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  • Aayush Ailawadi joins NDTV as editor – technology & AI

    Aayush Ailawadi joins NDTV as editor – technology & AI

    NEW DELHI:  One of India’s most recognisable voices in tech and AI journalism, Aayush Ailawadi, has joined NDTV as editor – technology & AI, adding another marquee name to the broadcaster’s expanding digital-first arsenal.

    Ailawadi made the announcement with characteristic flair, calling NDTV his “ultimate playground” and teasing followers to expect “maximum screens, maximum geek-outs and more surprises.”

    With a career that spans BloombergQuint, India Today, CNBC-TV18, and even All India Radio, Ailawadi is known for making tech talk relatable and fun — whether it’s AI, gadgets, fintech or cybersecurity. His current podcast, Let’s Tech About It, co-produced between LA and Mumbai, has built a loyal community of enthusiasts.

    Before this, he served as consulting editor at the RP Sanjiv Goenka Group and was technology editor and anchor at India Today, where he became a staple for millennial viewers tuning in for smart, jargon-free commentary.

    In his freelance avatar, Ailawadi has also lent his voice to Discovery, Netflix (Bad Boy Billionaires), and dozens of corporate films — all while doubling up as a scriptwriter, strategist and voiceover artist.

    His appointment underscores NDTV’s clear push into the tech vertical — aiming not just to inform, but to entertain, engage and, most of all, translate the complex for India’s growing digital citizenry.

  • Newsroom shake-up as Anil Uniyal exits NDTV after two eventful years

    Newsroom shake-up as Anil Uniyal exits NDTV after two eventful years

    MUMBAI: After steering the ship through a crucial phase, Anil Uniyal has stepped down as chief operating Officer of NDTV, wrapping up a two-year tenure that saw him deeply involved in shaping the channel’s post-acquisition identity and relaunching NDTV Profit. Uniyal’s resignation, as reported by multiple media outlets, closes another chapter in a career that’s been synonymous with leadership in Indian business newsrooms from Network18 to Quint and now NDTV. His departure adds another twist to NDTV’s evolving story under the Adani Media Group umbrella.

    During his stint at NDTV, Uniyal was known to have worked closely with Sanjay Pugalia and played a key role in stabilising the broadcaster’s business operations. He also had a hand in reviving NDTV Profit, the business news channel that absorbed operations from the now-defunct BloombergQuint.

    Speaking to Indian Television Dot Com Uniyal said he is yet to decide his next move on the professional front.

    Before joining NDTV in 2022, Uniyal served as CEO at Bloombergquint, where he helped position the venture as a significant digital destination for financial and business news. That journey began in 2016, after Bloomberg’s tie-up with Quintillion Media, and culminated in the platform’s eventual acquisition and integration into the NDTV family.

    His earlier stint at Network18 between 2011 and 2016 was equally prolific, where he held leadership roles across CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC Bajar, and Forbes India. As COO, he was instrumental in driving the group’s business news portfolio forward.

    While Uniyal’s next move remains under wraps, industry watchers are keenly eyeing where he lands next. One thing is certain: wherever he goes, he’s sure to bring newsroom know-how and sharp operational chops with him.
     

  • ADOHM comes on board as sponsors for Bloomberg|Quint’s web -series ‘Brandsmiths’

    ADOHM comes on board as sponsors for Bloomberg|Quint’s web -series ‘Brandsmiths’

    MUMBAI: ADOHM, a new age marketing platform powered by artificial intelligence, has come on board as the sponsor for Bloomberg|Quint’s web -series Brandsmiths. The series is an effort to showcase excellence of teams that are custodians of the brand and have created path breaking marketing campaigns to catapult the brand to success.

    Speaking on the same, ADOHM co-founder Kuldeep Chaudhury said, “We are glad to partner with Bloomberg|Quint for their web-series Brandsmiths. This platform has a unique reach and we are sure we will be able to reach out to maximum audience with this association.”

    Commenting on the association, BloombergQuint CEO Anil Uniyal said, “In this season of Brandsmiths, we speak with some of the best marketing practitioners in the country & try to understand their perspective on building brand salience in this era of technology dominated by Artificial Intelligence. We could not find a better partner but ADOHM for the same.”

  • Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund launches podcast with BloombergQuint

    Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund launches podcast with BloombergQuint

    MUMBAI: Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund (ABSLMF), in association with BloombergQuint, has launched a podcast series ‘MF101’ with the aim of covering all the essential details pertaining to mutual funds, voiced through industry experts, sector specialists, and fund managers of the company, over 12 episodes. Renowned personal finance influencer Anupam Gupta leads these podcast sessions. The first episode was aired on 28 January.

    As shared by ABSLMF, it has been ceaselessly working to enhance the appeal and knowledge of mutual funds among a wider set of investors and advisors across India. This podcast series is part of many such efforts that the fund house is making to enable investors to understand mutual funds and the different concepts of investing better. The series provides access to valuable insights from important market voices, sector experts, and research analysts, from the fund house.

    Commenting on the series, BloombergQuint CEO Anil Uniyal said, “We are pleased to announce the podcast series in partnership with Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund and IVM Podcasts, which, we hope, will help listeners gain valuable insights in Mutual Funds. Both Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund and BloombergQuint have always had their consumers’ best interests at heart, and through the podcast, we also hope to become a one-stop destination for all things related to investment.”

  • Bloomberg|Quint WhatsApp Service – India’s only business news service which offers customized news & stock updates on the go Over 3.5 lakh subscribers in less than 8 months

    Bloomberg|Quint WhatsApp Service – India’s only business news service which offers customized news & stock updates on the go Over 3.5 lakh subscribers in less than 8 months

    MUMBAI: WhatsApp has become synonymous with communication on the Internet and with brands deploying innovative means to engage with customers using the app, it has gone beyond being just an informal messaging app. One such innovative use of WhatsApp to engage with audiences is the Bloomberg|Quint (BQ) WhatsApp Service. The service uses advanced features for users to consume personalised business news and stock updates. Users can simply key-in their topic of interest and receive the latest information on that topic. The BQ WhatsApp Service is a first-of-its-kind offering in the business news space with a reach of more than 3.5 lakh users and a 90% daily engagement rate.

    Bloomberg|Quint is the only news service in India which deploys a technology called ‘news-bots’, which allow users to create their personalized news streams. The WhatsApp service also makes use of ‘stock-bots’ to provide real-time information about any stock. BQ has recently introduced its ‘Stock Watchlist’ feature, which allows users to set ‘stock alerts’ on WhatsApp. This helps users get the latest stock updates tailored to their requirement. This distinctive service assists and enables new-age decision makers and executives to stay updated, on the go. 

    Commenting on this commendable achievement, Mr. Ankit Dhadda, Head – Product & Marketing, Bloomberg|Quint said, “As the fastest growing business news portal, we realised that readers have a packed schedule and their need for crisp and curated content is higher than before. Hence, WhatsApp works as a perfect platform for content distribution. We utilized the mobile web space to convert mobile traffic into WhatsApp subscribers in just 2-clicks. The focus was on enabling BQ WhatsApp subscribers take better and faster business decisions.”

    Adding on to the uniqueness of the service, he said, “The product is a clear breakthrough innovation in the news space in India and has helped us augment our stellar performance. Although a few brands have already imitated the first layer of the product, we are continuously innovating in this space and have a clear competitive advantage.”

    Ms. Menaka Doshi, Managing Editor at Bloomberg|Quint said “Bloomberg|Quint’s Whatsapp service is used by a wide audience ranging from business leaders to financial market experts mostly for two reasons. Its timeliness, we bring all big breaking stories to our readers and viewers in real time. And the convenience. No more flipping through tons of stories across numerous websites and social media platforms to find what’s important and relevant to your business day. Just check the BQ whatsapp feed on your phone and read the story whenever you have time.”

    According to an internal research conducted by BQ, on mobile, pages per session is almost 60% higher for users coming through WhatsApp as compared to users coming through other sources. Over 56% of the users consume news on Bloomberg|Quint via BQ WhatsApp. 49% users find WhatsApp News Service more useful as compared to other platforms used to disseminate news. 

    BQ WhatsApp Service was launched to deepen its engagement with users and augment its distribution footprint. Subscribers to the service receive Bloomberg|Quint’s much acclaimed “All You Need To Know” morning podcast, business and financial news and more. Users can also interact with the service through a hashtag-based search to consume content of their interest across markets, business, politics and opinion. 

    To subscribe to the service, users have to click on this link and save the number as a WhatsApp contact, and send a message saying ‘Start BQ’ to initiate their subscription.

  • Bloomberg|Quint’s The Mutual Fund Show marks one successful year of educating viewers on personal finance

    Bloomberg|Quint’s The Mutual Fund Show marks one successful year of educating viewers on personal finance

    MUMBAI: India’s premier business and financial news company, has recently announced the completion of one successful year of its highly popular series ‘The Mutual Fund Show’. The feature, streamed across multiple platforms to a wide user base, provides critical guidance to India’s new generation of investors contemplating the various forms of financial investment available in the market today. It also raises awareness among Indian consumers about the potential and promise of investing in mutual funds – acknowledged to be one of the safest and most rewarding ways to build wealth – by examining their concerns and helping users connect to experts with the right answers. The series has garnered over 5.5 million views across social media in the last one year.

    The program, run in the format of a talk show, features top fund managers and finance experts who leverage their expertise to analyze and provide in-depth insights into mutual funds from micro and macro perspectives. The show also provides a direct response to viewer queries, collecting questions from social media users to get their doubts cleared through direct responses from the invited guests. The show has so far dwelled on such topics as why mutual funds should be an integral part of one’s investment portfolio, the use of mutual funds to repay home loans, and how an investor should evaluate fund performance. The show also deals with the tax-saving benefits of investing into Equity Linked Savings Schemes (ELSS), and choosing between active and passive investing.

    The Mutual Fund Show has invited prominent company leaders of asset management companies and mutual funds like A. Balasubramanian (CEO, Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management), Kalpen Parekh (President, DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund), Aashish P Sommaiyaa (CEO, Motilal Oswal AMC), Milind Barve (MD, HDFC AMC), and Nilesh Shah (MD, Kotak Mahindra AMC) to offer expert advice to viewers. It has also featured prominent fund managers like S. Naren (Chief Investment Officer, ICICI Prudential AMC),  Mahesh Patil (Co-Chief Investment Officer, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF), Gautam Sinha Roy (Sr. Vice President – Fund Manager, Motilal Oswal Associates),  Taher Badshah (Chief Investment Officer – Equities, Invesco Mututal Fund)to name a few.

    Commenting on the 1-year anniversary of the The Mutual Fund Show, Menaka Doshi, Managing Editor Bloomberg|Quint, said, “The Mutual Fund Show is not the first show of its kind nor the last one. But what it does rather uniquely is to go beyond investment platitudes and bring to viewers useful, indepth and personalised information to aid investment strategies.”

    Also sharing his comments Niraj Shah, the Markets Editor and Anchor of the show, said, “The Mutual Fund Show aims to bring lessons of Mutual Fund investing in the simplest possible fashion. Its uniquely placed as an interactive learning platform, and strives to bring an all-round perspective for both new and experienced investors”.

    The Mutual Fund Show is one of the many shows available on Bloomberg|Quint, which has been disrupting news content delivery through its innovative and technology-driven approach. By creating India’s first digital business news streaming service, Bloomberg|Quint has captured the attention and imagination of India’s digital natives, who are hungry for the latest insights into the global business landscape, through the channel of their choice. Bloomberg|Quint delivers exclusive news coverage around mutual funds and several other relevant issues from the world of business across multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, WhatsApp, and YouTube. Its state-of-the-art newsroom, cutting-edge analysis, and in-depth coverage of pertinent business news have led to Bloomberg|Quint being rated as the most viewed business news brand on Facebook amongst new-age publishers, and the Business Website of the Year at the Digipub Awards 2017.

  • Bloomberg|Quint partners with Penguin Random House India to delve into India’s unique business history

    Bloomberg|Quint partners with Penguin Random House India to delve into India’s unique business history

    MUMBAI: India’s premier business and financial news brand Bloomberg|Quint in partnership with Penguin Random House India is taking its coverage of India’s business ecosystem back to the beginning with an exclusive six-part show titled ‘Tales of Trade’, edited by management guru Gurcharan Das. Based on a book series by leading academicians and scholars, ‘Tales of Trade’ will have the authors delve into some of the most fascinating stories in the history of Indian business with an episode every week, starting February 24 with Bibek Debroy. Through the series, Bloomberg|Quint will introduce its audience to the startling and delightful ways in which these historical events are relevant to modern-day institutions and has an impact on the practice of doing business in the country today.

    The ‘Indian way of doing business’ – with all its infinite cultural, regional, and linguistic variations – is the product of a rich legacy full of adventure, risk, and romance, tempered by Indian principles and values. The series’ 6 episodes will use provide an immersive, in-depth snapshot of India’s business history with an engaging narrative. The episodes will cover the Indian Railways, the East India Company, Managing Agencies, Mumbai’s 19th century merchants, the Marwari community, and the interplay of dharma and business in medieval India. Gurcharan Das will be joined by Bibek Debroy, Tirthankar Roy, Omkar Goswami, Lakshmi Subramanian, Thomas Timberg, and Donald Davis in his explorations of the rich and complex tapestry of India’s economic history.

    Commenting on the show, Gurcharan Das said, “Tales of Trade is a six-part documentary series based on Penguin’s ‘Story of Indian Business’ conceived, edited and curated at my end. It is an exciting tale of adventures in the bazaar and the romance on the high seas beginning from ancient times of trade with the Roman world to today’s most successful business communities. The series takes you on exciting journey through conversations with scholars who reveal forgotten fables and rediscovered texts. With a 5000 mile coastline, the tales cover ancient Tamils who carried Indian culture to greater Asia; the caravans of 20,000 camels on the Silk Route who crossed the Hindu Kush mountains to trade with Central Asia and Russia; of risk taking Marwaris who spread across India in the 19th century with the coming of the railways; of the trail blazing merchants who shaped modern Mumbai; of Gujarati merchants from Kachch who traded along the golden triangle of Mandavi, Muscat, and Zanzibar;  and of course, the story of the world’s first and most powerful corporation the East India Company.”

    Talking about the partnership, Preeti Chaturvedi, AVP- Marketing and Publicity, Penguin Random House India, said “We are constantly looking for ways to make our books more discoverable and accessible to a wider readership. Tales of Trade is a series we are really proud of and we are confident that the partnership with BloombergQuint will help a relevant audience engage with the stories in an exciting format.”

    Bloomberg|Quint reaches more than 2 million monthly users across its on-site and partner platforms. More than 50% of Bloomberg|Quint’s audience comprises of C-level executives and entrepreneurs. During Budget 2017, Bloomberg|Quint delivered over 50 million in reach, including 15 million video views and more than 25k shares on social media, ahead of several legacy players in the space. (Source: Google Analytics, Partner & Social Analytics). It was also recently rated as the most viewed business news brand on Facebook amongst new-age publishers. (Source: Vidooly, Facebook Video Report) and has been voted ‘Business Website Of The Year’ (Digipub Awards 2017)

  • FB and BloombergQuint collaborate for live biz news service

    FB and BloombergQuint collaborate for live biz news service

    MUMBAI: BloombergQuint has collaborated with Facebook for its live video streaming service ‘BQ Live’. It is a digital business news live streaming service that includes comprehensive programming on a daily basis from global and domestic markets coverage to views from the most influential newsmakers in business, economy and finance.

    BloombergQuint had launched this service last month at the Bloomberg India Economic Forum, which featured India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley and a host of other policy makers and corporate leaders.

    Speaking on the collaboration, BloombergQuint managing editor Menaka Doshi said, “Being multi-platform and digital-first has been core to our DNA since inception and this partnership epitomizes that philosophy. This will help us extend the reach and engagement of BQ Live appreciably, bringing high quality business content to decision-makers, entrepreneurs and young corporate audiences.”

    Facebook India head of news partnerships Varun Gupta said, “With over 200 million people using Facebook monthly, more and more people are logging in on Facebook to consume content that best informs and entertains them. We are happy to see Bloomberg|Quint use our platform to build immersive experiences for their viewers via such an engaging format as Facebook Live. With Facebook Live, BQ’s viewers will be not only able to consume news real-time but participate in the storytelling via interactive features such as comments, reactions, and questions.”

    Starting with pre-market cues and news, the service provides consumers with live insights into the markets throughout the day, culminating with perspectives and analysis in the evening. The live streaming service is available on www.bloombergquint.com and top social platforms, and pending regulatory approvals, will debut on leading cable and DTH platforms.

    Since going Live on facebook, BQ Live has already seen more than to 2 million video views for its top shows. The Live programming begins with Daybreak at 7 am. On weekdays, followed by power-packed markets programming through shows like Indian Open , The F&O show, Hot Money, #AskBQ, Power Lunch, Countdown and then perspective driven content through shows like Primetime and the Primetime Debate.

    BloombergQuint currently reaches more than 2 million monthly users across its on-site and partner platforms. During Budget 2017, BloombergQuint delivered over 50 million in reach, including 15 million video views and more than 25k shares on social media, ahead of several legacy players in the space.

     

     

  • Vidooly ranks BloombergQuint as most popular biz news publisher on FB video

    MUMBAI: Bloomberg|Quint, a business and financial news company, continues its rapid rise as the leading integrated business news platform in the country. In its June report, digital video analytics provider, Vidooly has rated Bloomberg|Quint as the ninth most popular news brand among new-age news publishers. It is the only business news brand featured in the Top 10, ahead of general news platform Firstpost and amongst other general news publishers such as Scroll and Indiatimes. The ranking is based on the number of video views clocked by brands.

    As will be recalled, Bloomberg|Quint is a partnership between global financial news leader Bloomberg Media and Quintillion Media, one of India’s fastest growing digital news ventures founded by serial entrepreneur Raghav Bahl. The partnership harnesses the unrivalled resources and pedigree of Bloomberg with Quintillion Media’s deep market experience in its business and financial news platform straddling digital, broadcast and live events. Bloomberg|Quint brings together some of the most respected names in Indian financial media such as Raghav Bahl, Menaka Doshi, Sanjay Pugalia and Anil Uniyal. The brand’s philosophy focuses on balancing journalistic objectivity and hard data with deep, insightful and sharp perspective and opinion.

    Bloomberg|Quint provides high-quality business news and insights to India’s decision-makers, executives and entrepreneurs. With a native, platform-first philosophy in content, Bloomberg|Quint has fast emerged as one of the most engaging business brands on digital. Bloomberg|Quint’s content spans engaging and innovative mobile-friendly formats including published articles, op-eds, live and produced video, data infographics and charts, social content, newsletters, polls and live chats, live streaming, photo essays and contests across its own and partner platforms including The Quint, Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook.

    Bloomberg|Quint CEO Anil Uniyal said, “We believe that India needed a truly digital-first, credible and premium business news product and Bloomberg|Quint serves that need. Our digital product has positioned us well as we get ready to launch and scale the broadcast and events business, as part of our integrated platform.”