Tag: AI/ML

  • Maruti Suzuki shuffles executive deck

    Maruti Suzuki shuffles executive deck

    MUMBAI: Maruti Suzuki has turbocharged its leadership lineup with two heavyweight appointments that promise to rev up the company’s strategic engines.

    Sunil Kakkar, a 35-year veteran of the automotive trenches, will slide into the director (corporate planning) role from 1 April 2025. An IIT Kanpur engineer with an MBA  gold medal, Kakkar arrives with a portfolio that reads like a automotive industry roadmap—from supply chain mastery to international joint venture architecting.

    His corporate credentials include chairing industry bodies like SIAM’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat Sourcing Group and holding directorial seats across multiple associate companies. With awards like supply chain leader of the year, Kakkar has the right credentials. 

    Joining the corporate pit crew is Tapan Sahoo, designated head of digital enterprise and information & cyber security. An IIT Delhi alumnus with a PhD and “fellow” status from prestigious engineering academies, Sahoo brings 33 years of technology management firepower.

    His brief? Turbocharg digital transformation, leverage AI/ML  technologies, and collaborate with startups and academia. With multiple patents and research publications under his belt, Sahoo looks set to be Maruti Suzuki’s digital alchemist.

    These appointments signal Maruti Suzuki’s intent to blend traditional automotive expertise with cutting-edge technological innovation—a strategic chess move in an increasingly complex mobility landscape.

  • Fork Media Group  launches ContextAds across India, GCC and SEA regions

    Fork Media Group launches ContextAds across India, GCC and SEA regions

    NEW DELHI:  Media tech entity – Fork Media Group announced the launch of ContextAds – a programmatic platform to enable marketers adopt a holistic approach towards digital advertising. Having delivered over 1000+ brand campaigns through the managed service route, the programmatic platform of ContextAds is an advancement to the digital advertising offering of Fork Media Group.  ContextAds enables brands to take a well-informed ad decision through its AI/ML backed platforms while helping marketers establish a stronger brand connect. Through this platform, brands get granular details like sentiments, entities, content categories, user intent and hence they don’t have to rely on just a bunch of keywords and categories to make ad decisions. 

    ContextAds is an SSP with a data management platform backed by one of its kind combinations of context and audience data married with crucial factors like content quality, brand safety, and viewability. The platform gives marketeers access to over 100+ publications across India, GCC & SEA regions. Through ContextAds, marketeers can process the image. article text, headline categorization to not only deliver context but also deliver other extremely relevant parameters such as brand safety including dynamically striking off nudity, violence, negative social trend through entity extraction. This enables brands to target audience / context or both for a particular category that marries itself seamless to their product's attributes.

    In addition to helping marketeers, Fork Media Group is also helping publishers to improve the yield optimisation of advertising space inventory on websites to minimise wasted space and maximise views. Talking about the new launch, Fork Media Group founder and group CEO-Sammar Verma says,” The platform was built with a view to solve the problem of declining yield on display for publishers. We have always viewed the conventional display formats to be broken and hence, we identified context as a key missing link in the whole chain. Through this platform, we aim to bring back the incremental value on inventory through context. Historically, context has existed in the market primarily through key-word targeting and, in our view, that approach is highly inaccurate so technologically we have taken this light years ahead with AI & ML. We have now added layers of audience to our context data and programmatic capabilities to further enhance context delivery and monetization respectively.”

    Adding his thoughts on the relevance building aspect offered by the platform, Fork Media CTO Nikhil Sheth says, “Our proprietary ContextAds technology scans content and images across millions of pages, helping you to target contextually relevant pages. Our page screening technology also ensures that your brand is never advertised on pages with any inappropriate content. Along with this, our audience targeting helps you to target right audience based on their interest and behaviour. By combining power of page context, content safety and right audience, we make sure that your reach right audience all the time.”

    Talking about leveraging a tech-forward approach, Context Ads Product Head-Santosh Khandekar says, “With ContextAds, we are aiming to revolutionize the ad-decision model while delivering a controlled and scalable media buying experience through the Private Marketplace (PMP). Our proprietary technology managed to combine the Audience with Context to get a conclusive understanding of the user's past activities and present content consumption, helping brands deliver personalized brand awareness through innovative ads.”

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