Vi rolls out an AI/ML based Ad-Tech Platform to actively participate in India’s Digital Ad Industry with Vi Ads

Vodafone Idea, today announced the launch of its own ‘Ad-Tech’ platform: Vi Ads, an AI/ML driven Ad-tech platform, that gives marketers a programmatic media buying platform that is cutting edge and ROI focused. The telecom firm has come up with Vi Ads with the aim to participate as a major player in multi-billion dollar Indian advertising industry.

Vi Ads  will enable marketers to engage with the operator’s over 243 million subscribers through multiple channels like Vi owned digital media- Vi App, Vi Movies & TV App, and traditional channels like SMS, IVR calls. Additionally, Vi Ads will offer a self-serve interface enabling marketers with full control of their campaigns from campaign set up, tracking campaign performance to driving campaign insights.

Commenting on the launch of Vi Ads, Avneesh Khosla, CMO, Vi  said:“With our programmatic platform - Vi Ads, we will address two of the biggest challenges faced by marketers today - authentic insights and enhanced reach. Firstly, it offers marketers the benefits of unique audience segments, interest groups and targeting parameters derived using Vi’s deep insights of our consumers built on opt-in data. Secondly, it allows advertisers to not only reach their chosen audiences over Vi’s own Digital Media like Vi App and Vi Movies & TV app, but also on external third party programmatic media and traditional channels of SMS & IVR calls."

"This is a simple, easy to use and highly efficient solution for marketers to effectively reach out to the right target group with the most relevant messaging at any given point of time, while also providing a monetization opportunity to Vi as we aggressively build and scale our digital assets, " he added.

The Vi Ads Platform has been built in partnership with TorcAi, a global provider of audience infrastructure and programmatic solutions, leverages advanced data sciences & machine learning to stitch together legacy marketing & advertising technology platforms with new breed tech.

Rohit Verma, CEO TorcAi Digital said: “This partnership, and the development of the Vi Ads platform, will enable Vi to connect their vast stores of customer insights with advertisers, and publishers, to deliver the right message, at the perfect time.”