Comments on: ReleaseMyAd – Book Newspaper Classified Ads Online

By: Sharad Lunia

Sharad Lunia — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:56:03 +0000

Yes, competition creates greater value. Thanks for your wishes!

I’d recommend you to check if Hindu, Telegraph, ABP, Dainik Jagran , Amar Ujala, Malayala Manorama, Deccan Chronicle — all leading newspapers in their respective regions- are part of that list from our competitor/partner

1 difference i didnt stress on earlier – is that we are publication neutral – and not owned by a particular publication group. This might explain certain things.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:22:01 +0000

Ads2Book also covers 45-50 publications I think. Anyways, all the best Things can always be made better.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:47:35 +0000

I actually conversed with your live-chat guy using my pseudonym yesterday to ascertain the level of engagement of your team in your business. It was good. Way to go, guys

By: Sharad Lunia

Sharad Lunia — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:43:38 +0000

Thanks for the coverage & kind words – Arvind & Ashish. One clarification, releaseMyAd also offers booking of Classified Display Advertisements (Not banners), which can be designed on the fly- with custom fonts, logos & pictures. These are premium priced and cater more towards SME advertisers whose volume’s are still small to.

@ Rohit, yes you’d be surprised of the near 50 Newspapers that we have partnered with. Less than 8 would be operating their own “online booking” service efficiently. Also,In most cases we do more business then these individual sites themselves given our aggregator model.

We envision releaseMyAd to simplify Newspaper Classified Booking, in a country where Print is still a dominant medium with its wide reach and language diversity (and we believe will continue to be so, for the near future).

Btw, we did use pluggd.in job boards – a year back pretty effectively

Sharad Lunia
Business Head, Classifieds
releaseMyAd

By: Arvind

Arvind — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:53:49 +0000

market is really hot…its good for TOI to have a competing agency against a BU as long as revenues get a boost.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:37:07 +0000

It’s also interesting to note that this has tied up with ToI and still competes directly with Times Groups’ Ad2books – thanks to bureaucracy..diff BUs

By: Ashish

Ashish — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:31:17 +0000

Very interesting!!

By: Ramjee

Ramjee — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:24:56 +0000

Check out http://www.reachwide.com/ one more entrant doing exactly as this.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:02:12 +0000

Is it still an offline process? I have booking newspaper classifieds online for last 2-3 years. ToI, HT…they all have it…and its very easy to do…Been doing it through, as you have yourself mentioned – Ads2Book

It’s also interesting to note that this has tied up with ToI and still competes directly with Times Groups’ Ad2books