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ZEE5 makes user registration mandatory to augment segmentation and targeting capabilities
KOLKATA: ZEE5 today announced its plans to enrich its audience data by building quality and diverse audience clusters with engagement capabilities in a cookie less world. The ConTech platform takes a strategic step towards making ‘user registration mandatory’ and thus augmenting astute audience segmentation and targeting capability.
Brands are slowly shifting their marketing budgets to digital platforms as the digital medium becomes all pervasive and consumers increase time spent on this medium. Taking cue from that, ZEE5 with its futuristic Ad:tech construct, promises to build rich customer profiles, serve hyper-personalised content recommendations and ad targeting, based on the holistic personas of these customers to improve experiences and deliver precise targeting for advertisers in a brand safe environment.
ZEE5 India expansion projects business head and product head Rajneel Kumar said, “Data enrichment is the way forward. We are cognizant of the cookie less future and want to reduce dependencies on using third party data significantly. Rise of a new data-driven world, addressable, accountable and increasingly automated is upon us, and brands are longing to create more individualized experiences that can tap into the targeting and personalisation capabilities available within the digital video realm. With a robust Ad:tech architecture at play, we want to empower the advertiser to do end to end optimisation on the back of cutting-edge technology coupled with ZEE5’s massive reach and rich consumer profiles.”
ZEE5’s indigenous CDP platform ‘Infonomix’, a key offering from ZEE5 Ads, will allow brands to leverage the flexibility and the prowess of Ad Suite to target precisely and harness segmentation for very measurable results. The convergence of data from various sources including, social data from the recently launched HiPi – a short video platform, will allow Infonomix to not only power the content discovery on the platform but also support CLM team to devise a personalised push notification strategy.
With the uncertainty on when the lockdown will end, ZEE5, India’s Entertainment Super-app foresees not only increased consumption from existing customers but also many new customers joining the platform for the first time in the coming months. ZEE5 aims to ramp up their content strategy but also, their consumer insight data points for hyper-accurate and hyper-relevant content and ad optimization.
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X launches XChat messaging app on iOS with calls and encryption
Standalone app marks shift from “everything app” vision, adds E2E messaging.
MUMBAI: From one big app to many small chats, X seems to be splitting its ambitions. X has rolled out its standalone messaging app, XChat, to iOS users, opening up a new front in its evolving product strategy. The app allows users to connect with existing X contacts through private and group messages, file sharing, as well as audio and video calls. The launch follows a limited beta phase, where the platform tested the product with a smaller user base to refine the experience. Now available publicly, XChat marks a notable pivot from earlier ambitions championed by Elon Musk to turn X into a single “everything app” combining messaging, payments, commerce and more.
Instead, the company under xAI ownership and backed by SpaceX appears to be building a suite of standalone applications, each targeting specific use cases while expanding its broader ecosystem.
At launch, XChat includes end-to-end encrypted messaging, PIN-based access, disappearing messages, and features such as message editing, deletion for all participants, and screenshot blocking. The company has also said the app is free from advertisements and tracking mechanisms, positioning it as a privacy-first alternative in a crowded messaging space.
However, security claims around the platform are likely to face scrutiny. Earlier iterations of XChat drew criticism from experts who argued it fell short of established encrypted platforms like Signal. With the wider rollout, the app is expected to undergo fresh evaluation to assess whether those concerns have been addressed.
Beyond messaging, XChat will also house X’s Communities feature, which is being discontinued on the main platform due to low usage and spam concerns. Migrating these users could provide an early boost to adoption, effectively turning XChat into both a communication and community hub.
The move underscores a broader recalibration at X less about cramming everything into one app, and more about spreading bets across multiple touchpoints, one message at a time.
