Here’s a glimpse of our extensive coverage of the elections so far and preparations for counting day on May 23rd.
Leveraging the wide network
With the campaign for the 2019 General Elections drawing to a close, and one last phase of voting remaining, teams across @DDNewsLive and @airnewsalerts are gearing up to comprehensively deliver the results on the 23rd of May https://t.co/Cum9B0m16x
— Shashi Shekhar (@shashidigital) May 17, 2019
Coverage in regional languages made available on digital platforms
An interesting aspect of the election coverage by @DDNewsLive and @airnewsalerts is the number of Indian languages in which election news was made available digitally via YouTube and the #newsonair app.
— Shashi Shekhar (@shashidigital) May 18, 2019
Election breaking on Digital Radio Service of AIR apart from FM, DTH and Internet streaming
Excited that we will have for the first time Live Breaking Coverage of the election results on the 23rd by @airnewsalerts on Digital Radio Service of @AkashvaniAIR apart from FM, DTH and Internet streaming https://t.co/D3AUITQsj8
— Shashi Shekhar (@shashidigital) May 18, 2019
Our massive and regular coverage of elections since the dates were announced has not only kept the people updated and aware, but has also helped in the growth of our network’s digital footprint, especially in North-east. Here are few examples:
Best performing digitally among the regional news teams was the Marathi News by @ddsahyadrinews on YouTube which saw a dramatic surge in audience interest through the election phases in Maharashtra https://t.co/CIaAk3RJsQ pic.twitter.com/q3IlrvN7vc
— Shashi Shekhar (@shashidigital) May 18, 2019
Growing digital audiences for news content in Northeastern languages was evident from the traffic surges witnessed by assamese news by @ddnews_guwahati on YouTube https://t.co/jLmRs2VpHM pic.twitter.com/y3WSWK3e9d
— Shashi Shekhar (@shashidigital) May 18, 2019
Also high digital news interest from Nagaland and Arunachal through the elections pic.twitter.com/JX0CDIjynE
— Shashi Shekhar (@shashidigital) May 18, 2019
Similar surges in digital news content from Meghalaya in Khasi and English by @ddshillong on YouTube https://t.co/IDPwgCleil pic.twitter.com/2BLn0byu36
— Shashi Shekhar (@shashidigital) May 18, 2019
