Neeraj founded and leads a 700+ vibrant team that is a part of the Hungama group in India, one of Asia’s largest Digital Media Entertainment conglomerates. One of their divisions, Hungama Mobile is the largest aggregator, developer and publisher of Bollywood, Entertainment, Sport, Devotional & Lifestyle content in the world. Hungama has developed a digital distribution network spanning 37 countries with over 150 partners across Mobile, Internet, Cable VOD and IPTV services, representing over 300 original content owners across Music, Movies, TV, Sport, Lifestyle content reaching over 2 billion consumers on the 3 interactive screens. Hungama Mobile are exclusive digital and mobile licensees across numerous territories for companies such as EMI, Warner Music, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, FTV amongst others. They are also exclusive licensees to nearly 80% of all Bollywood content on a worldwide exclusive basis.
Taking the popularity of Bollywood which is accessed across 127 countries, Hungama Mobile has now launched a Bollywood channel with over 150 operators in 37 countries on networks such as Airtel, Vodafone, MTN, AT&T, Verizon, Maxis, O2, Telis etc and also internet based services such as Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Yahoo! Music etc as also Cable VOD services with Time Warner, Rogers and several others.
Hungama are one of the largest Digital Media networks in South Asia and are owners of the three biggest entertainment portals in South Asia, Hungama.com and BollywoodHungama.com, The # 1 Bollywood portal in the world and GamingHungama.com, reaching over 15 million unique visitors monthly.
Hungama Mobile also has an active Mobile Marketing/Applications business, which has been engaged with over 300 brands and developed over 2000 interactive campaigns across the internet, mobile and DTH/IPTV platforms. Hungama has won over 60 awards in Digital Marketing over the past 10 years.
Neeraj was voted amongst the ‘50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment’ globally 3 years in a row. He was recently selected amongst the ‘Top 10 MobiThinkers of 2009’ globally. He has also been the recipient of the prestigious ME Awards for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Entertainment industry for 2009.
Neeraj is currently serving as the Chairman of Mobile Entertainment Forum for Asia. He has been associated with MEF for 5 years now. Neeraj was one of the founders of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) in India and has been on the Board of TiE Mumbai chapter for several years. Neeraj is also an active speaker at various international forum such as the Mobile World Congress, MIPCOM, Cannes Film Festival, CTIA, FICCI-Frames etc and on several domestic and international committees advising on the global Mobile & Digital Entertainment community. Neeraj has been the winner of Sun Microsystems – Economic Times Young Leader award and has been an evangelist for the fast growing mobile and digital entertainment industry.
