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Kuldeep Solanki

@kuldeepsolanki

Digital Marketing | Programmatic | Performance Marketing

Mumbai

Forbes Media LLCMumbai University

Kuldeep Solanki is an Ad Tech professional with 8 years of experience, specializing in Digital Marketing, Programmatic, and Performance Marketing. Currently serving as a Senior Campaign Manager at Forbes Media LLC, he manages day-to-day ad trafficking and optimizes campaigns across major platforms. His expertise spans media planning, programmatic ad operations, and developing best practices for campaign optimization and performance tracking.

Experience

Senior Campaign Manager

Forbes Media LLC

Jul 2022 - PresentMumbai

Manage day-to-day trafficking of ad campaigns across advertising platforms, with a focus on paid search, social and native (Google Ads, Bing, Yahoo Gemini, Facebook, Taboola, Outbrain, Quora, Xandr MSN, MGID, Dianomi, Baidu). Optimize campaigns with a focus on performance margins at scale. Setting platform goals (Spend, Revenue, ROI, PVPS, RPC) and planning new campaign launch/re-activation strategies to meet the KPI. Perform A/B testing for optimizations, targeting, and all other variables. Strategizing Ad Creatives & Ad Content (Image, Headline, Text) on various platforms. Content curation of Forbes articles & create new combinations. Designing playbook for workflow and setting up best practices for campaign optimization. Manage campaign expenses, staying on budget, estimating monthly costs, and reconciling discrepancies. Creating new Ad Placements for latest Ad Campaigns given by the brand or client & send it for trafficking on DCM. Wrapping 3rd Party Tags (IAS,Crossix & etc) on the Ad Placements. Making Competitive reports and analysis using Nielsen Ad Intel, Pathmatics & Comscore.

Manager – Media Operations

Initiative Media (IPG Media Brands)

Jun 2021 - Jun 2022Mumbai

Dedicated to SSP side (Behalf of the publisher & different projects & integration such as Content Monetization, Header Bidder, Open Bidding, Prebid and others). Onboarding new publishers, setting up campaigns & configurations before launching it live. Analyzing the trend of the various bidders in the Header Bidding Wrapper & creating a tech check report. Responsibility of troubleshooting via RTB for the bidders which are unable transact. Conducting A/B Testing on the creatives & SERP page in order to optimize & upscale the impressions, L2A’s, R2A’s & RPM simultaneously. Optimizing, analysing & following trends 100+ publishers in a month & present it to account managers for further scaling & upbringing. Preparing & pivoting Tech Check Reports i.e Server Side & Client Side Timeouts, Valid Bid Rate, Cookie Match Rate. To develop and implement best-practice operations standards.

Senior Analyst – Publisher Operations

Media.net

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021Mumbai

Analyst - Publisher Operations

Media.net

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019Mumbai

Digital Content Specialist

Media.net

Jan 2016 - Jan 2018Mumbai

Education

Mumbai University

Bachelor of Management Studies

Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

Maharashtra State Board

Higher Secondary School Certificate

Jan 2009 - Jan 2011

Licenses & Certifications

Drive Advertising Revenue with Google Ad Manager

Google

• No expiration

Xandr Invest: Invest DSP Certificate

Xandr

• No expiration

DV 360 Certification Exam

Google

• No expiration

Amazon DSP Campaigns Certification

Amazon

• No expiration

Goethe Zertifikat B1

Goethe Institut

• No expiration

Google Tag Manager Fundamentals

Google

• No expiration

LinkedIn Marketing Fundamentals

LinkedIn

• No expiration

Skills

Digital Marketing
Programmatic Marketing
Performance Marketing
Google Ads
Facebook Ads
Taboola
Outbrain
Quora
Xandr
MGID
Dianomi
Baidu
Google DCM
Google Analytics
WordPress
Meta Ads Manager
Media Planning
Ad Operations
SEO
SMO
A/B Testing
Content Curation
Programmatic Media Buying
Header Bidding
Open Bidding
Prebid
RTB Troubleshooting
Campaign Management