Video Interview with Kumparan Founder: How the Indonesian media landscape is quickly evolving
Kumparan is a news platform founded in 2017, aimed at disrupting the online media industry by incorporating technology-based journalism and enabling interaction between users on one platform. Since their establishment, they have expanded to a team of 400 employees and 5,000 content creators, and generated an average of 2,500 content pieces per day, with 30 million monthly active readers.
We sat down with Hugo Diba, the founder of Kumparan, to learn about how Kumparan came about, what contributed to its success and some of his tips for media pitches. Prior to setting up Kumparan, Hugo served as Country Sales Director at CtrlShift and Business Director at Detikcom & CNN Indonesia.