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Vijay Jung Thapa Appointed as ABP's Chief Digital Officer

Thapa was earlier the head of content at Star India‘s video streaming service Hotstar

Mumbai : ABP News Network has appointed Hotstar‘s Vijay Jung Thapa as the chief digital officer (CDO). As the CDO, He will be spearheading ABP’s new and refined vision on the digital front. Thapa was earlier the head of content at Star India‘s video streaming service Hotstar. He was responsible for all content ranging from TV shows, movies to sports. ABP News Network appoints Hotstar's Vijay Jung Thapa as chief digital officerThe company’s digital business is housed under ABP Live. The platform operates eight web portals in six different languages. With an aim to take ABP’s digital assets to newer milestones, Ramakrishnan Laxman will be taking over as the Digital Media Head. Allen Sharma will be taking over the new role of Head – Digital Revenues. In this role, he will be accountable for Direct Sales, Digital Revenues, Programmatic Monetisation, and Brand Solution.

Consumption of Digital News in India

Effective partnerships with news aggregators, social media, video and vernacular key to future growth

Mumbai: India is a large, chaotic, noisy democracy at work. And nothing encapsulates this better than the desire for news in Indians, be it through print, broadcast or even digital. Digital news in India, as per comScore’s latest report, receives an average of 282 million unique visitors (UVs) every month, making India the second-largest online news consuming nation in the world after China.Digital news is also the most popular content category by reach, having a 96 per cent reach, just above social media, entertainment and retail at 95, 95, and 94 per cent. News penetration in India is actually higher than other key populations like China and the USA, says the report titled ‘Trends in Online News Consumption,’ that analysed data for the month of September.

Bengaluru, The National Digital Leader

Bengaluru’s role in achieving a $1 trillion digital economy at the Bengaluru Tech Summit

The USA has 6 billion software engineers and among them 1 billion are Indians. India will have 1,00,000 startups and 100 unicorns by 2025. In software services, India dominates the world. India has a large vision and Bengaluru is going to lead in making India a $1 trilllion digital economy, said Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Aarin Capital and Manipal Global Education Services. Pai was moderating a panel discussion session on Bengaluru’s role in achieving a $1 trillion digital economy at Bengaluru Tech Summit. The other panelists included Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson, and Managing Director, Biocon; Nivruti Rai, Country Head, Intel India; Praveen Rao, COO & Member of the Board Infosys; Sanjeev Sharma, MD, ABB India, and Chairman, ABB Global industries and services.

New Innings for Firspost Editor BV Rao at TV9

Rao has been associated with Network18 since 2015

BV Rao, Editor of Firstpost.com, will be joining TV9, highly placed sources have told exchange4media. Rao, who joined Network18 in 2015, has put in his papers, said sources at Network18. In his career of 33 years, Rao has worked across all leading media houses like The Times Group, Express Group, Zee News and India Today Group among others. He began his career with Delhi Mid-Day in 1989 where he worked till 1991 before moving on to The Indian Express, Bangalore, as News Editor (1991-94).

Rao had three stints with The Express Group in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. In 1994, he joined Free Press Journal as Executive Editor and worked there for two years. He has also worked for The Times of India as Deputy Resident Editor for around a year, the India Today Group for three years, and DNA Mumbai for a year as Associate Editor.

Moneycontrol Launches Moneybhai

Leading financial news platform Moneycontrol has introduced a virtual trading game ‘Moneybhai’

MUMBAI: Leading financial news platform Moneycontrol has introduced a virtual trading game ‘Moneybhai’. It is a unique investing simulation platform aimed at giving an opportunity to learn trading by experiencing markets in real-time with real data using virtual currency. The platform seeks to provide hands-on experience & learnings of the market by allowing users to make risk-free investments.With an aim to inculcate the quality of risk-taking and to advocate the ability to learn finance, the investing stimulation platform targets newly turned investors in the age-group of 18-34. It will use real data from stock markets to reproduce the experience of using a real online brokerage account. The functioning of Moneybhai will see every player receive virtual money of INR 1 crore in their portfolio account with a maximum limit for trading set at Rs 1 crore per day.

LinkedIn is 'Open for Business'

The feature allows freelancers and small business owners to add their services to their LinkedIn profiles, making them discoverable from a LinkedIn search

LinkedIn, the professional networking platform has announced the global launch of Open for Business, a feature that allows freelancers and small business owners to add their services to their LinkedIn profiles, making them discoverable from a LinkedIn search. Following an initial roll-out in the US in July 2019, the feature is now live in India and rest of the world, and is a great way for freelancers and small businesses to indicate they’re ‘Open for Business’.

Open for Business allows small businesses and freelancers to showcase the services they provide, directly on their profiles. This helps their profiles become more discoverable in the LinkedIn search engine through the ‘service providers’ filter. Once the “open to” providing services feature is turned on, a box-like card appears on the top of one’s profile, which calls out the services they provide.

Times tops Comscore Rankings for Digital

According to Comscore, the digital news publishing industry saw an increase of 1% in the overall number

The digital sites of the Times of India group, the country’s largest media house, continue to lead the Comscore ranking of digital news publishers for the month of September with a total of 254 million unique visitors, (multi-platform-digital and mobile). According to a communication issued by Comscore, Network18 closely follows the Times of India group with 183.5 million unique visitors. In the list of digital news publishers, India Today Group has the third position with 144 million unique visitors. The Indian Express Group is at number four with 120 million unique visitors, followed by NDTV with 95 million unique visitors and HT Media group sites with 95 million unique visitors, the sources said.

Rise in Digital Revenue for Vikatan Group

Vikatan Group has successfully transformed in to digital pro media entity with its digital revenue adding up to 16% of the group’s overall revenue

Chennai: In a classic case of a print media giant catching up with the digital trends, the 93 years old Vikatan Group has successfully transformed in to digital pro media entity with its digital revenue adding up to 16% of the group’s overall revenue, the companies Managing Director, B Srinivasan revealed at conclave on Digital Transformation organized by Madras Management Association (MMA) in Chennai.He also disclosed that 10% of the group’s revenue comes from YouTube with Vikatan having six active YouTube channels that commands 8 million subscribers and 7.5 million views per day.