As the digital marketing industry booms, a handful of Indian digital marketers are leading from the front. They are the stalwarts! They have been pioneers - brave to enter the industry at its embryonic stages and chart its incredible history.
Here are ten such personalities from the digital marketing world that you must follow on LinkedIn in 2022.
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Ananthanarayanan V, Founder & CEO, Techdivine Creative Service
Winner of the Global Peter Drucker Award for Entrepreneurs, Ananthanarayan V. is a man of many hats with 18+ years of experience. He is a digital ROI strategist, corporate trainer, C-suite ROI coach, social media brand influencer, author, speaker, visiting faculty, and a Harvard Business Review Contributor.
He has been the awardee of the 100 Smartest Digital Marketing leaders, Most Influential Digital Marketing Leaders, and many such prestigious awards.
Ananthanarayan has worked with Fortune 500 companies across 12 countries and is a brand strategist for brands like SKODA, TATA, HONDA, Airtel, Micromax, etc. He has several publications to his name like Social Media Marketing Brand ROI and has written blogs for Global Peter Drucker Forum, YourStory, and more.
Follow him for insights on leadership, marketing, digital marketing, social media, and more.
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Surojit Mahato, Co-Founder @ Growthdish Marketing
Surojit’s journey in digital marketing started with Hyderabad-based publishing house, Prowess. This multi-talented creative person has not looked back ever since. He led the publishing house charter through a phenomenal growth journey and later co-founded his digital company called Growthdish.
Surojit has a research background and worked as a research associate with ICFAI. Some of his case studies published in the ICFAI Journal & The Case Centre, London, are now taught in business schools worldwide.
Follow Surojit for tips on LinkedIn marketing, personal branding, entrepreneurship and digital marketing, of course.
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Avinash Kaushik, Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google
Avinash has co-founded Market Motive Inc and has a vast area of specialized experience in web analytics, VOC measurement & management, customer satisfaction, and web research thought leadership.
His blog, Occam's Razor, is a stellar reference for digital marketers and industry leaders. His book 'Web Analytics: An Hour A Day' & 'Web Analytics 2.0' are highly regarded by industry professionals.
He has been associated with bigwigs like IBM, Porsche, Dell, Unilever, and Time Warner. He is a frequent speaker at industry-best global conferences on Digital marketing like JMP Innovators' Summit, Ad-Tech, The Art of Marketing, etc.
Avinash has been awarded the 2009 Statistical Advocate of the Year award from the American Statistical Association and the Most Influential Industry Contributor award in 2011 from the Web Analytics Association.
Follow Avinash for all things digital, web and analytics.
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Richa Pathak, Mentor and Digital Marketing Expert
Richa works at Infobip as the Digital Lead - Growth Marketing. Richa has over nine years of diversified experience and has accomplished more than forty-five projects. She is a blogger with SEM Updates and is a featured author in many digital marketing magazines. She is also an emerging marketing influencer.
She is specialized in brand building, PPC advertising, digital marketing, email marketing, content marketing, product and video marketing, social media, and mobile app marketing.
Richa has also been the Most Viewed Writer on Quora in her niche.
Follow Richa for insights on email marketing, content and video marketing, social media and branding.
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Kunjal Chawhan, Works at botpresso as a Senior SEO Analyst
Kunjal is a newbie in the digital marketing field, specializing in SEO categorically. An adept SEO professional has versatile experience in Technical SEO, site audit, on-page SEO, UI & UX development, link building, etc., on CMS platforms like WordPress, OpenCart, Wix, Shopify, and Webflow. He keeps himself acquainted with Google Algorithm updates via courses through podcasts, YouTube, blogs, etc.
Kunjal has a blog called decodedigitalmarket.com, where he tests his learnings in real-time. His blog has been featured on TDLR Marketing and Search Engine Roundtable. His favorite SEO tools are SEMrush, OnCrawl, Surfer SEO, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, GTMetrix, OnCrawl, etc.
Kunjal is your go-to person for SEO knowledge!
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Nidhi Singh, AVP Growth at DBS Bank & Digital Marketing Evangelist
Nidhi's contribution as Marketing Head to the growth of EduPristine, a startup, has been remarkable. As AVP Growth at DBS, she is responsible for product & brand launches, onboarding, acquisition, and product engagement.
A passionate marketer, Nidhi has been Quora's Top Writer twice and is an articulate writer with international magazines like HuffPost, Inc.
Her expertise lies in Facebook and email marketing, SEO, App interface improvements, and startup marketing KPIs.
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Deepak Kanakaraju, CEO at LearnToday.com
Deepak is a digital marketer with 10+ years of experience, having worked with top Indian startups like Instamojo, RazorPay, Digital Vidhya, Practo, etc. He had co-founded the digital marketing firm, PixelTrack and has serviced many Fortune 500 companies.
As a trainer, he shares his learnings on his YouTube channel and website, www.digitaldeepak.com. His Digital Marketing Group on Facebook called 'Learn Digital Marketing' has one of the biggest followings. He has authored the book Edge of Sanity, which focuses on entrepreneurship.
Follow Deepak for to learn from his experiences in digital marketing, freelancing, entrepreneurship, and more.
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Aashi Bhatnagar, Founder @ The Digital Abode
Aashi is a young entrepreneur in the digital marketing arena. Her venture called The Digital Abode offers virtual services like content writing, social media marketing, SEO, digital ads, and consultancy.
She is an ardent social service worker contributing to the welfare of society. A people person, Aashi has a flair for writing, having co-authored and ghostwritten a few books.
Follow Aashi for tips on entrepreneurship, remote work, digital marketing, women leadership and more.
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Shweta Srivastava, Head - Digital Marketing, Dr. Reddy’s
Shweta leads digital marketing campaigns at Dr. Reddy's across the Indian subcontinent, ASEAN, Australia, Latin America, New Zealand, China, South Africa, Russia & Central Asia. The versatile digital marketer has 18 years of diverse experience in marketing in the B2C and B2B gamut helping her launch some successful digital transformation stories for many brands.
She is a globally recognized digital marketing professional, having received many accolades. The recent ones are the BBC Knowledge Women Leadership in Industry Award in 2017 and the World Marketing Congress 'Most Influential Digital Media Professional' in 2015.
Follow Shweta for insights on customer engagement, digital experience, marketing technology and more.
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Mufaddal Sadriwala, SEO Strategist at Dentsu
Mufaddal is an expert digital marketer and has rich experience in lead generation and scaling organic traffic in the BFSI industry. His expertise lies in e-commerce SEO, content marketing, technical SEO, and Traffic Drop Recovery. He has helped a brand increase its organic traffic by 400% within a year by optimizing technical issues.
He is a trainer at iProspect India and has spoken at SEO Mastery Summit, Turndigi, and Brighton SEO.
Follow Mufaddal for insights on SEO, digital advertising, organic growth marketing and more.
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That's all for now, folks. To our industry stalwarts, keep shining the light for others.
We hope to continue this list shortly.