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  • Ruchir Khanna joins Asianet News Media & Entertainment as COO

    New Delhi : Asianet News Media & Entertainment Pvt Ltd (AMEL) on Friday announced the appointment of Ruchir Khanna as chief operating officer of the company’s digital business.

    An accomplished digital media professional, Khanna was earlier working with Times Internet as the head of product and growth. During his stint at Times Internet, he led the digital growth of various properties of the group. He has over two decades of experience across product development, growth and marketing, content strategy and P&L management. He has also had leadership stints at Hike messenger, India Today Group and Yahoo! India, said the company.

    AMEL, executive chairman, Rajesh Kalra said, the team is building a media/ent-tech company of the future and building on the strong digital brands. 

    AMEL has multiple digital brands in it’s portfolio including asianetnews.com, indigomusic.com and serves consumers in multiple languages.

    “Our mission is to significantly expand audiences of each of these brands – with more innovation, content and services. Ruchir will provide significant leadership to this mission of ours. He brings with him the experience of building and growing some of the biggest and most successful digital products in India. I am really excited about the leadership team we’ve built. Ruchir joins us soon after Nachiket Pantvaidya took over as managing director. We are now fully geared-up in our mission to make AMEL India’s leading Media-Entertainment Tech enterprise,” said Kalra.

  • NewsPoint launches a reward program ‘NewsPoint Tokens’ for its users

    NewsPoint launches a reward program ‘NewsPoint Tokens’ for its users

    New Delhi: Keeping in line with its promise of providing a delightful experience to its consumers, Times Internet's multilingual information & engagement platform, NewsPoint today announced the launch of an unique customer gratification programme. Newspoint Tokens is a virtual currency powered by TimesPoints, that users can redeem for exciting offers at several brand partners including Amazon Pay, BookMyShow, Paytm Travel, ixigo, Myntra, Dineout, Gaana and TimesPrime among others. The reward program will soon add more exciting offers and benefits to its fold.

    With a wide variety of services available for redemption, NewsPoint Tokens aims to build more consumer loyalty while adding additional engagement layers to the app.

    “We are delighted to announce the launch of NewsPoint Tokens. The program seamlessly  integrates with the core experience of the NewsPoint app.  Users earn tokens as they read stories and /or watch videos. Further, bonus tokens are awarded for our most loyal users who use the app daily for 7 days or more ” said Ruchir Khanna, Product Head, NewsPoint.

    This is in line with our aim to drive engagement and consumer loyalty. Over the last one year, Newspoint has witnessed already 5X growth in users and hopefully consumer gratification will allow us to not only keep the reader constantly engage but also provide a wow experience across the NewsPoint platforms” said Ruchir Khanna,Product Head,NewsPoint.