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Two way publication options
Execlient gets your brand into The Indian Express on indianexpress.com, in the daily print editions, or both. Online, it's a paid story about you; in print, it's your own ad in the cities you pick.
One paid story about your company on indianexpress.com: a profile, an interview or launch news, with your photos.
Your own creative on a full page of the daily, booked edition by edition.
Your brand in a shared, list-style article with a few others. It never reads like a ranking.
A smaller ad, in the editions and on the days you choose.
Your story told visually, the way the paper's brand team has done it for insurance and finance brands.
An extra page of your ad wrapped around the front of the paper, for a launch-day splash.
Posts on The Indian Express's own social handles, or a slot around its news podcasts, built from your story.
A small strip ad, known as a skybus, just below the masthead on page one.
Either way
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Who is Execlient
Execlient is a full-stack digital agency in Gurugram, working with brands since 2015. We bring strategy, branding, websites, performance marketing and AI automation under one roof, so every part of your marketing works towards the same goal: more enquiries, more customers and more sales.
Your customers are already searching, scrolling and reading. We make sure they find you there: a brand they remember, a website that works on every phone, and ads on Google, Instagram and LinkedIn that bring in calls, not just clicks.
Good marketing starts with a plan, not a post. We study your market, your competitors and your numbers, then build campaigns and content around who your buyers are, what they look for and why they should pick you.
Once the basics work, we scale what's working. Ads, content and AI automation run together, and every month you see the calls, leads and sales they brought in, so each rupee you spend has a clear job.
Strategy + Creativity + Technology + AI = One Growth Partner.
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The publication
"Journalism of Courage."The line under its masthead
The Indian Express is an English-language daily newspaper, founded in Madras in 1932. Today it prints 11 city editions, from Delhi, Mumbai and Pune to Kolkata and Patna, and publishes at indianexpress.com, with sister sites in Tamil, Malayalam, Bangla and Gujarati. It covers politics, policy, business, cities and its Explained section. Paid brand stories go through its brand team, which its media kit calls Express Brand Studio.
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Not just The Indian Express
Name the one you want. The logos below are a start, not the full list.
Sponsored and brand features: paid, and we say so up front. Names and logos belong to their owners. Ask about any publication
Reach
Execlient places your story where The Indian Express is read: its 11 print editions, indianexpress.com and the regional-language sites that carry its name.
Users and page views are the publisher's own figures for December 2024 (Google Analytics), from its 2025 media kit. We don't quote a print circulation, because we couldn't find a current audited figure.
Its 11 city editions, as of June 2025
indianexpress.com and its regional-language sites
A paid story runs where your scope says: most often on indianexpress.com, in English. Ask us about the regional sites.
Editions: trade press on the Patna launch, June 2025. Sites: the publisher's 2025 media kit.
Who reads The Indian Express
Its online readers are mostly 20 to 40, in India's biggest cities. Execlient puts your story in front of them with a paid feature in The Indian Express, on a site they already read.
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Its top five cities online
Personas are illustrative. Age, gender split, users and top cities: the publisher's 2025 media kit, citing Google Analytics for December 2024. Sections: the indianexpress.com menu.
Who gets featured in The Indian Express
Banks, insurers, telecom, streaming and education brands appear in The Indian Express's own showcase of branded stories. Execlient makes yours read like a story, not an ad.
In its media kitA money story told plainly, as a comic strip or an infographic.
In its media kitA story about the businesses a network or a product helps grow.
In its media kitA new show or film, written up as a review-style story.
In its media kitA founder interview on where learning is heading.
In its media kitA story timed to the festive season or a launch.
In its media kitA founder's own story, or a series celebrating women business leaders.
Categories from the case studies and the branded series the publisher pitches in its 2025 media kit. We haven't counted paid stories on the site, so there are no numbers here. Photos are illustrative. Doctors, advocates and CAs: check your professional rules before you book.
Is your industry a fit? Ask us. If The Indian Express doesn't suit you, we'll say so.
Never for sale
The Indian Express's editors and juries decide these. Nobody can sell you a place, including Execlient.
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How it works
Execlient is your one point of contact, from the first call to the live link: the angle, the interview, the draft and your approvals. The Indian Express's brand team has the final say.
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Want the next open date? We'll check the dates The Indian Express has open for you.
Money-back guarantee
Execlient takes the risk, not you. You pay 100% upfront against a GST invoice. If The Indian Express doesn't publish your feature, Execlient refunds 100% of what you paid.
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Paid features we have arranged, listed with each client's written permission. Open any of them and check the domain and the page yourself.
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indianexpress.com/article/…Paste the live linkWhy book through Execlient
Execlient plans, writes and delivers your feature, and you deal with one team the whole way.
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The call
About 10 minutes with the person who plans your feature. You hear the price early. If The Indian Express isn't right for you, we'll say so, and nobody chases you afterwards.
Before you call
Straight answers from Execlient, so you know what fits before you call. Last checked .
There are two routes. Editorial coverage is free but never certain: you pitch a real news story to the paper's reporters and editors, and they decide. A paid feature is a brand story on indianexpress.com, or your ad in the print editions: we interview you, write the draft, you approve it, and it runs once the paper's brand team accepts it. The paid route is the only one we arrange.
If you mean an opinion piece, you pitch it to the opinion editors yourself, for free, and they choose what runs; nobody can buy a place on the opinion pages. If you mean a story about your company, the paid route is a brand story on indianexpress.com: written with you, about you, and paid for. We tell you it's paid from the first call, and we never pass it off as news.
It's paid, and we say so up front. How the page is marked, such as its section or tag, is set by The Indian Express's brand team, so we don't promise a particular label here. You get it in writing before you pay, and we never book anything dressed up as news.
No. Execlient is an independent agency, not part of or endorsed by The Indian Express or its publisher. Execlient is your one point of contact: the angle, the interview, the draft, your approvals and the live link.
No. They are different newspapers, run separately, with different websites. This page is about indianexpress.com and its 11 print editions, from Delhi and Mumbai to Kolkata and Patna. If you want The New Indian Express instead, ask us and we'll tell you what's open there.
No. The Ramnath Goenka Awards are journalism awards: journalists enter their own published work, there's no entry fee, and a jury decides. They aren't for brands at all. IE100, the paper's yearly list of the most powerful Indians, is chosen by its editors, and its Excellence in Governance Awards honour district magistrates. Nobody can sell a place on any of them, including us.
Not as news. What runs on the front page as news is the editors' call. What can be bought there is advertising, such as a jacket wrapped around the paper or a strip below the masthead, and it reads as an ad. The "front page" or "cover page" prices people ask about are for those ad spots, not a news story about you.
It depends on the format (your own story online, a place in a shared list post, or a print ad), the editions and the dates open. You hear the full fee, plus GST, early in a 10-minute call, with what is and isn't included. If it's more than you want to spend, the call ends there.
Print rates change with the edition, the size, the page and the day, so we don't publish a rate card here. Tell us your cities and dates, and we quote the current fee, plus GST, on the call. A print ad is your own creative and reads as an ad; if you want a written story about you, that runs online.
You get 100% of your money back. The paper reviews every paid story and ad before it runs, and can decline one. If yours doesn't go live, Execlient refunds everything you paid within 7 working days, as our refund policy says.
You pay 100% upfront to EXECLIENT PVT. LTD, a registered company whose CIN and GSTIN are on this page, against a GST invoice. Never an individual. The format, the section and the date are agreed in writing first, and if your feature doesn't go live, you get it all back.
We don't promise any of those. It gives the people who look you up, such as customers, partners and investors, a page on a national daily's website that they know. We don't promise whether or where it shows up in search. If you need enquiries this month, ads are the better tool, and we run those too.
Online, if you want a story about you: a page you can link to and share. Print, if you want your own ad in front of readers in particular cities on a particular day. Some brands do both around one moment, like a launch. On the call we'll tell you which fits, and whether either is worth it for you.
Either, depending on the format you choose. Your own story is about your company alone. A list post puts your brand in a shared article with a few others; it isn't a ranking or a pick by The Indian Express. You get the format, the length and the working title in writing before you pay.
A 30-minute interview, high-resolution photos you have the rights to, your logo, facts you can back up, and one read of the draft. You approve the draft before it's submitted; the paper may edit it to its house style and has the final say. Timing follows its calendar, and you get the date, and how long it stays live, in writing before you pay.
Maybe a link, but not an SEO backlink. Google asks publishers to mark paid links as sponsored, so a link in a paid story can bring readers to your site, but don't buy it for rankings; we don't sell SEO. Whether a link to your website is included is in your written scope.
Not in those words. Say "Sponsored feature in The Indian Express" in plain text with the link. Don't write "featured in", "as seen in" or "covered by", and don't claim the paper chose, ranked or reported on you. Don't use its logo without its written permission, and never make a front-page-style image.
Yes. On your own page, say it's a sponsored feature. Any paid post on the paper's own handles is labelled as paid at the start, as the ASCI code requires. If you pay creators to share it, they must label their posts as ads and use the platform's paid label.
Yes, so check first. Medical-ethics rules bar doctors from publicity about their own skills or achievements. Bar Council rules bar advocates from advertising, and ICAI limits what a practising CA can advertise, so we don't sell a feature about your own practice. A developer's story that names a project must show its RERA number and the authority's website. This is not legal advice, and we'll tell you on the call if we can't take it on.
Question not answered here? Ask it on a call, or send it on WhatsApp.
10 minutes, today.
Want to get featured in The Indian Express? Tell us what you've built and who should read about it. In about 10 minutes you'll know the format, the timing and the fee.
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