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Vserv.mobi partners with Sony Music to monetize Coke Studio app
MUMBAI: Global mobile ad network Vserv.mobi has entered into an alliance with Sony Music Entertainment India to serve premium ads on the newly launched Coke Studio app. Powered by the company‘s flagship product, AppWrapper, this partnership will allow advertisers to reach out to key mobile consumers through high impact, full screen ads. The Coke Studio App is available on the Android Play Store.
AppWrapper technology supports varied ad formats that include video, interactive HTML5 and other Rich Media formats, to deliver impact and engagement with the brand message. The advertising enabled by the Vserv.mobi AppWrapper delivers full screen ads that are unmissable, uncluttered and yet delivered at performance pricing.
Vserv.mobi head – global marketing Binay Tiwari said, “As mobile becomes the primary screen for consumers, premium content will have to make the transition as well. Driven by the game changing potential of our AppWrapper, we are confident that we will be able help content owners & publishers make this transition quickly. We are pleased to partner with Sony Music in bringing the iconic Coke Studio music experience to consumers on Mobile. Brand advertisers will embrace this powerful union of premium content with impactful ads, which allows reaching the user everyday & everywhere.”
Ignitee Digital Services Ignitee Digital Services chief operating officer Ranjoy Dey said “With premium content like Coke Studio coming to mobile, our brands are now more eager than ever, to make mobile an integral part of their media mix! Maruti Suzuki has already signed up ‘Ritz‘ – its brand targeted towards young couples, for the Coke Studio property on Vserv.mobi network. The property is unique from a perspective that it delivers powerful impact, emotion & engagement of TV, while offering the reach & cost efficiency of the mobile media”
Sanujeet Bhujabal, Marketing Director, Sony Music Entertainment India added, “The launch of the Coke Studio app bears testimony to the growing attractiveness of the mobile medium. We believe that our alliance with Vserv.mobi will give us a chance to provide premium mobile content to millions of mobile consumers and grow our mobile revenue stream.”
The partnership will soon extend to other premium apps and content properties of Sony Music. Powered by the AppWrapper for monetization, it will allow premium advertising across various genres.
Launched by Sony Music, Coke Studio is a musical platform where celebrated as well as promising artists across genres collaborate, taking viewers through a captivating, melodic journey. In its second season now, the show recently launched its mobile app to make it a more personal on the go experience for music aficionados. Vserv.mobi‘s partnership with Coke Studio brings this app to users for free, powered by AppWrapper premium advertising. Ads are shown only at the start and exit, in an impactful Full Screen format thereby delivering the best user experience.
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Inshorts Group chief Deepit Purkayastha joins IAB video council for Southeast Asia and India
The co-founder and chief executive of the short-form content platform has been inducted into the IAB SEA+India Video Council, giving India a stronger voice in shaping digital video frameworks
NOIDA: India has long been the world’s most chaotic, multilingual and mobile-first digital market. Now, one of its most prominent short-video executives is getting a seat at the table where the rules are written.
Deepit Purkayastha, co-founder and chief executive of Inshorts Group, has been selected as a member of the IAB SEA+India Video Council for 2026. Run by the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the council brings together senior leaders from Southeast Asia and India to shape standards, best practices and measurement frameworks for the fast-evolving video and digital advertising ecosystem.
The timing is pointed. According to the IAMAI-Kantar Internet in India Report 2025, over 588 million Indians are now consuming short-video content, with growth increasingly driven by rural and non-metro audiences. India’s active internet user base has crossed 950 million, with 57 per cent of users now coming from rural markets. Yet the frameworks that govern how video consumption is measured and monetised were largely designed for single-language, Western markets and have struggled to keep pace with the scale, diversity and complexity of India’s digital landscape.
Purkayastha is no stranger to these debates. He already serves on the AI Council at Marketing and Media Alliance India and as co-chair of the Digital Entertainment Committee at the Internet and Mobile Association of India. His induction into the IAB SEA+India Video Council extends that influence into the global video standards arena.
Inshorts Group sits squarely at the intersection of these forces. Its flagship product, Inshorts, India’s highest-rated short news app, reaches 12 million active users with 60-word news summaries. Its sister platform, Public App, reaches 80 million monthly active users across more than 700 districts and 12 languages, serving communities that most global platforms barely register.
Purkayastha said the opportunity was about building something more representative. “India today sits at the centre of the global video ecosystem, but the frameworks that define how value is created and measured have not always kept pace with the realities of our market,” he said. “Being part of the IAB SEA+India Video Council is an opportunity to contribute to a more representative and future-ready approach, one that accounts for diversity in language, context, and user intent.”
As a council member, Purkayastha will contribute to shaping regional standards across video advertising, measurement and platform governance, with a focus on frameworks that are native to India’s multilingual, mobile-first ecosystem rather than imported from global benchmarks designed elsewhere.
For years, India has been content to play by rules written for other markets. Purkayastha’s induction is a signal that it is done waiting to be consulted and ready to start writing them.
