action - All Phineas & Ferb style!
6. Cricket Fever Challenge - Turn based multiplayer cricket game which allows players to challenge and beat friends over Facebook or take on players globally.
7. UP - Based on the Disney Pixar film UP, the player needs to navigate Carl?s balloon tethered home against forceful winds and numerous obstacles to its final destination - Paradise Falls.
8. Cars 2 - A fast paced action adventure game based on the movie. Players race through London Porto Corsa and Tokyo to save Lightning McQueen.
9. Pirates of the Carribean - Based on the movie, this adventurous game lets the player take on the role of Jack Sparrow whose goal is to conquer his ship Black Pearl back. He progresses through an exciting series of adventures with sword wielding enemies.
10. Lion King Returns - This game is about the young lion cub Simba?s fight to regain his strength and power so that he is ready to become the rightful leader of the Pride Land.

Today the Indiagames? catalogue offers over 750 games across genres like sports, action, racing, bollywood, cricket and more. "We are absolutely thrilled at crossing 200million downloads on a single platform. This result clearly shows consumers love our content and the ability to immerse themselves in their favorite character or stories. These results charge our teams to continue to offer the best in mobile gaming to our users", said Vishal Gondal, Managing Director-Digital, Disney UTV.

"The Nokia Store has gained prominence in the OEM stores market and has opened avenues for game development companies worldwide", he added.

Gerard Rego, Head Developer Experience, Nokia India said, "We are very excited at Disney UTV Indiagames? achievement of crossing the 200 million download mark on the Nokia Store. For a generation that is crazy about gaming, they have been able to capture the right audience with just the content they need - be it cricket, bollywood or action. The novelty that they bring with their apps ensures the best gaming experience for all. Our Asha range of devices are offering many consumers their first internet experience and spurring data consumption. Success of Disney UTV Indiagames? portfolio on Nokia Store is a testimony to the fact that consumers across price points aspire for superior experiences on their devices."

For the Indiagames? catalogue on the Nokia Store, users can log on to - http://goo.gl/GYQfb

DIGITAL BUSINESS OF DISNEY UTV

The Digital business of Disney UTV is the content creation & distribution hub for high-quality digital & interactive content. It is responsible for creation and delivery of multiplatform games and lifestyle audio & video content across all current and emerging digital media platforms, with a combined audience reach of over 300 million in India. The Digital business of Disney UTV has a library of quality games & content from UTV Indiagames, UTV, Disney, Marvel, and Pixar brands and distributes its content via all mobile operators and various OEM app stores in India also internationally. Top content providers across the world like Electronic Arts and Gameloft work with Disney UTV to distribute their content to Indian consumers. In addition to aggregating content the digital team of Disney UTV has also created innovative and popular products including the bestselling ?Cricket Fever game franchise? (with over 20 million downloads), ?Aladdin? (India?s leading paid mobile game with over 8.2 million downloads), ?Audio Cinema? (a first of its kind movie-on-your-phone service) and ?Digital Studio? (series of original content developed for the web and mobile) and more. It also runs successful online games subscription service ?Games on Demand? and the #1 virtual world for kids in India - Club Penguin.

Mumbai :The all new season of Top Chef is back with its ninth season?Top Chef Texas. This season sees the return of the yummy mummy Padma Lakshmi as the host and jury member. The show starts with a much bigger number of contestants i.e 29 with only 16 moving forward vying for the prize money of $125,000. The series is premiering on AXN on the 18th of February, 2013 at 8 pm.

The premiere episode has 29 chefs with the judges splitting them into three groups for the exciting new challenges. While some will move forward, some will get a second chance and while others will go back home. Padma Lakshmi will be joined by head judge Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons from Food & Wine magazine. Joining them this season are judges Hugh Acheson and Emeril Lagasse. Top Chef has earned the reputation of being all about the serious business of cooking and the show?s no non-sense attitude has made it one of the most appreciated culinary based reality shows on television.

With this new season comes in a new twist in the show. Apart from the Quickfire and Elimination Challenges there is a ?Last Chance Kitchen? round where the eliminated contestants are allowed to compete head-to-head in a series of webisodes, with the winner eventually returning to the main competition.

Catch the premiere episode of The Top Chef, Season 9 only on AXN at 8 pm.

Mumbai: HISTORY (US) is one of the top brands of 2012 in the US, according to the research conducted by BrandIndex.

BrandIndex is the authoritative measure of brand perception in US which continuously measures public perception of thousands of brands across dozens of sectors. (Methodology appended below)

According to the 2012 Annual US Top Buzz Rankings, HISTORY Channel (US) ranked 5th and emerged as the No. 1 brand on TV in USA. HISTORY Channel is a Top 10 regular and with Discovery Channel dropping to number 14, the only network in the short list in 2012. The other brands that have featured in the top 10 list are Subway, Amazon, Ford, YouTube and Google amongst others.

US-based A+E Networks, which runs HISTORY channel, entered India in October 2011 as HISTORY TV18, with a joint venture with TV18. HISTORY TV18 got highly recognized as a channel for its edgy and distinguished programming, a perfect m?lange of fact based entertainment, thrill and action based shows that appeal to a much wider audience.

*Methodology: The brands were rated by using YouGov BrandIndex?s Buzz score which asks respondents, if they have heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news or word of mouth, etc.

Link for the US BrandIndex Ranking for 2012: http://www.brandindex.com/ranking/us/2012-annual/top-buzz-rankings

MUMBAI: Everyday thousands of people leave the country to go to a foreign land to seek a better life, build their future, leaving behind an integral part of their world - their family. Even today as the aircraft takes off? you see a trembling hand and myriad emotions and worries that cast over the parents mind when they bid goodbye to their loved ones. COLORS? latest offering Sanskaar- Dharohar Apnon Ki encapsulates a similar sentiment as Jaikishan Vaishnav, a small town boy leaves his family behind to go to USA to fulfill their dream and win back the family?s lost glory. Building on this thought, COLORS launches ?Sanskaar, Milaye Aapko Apno Se Contest with an endeavor to reunite viewers with their loved ones in any part of the world.

?Sanskaar, Miliye Apnon Se contest? encourages viewers to share their experiences of biding adieu to a dear one gone abroad and narrate their story to the Sanskaar team. The best story will win a chance to visit their dear one through with an all-expense paid trip by COLORS. The promo for the contest will soon go on air featuring the Sanskaar - Dharohar Apnon Ki team - Ansu Ba (Aruna Irani), Parul (Sonali Sachdev) and Karsen (Rasik Dave) encouraging viewers to send in their entries till February 19, 2013. The viewers will need to simply share their heart ?wrenching story to Sanskaarcontest@viacom18.com . The winner?s name will be announced during the show on March 1st, 2013.

Talking further about the contest, COLORS, Weekday Programing Head, Prashant Bhatt said, ?Sanskaar- Dharohar Apnon Ki stands for family values, bonding and strong relationships. In today?s scenario, you will find many people like Jaikishan with a similar story and background. We wanted to introduce this contest for our viewers to come forward and share their experiences with us.? He further added, ?Contests like these give us an opportunity to engage with the viewers directly and understand their perspectives more closely.

Mumbai: Viva Infomedia Pvt. Ltd. re-christened as VivaConnect, announces the expansion of its senior management team to facilitate better alignment with business outlook, optimize operations and increase efficiency across the organization. The top-level of the company now comprises of qualified personnel who bring in wealth of experience and knowledge to the table in their respective domains.

Mr. K. N. Raichura, Chairman

He has more than 35 years of experience in international and retail business and truly personifies the term "perfectionism". The same is reflected in the strategic decisions that he takes, as the Chairman of VivaConnect.
As an entrepreneur, he combines all his experience in the areas of business development and finance to ascertain overall growth of the company.

Mr. Vikram Raichura, Managing Director

He defines the road map to revolutionize the communication experience through a blend of technology and innovation. This self-styled first generation entrepreneur aims at exploring the opportunities in Cloud Communications.

Vikram Raichura believes in ?work playfully? and infuses this culture at his work place too. He favors to embrace the individuals potential that go beyond the accumulated knowledge and performance. His company achievements clearly endorse his ?free style? self governance attitude towards work and domain expertise. With over 100 enterprises and 2,000 SME customers, he envisions VivaConnect to become the ?preferred? platform for Cloud Communication across industries. Through consultancy services in mobile application development, he aims to build a carrier-grade mobile messaging infrastructure across the globe.

Pre-empting the future of the changing industry landscape, Vikram Raichura is now steering VivaConnect to being a product-oriented company from a service-oriented company. His expansion plans include establishing a national footprint with offices in all major locations of India. In 2013, he aims at launching world class mobile products for brands and SME?s that will make a long lasting impression in the mobile fraternity. Aggressive yet ?playful? Vikram beefs up his top management to achieve his objectives in this year.

Mr. Lochan Kothari, Head-Marketing & Sales

He fills the newly created role of Head-Marketing & Sales. His 14 years of experience in the said field combined with strong brand and advertiser relationship brings an invaluable depth and breadth of knowledge to the Company.

Lochan comes with a wider perspective on the digital industry and brands. As the Director Media Sales at Webaroo Technologies/SMS Gupshup, he pronounced the concept of Social Media on mobile apart from developing innovative solutions for leading brands. He was a proud recipient of ?Gup Excellence Awards? in Sales and has been recognized and awarded by the ?World Brand Congress? 2010 as ?Young Achiever of the Year.?
He has worked for leading brands such as ?The Indian Express?, ?The Economic Times? and DIAGEO INDIA (Johnnie Walker). He has spearheaded Johnnie Walker Retail initiatives in India where he has set up special ?Johnnie Walker Stores?.

Mr. Pranab Basu, Vice President of Information Technology & Operations

He has 15 years of experience in planning, developing & implementing cutting edge information solutions for diverse domains such Airline Cargo, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance. He is a certified Internal Auditor for ISO9001 and BS7799 with CMM Level 3 certification. With a rich experience in project management and delivery activities, he contributes to simplify techno-commercial operations.

Being a techno-managerial professional & goal-oriented, he has actively participated in the steady and consistent growth of the company. He is responsible for optimizing processes through management of IT strategies, operations and people.

MUMBAI: R K SWAMY BBDO?s excellent consistent work for Life Insurance Corporation of India wins Best Creative at Dainik Bhaskar?s India Pride Awards 2012-2013. The Best Creative award recognizes impactful advertising done for an Indian Public Sector Undertaking. The jury panel led by former Chief Justice of India, Justice R C Lahoti also had Dr. S Y Quraishi, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India and Frank Noronha, Former Director General, DAVP.

K V Sasidharan, Senior Partner, R K SWAMY BBDO, said, "It is an honour for us to be recognized by an eminent jury for our work on LIC. We work very hard to ensure that every campaign we do for the LIC delivers on strategy, creativity and impact. Our client has made this possible and the corporation deserves the recognition.?

Samples of R K SWAMY BBDO?s award winning creative work are attached.

Click here to view a TVC of earlier work done by R K SWAMY BBDO for LIC and attached is the storyboard for the below ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R27CXM9PUkk

R K SWAMY BBDO is part of R K SWAMY HANSA, a leading Marketing Communications and Services Group, serving over 150 companies in India and the USA. With around 1200+ professionals, the Group offers Creative and Media services, Market Research, Direct/CRM & Advanced Analytics, Events and Activation, Healthcare Communication, PR, Social & Rural Communication and more.