Times Internet Ltd. (TIL) has once again proved itself as the leading player in the Indian online space. As per the latest comScore data, released for August 2010 for India, Times Internet Limited is the leading Indian internet network, in India. Times Internet limited is ahead of other internet networks like Rediff and Web 18, and comes overall seventh in India, behind networks like Google and Facebook.
Amongst the general English newspaper portals, timesofindia.com tops the chart with significant margin. timesofindia.com had 4.92 million unique visitors, while expressindia.com was at 0.95 million, followed by hindustantimes.com at 0.8 million. The 4.92 million unique visitors make 18 million visits to the site in a month, resulting in 127 million pageviews. These page views and visits numbers, are larger than any single news portal in India. Amongst the financial newspaper portals, economictimes.com remains the leader with 1.13 million unique visitors in India. In the segment of key auto portals, zigwheel.com, has emerged with maximum unique visitors in India with 1.02 million unique visitors, ahead of carwale.com at 0.85 million and gaadi.com at 0.64 million, as per comScore Aug’10 India data.
As per comScore world wide release for August, 2010, TIL stands at 15.8 million unique visitors, with timesofindia.com at 8.3 million, economictimes.com at 1.67 million and zigwheels at 1.1 milion unique visitors.
Commenting on the results Mr. Rishi Khiani, CEO, Times Internet Limited said, “We are very happy with the results. It shows that our continuous efforts to bring innovation and better value proposition are well accepted by the internet audience.”
About Times Internet Limited
Times Internet Limited is a subsidiary of The Times of India Group, the largest media company in India. Driven by its flagship brand Times of India, it has established dominant presences in Print, TV, Radio, Magazines, and Out-of-Home. Times Internet operates the Indiatimes Network, which is the leading online portal for Indians globally. For more information, visit www.indiatimes.com
Instamedia closes $4 Million Series A investment from The Times of India Group
Shimla, India (8th September, 2010) – Instamedia Network, the web's leading content network and creator of Software as a Service (SaaS) based content platform, Instapress, announced today that it has secured $4 Million in Series A funding from Times Internet Limited, a subsidiary of The Times of India Group. It comes after a year of considerable growth in audience, technology, and revenue. The proceeds of the strategic investment will help grow the company's network of writers and accelerate its technology platform development. The company also plans to launch local sites, targeting the European and US audiences, which already today drive over 60% of their traffic.
Instamedia has been at the forefront of the new media revolution by constantly evolving to match today’s substantial shift in content creation. The network runs some of the fastest growing Internet sites in verticals like lifestyle, green living and technology. In addition, its popular citizen journalism platform Instablogs has over 4 million monthly unique visitors. Together, these fifteen sites drive an affluent and passionate community and offer advertisers a great way to connect with their audience.
The in-house proprietary platform Instapress, which drives accountable and measured return on its content without compromising quality, has been one of the key drivers of its growth. Instapress implements efficient workflows to streamline collaboration between various content contributors, with objective measurement tools to track effectiveness.
The company is also launching its fully hosted content solution, called Instapress Content Server (ICS), which will allow other media networks to use the technology to drive greater ROI and performance from existing content production teams. Instapress currently powers a few popular sites of one of the India’s top media & entertainment companies.
“We are excited at the opportunity to help new, emerging media companies develop their businesses and grow the space. The entire Instamedia team has amazed us with their drive, creativity, and clarity, and we are confident that they will continue to create a large presence in the digital content ecosystem globally,” said Satyan Gajwani, Director of Business Development, Times of India Group.
“The Times Group will be a great long-term, strategic partner. They understand this space very well and bring a lot of experience and expertise to the table. We are also honored to have Satyan Gajwani join our Board of Directors. It will be a challenge for us to meet his energy and passion,” said Ankit Maheshwari, CEO and co-founder of Instamedia network.
Instamedia has recently opened its second office in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, as they scale up operations.
About Instamedia
Instamedia is a leading content network publishing over fifteen sites in niche verticals. It is also an end-to-end provider of online media production and distribution solution for media houses through its SaaS based cloud service, Instapress. For more information, visit www.instamedia.com
About Times Internet Limited
Times Internet Limited is a subsidiary of The Times of India Group, the largest media company in India. Driven by its flagship brand Times of India, it has established dominant presences in Print, TV, Radio, Magazines, and Out-of-Home. Times Internet operates the Indiatimes Network, which is the leading online portal for Indians globally. For more information, visit www.indiatimes.com
Instamedia has been at the forefront of the new media revolution by constantly evolving to match today’s substantial shift in content creation. The network runs some of the fastest growing Internet sites in verticals like lifestyle, green living and technology. In addition, its popular citizen journalism platform Instablogs has over 4 million monthly unique visitors. Together, these fifteen sites drive an affluent and passionate community and offer advertisers a great way to connect with their audience.
The in-house proprietary platform Instapress, which drives accountable and measured return on its content without compromising quality, has been one of the key drivers of its growth. Instapress implements efficient workflows to streamline collaboration between various content contributors, with objective measurement tools to track effectiveness.
The company is also launching its fully hosted content solution, called Instapress Content Server (ICS), which will allow other media networks to use the technology to drive greater ROI and performance from existing content production teams. Instapress currently powers a few popular sites of one of the India’s top media & entertainment companies.
“We are excited at the opportunity to help new, emerging media companies develop their businesses and grow the space. The entire Instamedia team has amazed us with their drive, creativity, and clarity, and we are confident that they will continue to create a large presence in the digital content ecosystem globally,” said Satyan Gajwani, Director of Business Development, Times of India Group.
“The Times Group will be a great long-term, strategic partner. They understand this space very well and bring a lot of experience and expertise to the table. We are also honored to have Satyan Gajwani join our Board of Directors. It will be a challenge for us to meet his energy and passion,” said Ankit Maheshwari, CEO and co-founder of Instamedia network.
Instamedia has recently opened its second office in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, as they scale up operations.
About Instamedia
Instamedia is a leading content network publishing over fifteen sites in niche verticals. It is also an end-to-end provider of online media production and distribution solution for media houses through its SaaS based cloud service, Instapress. For more information, visit www.instamedia.com
About Times Internet Limited
Times Internet Limited is a subsidiary of The Times of India Group, the largest media company in India. Driven by its flagship brand Times of India, it has established dominant presences in Print, TV, Radio, Magazines, and Out-of-Home. Times Internet operates the Indiatimes Network, which is the leading online portal for Indians globally. For more information, visit www.indiatimes.com
TAN adds the TV Today Group, Star News, Star Ananda and Star Majha to Live.Indiatimes.com
Times Audience Network (TAN), the digital video arm of the Times Group, re-launched the new design of Live.Indiatimes.com on Friday on-stage with Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft and Rishi Khiani, CEO, Times Internet Limited.
Live has now added Aaj Tak, Star News, Headlines Today, Star Ananda and Star Majha to its existing reportoire of channels live-streamed on the web.
The new design, which incorporates related on-demand videos, a full EPG and social media integration with Facebook and Twitter, crafts an un-paralleled viewing experience. Users can now watch India's premium TV channels in a single window, getting access to the best of Hindi and regional language entertainment besides news in English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali & Business news.
Rishi Khiani, CEO, Times Internet Limited, said: "This is by far the best entertainment product released in the Indian web space. We have and will continue to innovate on product to make this the foremost destination for Indians and the diaspora to consume premium video content on web and mobile."
Ramakrishnan Laxman, Head - Digital, MCCS said: "Very rarely does a product blend the best of technology, content, distribution and scale. TAN provides a great turnkey solution for distributing and monetizing our live videos by combining genre leaders like Star News in front of relevant audiences like those on NavbharatTimes.com."
Like in it's previous avtaar, Indiatimes has teamed with Microsoft to re-tool the video player using the Silverlight 4.0. Sanjay Sinha, Enterprise Evangelism Director, Microsoft said "Silverlight is a powerful platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline. We are thrilled to be working with an innovative partner like Indiatimes to bring LIVE broadcast of TV channels to the Indian internet Audience using Silverlight.”
To watch Times Now, Star News, Aaj Tak, India TV, Headlines Today, ET Now, Zoom, Star Ananda and Star Majha, log on to Live.Indiatimes.com.
Live has now added Aaj Tak, Star News, Headlines Today, Star Ananda and Star Majha to its existing reportoire of channels live-streamed on the web.
The new design, which incorporates related on-demand videos, a full EPG and social media integration with Facebook and Twitter, crafts an un-paralleled viewing experience. Users can now watch India's premium TV channels in a single window, getting access to the best of Hindi and regional language entertainment besides news in English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali & Business news.
Rishi Khiani, CEO, Times Internet Limited, said: "This is by far the best entertainment product released in the Indian web space. We have and will continue to innovate on product to make this the foremost destination for Indians and the diaspora to consume premium video content on web and mobile."
Ramakrishnan Laxman, Head - Digital, MCCS said: "Very rarely does a product blend the best of technology, content, distribution and scale. TAN provides a great turnkey solution for distributing and monetizing our live videos by combining genre leaders like Star News in front of relevant audiences like those on NavbharatTimes.com."
Like in it's previous avtaar, Indiatimes has teamed with Microsoft to re-tool the video player using the Silverlight 4.0. Sanjay Sinha, Enterprise Evangelism Director, Microsoft said "Silverlight is a powerful platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline. We are thrilled to be working with an innovative partner like Indiatimes to bring LIVE broadcast of TV channels to the Indian internet Audience using Silverlight.”
To watch Times Now, Star News, Aaj Tak, India TV, Headlines Today, ET Now, Zoom, Star Ananda and Star Majha, log on to Live.Indiatimes.com.
Indiatimes (58888) Acquires Aananda Audio Video Digital Music Rights
Close on the heels of Indiatimes’ recent strides in the Mobile music arena comes a significant content acquisition alliance with Aananda Audio Video (AAV), the largest music label in Karnataka. With this move, Indiatimes (58888), a division of Times Internet Limited (TIL), has increased its market share to more than 60% of the Kannada mobile music downloads. Karnataka is the largest regional market in mobile music monetization. This marks a significant step towards TIL's evolution into a major digital music rights manager.
According to TIL CEO Rishi Khiani, “With this recent alliance with AAV, we are expanding our footprint in the mobile music segment, and we will continue to do so going forward. This is a core element of our strategy to grow in the digital entertainment segment. You can expect more to come from 58888,” he added.
“Changing trends in the mobile music business gives us fillip to join hands with an experienced and India’s largest media conglomerate - the Times Group. We are entering into a pact, with an objective of providing quality mobile music and leveraging our partner’s experience in monetization and massive marketing strength,” says Mr. Mohan Chabria, Managing Director of Aananda Audio Video..
About Times Internet Limited:
Times Internet Limited (TIL) is the Internet and Mobile venture of India’s largest media house – the Times Group. Times Internet Network generates over 400mn pageviews per month through their flagship portal Indiatimes.com. In the mobile space, Indiatimes 58888 is the largest direct-to-consumer SMS and IVR shortcode, accessed by over 50mn consumers across all telecom operators in India. 58888 offers VAS services such as news, bollywood gossip, cricket scores, astro information, and a host of other fun, easy-to-use mobile applications.
About Aananda Audio Video (AAV)
AAV, the brainchild of Mr. Mohan Hariram Chabria, has been in the trade since 1999. Currently, AAV boasts of 4000 Kannada film songs, devotional songs and popular music. Besides acquiring audio rights for music, AAV has also produced films, TV soaps and serials and helped corporate and MNCs build their ad campaigns. AAV’s 300-strong dealer networks across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Bombay include leading retail chains like Big Bazaar, Landmark, Music World, Temptation M and Planet M.
According to TIL CEO Rishi Khiani, “With this recent alliance with AAV, we are expanding our footprint in the mobile music segment, and we will continue to do so going forward. This is a core element of our strategy to grow in the digital entertainment segment. You can expect more to come from 58888,” he added.
“Changing trends in the mobile music business gives us fillip to join hands with an experienced and India’s largest media conglomerate - the Times Group. We are entering into a pact, with an objective of providing quality mobile music and leveraging our partner’s experience in monetization and massive marketing strength,” says Mr. Mohan Chabria, Managing Director of Aananda Audio Video..
About Times Internet Limited:
Times Internet Limited (TIL) is the Internet and Mobile venture of India’s largest media house – the Times Group. Times Internet Network generates over 400mn pageviews per month through their flagship portal Indiatimes.com. In the mobile space, Indiatimes 58888 is the largest direct-to-consumer SMS and IVR shortcode, accessed by over 50mn consumers across all telecom operators in India. 58888 offers VAS services such as news, bollywood gossip, cricket scores, astro information, and a host of other fun, easy-to-use mobile applications.
About Aananda Audio Video (AAV)
AAV, the brainchild of Mr. Mohan Hariram Chabria, has been in the trade since 1999. Currently, AAV boasts of 4000 Kannada film songs, devotional songs and popular music. Besides acquiring audio rights for music, AAV has also produced films, TV soaps and serials and helped corporate and MNCs build their ad campaigns. AAV’s 300-strong dealer networks across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Bombay include leading retail chains like Big Bazaar, Landmark, Music World, Temptation M and Planet M.
Groove to your favourite Bollywood tracks at the tip of your fingers with ZoOm Box
ZoOm India’s hottest destination for Bollywood content has taken a step further in reaching out to its audience with the launch of its latest initiative- ZoOm Box. This video jukebox is an interactive music show wherein viewers can choose their favorite song simply by sendin an SMS to the number provided i.e. 58888 powered by indiatimes. The viewers can also comment on the songs and even dedicate a song through the channel
In the show, ZoOmbox, which will be aired every monday to sunday 11am to 12 noon, audience can vote for their favourite movie songs and the song that receives the maximum votes will be played on ZoOm. There will be contests in which the person who sends the maximum votes in an hour gets the ‘gift of the day’ courtesy ZoOm and to add to the excitement, the name of the winner will be displayed on the screen.
Commenting on the channel’s latest initiative, Bala Iyengar, Business Head, Zoom said, “We are quite excited to announce the launch of ZoOm Box. This latest show from ZoOm is all set to cater to audiences who are constantly looking out for instant entertainment. This show format is created keeping in mind the need to interact more with the viewers and provide them with their favourite Bollywood content.”
“The launch of ZoOm Box is focused at serving the growing consumption of video entertainment via tele devices amongst the youth in India. This service will enable users to listen and comment on their favourite songs of Tinsel Town and enjoy Bollywood even while on the go” added Rishi Khiani, Chief Executive Officer, Times Internet Limited.
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