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  • Kim brings nearly two decades of marketing experience to Udacity

    Udacity appoints Kenny Kim as CMO

    By A Correspondent

     

    Kenny Kim

    Udacity, the global online learning platform, trains the world’s workforce for the careers of the future, has announced that it has appointed Kenny Kim as its new Chief Marketing Officer. With nearly twenty years of experience in marketing, Kim joins the company from Google, where he served as the Global Head of Growth Marketing for Google Shopping.

     

    Said Gabriel Dalporto, CEO of Udacity: “Kenny is a strategic leader with a diverse marketing background. His experience helping build disruptive, category-defining companies into lasting brands comes at a perfect time for us. With Udacity’s business accelerating globally and expanding rapidly into the enterprise and government markets, we look forward to Kenny helping us become the market leader in upskilling the world’s workers in the careers of the future.”

     

    Added Kim: “Udacity’s commitment to providing business leaders, their employees, and also individuals with the skills they’ll need for the future is a powerful mission,”. “I’m eager to do my part to help Udacity transform online education by connecting its new programmes and existing solutions to their growing base of partners and learners.”

     

     

  • Executed by McCann, THE ad campaign underlines Udacity’s proposition of offering tech education the Silicon Valley way

    Udacity India launches brand campaign to promote its Nanodegree certification

    By A Correspondent

     

    Udacity, the Silicon Valley-based lifelong learning platform, has unveiled an ad campaign created by McCann Worldgroup India, that establishes the venture’s differentiators.

     

    Said Ishan Gupta, Managing Director-India, Udacity: “At Udacity, we bring knowledge and innovation together to create nanodegree programmes and provide the most relevant and advanced tech education possible. We expect that this film will make our value proposition clearer, and inspire many of India’s young and driven students and technology enthusiasts to learn cutting-edge skills that would propel them ahead of their peers.”

     

    Added Jitender Dabas, Chief Strategy Officer, McCann Worldgroup India:“The brief was simple – to establish what sets Udacity apart from all others. In a time when higher education has come under attack for lax standards and low barriers to entry, our strategy was to tell young Indians that the source makes all the difference. There is education, and then there is Silicon Valley way education that Udacity excels in.”

     

     

  • The program is a single, 3-month term, offered at an exclusive introductory price of Rs 46,000

    Udacity offers 3-month digital marketing course

    By A Correspondent

     

    In order to address the growing demand for skilled digitalmarketers worldwide,Udacity, a leader in disruptive learning technologies, announced the commencement of its new Udacity Digital Marketing Nanodegree Program.

     

    Commenting on the launch, Ishan Gupta, MD – India, Udacity, said, “In the fast-changing marketing field, along with the freshers, even seasoned professionals need a refresher on the latest digital strategies and tools. In order to attend to this need, we have partnered with an incredible roster of industry-leading digitalmarketing companies to build a program that offers a holistic approach to the field, covers every important platform, and equips students with a broad foundation upon which to build their careers. Students will have the opportunity to learn with experts from Facebook, Google, Hootsuite, Hubspot, Mailchimp, Moz​, and more. We are thrilled about this launch and are confident that our students will be in demand like hot cakes in the market.”

     

    The program is a single, 3-month term, offered at an exclusive introductory price of Rs 46,000 for those who sign up this month.