"We (India) are leading the charter for the emerging markets for Facebook. We are part of Asia Pacific, which is the fastest growing region in the world in terms of Facebook revenue and India is a strategic focus within the region," Facebook's newly appointed India and South Asia head Umang Bedi said today.
He declined to comment on the revenue contribution from India saying the company does not share country-specific revenue.
"India is the most critical and strategic market. Our business focus is three fold: grow the number of people who can connect on the platform, drive deep engagement by building relevant experiences and be valuable to our partners (brands)," he said.
Facebook is going to market with deep vertical focus, he added.
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Bedi said India ranks as the second largest country signing onto Blueprint, which offers self-paced online courses to businesses to help them master advertising on Facebook.
"Since March 2015, Blueprint eLearning has hit one million enrolment. India ranks as the second largest country signing onto Blueprint. The top five countries include the US, India, Egypt, Brazil and the UK," he said.
Besides India is also one of the top five adopters of Workplace - its enterprise communication platform - along with countries like Norway, the US, the UK and France.
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