Tag: LatestLY

  • It’s Official! LatestLY breaks into the Top-15 Online News Portals in India

    It’s Official! LatestLY breaks into the Top-15 Online News Portals in India

    Mumbai: Within just three quarters of its launch, India’s youngest digital news portal – LatestLY; has firmly established itself as a force to reckon with. A mere nine months from going live, it has vaulted over brands like Scroll, and Huffington Post India to be among the top 15 biggest news portal in the country; based on comScore India data – the industry standard in evaluating comparative performance of websites and portals.

    With over 10.5 million monthly visits and approaching 30 million unique users since launch, LatestLY’s meteoric rise as a credible, trusted, and preferred source of news and trending stories is both remarkable and unprecedented.

    “LatestLY, as an offering has been cultivated with a rare combination of fantastic technology and outstanding talent .” said Aditya Pittie, MD, LatestLY, as he espoused faith and confidence in the team that achieved this enviable milestone. “News consumption is fast becoming digital-first, and the day is not far when it becomes almost exclusively digital. LatestLY is perfectly poised to be the chosen port of call in such a world, and along with being available in multiple regional languages, we are preparing other unique offerings for news-seeking netizens.”, he added.

    LatestLY.com is the go-to destination for the latest trending stories in World News, Politics, Entertainment, Technology, Sports and more. Available in English, Hindi, and Marathi, other regional language offerings are in the pipeline. 

  • Latestly achieves new milestones

    Latestly achieves new milestones

    MUMBAI: In less than two quarters since its launch in January 2018, LatestLY – Pittie Group’s newest offering and a definitive destination for trending stories across categories like World news, politics, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, technology, automobile and among others has achieved several milestones and occupied a favorable position in the digital news and information ecosystem.

    Launched as the go-to platform for anybody wanting a complete understanding of trending stories, LatestLY has been growing consistently with over 2 million active unique users in May 18 alone and over 5 million unique users since launch.

    LatestLY chief strategy officer Rahul Shrivastava, said, “We are sticking to our mission statement, to provide only authentic information and help the users/readers to answer their questions. We are constantly working on busting the fake news and unverified information doing the rounds of social media with our research and analysis. This has helped us establish ourselves as a credible news and information source, we are growing at a fast pace and are now among the established news portals which are more than a decade old.”

    Entering the next phase of expansion, the app has also been launched recently catering to the discerning users consuming information on the go. A multi-format news app, LatestLY provides instant notifications along with breaking news and enables sharing of content across social platforms.

    With Hindi content consumption on internet growing at the rate of 94 per cent YoY and has also launched an exclusive Hindi destination that provides content curated for the Hindi speaking users.

    In a bid to make its latest and most trending content available to a larger user base, LatestLY has also forged strategic partnerships with leading news aggregators such as InShorts, DailyHunt, Jio News etc.

  • Pittie Group launches news portal

    Pittie Group launches news portal

    MUMBAI: Pittie Group has launched LatestLY its new portal for trending stories across categories like world news, politics, sports, entertainment, lifestyle,technology, automobile etc. It is being developed as the go-to platform for anybody wanting a complete understanding of trending stories. 

    Venturing a step beyond only providing news, it enhances the reader experience by gathering and presenting researched facts that supplement the trending stories of the day, creating a platform for consumers to analyse and form their own informed opinion of the subject.

    Pittie Group CEO Aditya Pittie said, “In an ecosystem where news is made sensational to grab more eyeballs, LatestLY envisages to fill the void of accurate and relevant information, especially for the youth, by enabling them with data to curate their own educated opinions. LatestLY will focus on the What, When, Where, Who, Why and How of a trending story and help the discerning readers with a detailed analysis that goes beyond just reporting of news.”

    LatestLY chief strategy officer Rahul Shrivastava said, “While other players in the space report news, LatestLY sets itself apart by also offering ancillary information that augments the story. The website will host a series of in-depth long form articles curated by in-house domain experts and guest columnists along with short-form quick information pieces around the latest trends for daily consumption.”

    The LatestLY website offers an extraordinarily intuitive user experience with easy navigation and an interface that enables discovery seamlessly.

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