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Advertising Industry News DailyAI Ads Triple CPM Rates: How Target, Albertsons, and ChatGPT Are Reshaping Digital MarketingIn the past 48 hours, the advertising industry shows steady momentum with key executive shifts, AI-driven innovations, and partnerships amid evolving digital trends. Pine Labs appointed Shalini Pillai as Chief Marketing Officer from Microsoft, while HUL elevated Pavanjit S Bedi to CMO for Foods, signaling talent mobility in marketing leadership[1]. InMobi's founder Naveen Tewari emphasized proprietary AI models for tech dominance, betting on India-built vertical AI atop frontier systems[1].Recent deals include Branding Edge securing strategic communications for S45, focusing on brand narratives and stakeholder messaging[1], and Canela Media's partnership with LiveRamp to target 30 million U.S. Hispanic OTT...
2026-02-2302 min
ANI Podcast with Smita PrakashEP-341 | Opposition’s Parliament Gameplan, Dhankhar’s Exit, Vote Chori Row & Constitution Club PollsHow does the Opposition make its strategy to counter the ruling government in Parliament? Who is responsible for running the House? Why was the Monsoon Session of Parliament completely washed out? What led to Jagdeep Dhankhar’s sudden exit? Why has the Opposition made the ‘Vote Chori’ row its main weapon against the government? Was there really a BJP vs. BJP fight in the Constitution Club polls?To answer these questions and give you the inside scoop, this edition of the ANI Podcast with Smita Prakash is joined by ANI correspondents who closely cover Parlia...
2025-08-311h 23
The Morning BriefCorner Office Conversation with Naveen Tewari, founder and CEO of InMobi and GlanceNaveen Tewari thrives on pivots and preempting market demand before it becomes obvious to everyone else.In this deep-dive with the founder and CEO of InMobi and Glance, host Anirban Chowdhury traces India’s earliest unicorn from its 2007 pivot from mKhoj (SMS search) to mobile advertising, SoftBank’s $200 million backing, and a “born-global” scale-up: InMobi today derives 65%–70% of revenue from North America. We also unpack the second act: Glance, the AI-led lock-screen platform with 400 million users, and its newest bet—AI commerce: a business built on a foundation model trained for shopping, with monetization via transaction take-rates and brand enable...
2025-08-1822 min
Corner Office ConversationCorner Office Conversation with Naveen Tewari, founder and CEO of InMobi and GlanceNaveen Tewari thrives on pivots and preempting market demand before it becomes obvious to everyone else.In this deep-dive with the founder and CEO of InMobi and Glance, host Anirban Chowdhury traces India’s earliest unicorn from its 2007 pivot from mKhoj (SMS search) to mobile advertising, SoftBank’s $200 million backing, and a “born-global” scale-up: InMobi today derives 65%–70% of revenue from North America. We also unpack the second act: Glance, the AI-led lock-screen platform with 400 million users, and its newest bet—AI commerce: a business built on a foundation model trained for shopping, with monetization via transaction take-rates and brand enable...
2025-08-1822 min
Minus OneThe Man Behind India's First Unicorn | Naveen Tewari of InMobiWhat does it take to build a global ad-tech company from India? In this episode, Naveen Tewari, Founder & CEO of InMobi and Glance, gets candid about his early failures and the grit it took to bet on mobile before India was ready. He’s now reimagining commerce on lock screens through AI-powered platform Glance.Connect with us here:Prateek Mehta- https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-mehta-a571972/South Park Commons- https://www.linkedin.com/company/southparkcommons/
2025-07-1756 min
First PrinciplesThe Final Supercut Part 1: Founders 1-20I know what you’re thinking. Didn’t the First Principles podcast draw its curtains? Yes we did.But then we decided to do a final super-splice of every single episode we did. There were 41 founders. A bit too many for a single supercut episode, don’t you think?So, here’s the first 20.We went through all the episodes and picked a few minutes from each that we felt captured the essence of the specific founder and their approach to entrepreneurship, leadership, and well, li...
2024-07-041h 24
First PrinciplesThe Final Supercut Part 1: Founders 1-20I know what you’re thinking. Didn’t the First Principles podcast draw its curtains? Yes we did.But then we decided to do a final super-splice of every single episode we did. There were 41 founders. A bit too many for a single supercut episode, don’t you think?So, here’s the first 20.We went through all the episodes and picked a few minutes from each that we felt captured the essence of the specific founder and their approach to entrepreneurship, leadership, and well, li...
2024-07-041h 24
Blume PodcastE1. Peyush Bansal of Lenskart talks about clarity of purpose, customer obsession and leading with cultureIn this podcast, Peyush Bansal, founder and CEO of Lenskart, India's largest eyewear company talks to Karthik B. Reddy, co-founder and managing partner of Blume Ventures, the importance of hiring the right people in building long-lasting businesses, the pathological obsession of founders to solve a particular problem, which is essential in India's small market, and balancing short-term objectives with long-term goals.
Bansal built Bagskart, Watchkart, Jewelkart, before focusing his energies on Lenskart, and the disturbing statistic where said that 75% of people in India who need specs are not them helped “focus his vision.” And as a reward for his...
2023-08-0254 minBlume PodcastE1. Peyush Bansal of Lenskart talks about clarity of purpose, customer obsession and leading with cultureIn this podcast, Peyush Bansal, founder and CEO of Lenskart, India's largest eyewear company talks to Karthik B. Reddy, co-founder and managing partner of Blume Ventures, the importance of hiring the right people in building long-lasting businesses, the pathological obsession of founders to solve a particular problem, which is essential in India's small market, and balancing short-term objectives with long-term goals.
Bansal built Bagskart, Watchkart, Jewelkart, before focusing his energies on Lenskart, and the disturbing statistic where said that 75% of people in India who need specs are not them helped “focus his vision.” And as a reward for his...
2023-08-0254 min
First PrinciplesFive founders on fundraising, culture-building, clock- building, culture-shaping, people coaching, surviving and thrivingIf this isn’t the first time you’re listening to First Principles, you’re probably wondering what’s going on. Why did we have five different founders opening the episode, instead of just one. It’s because today’s is a special episode. We went back to the first five episodes we didto compile some of the most interesting, original and often counterintuitive conversations from five accomplished founders. While I’d urge you to listen to each of their conversations in full, this episode is a good place if you took to First Principles recently and are...
2023-03-161h 51
Not-So-Common Common SenseInMobi: The First Indian UnicornNaveen Tewari, the founder of InMobi, is a well-known figure in the business world, because he developed the first unicorn in Indian history. His tale has become a tale that all entrepreneurs of India learn by heart as they develop their businesses. It is the motivation of millions. Let’s recap the story here and pick up on greatness.
2023-03-1414 min
Blume PodcastS1 E9. Naveen Tewari on the quest for a purposeful life, the beauty of creating versus competing, and building a culture of compounding trust
In the finale episode, Sanjay Nath chats up Naveen Tewari of InMobi on building two unicorns, creating an "institution" vs an organization, and not getting phased by feedback. Sanjay also shares how Naveen has been a major influence in his journey of co-founding Blume. Tune in for more.
2022-12-1347 minBlume PodcastS1 E9. Naveen Tewari on the quest for a purposeful life, the beauty of creating versus competing, and building a culture of compounding trust
In the finale episode, Sanjay Nath chats up Naveen Tewari of InMobi on building two unicorns, creating an "institution" vs an organization, and not getting phased by feedback. Sanjay also shares how Naveen has been a major influence in his journey of co-founding Blume. Tune in for more.
2022-12-1347 min
First PrinciplesInMobi founder Naveen Tewari gets candid about survival, innovation, and playing the game by changing the rulesThe InMobi Group is a curious giant. Not only is it comprised of India's very first tech unicorn, the mobile advertising platform InMobi, it also houses another unicorn within which is one of India's youngest and fastest. That's the lock screen service Glance that's on hundreds of millions of smartphones globally. There's also live video app Roposo, which is pressing down the accelerator on its live commerce offerings.All of these are linked together by Naveen Tewari, the co-founder and CEO of InMobi., His entrepreneurial journey has seen numerous pivots, innovations and failures. And an abiding survival...
2022-09-221h 46
SkydeckHome GrownNaveen Tewari, founder of InMobi and now Glance, is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia—not just powered by it
2022-04-2010 min
The Growth CodeEp 05: The Journey of Naveen Tewari- founder of India's first ever unicorn!The Brains behind India's first unicorn startup, Naveen Tewari's journey leaves us inspired. He founded InMobi and Glance as it's subsidiary, both of which became unicorns in a very short period of time. Here's 12 minutes of inspiration and concrete lessons from his life averaged for college folks like us!
2021-09-1011 min
The Guiding VoiceTHE SCIENCE & SECRETS OF HAPPINESS | NEHA PANT TEWARI | TGV Episode #132In this episode #132, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with SMILY With over a decade of corporate experience, Neha Pant Tewari is a corporate warrior turned Youth Mentor & Happiness Coach.She’s an internationally certified NLP practitioner and Happiness Coach certified by The Berkeley Well-being Institute, UC Berkeley.Neha trains students & young professionals who are all set to begin their corporate innings, and also mentors professionals across ranks who feel stuck, due to a lack of tools and resources that are required to succeed at the workplace. In this process, Neha helps individuals, professionals, or...
2021-08-1725 min
Mavericks by YourStoryS1 Ep1: CEO of India’s first unicorn talks entrepreneurship - Naveen Tewari, InMobiNo guts, no glory. YourStory’s brand new video series, Mavericks, gives you insider access into the lives of some of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs. In its season premiere, Mavericks talks to one of India’s best-known entrepreneurs, Naveen Tewari, the CEO of India’s first-ever unicorn.
Meet the Mavericks: the CEO of India’s first unicorn talks entrepreneurship, cricket, and dealing with rejection
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2021-03-0516 min
Halo DropNaveen Tewari - InMobi The Next DecacornOn today’s episode we are super excited to chat to our mentor and inspiration, Naveen Tewari, the awe-inspiring Indian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of InMobi, a global provider of enterprise platforms for marketers.“If you are somebody who is able to see the patterns, then you'll do well, by the way, but if you are able to actually break the pattern, then you’ll do exceptionally well.”Naveen’s entrepreneurial journey is a notable one, having started his career as a business analyst with McKinsey and Company before studying f...
2021-02-1157 min
Money Matters with Shradha SharmaEp 65: Naveen Tewari on building Glance, India’s latest unicornInMobi Founder and CEO Naveen Tewari in this exclusive conversation with YourStory Founder and CEO Shradha Sharma details the journey of building his second unicorn, Glance. A two-year-old mobile content startup, Glance, is a subsidiary of Bengaluru-based advertising technology unicorn, InMobi.
2021-01-2144 min
Access Essential Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, BusinessYoung Turks by Shereen Bhan, Syna DehnugaraPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young Turks Author: Shereen Bhan, Syna Dehnugara Narrator: Monaz Ranina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: 'Young Turks features thirteen of the most inspiring and brilliant tech entrepreneurs of our age. It includes interviews with first-generation entrepreneurs like Naveen Tewari of InMobi; Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal of Flipkart; Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal of Snapdeal; V.S.S. Mani of Just Dial; and Murugavel Janakiraman of BharatMatrimony. Based on the iconic TV show Young Turks, the book reveals how these...
2020-09-2910 min
Stars & Startups with Varun Vummidi100M users, 400k apps and the Vernacular OS journey {Akash of IndusOS}EP32: {Akash Dongre, Co-founder of IndusOS}Hi Stars!August is a blockbuster month. For one, we have a lot more kickass founders coming your way. This episode allows us to take a look at another mammoth problem being solved at scale. I chat with Akash, the CPO at IndusOS - the creators of the largest App Store outside of the play store with over 100 million users and thousands of apps created for the vernacular audience. IndusOS currently powers the app store on many of the Samsung phones and have been through quite the...
2020-08-221h 01
Stars & StartupsEP32: 100M users, 400k apps and the Vernacular OS journey {Akash of IndusOS}EP32: {Akash Dongre, Co-founder of IndusOS}
I chat with Akash Dongre, the CPO and cofounder at IndusOS - the creators of the largest App Store outside of the play store with over 100 million users and thousands of apps created for the vernacular audience. They currently power the App Store on many of the Samsung phones and have been through quite the journey from starting up to meandering their way to a vernacular mobile device manufacturer, to a Vernacular Operating System for other OEM and now becoming the go to App Store for Samsung.
We chat...
2020-08-191h 01
SeedToScale | Curated by AccelINSIGHTS #45 - 2019 Roundup - 12 Insights for FoundersIn the first episode of 2020's #InsightsPodcast series, we take a look back to round up the learnings that 2019’s series left us with.We kick-start 2020’s #InsightsPodcast series with a special episode that offers a quick roundup of our 2019 podcasts and presents the top 12 highly recommended insights for entrepreneurs.
Finding the right opportunity
The bare essential task of identifying the right opportunity is something that every founding team must go through.
1.Farid Ahsan of Sharechat shares how he and his co-founders went about discovering the idea. “We started observing why people were making...
2020-01-1028 min
SeedToScale | Curated by AccelINSIGHTS #36 Naveen Tewari on building InMobi as a global leader in mobile advertisingWe continue with the #InsightsPodcast series with a path-setter: Naveen Tewari, Co-Founder and CEO of Inmobi, India’s first unicorn. Naveen started a product company at a time when most people weren’t thinking about it, went global and cracked the China market, and is now starting a group of companies under Mobi.
In this podcast, he shares a number of great lessons for first-time founders, from how to go through pivots successfully and the role that co-founders play in maintaining morale in an organisation, to scaling internationally and building a culture that is deeply enriching for the empl...
2019-08-2356 min
Z47 MomentsThe InMobi journeyVikram Vaidyanathan, MD, Matrix Partners India, catches up with Naveen Tewari, Co-founder, InMobi, who unravels the journey behind building India’s first unicorn startup. Naveen gets candid about strategies implemented for expansion to international markets, creating a family-like work culture and rising above the challenges that come with building a weatherproof company.
2019-04-2336 min
AroundStartupsInterview: Sanjay Nath, Blume VenturesIn this episode of AroundStartups interviews we bring to you Sanjay Nath [Twitter, LinkedIn], Co founder & Managing Partner at Blume Ventures. Prior to founding Blume, Sanjay spent over 12 years in the US, in business development, management consulting and operations roles across organizations such as PwC Consulting, IBM Global Services and Sun Microsystems.
Sanjay is an engineer from BITS, Pilani and holds an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Graduate Management.
Sanjay wholeheartedly accepted our interview request and shared his perspective on a range of topics...
2019-01-3034 min