Kunal Bagai

Background

About Kunal Bagai

Hey, I'm Kunal. My story with digital started way back in 2017 — no big funding, no team, just a bunch of late nights, wild ideas, and a blog called Insider Idea. 18 months, 1M+ pageviews, and a few crash courses in SEO later, I realized: growth is addictive.(Also realized that one Google AdSense ban can humble even the best of us. Story for another day.) Since then, I’ve been neck-deep in AdTech — helping publishers, networks, and platforms unlock revenue that's real and scalable. Fast forward to today: I'm leading Ad Operations at TGM and Swift TV, where I manage, optimize, and scale ad ops for 40+ clients across programmatic and direct campaigns. Before that, at Ascendeum, I cut my teeth working across platforms like GAM, OpenX, Rubicon, Pubmatic — basically living inside spreadsheets, dashboards, and troubleshooting tabs (sometimes all at once). What I love about AdOps? It's never just about serving ads. It's about building smart systems, solving weird puzzles, finding hidden revenue gaps — and doing it all without losing your mind. Along the way, I picked up a few battle-tested skills: Growth hacking for startups Programmatic yield optimization Customer success management Business intelligence and actionable data analysis Whether it's scaling monetization, fixing tracking glitches, or squeezing that extra 10% revenue no one else saw — I genuinely enjoy solving the messy stuff. If you want to jam on AdTech, revenue ops, campaign troubleshooting, or if you just want to trade AdOps war stories, let’s connect — kunalbagai7@gmail.com What I've Worked On- Built ad ops processes from scratch for publishers scaling toward 7-figure revenues - Managed 40+ client accounts across multiple verticals (programmatic, direct, hybrid)- Optimized ad stacks across GAM, OpenX, Rubicon, Pubmatic, and more - Mentored AdOps teams to think like strategists, not task executors - Driven growth strategies that actually increased revenue — not just vanity numbers - Survived 100+ campaign launches, countless reporting nightmares, and some caffeine crashes — and came out stronger