Mumbai, Maharashtra, BBC World News today announces the launch of a new series of vignettes, called The Yearbook, which will be sponsored by whisky brand Chivas Regal. The Yearbook series follows the stories of six real life school friends from Singapore, whose lives have taken different and interesting routes since they left school. Each 1 minute vignette takes up the story of a different individual, while showing how the friends have maintained their relationships together since they graduated. Chivas Regal is to sponsor the series and will also be taking a supporting advertising campaign online on bbc.com from January 2010. TheYearbook vignettes will run in BBC World News Asia Pacific feed from this week until the end of March. Advertising for the brand will also appear on BBC Knowledge. The sponsorship marks the first advertising campaign from Chivas on BBC World News, bbc.com and BBC Knowledge Asia Pacific. Cindy Tan, Regional Director at BBC Advertising Sales, says: "We are delighted that Chivas Regal has chosen to sponsor the Yearbook vignettes and to advertise with us. It a real vindication of our strength in the Asia Pacific region and the way our multi-platform offering helps advertisers to reach a high quality audience. We have a compelling offering for luxury advertisers, and particularly strong evidence that such brands thrive in the environment of bbc.com." Xavier Beysecker, Vice President - Marketing of Pernod Ricard Asia at Chivas Regal, adds: "BBC World News has a strong and broad distribution in Asia, and its reach amongst our key audiences makes it perfect for us. The fact that we can extend our campaign across a range of channels, including bbc.com, also means we are communicating across multiple touch-points. The Yearbook series matches the values of our "Live with Chivalry" campaign perfectly, and we are looking forward to seeing it on air." BBC World News, the most watched BBC channel, has 74 million viewers a week worldwide. Notes to Editor BBC World News, the BBC commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel, is owned and operated by BBC World News Ltd, a member of the BBC commercial group of companies. BBC World News attracts 74 million viewers a week, is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, and reaches 300 million households and more than 1.7 million hotel rooms. The channel content is also available on 81 cruise ships, 46 airlines, 35 mobile phone networks and a number of major online platforms including . For further information on how to receive BBC World News, download schedules or find out more about the channel, visit .