Vivek Malhotra

CEO

Delhi, India22 yrs 3 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led successful launch of INDIA TODAY TV.
  • Pioneered innovative marketing strategies in media.
  • Extensive experience across digital and traditional media.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media and Marketing Executive with extensive experience in digital transformation and brand management.

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Skills

Core Skills

MarketingDigital TransformationBrand ManagementMedia PlanningEvent ManagementPublic RelationsDigital MarketingInnovation

Other Skills

Advertising SalesArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataBrand LaunchBusiness AlliancesContent StrategyCustomer Acquisition StrategiesCustomer EngagementData AnalyticsData ScienceData-driven Decision MakingDigital StrategyDirect MarketingMachine LearningMarket Research

About

Hi, Cross Media Marketing, Analytics & weaving them to build compelling narratives has my strength thru my career. Having worked across digital, broadcast, publishing, social networks, gaming, AI & having served on boards,governing councils and tech comms of currencies and think tanks, I appreciate consumer and client needs fairly well. I have an exposure with global companies, building big media brands, demonstrating the sensibility to understand regional domains and have enjoyed bringing creative solns as breakthroughs. Would love to have a conversation through this platform with anyone who wants to be mentored or would wish to groom me. I currently lead the consumer revenue, mktg, strat planning, on air promo divisions across digital, TV and Print properties of the pioneering India Today Group. Also serving as the Chair of Digital Ad Committee at IAMAI, and as a board member on IRS, the largest continuous research study in the world, and a member of the Tech comm of world’s largest Audience Measurement currency (BARC). I additionally contribute as Co Chair, Branding & Mktg Council at ASSOCHAM and lead the AI Research Task Force. Have previously worked with India extensions of international brands like CNBC where I set up their Viewership Intelligence Unit ‘The Edge’. As the former mktg head of Bloomberg, was involved in the brand’s entry into the Indian TV space. Enjoyed hands on experience across all verticals of News namely Regional News, Eng Business, Hindi Bns, Eng Gen and Hindi Gen News. Have centrally led a marketing team of a 20 radio station network. Many Firsts that continue to excite me as memories • Introducing paywalls and micropayments and renewing focus on consumer revenues • Developing fused learning across YouTube,Twitter,Facebook,GA, comScore,AppsFlyer, Hasoffer,Similarweb,Clevertap,Crowdtangle & TV impressions as a One View mktg decision making framework • Launch of India’s 1st Connected Devices Stream and Digital First Video Destination for News • India’s No.1 Magazine’s Brand’s Extension into Television, India’s First national News Quiz, Performance Marketed Mass Hindi Culture Fest and have closely worked on some of India’s biggest IPs: India Today Conclave, Agenda Aaj Tak,Debt to Life series,safaigiri,AutocarAwards,globally acclaimed‘The Assignment’, The Pitch VC show, and variations of augmented reality. I hold Aajtak’s sponsorship of kingsXI IPL team close to me, TigerShroff’s launch of eSports League & remain obsessed with today’s influencers and online reputation and decoding consumer’s …and my own Life Time Value

Experience

India today

Group CMO & COO Strategy

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · India · On-site

Tv today

5 roles

Group CMO & COO(Consumer Revenue)|COO(Enterprise Strategy)

Oct 2024Aug 2025 · 10 mos

Group CMO (India Today Group) and COO Consumer Revenues

Jul 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

MarketingDigital TransformationP&L ManagementCustomer Acquisition StrategiesData Analytics

Group Chief Marketing Officer (INDIA TODAY Group)

Promoted

Apr 2016Jul 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • A Lifetime opportunity to work with the pioneering news network that was about to rescript a turnaround in leadership of the flagship brand Aaj tak, and a fast accelarating Headlines Today moving into a standalone business proposition eventually extending the Gold Standard INDIA TODAY to TV News.
  •  Brand Launch: Amongst the most successful launches of recent times- INDIA TODAY TV. A thorough immersion into the English News Viewer with Cholorophyll, aided with O&M Ideas and a behaviorally targeted Media Plan, the team made a no.5 leapvault into a no.1
  •  The Election Year: Studio on Wheels Election Express and 'Sach on Karo' set benchmarks. Traveling thousands of miles we made you matter in the year that celebrated Democracy. Scores of awards and an unmatched viewership made the success sweeter
  •  Innovation: Barfi Walkthrough, Chennai Express Aaj tak, Dilli Ke Dil Main Kya Hai Augmented Reality, LED embedded outdoors, LIVE interactive Rural Outreach were Industry Firsts
  •  Events: Hindi Jagat Ka Mahamanch AGENDA AAJ TAK, Sahitya Aaj Tak, Safaigiri and India Today Conclave
  •  Research : Eye Track for New On Air presentation, Music Testing, BARC Migration City Outreach and India Today Media Plan Conversion alongwith Digital Content Realtime View
  •  Buzz: Sachin Back on World Cup, Induction of Top Anchors, Radio Reality Contests
  •  Business: Profitability in Year 1 for Animation Division, And Carriage Reduction on Digitisation

VP Marketing, Strategic Planning and Research, On Air Promotion and Business Head Animation

Promoted

Jul 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

VP, Marketing, Research and Special Projects

Jan 2012Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Bloombergutv

Senior VP Marketing, PR and Research, BloombergUTV

Jan 2008Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

  • The responsibilities encompassed the process of conceiving, planning and executing the marketing mix for a newly launched media product UTV News. From thereon, the function has evolved with various facets of the news channel: Strategic roles played across Brand positioning and Communication, geographic reach and content TSV targeting, building advertiser value and focusing on competitive advantages in innovation. Later pursued a critical focus in brand transition to BloombergUTV. Broadly the separate operational points of performance include:
  •  Brand Establishment : Isolating brand idea, Tie ups, Advertising and branding, Public relations, Activating viewer communities, Social media usage and Public relations and development of marquee properties of Pitch and Assignment
  •  Trade and Industrial Engagement: Development of product ideas, managing customer relationships, merchandising, direct mailers and other tangibles, building Case studies and demonstrations
  •  Event Organisation: Audience Management, Venue and Set Up Designs, Broadcast and Production schedules, Concept generation and format selections
  •  Research, Corporate and Business Support : Viewership analysis, Distribution Planning and Prioritization, Finding sustainable competitive advantage, Market gauging and Target Setting, Growth plans and Investor updates, Competition tracks, Market monitoring and Promo planning
  •  Alliances, Barters and fostering inter media relationships
  •  Social Media and Collaborative Brand development

Star news

Head Marketing Services

Jan 2007Jan 2008 · 1 yr

  • A union of insight generation and freedom of its application could best summarize the role. Starting with just a small thought, this team is now supporting sales revenues and relationships, building sustainable competitive edges in terms of non inventory properties and empowering the programming with focused information.
  •  Reconfiguring spends to ROI for clients and developing a secondary target communication.
  •  Realigning IT and graphics support to institutionalise creative deliveries
  •  Entry into new business platforms like mobile and licensing
  •  Strategy, Market monitoring and TAM based data usage
  • Some Measurables
  •  The most successful client engagement meet in Delhi
  •  SMS integration on Gujarat Elections
  •  Reformatting and propelling research efforts
  •  Competition Revenue and Viewership Tracks
  •  Emerging Returns on Innovation
  •  101 Markets with STAR Majha
  •  Movie tie ups

Cnbc tv18

Revenue Planning and Strategy

Jan 2003Jan 2007 · 4 yrs

  • Recruited on a fairly undefined function of bolstering sales revenues, the role steadily became integral to our competitive edge at TV18, the fundamental result areas being internally to empower the Sales team with information/insights and externally to join the league of Best Consumer Innovation and client aligned teams. The role then on had steadily expanded to involvement in strategy and charting revenue plus marketing roadmaps
  •  Partnered with internal creative resources in ‘THE CELL’ to develop communications
  •  Assisted in the market sensitisation following the launch of CNBC Universe – India’s biggest integrated Business platform
  •  Vital requisites for the profile
  • o INFORMATION
  • o INNOVATION
  • o INITIATIVE-Since the boundaries of such a profile are not even close to being completely explored by the industry, the usefulness lied in inventing newer methods- methods that could lead to quantum leaps
  • Other Meaningful Work
  •  Understanding the Drivers of Viewership (Niche Channels)
  •  Superior targeting on Connectivity aims and correlations with Reach
  •  Estimating Industry size – News and reasons for Premium on such viewership
  •  Initiated Competition Revenue Tracks
  •  Built an independent team for research and innovation
  •  Expanding integration to new channels and the internet
  •  Boosted customer response to events like the Union Budget
  •  Explored the possibilities for regional variants in News Channels

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