Ibibo.com celebrates and showcases the winning talent with Proud Mentors

Media News

New Delhi, January 12, 2009

Ibibo.com showcased and celebrated the achievements of the young talent recongnised and rewarded by the site and the mentors for most popular iFashion Photographer, iFreshFace and iVideoStar contests running on the website. The celebrations were extravagant with Jatin Kampani for iPhotographer, Dabboo Ratnani & Sushma Puri,CEO, Elite Model Management for iFreshFace and Bosco & Caeser for iVideoStar.

Mentors have been all delighted with the fresh talent being recognized and rewarded through an apt platform. iFreshFace winners – Mansi Sharma, Chandni Nasir, Morvi Kumar and Sonica D'Souza have got their portfolio shot by Dabboo Ratnani and signed a two year contract with Elite Model management. The winners for iVideoStar received an overwhelming response for launching a video specially choreographed by the famous duo Bosco & Caeser for the winners in a unique style.

The Indian youth have an inherent self confidence and a burning desire to express their talent to the rest of the world. Realizing this desire, ibibo has been providing the right kind of platform for the youth to fulfill their aspirations. ibibo through its different initiatives is reaching out to a sea of talent pools and connecting them with the industry. For all these initiatives, ibibo has partnered with the best from the industry.

"All these initiatives are part of our vision to provide a platform to the ibibo community to showcase their talent and get recognized. Through our innovative approach, we have been incubating and unleashing numerous innovative talent applications for the youth. We will continue to incubate, recognize and reward individuals with immense talent," commented Ashish Kashyap, CEO, ibibo.com.

ibibo's baseline "i Build, i Bond" is the crux of its existence. It empowers a user to showcase his talent by expressing himself and thus, build and bond with an eager audience for his or her talent. The ibibo community has been using a plethora of powerful communication tools to connect and share their expression, ranging from instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photos, videos, asking and answering questions, exchanging free SMSs and chatting.

Access to the right kind of target audience is motivating corporate, brands and movie production houses to opt for ibibo as the most effective platform to engage with their consumers. ibibo.com enables them to leverage the viral power of the social network and to intimately interact and engage with their customers. ibibo creates customized branded applications for advertisers to target the right set of audience.

Due to its user friendly initiatives, in a short span of time, the social networking site has received its due recognition from different peers of the industry. The company has become one of the fastest growing Internet based social media businesses in India. ibibo has also received the prestigious PC Web Awards 2008 for Best Designed Social Network. This was possible because of the active ibibo community and its regular feedback.

Launched in January 2007, ibibo.com has continually evolved by listening to and then meeting the intrinsic needs of the country's young people. The core age group is 18-24, with a male, female ratio of 70:30. The ibibo community is currently more than 3.3 million strong, making it the largest India based social networking site in the country. And most importantly, 59% of user base is from tier 2 and tier 3 cities and towns of India.

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Ms Manleen Kaur

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