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  • Aidem Ventures appoints Pradeep Hejmadi as CEO

    Aidem Ventures appoints Pradeep Hejmadi as CEO

    MUMBAI: Aidem Ventures, an independent media consulting and marketing company, has appointed  Pradeep Hejmadi as the chief executive officer (CEO), effective August 2018. In his new role, Hejmadi will be spearheading AIDEM’s newest verticals: Aidemtec and AIDEM Sporty. Simultaneously, he will help unlock new partnerships and opportunities in the company’s traditional broadcast sales business.

    Talking about his new role, Hejmadi said, “I’m excited to join Aidem Ventures and look forward to working with an extremely talented team. AIDEM is an energetic and dynamic organization that has witnessed tremendous growth over the past few years. My focus will be on spurring exponential growth for the organisation, and leveraging an eclectic team of professionals to convert challenges into profitable business outcomes.”

    Aidem Ventures MD Karan Kumar Gupta said, “There couldn’t be a better time for AIDEM to work with someone like Pradeep who has extensive experience and a proven track record in the entertainment space. With the launch of Aidemtec and Aidem Sporty, we have a massive opportunity to capitalize on Pradeep’s experience in pioneering initiatives in the broadcast field. I’m confident that his leadership assets will be valuable for us in the long term.”

    Hejmadi brings with him more than 20 years of multi-dimensional experience in the Indian media industry. He has spearheaded and successfully launched profitable initiatives. His previous stints include working with Zee TV, TAM Media Research, MTV Networks India, Turner Broadcasting and Discovery Networks.

    Aidem Ventures chairman Ashok Kumar Gupta said, “We are delighted to have Pradeep join us at this pivotal point in the company’s journey.We continue to attract impressive leaders like him who can take our technology and consulting solutions to the broader market and grow our already-robust roster of clients very quickly, thus creating an incredible future for AIDEM.”

  • Zirca launches integrated native ad mgmt platform ContentdB

    MUMBAI: Zirca Digital Solutions has announced the launch of Asia’s first native advertising management platform, ContentdB. The platform is designed to help manage content campaigns across multiple discovery, social, search networks and publishers.

    ContentdB’s genesis has been fuelled with Zirca’s strong belief that efficiency is an essential element when making a strong value proposition. ContentdB is essentially a dashboard interface, which brings all campaign reports in one place to ascertain how the users respond to the same information differently, thus, allowing brand marketers to optimize and make their investment give better results. It gives marketers access to a one-stop destination to understand the performance of all their native advertising content.

    “Most marketers are fairly successful at putting out engaging content; the fact that they are not able to optimize across the different platforms reduces the value they can get from their campaigns. ContentdB provides them with a single window platform from which they can monitor their campaigns on a comprehensive dashboard. Marketers can, thus, get a unified view of multiple campaigns and platforms that will help them make an informed decision about the efficiency of their campaigns, thus saving them time, effort and money while managing their campaigns,” says Zirca CEO and director Neena Dasgupta.

    “The internet at one point was all about platforms and there was very little focus on content that made the right kind of impact. The industry is now far more evolved and understands the value of impactful content and how it contributes to a brand’s perception online,” adds Zirca MD Karan Kumar Gupta.

    “Technology, thus, plays a very important role in such an industry. While most technologies are focused on delivery of content, ContentdB is uniquely poised to focus on right amplification and optimization to bring campaign efficiency, so that the marketer can evaluate how effective the brand’s content is, in building brand awareness. The platform evaluates how well the content resonates with the brand’s end consumer from one publisher to another, setting a new trend.”

  • Zirca Digital Solutions eyes expansion in SE & North Asia

    Zirca Digital Solutions eyes expansion in SE & North Asia

    MUMBAI: Aidem’s digital brand solutions arm Zirca Digital Solutions is planning to expand in the Southeast Asia and North Asia regions.

     

    The agency has set shop in Singapore in order to cater to their clientele in the region and has appointed Sukesh Singh as consultant – sales and business development. Singh will be based out of Singapore.

     

    With an aim to create a strong international presence, plans are also afoot to set shop in the Middle East and in Europe during the company’s next expansion phase.

     

    Additionally, in order to further strengthen their services to clients, a major tech acquisition is on the cards for Zirca Digital Solutions.

     

    Having worked with companies like Microsoft Advertising to The Economist, Outbrain amongst others in the digital media space, Zirca will be leveraging its experience to bring its services to clients across the globe.

     

    Singh, who has experience in sales, business development and partner management during his previous stints at Phunware Inc. and BBC Worldwide, will provide considerable advantage to Zirca’s extensive partner and client base in the Southeast Asia and North Asia regions. He will be actively involved in building local teams for these markets. Some key personnel from the India team will also be given the opportunity to international exposure.

     

    “The business environment certainly won’t be identical to that in India. However, the fact that Southeast Asia and North Asia are more developed markets, works in our favour. Establishing our business here will be less of a challenge as compared to what it would be for a similar company looking to expand into India. Our expertise in digital media sales and operations brought from the years of experience in the Indian market combined with the localised knowledge that Sukesh brings in will enable us to systemize the expansion process and provide a suite of services that are specific to this region,” said Zirca Digital Solutions CEO and director Neena Dasgupta.

     

    “Geographic expansion is a clear & powerful way to drive growth. Our clients need a global service and a global perspective. Asia is diverse. A ‘one size fits all’ approach to asset monetisation does not work – we recognise this and hence plan to have offices setup across locations in order to be more in sync with these market differences. We are looking to build a strong team focused solely on our international expansion,” added Zirca Digital Solutions managing director Karan Kumar Gupta.

     

    The company recently updated its brand identity. The new brand identity and logo convey the energy and the vigour with which they aim to address the new markets and new opportunities.