Explocity Pvt Ltd is a media and publishing company headquartered in

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

. The company was formed by Ramjee Chandran. Explocity has city based publications across India, New York state and Dubai.

Corporate history

Prior to the inception of Explocity, Chandran first began a Bangalore-based magazine, Bangalore This Fortnight, in 1989. This was followed by the launch of the Bangalore Monthly and the Bangaloremag.com. The

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had just begun its journey in the late 1990s in India, when Chandran created Explocity.com in 1999. Some of the initial

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was from

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's News Corp. Explocity.com has content includes events,

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listings, shopping, nightlife and sightseeing in cities like

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Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

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and

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. The Explocity guide (formerly known as CityInfo), was the next product from Explocity, which provides information on restaurants, places to visit, shopping, in cities around the world. It then began publishing lifestyle

magazines A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

like ''080'' (Bangalore), ''044'' (Chennai) and ''040'' (Hyderabad), followed by ''022'' (Mumbai) and ''011'' (Delhi'). A daily

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, ''MyTime'', was also created. Explocity was one of the first companies in the world to introduce the

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called Pagician for their digital magazines. Explocity also launched a city

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Guide website online called Explocity Movies. Explocity also partners with

Kingfisher (beer) Kingfisher is an Indian beer brewed by United Breweries Group, Bangalore, India. The brand was first introduced in 1857 and then relaunched in 1978 by Vijay Mallya. With a market share of over 36% in India, it is also available in 52 other c ...

to bring out the Kingfisher Explocity Great Food and Nightlife Guides.

Products and events

Explocity's weekend dining newsletter FirstFoodie was written about in IMPACT magazine's story about media houses in India that cater to food and beverages in January 2013. Explocity launched EXEC (now known as Executive Traveller) - reportedly, India's first magazine for

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travellers - in April 2010. A couple of years later, EXEC tied up with a

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content provider to serve its content on the

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and Android smartphones and tablet devices. Of recent times, Explocity has been under the active management o
Sol Mooney Media
a venture started by Explocity founder Ramjee Chandran. Explocity, in 2022, started Explocity Podcasts
The Literary City with Ramjee Chandran
is a light and funny podcast about words. In April 2022, Explocity re-launched BangaloreMag and Explocity Bangalore Guide in digital form.

References

* ttps://archive.today/20130203141749/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060520/asp/weekend/story_6226824.asp Article in the Telegraph India about Explocity's involvement in the Foodguide businessbr>Article that quotes Ramjee Chandran on listings as a revenue stream for portalsExplocity on WikimapiaAn article that cites Ramjee Chandran, CEO of Explocity as one of the key people of Indian mediaAbout the Kingfisher Explocity Great Food Guide

Explocity listed as one of India's favourite websites

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External links

Explocity websiteExecutive Traveller MagazineSol Mooney Media website
Publishing companies established in 1989 Publishing companies of India Online companies of India Companies based in Bengaluru 1989 establishments in Karnataka