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User Generated Content In India: Its Evolution & Opportunities

bgmahesh — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:43:56 +0000

On November 16, 2011 VCCircle had organized an event “VCCircle Digital Content & Investment Forum 2011” in Bangalore. I was asked to moderation a session on User Generated Content. The panelists were,

Oneindia is India’s second most popular Local News Destination amongst NRIs: Comscore

bgmahesh — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:11:27 +0000

The latest comscore press release “India’s Local News Destinations See Visitors from Outside of the Country Account for a Significant Share of their Global Audience” talks about the traffic the popular Indian sites are getting from outside India (safe to assume most of the users from outside India are NRIs).

When will online journalists in India get free housing and awards?

bgmahesh — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:40:18 +0000

The print and TV media in India are no doubt the hot favorites of the governments in India (Central/Federal & State) and the politicians. The government spends sizable amounts of money on the already cash rich newspapers. Most of us in the internet industry have waited to get a piece of that pie (however small is fine, we need a beginning). Few months ago DAVP invited internet portals to submit their credentials to be eligible for advertisements from Govt of India.

Not just politicians, now offline & online stores after non-metros, villages of India

bgmahesh — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:03:50 +0000

Our politicians often claim “I am a poor farmer”, other than owning farm lands not sure how many of them have ever done real farming.

Indian retail industry is about $43,500 crore, will grow to $84,000 crore by 2015 (Pitch Magazine, March 2011 issue). Offline retail stores like Marks & Spencer, which has an ‘unaffordable tag’, has been struggling to make its presence felt in India. Marks & Spencer is now planning on expanding to non-metros, Tier-2 towns. The ambiance of the stores in the small towns will be the same as their stores in metros.

Only 2% of radio stations are dedicated to news

bgmahesh — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:04:01 +0000

As kids we grew up listening to just one radio station – All India Radio. The tone of every news bulletin, every jockey was the same – monotonous. It wasn’t even clear if the news item was good news or bad news.

Huffington Post acquisition – is Content King again?

bgmahesh — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:26:10 +0000

Since early days of the internet one of the most often used terms is – Content Is King. Good content will always have value or rather it will finally get its value. The Huffington Post acquisition by AOL showed good content has value.

Happy Birthday Oneindia.in! We are 5 years young now!

bgmahesh — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:45:47 +0000

Oneindia.in started its operations on January 1, 2006. We are 5 years young today. The year 2010 was very eventful for us. Thanks to the support from our loyal readers and advertisers, without which we couldn’t have been what we are today.

Wikipedia meetup in Bangalore, my first one

bgmahesh — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:29:20 +0000

I attended Wikipedia Meetup Bangalore 23 today. It was for the first time I ever attended such a meet up.It is held every 2nd Sunday of the month. No excuse for not attending it as it is very near my house (it could interrupt the Sunday afternoon nap though!)

Groupon fills a huge gap for Gap, rakes in $11m

bgmahesh — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:11:47 +0000

Most of you must have read about the best day for the group buying site Groupon had since inception. They raked in $11m in a single day for Gap. Gap is regarded as a very good apparel brand, have used it personally, very good brand.

Localisation is the order of the day on the internet

bgmahesh — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:55:09 +0000

We had written this article in April/May 2010 for the Pitch magazine. This article was published in July 2010 edition, got to read it only today. Reproducing the text version of that article here..