Interviews
Interviews with digital company ceo and leaders
Interviews with digital company ceo and leaders
So it was just recently that Goose Fish Media Ventures (owned by Sidharth Rao - Founder of Webchutney) had announced the launch of two vertical ad networks in GoSinbad and Divanation. But now it seems they realized that having one network which focuses on verticals would be far easier scale.
So they have merged the two [...]
We had ealier spoken to Tim Draper of DFJ on his thoughts about the slowdown. We felt that we also needed to take a closer to home point of view of Venture Capitalists who have been working with entrepreneurs and business models in India for sometime now.
We caught up with Sateesh Andra of Draper Fisher [...]
We met Tim Draper the Founder & Managing Director of Draper Fisher Juvertson who was in Mumbai recently. We spoke to him on various issues right from the current economic slowdown to how he viewed the Indian market, his advice to entrepreneurs and Why was he in India?.. and more..
Tim on Global Economic Slowdown
Entrepreneurs Perspective
Tim [...]
Yes we are back this time with a WATShow with Sulekha Director of Brand and Global Marketing on Sulekha.com’s focus, local commerce, userbase demographics, on their competition and also on their expansion plans. He also speaks about the recent tie up with Career Builder.
Also note his reference to Asklaila a prospective competitor which he denies [...]
We were at the Zoom Tv office in mumbai yesterday and was attending a conference jointly hosted by Zoom Tv and the Neeraj Roy from Hungama as well as Sunil Nair from Nautanki.tv which is now owned by Hungama.com.
The conference was on online video and its potential.
Not too long ago zoom had tied [...]
Recently BigAdda tied up with Jivox a video advertising platform to both power and monetize its videos. And as promised we got in touch with Jivox Managing Director Naren Nachiappan to know more on the strategy behind the tie ups, the revenue shares and on the future of online video advertising in India.
Q) How do [...]
We caught up with Rajesh Jain, Founder of Netcore which own MYToday the group sms solution provider which has now google to compete with which has recently launched google sms channels.
We quizzed Rajesh on Google, how he plans to compete with them, cost of running mytoday and his strategy to acquire advertisers for his sms [...]
So Google India launched Google Sms Channels (still in google labs) on 1st of October a product very much like our homegrown Netcore and Webaroo products Mytoday and Smsgupshup. In Short Google Sms Channels allows any one to create an sms group/channel and besides for sending group smses one even add one’s blog feed or [...]
Zapak recently announced its tie up for movie merchandising with the kiddy movie Hari Puttar which was also in the news for being sued by Harry Porter producers. This isn’t the first time that zapak has got into movie merchandising. Even earlier it had done a similar deal for the movie Bhoothnath for which it [...]
BharatMatrimony.com the matrimony portal which claims to have over 12 million registered members announced the launch of matrimony services on Airtel. Airtel has over 77 million mobile subscribers and bharatmatrimony’s matrimony services would now be available on Airtel Live the wap portal on all the GPRS enabled handsets using an airtel connection across the country.
Keeping [...]
Recently Affle announced a tie up with Airtel on the sms search front with its SMS 2.0 product which would be powering the sms search on Airtel. We felt there was a need to get a sense where this Industry i.e. the mobile search space was headed be it sms search or search via mobile [...]
We caught up with Infoedge CFO Mr. Ambarish Raghuvanshi and questioned him about the recent investment by Infoedge in the online insurance leads website Policybazaar.com which is owned by EtechAces Marketing and Consulting Pvt Ltd.
Here is an exclusive interview with the Infoedge CFO on what made them cut this deal and what to they plan to [...]
Rajshri.com has changed its positioning and the current design and layout makes it look like an ad driven free to view video site. Though the pay to download model is still being pursued by Rajshri the current revenues indicate that till now only advertising has worked for them as 95% of their revenues come via [...]
We caught up with Ashish Goel, COO of ACK Media the company which has big plans with their brand Amar Chitra Katha. We spoke to him about the launch of the website, ACK’s target audience, future plans, digital media and more. Here is the full interview:
Q) Will ACK Media only launch rehashed titles from the [...]
We caught up with Dina Mehta a social media evangelist and one of the founder of Mosoci a social media research firm started in 2005. The other founder of Mosoci happens to be Stuart Henshall who also happens to be the founder of Phweet.com. Because of her close association to Stuart and Phweet Dina was [...]