
Three weeks after it claimed that it was the “number one financial news platform in India”, Moneycontrol – a business news website part of the Network 18 group – announced in newspaper ads that it “beat the Economic Times hands down in all traffic parameters”.
While the ad was carried on the front page by the Indian Express and the Hindustan TImes on Wednesday and Tuesday, respectively, the Times of India gave it a miss – the Economic Times is owned by the Times Group.