Digital Vidya Completes 6 Years of Spreading Digital (Marketing) Vidya

‘Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion’

Influenced by this famous saying, two passionate IITians, Pradeep Chopra and Kapil Nakra, visioned a ‘Digital Movement’ and they have been successful in implanting that seed not in India but across 24 countries as well. We see them growing and getting better with each successive day. Now, with more than 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship, they are still evolving themselves in this journey towards betterment.

Soon after graduating from IIT Delhi in the year 1999, Pradeep and Kapil, started Whizlabs Software, one of the prominent players in Technology and Project Management Certification preparation industry.  Fortunately, they turned the right stone and with the power of Digital Media, they sold Whizlabs first product in the US in January 2011. It was an ever a cumbersome journey for them. Rather they enthusiastically looked forward to coming up with something new in the digital marketing field.

The date was 28th November 2009 when Pradeep Chopra, CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Vidya and Kapil Nakra, Co-Founder, Digital Vidya laid down the foundation of a digital marketing learning platform. Though the idea about Digital Vidya was actualised in October 2009, the very first workshop was on Social Media Marketing that took place in Delhi in January 2010 which gave a kick-start to this education firm. The motive behind the foundation was unique. They wanted to come up with a pertinent platform where not only students but also professionals from different domains can look up on and this how the journey of this Digital Marketing Education Company, Digital Vidya, began. The duo, Pradeep Chopra and Kapil Nakra, focussed on working towards Java certification courses and programs to create a niche for themselves in the education industry.

Within few months, Digital vidya successfully became the one-stop destination for Social Media Education in India where professionals from every sphere of life as well as students knocked Digital Vidya’s doors to seek assistance. Soon after, Digital Vidya embarked in-house customized training programs for corporations. The first corporate training was conducted for Top Management at Intuit in Bangalore. It was not even few months that Digital Vidya had its wings spread over various countries. Some of them being Malaysia, UAE, Oman, and Singapore.

Now its been 6 years and Digital Vidya has shown what piece de resistance is with its constant practice towards achieving notable results! ‘Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together, and motivating them, the teacher is important’ and being true to this saying, both Pradeep and Kapil have shown the way to their teams for 6 years and are continuing to do so.

The result of their hard work could be seen in the achievements made by Digital Vidya since 2009. Over 12000+ professionals (including CXOs) from over 6000+ brands such as Nokia, Google, eBay, Reliance, Star TV, Cisco, MakeMyTrip, Naukri, SAP, Citibank, Toyota, Intel, ITC, CNBC, Madison and CII have participated in more than 700+ Digital Marketing trainings by Digital Vidya across 24 countries. 

The constant efforts which Digital Vidya has put in ever since its inception have given them commendable results. This is evident from the likeability of blogs written by Digital Vidya family. Be it Pradeep’s experience with Ola Cabs is one of them or case study on Flipkart, the love in the form of shares, likes and comments made us realize we are moving in the right direction. Another top-notch blog we recently covered was Nestle Maggi case study. The story of successful blogging did not end here…The blog on how Asian Paints leveraged social media marketing and Craftsville case study also strengthen Digital Vidya’s foundation and this was acknowledged by Search Engine Journal as one of the top marketing blogs in India. This makes us believe in continuing to thrive towards better results.

This what they have to say on completion of 6 years of Digital Vidya…

Like in Cricket, 6th year at Digital Vidya was extremely exciting and fulfilling. Crossing 12,000 professionals from 6000+ brands has been a great milestone for us. Looking forward to many more Sixers! – Pradeep Chopra, CEO, and Co Founder, Digital Vidya

Kapil Nakra, Co-Founder, Digital Vidya also feels elated on this occasion. He expressed his hope and happiness for Digital Vidya in these words

Entrepreneurs, Marketing Professionals, and Students need to build an in-depth understanding of Digital Marketing. Everybody is realizing the value of it and building their expertise.

At Digital Vidya, we are constantly working on making learning Digital Marketing better. We are doing this by increasing hands-on exercises, having best available talent as our trainers & keeping our content updated.

He also said ‘this year, we have added 50 hrs of Hands-on Exercises in our course, 20 trainers and we have updated close to 50% of our Training content. We will continue working on our trainings in the upcoming year as well.’

Milestones

Let us have a look at the beautiful journey of Digital Vidya so far…

1. 100th Social Media Workshop

After its first workshop in Jan 2010, Digital Vidya celebrated its 100th Social Media Workshop in the next two years. The 100th workshop on Social Media was a 2-day workshop in Mumbai dated 19th and 20th July, in Delhi on July 26th and 27th and in Bangalore on August 7th and 8th. That’s surely some tremendous growth seen by Digital Vidya. Being one of the protagonists in the Social Media learning in India, Digital Vidya’s workshops aim to help its participants to drink in and leverage Social Media Marketing for customer acquisition, brand building, and brand building. Up until 2012, more than 2000 professionals from around 500 brands such as Parle, Naukri, Infosys, Shoppers Stop, Intel, Nokia, General Motors, Google, Ogilvy, eBay, Snapdeal, Airtel and many others have participated in 99 Social Media Workshops conducted by Digital Vidya across India, Oman, Malaysia, and Singapore.

2. 200th Digital Marketing Training

Completion of 200 Digital Marketing Training seemed like a turkey shot to the enthusiastic and self-motivated team. It was in the year 2014, that Digital Vidya successfully crossed the milestone of 200 digital marketing training programs. The brand was established because of the teamwork and the ever-improving efforts by them. Considering these continuous efforts towards betterment, both the individuals as well as organizations (including agencies) started to look upon Digital Vidya for the purpose of creating benchmarks for Digital Marketing skills. With the growing demands of Digital Media as one of the most sought after careers, Digital Vidya associated with Vskills, a Government Of India enterprise to launch joint certification programs.

Digital Vidya launched its flagship program, Certified Digital Marketing Master (CDMM) in the year 2013 and the response from all over the world is overwhelming. Since people showed trust in Digital Vidya, they carried it forward by launching 10 new certification programs in Digital Marketing with Vskills to live up to their audience’s expectations.

Digital Vidya by 2014, helped over 5000 professionals and students from more than 2000 organizations and academic institutions to grow by providing its Digital Marketing Training Programs. Customized in-house training programs had a big hand in adding a feather to Digital Vidya’s hat. Some of the brands who have prospered through Digital Vidya’s programs are PolicyBazaar, ABP News, Philips, Star TV, RadioCity, Citibank, Times Group, Lava, Wipro, Reliance, SAP, eBrandz, Cognizant, Honeywell, Adobe, Worldwide Media, Viacom18, GE, NIIT, Cisco and BirlaSoft to name a few.

Digital Vidya has been active in providing training programs to a number of academic institutions namely BITS Pilani, Great Lakes Institute, Stamford College (Singapore), IIT Lucknow, IIT Ahmedabad, IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, IIT Raipur, Welingkar, and SP Jain (Singapore).

3. 300th Digital Marketing Trainings

With establishing itself as Asia’s leading digital marketing training company, Digital Vidya completed its 300th digital marketing trainings in less than 5 years. In 2015, Digital Vidya established itself as a giant institute of India with marking the completion of 300th digital marketing training. Digital Marketing trainings and major brands for which trainings have been conducted also had its hand in the success of Digital Vidya. For Pradeep and Kapil, there was no stopping and had the instinct to take ‘Digital Movement’ way ahead. In the 5 years journey of Digital Vidya, along with Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Inbound Marketing, Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing, and Web Analytics, the list of offerings by Digital Vidya was expanded by the addition of Growth Hacking. The celebrations were delicious!

Digital Vidya always wanted to expand its family and instill the idea of digital marketing in the minds of students as well as professionals. For playing this predominant role in bridging the gap between needed digital marketing talent and available resources, Digital Vidya acquired many enterprises. One of them is Digital Academy India which was started by husband-wife duo Gaurav and Aditi Oberoi in August 2012. The motive is to educate Indian professionals and students for career competitiveness in the internet arena. Here’s what Gaurav Oberoi, Founder, and CEO, Digital Vidya has to say about the acquisition

“Through this association, we’re combining the best of two extremely strong players in this industry” 

After the acquisition, Digital Vidya is not only the most efficient training center but also the most trusted one.

The pioneer in Digital Marketing Education firm, Digital Vidya, partnered with Microsoft India with an aim to empower and enable Microsoft’s partners to be more efficient and profitable in selling Microsoft’s solutions while leveraging digital marketing. We also partnered with Google India to share their expertise and train Google Partner Agencies on latest and advanced areas about Google analytics and advertising.

The constant efforts which Digital Vidya has put in ever since its inception have given them commendable results. We all need people who give us feedback. That’s how we improve…We would be glad to hear your experience!