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Ventes Avenues strengthens its senior management team
MUMBAI: Mobile media company Ventes Avenues has strengthened its senior management with the appointment of two senior executives across its different verticals of branding, performance and programmatic.
Sneha Gupta has joined as the AVP for its Domestic Performance & Programmatic business. This comes at a time when the company is at an interesting juncture; with the launch its own Programmatic Platform. Sneha comes with more than a decade’s experience in digital marketing, media planning and digital publisher sales. She understands the power of audience data and usage of analytical tools. “I'm very excited to join the Ventes Avenues family and embark upon my new role. With the advent of programmatic at Ventes, I look forward to stronger alliances within the digital ecosystem. Having said this, our core focus will be on advertiser needs bundled with audience, data, and analytics, leading to building long term sustainable growth for the company,” says Sneha
In the West, Pooja Bhate has been hired as Deputy Head – Sales & Business Development. A digital native with over twelve years of experience in digital marketing and media sales, Pooja will be responsible for revenue generation from clients and agency partners based in West India for all the new publishers mandate Ventes has recently signed up. This appointment comes at the advent of Ventes Avenues partnering with VidMate and Bigo. “In this digital era, there are many platforms with variety of curated content being served to a consumer today; what stands apart is that Ventes has a distinct way of connecting with the right target audience for brands, paving the way to create a new chapter in mobile advertising. I’m thrilled with this opportunity to make brands leverage a disruptive model of reaching out to their target audience better than ever,” Says Pooja.
Ventes Avenues CEO & founder Niloufer Dundh said: “Ventes is honouring its promise to new recruits, and has gone ahead and onboarded Sneha and Pooja. With our evolution into an Adtech company, Sneha’s joining is timed perfectly and I look forward to learning from her experience and to working closely with her on our programmatic foray. Keeping in mind our new branding publisher partners and our commitments to them we have Pooja who will lead a separate pod for the same in the West to ensure business commitments are met. I look forward to growing our brandings sales revenue with Pooja; especially since our new publishers have created a unique opportunity for us to seek better extraction from
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Ad:tech honours 2026: Full list of winners announced
Expanded awards spotlight winners across 22 categories as industry doubles down on intelligent automation
NEW DELHI: Marketing’s tech elite took the spotlight as the ad:tech honours 2026 returned with a sharper focus on AI, data and immersive media, signalling how deeply technology now underpins brand strategy. Held at Yashobhoomi on March 17, the second edition drew industry leaders to celebrate innovation that is reshaping engagement and performance.
Presented with the International Advertising Association India chapter and new partner Huella, the awards expanded from 8 to 22 categories, tracking the rapid convergence of creativity, automation and analytics.
The winners’ list reads like a snapshot of marketing’s future. In affiliate and partner marketing, Lyxel & Flamingo – Boat and Paytm Ads – Giva took silver. Mobavenue Media Private Limited struck gold in AI-driven dynamic creative optimisation, alongside a silver for Laqshya Media Limited.
Creative AI collaboration saw Rediffusion Brand Solutions Private Limited win gold, with Saltinc Consulting Private Limited securing silver. Laqshya Media Limited continued its strong run, taking gold in AI conversation agents and adding multiple wins across categories, including silver in GenAI-led creative and both gold and silver in interactive DOOH campaigns for Tanishq and Tata Coffee.
Predictive AI honours went to Strong Metrics and Tyroo, both silver, while Orient Bell Limited picked up silver in immersive retail tech. In GenAI-led creative, Laqshya Media Limited, Salt – Kotak and Sumimoto each secured silver, reflecting the crowded race in generative creativity.
Publicis bagged silver in influencer management and gold in performance marketing, where it shared the stage with Arm Worldwide and The Trade Desk, both silver. Glad U Came Private Limited stood out with gold in influencer measurement and analytics.
Marketing automation saw CereOne Media Pvt. Ltd. and Globale Media win silver, while ADMOTT Private Limited claimed silver in OTT innovation.
Programmatic media categories highlighted the shift to advanced targeting and connected screens. Mobavenue Media Private Limited clinched gold in connected TV advertising, with Animmoov Digital Media Pvt Ltd – Asus and Lyxel and Flamingo taking silver. Cheggout Services Private Limited won silver in retail media advertising, while Paytm Ads – Versuni secured gold.
On social platforms, Vayner Media India took gold in community and UGC engagement, with Under 25 – Oppo winning silver. Segumento rounded off the list with silver in the innovation category.
Jaswant Singh, country managing director at ad:tech India, underscored the momentum, saying generative AI and data-driven decision-making are now central to marketing impact. Neena Dasgupta, IAA mancom member and chief executive and founder at The Salt Inc Consulting, added that the awards celebrate not just technology, but “the people, the creativity, and the relentless effort behind it.”
Backed by Comexposium Group, ad:tech New Delhi has long tracked digital disruption. Now, with the honours, it is rewarding those who are not just adapting to change but engineering it.
In an industry racing towards automation, the message from 2026 is unmistakable. The future of marketing will be written not just in ideas, but in algorithms.
