Rajiv is a prolific blogger who has over 1000 blog posts to his credit at WATBlog. The Founder & CEO of WATMedia our parent company and the Chief Blogger at WATBlog, he has been the driving force of the WAT Evolution. Rajiv does some excellent analysis of the digital media industry in India and often brings out deep insights with his inimitable style of interviewing. Just mail rajiv|at|watblog|dot|com and it will reach him..

Vdopia which was recently in the news for raising funding from Nexus India capital has struck the biggest deal yet in the online video ads segment. Vdopia has struck a video advertising deal with Web18 to power videos and video ads across all its web properties.
Web18 has a long list of destination sites which were [...]

Online gaming has been heavily invested in since Reliance ADAG’s Zapak.com came onto the scene in 2006 and started investing crores of rupees in this business. 2008 was a year in which online gaming players forged tie ups, went mobile and also chalked out plans to go international. The top online gaming sites of India [...]

You are reading it here first: We have got tipped off from reliable sources that Media2win the agency which is part of the 2win group headed by Alok Kejriwal has invested in Hover.in an in text advertising tool which was showcased in the proto.in event in Jan this year.

The amount of investment is undisclosed though [...]

As the year 2009 dawns and the year 2008 fades we at WAT want to take this opportunity to thank all our readers for standing by us through thick and thin and through an up and down but nevertheless a very meaningful 2008. We thank you for overlooking our mistakes and for encouraging us at [...]

The local search space came into focus in India way back in 2006 with the funding of guruji.com and then there were a flurry of players that ventured into this space right from onyomo, asklaila, yulop, burrp and a few others.

The year 2008 started with Asklaila launching its local search services in mumbai and guruji [...]

You are reading it here first: Reliance ADAG’s Big Entertainment has launched a Bollywood centric entertainment portal called Bigoye.com. This portal has news, interviews, movie reviews, celebrity blogs, games and movie rentals services all rolled into one. This portal directly competes with Hungama’s Bollywoodhungama.com (previously IndiaFM) and also the latest launch by Percept Knorigin i.e. [...]

The year 2008 can be termed as the year of online travel as this space has seen immense traction all throughout the year. Whether it was launching of discounted travel, expansions, acquisitions, investments, aggregation or even shut down the online travel space has seen it all during this year. It would be an understatement to [...]

In this recap we shall look at the other two key online classifieds segments besides for jobs and matrimony and they are property and cars. Both property and cars have been fairly nascent in their growth stage all throughout 2008. But they have also seen consolidation, investments and expansions as well.
The major players in the [...]

Well the year ending is near but the Tie ups news still continue to pour in. Companies continue to forge partnerships for better distribution and reach and here are two more such partnerships and tie ups this week.
Bookmyshow iMint Tie Up to launch loyalty programme for customers
Bookmyshow.com which was recently in the news for huge [...]

Its a paradox of sorts as history keeps repeating itself in the mobile telephony space. So the much awaited 3G auction will need to wait a little over 2 weeks more if latest reports are to be believed. According to reports DoT has postponed the auctions for 3G spectrum by two weeks to January 30. [...]

The year 2008 has been an eventful one for the online matrimony space which is dominated by major players like Shaadi (People Interactive), Bharatmatrimony (consim Info), Simplymarry (Times Group) and Jeevansathi (Infoedge). The year saw expansion offline and in forms of distribution for matrimony players and by the year end some matrimony players were found [...]

January can be termed as a Startup month.. With two of the biggest startup events scheduled to happen in January and both of them are going to be in Bangalore at the same venue.
Here are the event updates for this month:
Jan 9th-10th - Headstart and Compute 2009 - NIMHANS Bangalore - HeadStart and Compute conference [...]

We have confirmed from various sources that Microsoft is launching its ad network Drivepm in India. Infact it has also started hiring for the Drivepm division in India. Drivepm was a part of aQuantive (An online advertising firm) that was acquired by Microsoft last year for a whopping 6 billion dollars.

Microsoft launched Drivepm in Canada [...]

The WATBlog Panel Delhi on “Bridging the digital divide” took place at Metropolitan hotel New delhi on 12th December 2008. The panelists were Sidharth Rao Webchutney, Sanjay Trehan of Ndtv Convergence, Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners and Neeraj Sannan of Star News and we had analysed the panel before on WATBlog.
But as promised here is [...]

This is the last week of 2008 and and next we would be entering 2009 and We hope 2009 brings cheer and happiness in all your lives. This week was one filled with cheer of christmas and also of us looking to start our recap series the first of which has got 10 comments already. [...]