Tag: alliances

  • PrecisionMatch ropes in Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi from Yahoo as biz head

    PrecisionMatch ropes in Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi from Yahoo as biz head

    NEW DELHI: PrecisionMatch, a provider of high quality audience data for display advertising in India, SEA and MEA, recently announced the appointment of Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi as the business head. He was formerly national head: sales strategy at Yahoo! India,.

    In his current role at PrecisionMatch, Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi will lead sales, business development, alliances, partnerships and the overall business. He will build PrecisionMatch ground up in India and work on international expansion plans.

    On this appointment, SVG Media founder and CEO Manish Vij said, “We are delighted to have Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi onboard and confident that under his guidance PrecisionMatch will make deeper inroads into the market with the right customer education as data targeted advertising is a relatively futuristic way of display advertising by ad networks.”

    With this appointment, Nitin Chowdhary moves into a corporate role at SVG Media to further strengthen the display product and technology backbone of SVG Media businesses.

    Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi, a veteran in media sales, has over 16 years of experience in leading business development and media sales for brands across business verticals and media genres. Most recently, he headed national sales Strategy for Yahoo! India. Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi has also been associated with RadioOne, as head West and was the frontrunner in launching the Bangalore chapter of the radio channel. Prior to RadioOne, Chandrabhanu was the regional sales head at Star TV at Bangalore.

    PrecisionMatch business head Chandrabhanu Pattajoshi commented on his appointment, “I am thrilled about my association with PrecisionMatch and SVG Media. The future of display advertising on the internet lies in data targeted RTB. Data targeted display is an adopted practice in the West and has helped automobile brands, CPGs, retail players boost sales, drive footfalls, increase website traffic etc. I am confident that data targeted display will change the dynamics of online advertising, and brands in India will soon witness an interesting inflection point. I am excited about the challenge that comes along with this opportunity and certain that we will soon set a new trend in the market.”

    PrecisionMatch recently added new segments such as entertainment: movies, games, social influencers and food&drinks for which it can offer audience data. PrecisionMatch currently works with industry leaders such as – Samsung, General Motors, Tata Motors, Snapdeal.com, Expedia.com etc.

  • Murdoch dips into fibre-optic network: Alliances on the card

    Murdoch dips into fibre-optic network: Alliances on the card

    Murdoch mania still is hot in town as speculation about what he really intends to do in the Indian market rising to a fever pitch. He had a rash of meetings on 14 March with top brass industrialists and other prominent political personalities.

    Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and he discussed the possibilities of investment in the Infotech and telecom area. Ministerial sources disclosed his intentions to set up a state-of-the-art fibre optic telecom carrier network in Mumbai. A possible partner for this project is InCable which has been laying a fibre optic network in the city. Star TV does not have any investments in cable TV distribution, having sold out its holdings in Siticable to Zee TV. The fibre optic project will l cater to Murdoch’s Infotech dreams in India and facilitate e-commerce and e-education and create tremendous job opportunities, ministerial sources said.

    Murdoch also met up with MTNL and VSNL executives at the Ministerial meeting. MTNL, the state telecom provider MTNL which has a strong optic-fibre backbone and Hughes Ispat which also is rolling out its network over the city.

    The Chief Minister, wanting investments in the state, also assured Murdoch that News Corp’s proposal to set up an entertainment programming studio will be cleared within a month’s time. News Corp plans to invest around $100 million in this area alone. The commercial capital of India seems to have impressed Murdoch as he identified the tremendous potential in this city.

    It is now the time of Delhi for big announcements where Murdoch will hold high-profile meetings.