Kuldeep Solanki
@kuldeepsolanki
Digital Marketing | Programmatic | Performance Marketing
Mumbai
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
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)
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
Analyst - Publisher Operations
Media.net
Digital Content Specialist
Media.net
Education
Mumbai University
Bachelor of Management Studies
Maharashtra State Board
Higher Secondary School Certificate
Licenses & Certifications
Drive Advertising Revenue with Google Ad Manager
Xandr Invest: Invest DSP Certificate
Xandr
DV 360 Certification Exam
Amazon DSP Campaigns Certification
Amazon
Goethe Zertifikat B1
Goethe Institut
Google Tag Manager Fundamentals
LinkedIn Marketing Fundamentals