Mumbai: Kartik Mehta moves out of Silverpush. Mehta was with the company for nearly seven years. In his capacity he led the company’s overall revenue and operations function.
During his tenure, Silverpush grew its business from India across to SEA, Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America.
Prior to Silverpush, Mehta worked with YouAppi (acquired by Affle) and Vserv.
MUMBAI: POKKT, India’s & SEA’s leading smartphone advertising platform for mobile games, has announced the appointment of Abdul Wahab as Vice President, Global Delivery Head. Abdul will be responsible for timely delivery of campaigns, optimizing cost, maintain KPIs towards the goals targeted, strengthening and exploring new partnerships with mobile game publishers. Abdul will report to POKKT’s COO & CO-founder, Vaibhav Odhekar.
“Abdul has vast experience in digital advertising operations, delivery and optimization will help the company scale newer heights. He will surely help us reinforce our leadership team and will strengthen POKKT’s position in the mobile video advertising space,” said Vaibhav Odhekar, COO & CO-founder of POKKT.
Abdul said, “My overall endeavour will be to establish POKKT as a global leader in mobile video ad space. Having worked in a start-up environment and with tech-based companies, I will also be looking at establishing strong relationships with our clients and partners, both existing and new.”
Abdul brings 13+ years of relevant industry experience to his new role having previously served as Senior Director-Supply and Delivery at C1 Exchange. He was handling the entire business operations from onboarding supply and programmatic delivery, for the US and APMEA region. He has also worked in leadership roles with several top companies like Vizury, Vserv, Ibibo and Zenith Optimedia. He has a complete understanding of the online advertising marketplace and has been a significant contributor to both business and technical aspects of ad Serving. His key accomplishments include delivering scale and value to the stakeholders.
MUMBAI: Smart data platform for mobile marketing in India and Southeast Asia – Vserv has forayed into the burgeoning commerce space.
In an industry-first move, Vserv will now provide an end-to-end solution for telcos and DTH operators, right from the discovery of customers to the transaction of services. This step will empower consumer-facing companies to utilize the combined power of Vserv Smart Data platform and commerce solution.
With this added capability, Vserv will enable telcos to promote segmented offers across data and voice. By driving these transactions, Vserv enhances average revenue per user (ARPU) for telcos. For DTH operators, this translates into selling segmented channel packs leading to a major jump in subscriptions and higher revenue.
Vserv co-founder and CEO Dippak Khurana said, “We saw the opportunity to redefine the relevance, simplicity and convenience of these services for the customer. Vserv’s massive reach of 120 million unique users in India combined with this commerce solution creates a disruptive development in the mobile Internet ecosystem. While our Smart Data platform is a revolutionary offering for mobile marketing, with our commerce solution, we now complete a user’s journey from intent to purchase. This unique proposition provides a powerful opportunity for consumer-facing companies, which are seeking to tap into the growing mobile Internet user base. We have always challenged the status quo and this offering is a gigantic leap towards bringing about a radical shift in the ecosystem.”
The Vserv commerce solution delivering relevance, simplicity and convenience works on a four- pronged approach of: discovery (identifying the right user with Vserv Smart Data), promotion (engaging the user with segmented offers), payment (enabling seamless transaction for the user) and activation (quick and easy activation of the service).
The total revenue of telco and DTH services in India stood at around $31 billion in 2014, and is currently growing at a rate of 10 per cent per annum. Within this, the share of digital commerce is close to 10 per cent and is expected to grow by 300 per cent in the next four years. This growth will be fuelled by the rapidly expanding Internet user base, which is expected to reach 500 million users by 2018, 80 per cent of which will be contributed by mobile users. With the largest mobile Internet user base in India and its unique proposition of enabling commerce for consumer-facing companies, Vserv is strategically positioned to capture a sizeable market share.
MUMBAI: Bee7, the android games monetization and user engagement platform, has formed a partnership with Vserv, the smart data platform for mobile marketing in India & Southeast Asia, to help solve mobile games monetization in these markets.
Until now, monetization in India and Southeast Asia has been notoriously difficult due to weak payment infrastructure and low credit card usage, which makes paying for games or in app purchases practically impossible.
The partnership creates a genuine avenue for developers across the globe to monetize their titles in these markets without disrupting the user experience, or charging for games and in-app bonuses. It combines Bee7’s unique game wall tool and Vserv’s app monetization solution – VMAX, thereby enabling developers to pull in demand from multiple channels using one single solution. This combined with Vserv’s large developer ecosystem of 150,000 apps and mobile sites from publishers such as Disney, EA, Games2Win, Reliance Games, ZeptoLab etc. gives developers a proven tool to increase user retention and yield optimization in a fragmented android dominated market.
Through this partnership, Bee7 and Vserv have unlocked a lucrative new market for developers. India’s smartphone adoption is growing rapidly and will be the world’s second largest smartphone market. It also ranked third for total downloads in Google Play for 2014, while mobile games revenue in Southeast Asia exceeded $1.1 billion last year.
Bee7 managing director John Rankin said, “As global CPI costs continue to soar, developers look to emerging markets as a new revenue opportunity to help make their games profitable. It’s been incredibly tough for developers to make money in these markets, until now. The Bee7 and Vserv partnership unlocks these markets for developers – arming them with a proven method to make money from games and improve player retention without disrupting the all important user experience.”
Vserv VP – global data and supply partnerships Prashant Dixit added, “Vserv’s latest offering, VMAX, is a trusted friend to game developers as it helps them maximize their yield. VMAX enables these incredible results by providing developers complete control, maximum demand channels and wide range of ad formats. Our partnership with Bee7 is a step further towards our commitment in solving monetization challenges for developers in India & Southeast Asia. By combining Bee7’s unique game wall tool with VMAX™, we are providing a powerful app monetization solution to our developer friends.”
Vserv and Bee7 will host events together to help grow the mobile games ecosystem and to share their knowledge of emerging markets, advertising tech, user acquisition, retention and monetization with developers.
MUMBAI: Yahoo! has forged a strategic alliance with Vserv.mobi, a leading global mobile ad network, to monetise Yahoo‘s premium mobile inventory in Southeast Asian including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Commenting on the partnership, Vserv.mobi VP – Business Development, Southeast Asia Vikas Gulati said, “Reflecting our strategic vision of enabling a win-win proposition for all our stake-holders, we believe that today‘s announcement will rake in lucrative benefits for both Yahoo! and the advertiser ecosystem.
“Being a premium digital publisher with a phenomenal number of loyal viewers, Yahoo will be able to effectively offer their mobile inventory to our wide advertiser base across Southeast Asia, while being able to monetise it with optimal yields within the region.”
Vserv.mobi CEO and co-founder Dippak Khurana further added, “With this partnership, our advertisers will be able to leverage the powerful combination of our network‘s superior audience targeting capabilities with Yahoo‘s premium inventory.”