Category: Inside Chitika

Chitika is Hiring!

If you haven’t already heard about it on our Facebook page – Chitika is hiring for a variety of positions.

Unleash the Power of Innovation @ TiECON East 2011

Chitika CEO Venkat Kolluri will be speaking at TiECon East this evening on the entrepreneurial process and his inspirations for co-founding Chitika. For the first time, the conference will feature TiE Stars, our very own charter members (Amar Sawhney, Ash Ashutosh, Asa Kalavade, Venkat Kolluri and Venkat Krishnamurthy ) who will speak about what inspired… Continue reading Unleash the Power of Innovation @ TiECON East 2011

Chitika Changing Our Name: Meet Aritipandu

Today is a big day for the Chitika family: we’re making a huge change to our branding by completely changing the name of our company. No longer will we have awkward conversations with potential partners like “I really like what Chittyville does,” or “hey, could I buy a banana from you guys?” “Everyone thinks our… Continue reading Chitika Changing Our Name: Meet Aritipandu

Chitika Mobile Ads Finalists for DPAC Award

Big news from the awards front, our recently-launched Chitika Mobile Ads are one of three finalists to win the annual DPAC award for Best Mobile Advertising Network Innovation.  The winner will be announced on Deceber 9th at the DPAC Awards ceremony in New York.  Fingers crossed! We’d like to thank the Academy… and all of… Continue reading Chitika Mobile Ads Finalists for DPAC Award

Tips On Working for Start-Ups (and We're Hiring)

Recently, our corporate recruiter Margaret Hartwig was featured in a Mashable story about recruiting for startups.  Since we’re hiring, I thought it might be a good idea to run through a few things that we – like other creative, flexible tech firms – tend to look for in a candidate. Willingness to fail. If you’re… Continue reading Tips On Working for Start-Ups (and We're Hiring)

Chitika @ GeoDomain Expo & AppNexus Summit 2010

GeoDomain Expo is the sharing of information and best practices among the Associated Cities member/operators and is the reason why Associated Cities has become one of the most important coalitions of independent media owners on the Internet. Vik Chhabra, Director of Business Development at Chitika, was asked to present on the: Developing Any City panel.… Continue reading Chitika @ GeoDomain Expo & AppNexus Summit 2010

New UI Optimizer to Kick CTR Up A Notch

Introducing the UI Optimizer – the power of Chitika’s research increasing your site’s revenue!   For the past month, we at Chitika have been experimenting with a UI optimizer for some of our highest-performing sites, and our beta partner sites have seen as much as a 30% lift in their clickthrough rate.  Now, we’re excited… Continue reading New UI Optimizer to Kick CTR Up A Notch

The man behind the "number of iPads sold"

The man behind our newly famous “estimated number of iPads sold” is actually one of the youngest “men” here at the Chitika office; Gui Pinto just celebrated his 20th birthday. In the picture above, Gui is holding his brand new iPad he received as a gift from Chitika CEO, Venkat Kolluri for putting together the… Continue reading The man behind the "number of iPads sold"

Chitika and Squidoo: A Perfect Match

The Chitika Team is excited to be working with Squidoo because they are a model publisher for our network. Chitika has always been a publisher centric advertising network, working with publishers to maximize advertising revenue and giving them choices about how to do that. We understand that all publishers have an inner dialogue about how… Continue reading Chitika and Squidoo: A Perfect Match