News Just Arrived | TV Today Network picks Vivek Malhotra as the Head of Marketing & Research

TV Today Network Limited appoints Vivek Malhotra as VP Marketing. As part of his new role, Malhotra will be responsible for developing the brand and communication strategy for leading media brands under TVTV, and will additionally be taking charge of the research and the special projects division.

Vivek Malhotra will be reporting into Joy Chakraborty, CEO TVTN and is expected to play an important role in future plans envisaged by the new leadership.

Before joining TVTN, Vivek has a brief stint with BigFM as the head of marketing. Prior to that Vivek served as the Senior Vice-president ' Marketing, PR & Research at Bloomberg UTV where he set up the marketing division and held the portfolio since the channel launch. He also oversaw the distribution coordination at the business news channel at the time of his exit.

Malhotra's earlier stint was with Star News Network, where he headed the trade engagement and the research unit and also acquired experience around regional products like Star Majha. He was also instrumental in evolving within TV18, an independent resource centre of creative solutions and media research which he later led as a national intelligence unit called "The Edge'.

Joy Chakraborty said in a statement: "As the pioneers of news broadcast in India, TVTN products have consistently been breaking new ground across verticals. With Vivek's understanding of the news category, we look forward to communicating this even better ' and achieving a serious resonance for each of our media brands. His complementary understanding of research and communication should help us create a superlative viewer and advertiser experience"