Send us a text My guest on this, the 36th episode of The Master’s Voice podcast series from MediaBrief.com is a distinguished expert, Abbas Akhtar, Chief General Manager Brand & PR at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) , where he has held and shone in the position for the past two years. However, Abbas brings a total of 34 years’ experience to his complex, demanding, and what he describes as ‘very fulfilling responsibility’ of leading Corporate Communications at BPCL – one of India’...
Nov 08, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Send us a text In this, the 35th episode of The Master’s Voice on MediaBrief.com , I bring you a conversation with Phil Hardman, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BBC Studios Asia . BBC Studios, as we know it, is the global content company with British creativity at its heart, and in India too, has been amongst the most respected creators of content production and sales empowerment for television, and now the OTT space too. Phil – who took over as GM for BBC Studios Asia after his rol...
Nov 01, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Send us a text My distinguished guest on The Master’s Voice podcast series is Alok Tandon, Chief Executive Officer, Inox Leisure Ltd -- an industry leader and statesman for the massive theatrical exhibition of Entertainment industry in India, We caught up in anticipation of cinema halls reopening across the entire state of Maharashtra on Friday, the 22nd of October. Thank God It's Friday, again. At long last. In this episode, Alok speaks of INOX’s readiness for the reopening of cinema halls acro...
Oct 20, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Send us a text Shorts TV CEO Carter Pilcher, the visionary who pioneered the world’s leading short movie entertainment company, is my distinguished guest on this, the 33rd episode of The Master’s Voice Podcast series on MediaBrief.com, Today, Shorts TV is the only 24/7, linear and OTT HD TV channel dedicated to short-form video entertainment, including movies and series. Carter brought ShortsTV to India in 2018, and it now reaches 60 million Indian households with its strategic content partnersh...
Oct 03, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Send us a text My guest in this, the latest episode of The Master’s Voice podcast series from MediaBrief.com, is Vishnu Mohta, Co-Founder – Hoichoi, and Executive Director SVF . And there couldn’t have been a better date than the 23rd of September 2021 to publish this episode because that’s when Hoichoi, the remarkable OTT platform Vishnu co-founded, has completed four successful years and stepped into its fifth. With a professional background in Corporate Finance and Strategy, Vishnu joined SVF...
Sep 23, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Send us a text The descriptor ‘young veteran’ sits well on my expert guest in the latest episode of The Master’s Voice -- Kailash Adhikari, Managing Director – SAB Events and Governance Now Media Limited. We caught up for the recording quite some time back – happy to share, through this episode, Kailash’s views about governance and the media & entertainment industry in general, and how Kailash, blessed to have been born into an extraordinary family of M&E visionaries, is taking his wonde...
Aug 29, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Send us a text Our guest in the latest episode of our podcast series The Master's Voice is young Brand visionary, Soumyadip Chatterjee, National Brand Head at Snapdeal, one of India’s Big-4 ecommerce platforms -- where he deploys the wisdom from more than a decade of solid experience across multiple brands from diverse sectors – to drive brand awareness and communication on the pillars of empathy and purpose to deliver value to every stakeholder. SnapDeal, Soumyadip tells me, helps and support e...
Aug 09, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Send us a text Our expert guest in this episode of The Master’s Voice podcast series on MediaBrief is G B Srithar - Regional Director, India, Middle East & South Asia at Singapore Tourism Board , and a respected, expert custodian and evangelist of tourism in South Asia. As affable a person as he is a knowledgeable, strategic and highly effective professional, Srithar has helped make this a spontaneous, insightful and engaging conversation. We speak of what Singapore Tourism Board has been do...
Aug 01, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text Joining the illustrious list of industry experts who have graced The Master’s Voice is someone I am extremely fond of and respect for his knowledge, experience, insights and expertise – Shailesh Kapoor, Founder & CEO, Ormax Media . Shailesh lights up a marketer’s quest with the illumination of insightful, strategic direction based on fact, research and several other factors that add up to an incomparable understanding of both -- consumer behaviour and industry needs. Our conve...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text This, the 27th episode of our podcast series The Master’s Voice , features Malind Kapur , Senior Vice President, Marketing and Channel Development, Piaggio Vehicles Pvt. Ltd , in conversation with Pavan R Chawla , about literally driving business on the wheels of purpose. Malind speaks of how the three-wheeler arm of the Piaggio business stepped up to the challenges of the pandemic-enforced lockdown, and of its innovative initiatives including selling, through the mobile and web p...
Jun 30, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Send us a text My expert guest in this episode of The Master’s Voice Podcast is Zarif Tapia – Head of Adfactors Virtual Events , and a young veteran with 25 years of experience, with more than half those in the events space. Since, sadly, the pandemic has decimated the live and experiential events space, I caught up with Zarif on how he and his team have been ‘reimagining exerpiences’, as he puts it, in the experiential desert Brand custodians have found themselves in throughout the lockdown. So...
Jun 12, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Send us a text My distinguished guest in this episode of the The Master’s Voice is Mohit Nirula, CEO of Columbia Pacific Communities (CPC) , India's largest senior-living community operators. CPC entered India realizing that an estimated 98 million of its citizens are approaching the golden age, and unlike the generations before them, these independent, financially stable, well-travelled, and socially connected individuals approach life in their own way, defying the conventional notions of senio...
Jun 08, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Send us a text Our special, expert guest in this episode of The Master’s Voice podcast series from MediaBrief is Ashish Bhasin , CEO APAC and Chairman India – Dentsu International and member of the Dentsu International Global Executive Team . Ashish has been one of the finest business and thought leaders in the Advertising & Media industry across India and the Asia Pacific for the past 32 years, and in this special episode, Pavan R Chawla caught up with him for some inspirational insights fo...
Apr 14, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Send us a text This episode of The Master’s Voice, the podcast series on MediaBrief features globally respected thinker, advisor, author and guide on transformative, movement-oriented philosophy and strategy - Scott Goodson, founder and CEO of StrawberryFrog, the celebrated Cultural Movement firm, in expert conversation with Pavan R Chawla. Scott has worked with leaders of many top global companies such as Mahindra, Google, Emirates, PepsiCo, SunTrust Bank, Walmart, and more, and I caught up wit...
Apr 05, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Send us a text Ashish Pherwani, Leader – Media & Entertainment at EY India , speaks with MediaBrief Founder-Editor Pavan R Chawla on EY India’s much-awaited report on the business of Media & Entertainment in India, which it released along with FICCI, for 2020. Although the pandemic and lockdown pushed the M&E industry in India back three years in 2020, Ashish is extremely positive about the growth prospects, and shares his Top 5 take-outs – like the Top 5 headlines from the report, a...
Mar 30, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Send us a text Our very special guest on the latest episode of The Master’s Voice Podcast series is trusted authority and leader in APAC's digital advertising industry, Sunny Nagpal, co-founder and Managing Director – APAC, Httpool , which is one of the largest international partners for major media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok and LinkedIn. For this special episode, Pavan R Chawla caught up with Sunny, who is also a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an accomplished ...
Mar 08, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Send us a text This episode of The Master's Voice is a very special one, for multiple reasons - it features top Media thought leader Raj Nayak , Founder & MD - House of Cheer , and who is as highly respected as a remarkable professional as he is loved by those who know and have interacted with him, for being a wonderful human being. In this episode which we've published on the second day of the New Year, Raj, in conversation with Pavan R Chawla , speaks about the H Factor -- Happiness, which...
Jan 02, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Send us a text On this episode of The Master’s Voice , our guest is MVS Murthy, Head – Marketing & Digital, Tata Asset Management , who is a true digital maven with an illustrious two-decade career with India’s top Banking, Insurance and Broking companies in their Marketing and Digital spaces, and is now the go-to person for Tata Asset Management’s Marketing and Communication strategies. Pavan R Chawla caught up with MVS – which is how his friends address him – for a deep dive with this insp...
Dec 29, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Send us a text Respected Indian News Media conglomerate, the ABP Network, has unveiled new logos across its broadcast and digital presence – ABP News, ABP Ananda, ABP Majha, ABP Ganga, ABP Asmita, and ABP Sanjha, along with ABP Live -- as part of an ongoing evolution of the network, and for this episode of the Master’s Voice, we caught up with one of the titans of brand architecture, Jacob Benbunan, co-founder and digital CEO of the reputed Saffron Brand Consultants. Jacob had flown in all the w...
Dec 17, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Send us a text This episode of The Master's Voice features two young leaders, Suveer Bajaj and Pratik Gupta , who, 13 years ago, along with two other like-minded partners, had set about putting together an advertising agency that was equally digitally driven, with a quirky name - Foxymoron . A tiny little offering that the youngsters -- Suveer was only 19 years old then, and Pratik, 20 -- built brick by brick, teaching themselves perhaps one or more new things each day before putting their heads...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Send us a text Abraham Thomas - CEO Reliance Broadcast, also a Media Brand Specialist, Digital Media Entrepreneur, Audio Evangelist and Print-TV-Digital Business Leader, is our expert guest in this episode of The Master’s Voice, Mediabrief.com’s podcast series that features expert conversations with Pavan R Chawla. Thomas is a Youth Media and Brand Specialist with more than two decades of experience in building and scaling youth media platforms in India, China and South Asia is an experienced le...
Sep 25, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us a text Pavan R Chawla writes: My guest expert on this, the latest episode of our podcast series The Master’s Voice , is someone who, with more than 28 years of experience, brings invaluable expertise in managing television networks operations in the Media and Entertainment industry: Megha Tata, Managing Director South Asia – Discovery . A media & entertainment industry veteran, Megha has held leadership roles at organisations such as BTVI, HBO, Turner International and Star TV. She h...
Sep 15, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a text Very recently, Koan Advisory Group, headed by Vivan Sharan, brought out an extremely relevant and important document that chronicles the impact of regulation on the televisoin broadcast sector in India. The report, entitled INDIAN TV BROADCASTING AT A CROSSROADS - An Assessment of Regulatory Outcomes and the Way Forward, which you can download here , is an extremely insightful and telling look at the impact of (our words, not Koan's) the heavy-handed, sans-logic and authoritarian ...
Aug 28, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a text For its latest episode of The Master’s Voice, MediaBrief.com caught up with Rohit Paranjpe - Co-Founder and CEO of SugarBox Networks - India , who spoke with Pavan R Chawla about the platform which is a first-of-its-kind worldwide, and enables internet services to work even in areas of bad or no network and empowers users to access them without an active data connection. This episode was recorded over a telephone call since Rohit was also speaking especially about how locked-down-...
May 31, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text Listen to visionary titan of industry and enterprise, and of Social care, Vallabh Bhanshali, Founder & Chief Mentor of not-for-profit entity, Desh Apnayen Sahayog Foundation, Bhanshali is also a leading investment banker, investor, venture capitalist and capital markets expert of the country. He co-founded Enam Holdings, a privately managed principal investment group with a 30-year heritage of investing in the Indian capital markets. Bhanshali has a deep and abiding interest i...
May 20, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text The Master's Voice podcast series from MediaBrief.com is delighted to bring you a deep dive with Sandra Stahl - a thought leader, practitioner, author, speaker and trainer in strategic communication, in conversation with Pavan R Chawla , Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com Sandra is a distinguished thought leader on PR and Marketing communications, co-founder of full-service global communications agency jacobstahl marketing communications New York and a highly respected PR profession...
Mar 17, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text This episode of MediaBrief.com’s popular podcast series, The Master’s Voice, features one of the most respected marketers in Indian Media & Entertainment – Prathyusha Agarwal, Chief Consumer Officer – Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, or ZEE, in conversation with Pavan R Chawla – Founder of MediaBrfief.com. This is Prathyusha’s first in-depth interaction with anyone from Indian media after she was made CCO at ZEE. What makes this episode, published to also commemorate Women’s...
Mar 09, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text This episode of MediaBrief.com ’s very special podcast series, The Master’s Voice , features Akash Banerji, Business Head of AVOD at VOOT , and one of the top professionals in the OTT space, with Pavan R Chawla , an expert in Media, Marketing, Advertising and Digital, and Founder-Editor of MediaBrief.com. Akash is a launch specialist and turnaround expert who launched VOOT in May 2016 as the premium digital video on demand platform clocking spectacular platform engagement numbers ...
Feb 23, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text This episode of The Master's Voice features one of the select group of digital evangelists in Indian advertising and marketing, Anand Bhadkamkar, CEO - Dentsu Aegis Network India. He speaks with MediaBrief.com Founder-Editor Pavan R Chawla about the DNA of DAN, its growth course over its illustrious past, priorities for the new decade that's just begun, and industry issues, challenges and opportunities like the upcoming demise of Cookies-based marketing, about Programmatic adverti...
Feb 19, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text This episode of The Master's Voice, the podcast series from www.Mediabrief.com, features stellar professional Tarun Katial, CEO -ZEE5 India . Tarun truly redefines the term 'young veteran', with strong experience across advertising and marketing, and with some of the biggest brands in mass public broadcasting in Televison and FM Radio, and now a strong OTT video streaming platform, ZEE5, from India's oldest and largest, and its first truly Indian broadcasting conglomerate, Zee Ent...
Feb 09, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 7
