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Top platforms that are changing the social media landscape in India

Mar 17, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Bolo Indya, #ChekMarc, #Do Your Thng, #NOFILTR

A decade earlier, people were not able to socialize and connect much with each other owing to the limited options and occasions for having a get-together. However, in the present times, people have abundant information, ranging from news to promotional videos. It is available at their fingertips and this makes them actively engage with each other all thanks to the availability and accessibility of social media and the internet.

The users don’t just share information but are also well-informed about each other’s activities, life updates, and whereabouts, thanks to the reach of social media. In the midst of the ever-increasing competition, social media platforms are revamping their strategies and features to meet the growing needs of the users.

They work with an aim to connect individuals and cater to their needs & interests in various fields like acting, dancing, influencing, matchmaking, interacting, presenting, cooking & so on. Amidst the increasing inclination towards social platforms, the social media landscape in India is undergoing rapid transformation with the changing times.

Have a glimpse at the top emerging platforms that are revamping the social media space in India-

  1. ChekMarc: ChekMarc is a first of its kind global, social community that connects people one on one in a positive way to help each other accomplish something. Connections are private and more safe, without the worry of negative comments or responses. Anyone, anywhere in the world (over the age of 18) who is looking for guidance or would like to help others can use ChekMarc and it is accessible in over 35 languages ranging from English, to Italian, French, to German, to Japanese and Korean.

The platform has recently launched in India and works at a global level. In the initial stage, the platform will be functional in three languages in the country including Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali. It will be accessible to Indian members via both the website and application version and will be available on both the iOS and Android operating systems.

  1. NOFILTR: NOFILTR is a social media label that primarily incubates young talent by giving them creative and resourceful direction. They establish collaborations between influencers and brands and desire to create a network that facilitates personal expression and intriguing content.

NOFILTR connects the brand to the influencer, and the influencer to the world at large by offering a wide array of services ranging from personal branding, content creation, and curation, influencer marketing, and brand collaborations, campaign design along with campaign execution and analysis. With a resource pool of 50 influencers on board exclusively working with NOFILTR Group, some of the famous artists they have groomed are Mrunu, Ashi Khanna, ManavChhabra, AwezDarbar, Nagma, etc.

  1. Bolo Indya: Bolo Indya is a short-form infotainment video network that has the unique potential to help its creators monetize their content through the Bolo Indya network that opens infinite revenue opportunities for them. The platform experienced a steady 8x growth within 18 months of its launch along with a retention rate of 80 percent for creators due to this unique bid. The platform now has more than 65 lakhs monthly android and iOS users, aged 18-30 and rising in more than 14 languages at a rate of 4x. The platform frequently collaborates with over 75 brands during the festive season with a mission to empower them and increase their brand value. The partnership usually happens in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and English languages, with its strong influencers.
  1. Do Your Thng– This is one of the leading content creation apps in India. It facilitates collaboration between brands and creators and provides them a platform to interact, promote their products and create aesthetic posts. The brand aims to drive the creators to pursue their passion that is creating and posting content. The unique bit about the platform is that all kinds of users can post their original content on the app. Be it amateurs, a common social media user, or an influencer, everyone has the opportunity to join the community and start creating content.

The brand gives the creator the flexibility to choose from various campaigns and they will be doing what they love, that is creating their original yet artsy content. Eventually, they are rewarded via cash or kind once their content gets approved if adhering to the guidelines. Offering such creative and communicative activities at zero cost, this is one of the go-to apps for indulging in fruitful leisure time.

We hope your search for productive, creative, and unique social media platforms ends here! Happy scrolling and posting!

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Top 5 unique social platforms to watch out for 2021

Nov 19, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Aii Social, #Bolo Indya, #chingari, #Fun2, #Roposo, #social platforms

1. Fun2: A self-funded startup, it is a new-age video-sharing platform that’s made in India for Indian audiences and diaspora. It aims to deliver a world-class & intuitive social media platform for talented and creative people, where they can express themselves freely by creating and posting exciting videos. The platform also allows them to explore their art and craft, and help them realize their dream to become influencers.

Apart from non-stop entertainment, the viewers can also reap benefits by supporting their favourite creators or type of content. Doing so will help them build communities around their craft and thereby increase reach, influence & fan following continuously across India. In short, Fun2 aims to become an aspirational app to empower content creators and provide a boost to anyone who has the talent to show in a very simple and effective way. The platform is slated to become consumable as a non-stop entertainment option not only in India but in other countries as well, with an intent to retain the essence of India’s rich culture.

2. Aii Social: Aiisma, amongst the world’s first consumer to business data marketplaces, launched a pan India #mydatamyasset campaign alongside the launch of Aii.social. The futuristic social network application, available both on Google Play Store as well as Apple App Store, offers users to convert data, social engagement and brand interactions into rewards & payments whilst keeping privacy at the user’s discretion. Brands and influencers too benefit from the unique economic incentive offered to the users. The KYC feature of the platform prevents marketing budget leaks to the tune of up to 20% as it is commonly found in the adtech world.

While the app is released for individual users, Aiisma is also running a beta program for business, brand and influencer partners. The commercial partners benefit from Aii.Social via increased conversion of ads to sales, fair economics, reduced ad budget leakage and paywall features. Specifically, influencers can now avail royalty payments for usage of their content, host in-app releases, live appearances and more. Aiisma progressively intends to integrate more features to the platform such as AiiPay & AiiStore to make digital socializing, marketing and conversion processes seamless for users, brands and influencers.

3. Chingari: The app is founded by Bengaluru based programmers Biswatma Nayak and Siddharth Gautam in 2019. It allows users to download and upload videos, chat with friends, interact with new people and browse through the feed. Chingari also pays its users based on how viral the content creators video becomes. For each video a user uploads on the app, the content creator gets points per view and these points can be redeemed for money. The app is available in languages including English, Hindi, Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.

4. Roposo: Similar to TikTok, Roposo is a short-form video sharing platform owned by Glance Digital Experience Pvt Ltd. Created by 3 IIT Delhi alumni, Roposo brands itself as ‘Truly Swadeshi’ and available in 10 Indian languages. The first version of the app came out it 2014 as a fashion networking sight. Roposo later released version 2.0 and rebranded itself as ‘Roposo – TV by the people’. Post the Indian Government’s ban of TikTok, Roposo saw a huge spike is users, with its user base increasing by 22 million just 2 days after the ban. Another cool feature of the Roposo app is it allows it’s content creators to earn money (called Roposo coins) on the app basis their in-app activity. Roposo coins will have to be converted into Paytm cash in order to be redeemed.

5. Bolo Indya: Founded by Varun Saxena, Bolo Indya is a UGC short videos app, enabling users to create two-minute videos, sharing their knowledge, experience, and opinions across interest areas, and taking the videos to the local language audience who share similar interests. Additionally, top creators work closely with the Bolo Indya team on a revenue-sharing basis for brand partnerships and content marketing. Creators who are empanelled for this earn up to Rs 25,000-35,000 per month with these partnerships.

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Unlock 4.0: COVID-19 prompted startups & corporates to adopt a remote working culture till the end of the Year 2020

Aug 31, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #9Stacks, #Bolo Indya, #Founder of UDo, #Mr. Teja Gudluru, #Real Time Data Services, #remote wroking culture, #startups & corporates, #Suresh Kumar C

We are in August 2020 and there is no sight of relief against the COVID – 19 in the coming days. Although many companies have called off their employees back to work, it still pertains to huge risk to the health of the employees since the Active Cases are rapidly increasing as the days are passing. Moreover, they can also become carriers of the disease for their family members while returning back home. Even the government recently announced the guidelines for Unlock 4.0 in the country, there are a lot of organizations who are still continuing their policy of working from home till the end of the year 2020.

Before the pandemic, conventional wisdom had been that office was critical to productivity, culture, and winning the war for talent. Companies competed intensely for prime office space in major urban centres around the world, and many focused on solutions that were seen to promote collaboration. However, the pandemic has forced the adoption of new ways of working. Organizations must reimagine their work and the role of offices in creating safe, productive, and enjoyable jobs and lives for employees.

To cope up with this, here is a list of companies who have declared work from home for its employees till the end of the year 2020

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1)9Stacks – 9stacks is the best online gaming platform and chosen online gaming destination for new, as well as regular players in India to have fun, develop skills and win money. They have recently called up for complete work from home for all their employees until 31st Dec 2020. 9stacks is a professionally run Indian online poker platform and 100% legal in India. As a highly reliable, safe and trusted poker site in India, they process the fastest cashouts when you win money on 9stacks. Both the 9stacks website and the 9stacks app have an easy-to-use intuitive interface – and you can play online poker seamlessly, on your phone or computer; anytime, anywhere.

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2) Real-Time Data Services: Real-Time Data Services is a group of companies thriving in the domain of global information technology by serving clients in the field of Cloud Computing, Telecommunications and Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) since2010. During these pandemic times, they are helping employees in various ways. They are providing employees flexibility in timings while they are doing WFH. So that they can work anytime in a day – 40 hrs in a week – as they understand, they need to manage the home as well. They are also providing additional paid leaves to employees if anyone of them found COVID positive, apart from their leaves. They have also initiated a policy for the purchase of IT assets. If any employee needs IT equipment/hardware, he or she can purchase it online and get reimbursement from the company.

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3) Bolo Indya: Bolo Indya, a UGC short videos app has also come up with a new WFH model for all its employees even after lockdown ends. Bolo Indya has announced that a blanket ‘Work from Home’ the policy will be granted for rest of the team till 31st December 2020. The company follows a sports team culture at Bolo Indya, thus ensuring both the efficiency and holistic fitness of all our team members at all times. The company-wide motto is, “ESP – Execution, Speed, Perfection” trust the team members that they would not let anything compromise the company’s objectives and time-bound goals irrespective of working from office or home. Bolo Indya has continued its hiring activities and has aggressive hiring plans in the technology team across Android, AI and ML roles for which remote interactions with multiple potential rockstars is going on.

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4) UDo-now – Udo-now is an app which connects people with thousands of experts in 100 categories. A one-stop solution to all your problems. The company has recently announced complete work from home until further notice. When the world was laying off their employees and slashing out the salaries at the lockdown period, Mr. Teja Gudluru, Founder of UDo-now was encouraging his employees by reducing work hours and no deduction in salaries. They worked together and launched a few more features and products to provide the best services to their customers

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5) Vurum: Suresh Kumar C, Director of People Team at Vuram: The Company which provides hyper-automation services announced work from home since March 2020. The company is more focused on the well-being of its employees and provided all the facilities to keep them motivated and productive during the period of lockdown. Vuram had decided to keep the employees work from home till 31st January 2021 to ensure the safety of their employees. Vuram has also provided one day leave to their employees in which they are allowed to not work anything for office and spend their day complete with friends and family, so then they can refresh themselves and work again with more dedication and enthusiasm. Vuram organized virtual birthday parties, anniversaries during this period to help their employees feel like coming to the office daily and stay connected virtually as well.