INDIA: As India gears up for the Union Budget 2026–27, scheduled to be presented on February 1, expectations are running high...
Mumbai: As India heads into the Union Budget on February 1, consumers are no longer starry-eyed. They are alert, restrained and quietly anxious. Kantar’s fifth annual...
MUMBAI: Riding high on the success of its blockbuster Mumbai debut, Anime India is accelerating its nationwide expansion with the announcement of Amazon MX Player as...
NEW DELHI: India’s embattled media industry has launched a pre-budget offensive, demanding sweeping tax relief to stop linear television from collapsing and digital platforms from drowning...
Day two of Transcend Goa 2026 built on the momentum of the opening day and offered a deeper dive into the possibilities of transmedia storytelling and...
Day One of Transcend Goa 2026 marked a significant step for India’s creative industries, as the inaugural transmedia conclave unfolded at the Marquinez Palace in Panjim...
MUMBAI: As the Union Budget 2026 approaches, India’s hospitality sector is pushing for long-pending policy reforms, warning that the absence of full infrastructure status continues to...
NATIONAL: Ficci has fired the opening salvo ahead of the Union Budget 2026–27, urging the government to double down on defence, exports and domestic capital as...
NEW DELHI: With the global economy wobbling and capital turning cautious, EY India believes the Union Budget 2026 has a clear job at hand. Keep growth on...
MUMBAI: If 2024 was the year India’s media regulators sharpened their knives, 2025 was when they started swinging. Broadcasters, streaming platforms, social-media giants, advertising agencies and...
MUMBAI: The bedroom is the new boardroom. India’s influencer marketing industry once dismissed as frivolous narcissism with ring lights crossed Rs 3,600 crore in 2024 and...
MUMBAI: They said disruption was coming. They were wrong. It’s already here. 2025 wasn’t just another year for India’s PR and communications industry, it was a...
MUMBAI: Indian sports rode a dizzying wave of contradictions. Cricket’s coffers were overflowing, women’s sports were finally commanding respect and rupees, tech was turning stadiums into...
RAIPUR: If 2024 was about stabilising the business, 2025 became the year FMCG brands paused, rethought, and recalibrated, says Akash Agrawalla, Co-founder of ZOFF Foods. In...
NATIONAL: As the dust settles on 2025, India’s television news industry resembles a gilded cage—grand in its architecture, yet increasingly confined by the shifting economics of...
MUMBAI: The revolution didn’t announce itself with fanfare. No dramatic unveiling, no watershed moment when everything changed overnight. Instead, 2025 became the year artificial intelligence stopped...
SEOUL: Forget speed dating. Seoul is bringing speed pitching to Las Vegas. The Seoul Business Agency, the city government’s startup wingman, is rolling out the red...
MUMBAI: If 2024 was about stabilising the business, 2025 became the year FMCG brands paused, rethought and recalibrated. Faced with uneven consumer demand, fluctuating input costs...
MUMBAI: If 2025 made artificial intelligence indispensable to marketing, 2026 will make it decisive. In this authored perspective, Nikhil Kumar, chief growth officerat mediasmart, argues that...
MUMBAI: It’s free, it’s fast, and it’s giving traditional Indian television the kind of thrashing usually reserved for cricket rivalries. Welcome to the world of Fast,...
In this article, Nivedita Anand, head of branding and strategic communications at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, reflects on a growing shift in higher...
MUMBAI: Lord Yama is keeping a close watch on India’s pay TV’s door, though from a distance, India’s pay-television industry, once the swaggering overlord of 151...
Masuma Siddique, founder and chief strategist of InkCraft Communications, looks back at 2025 as a reset year for advertising and marketing, one shaped by intention, restraint...
Dr. Vikas Katoch, Founder & CEO of Adomantra Digital India Pvt Ltd and a digital advertising specialist with over 14 years of experience, reflects on how...
MUMBAI: As 2025 draws to a close, India’s Hindi General Entertainment Channels (GECs) are a study in contrasts. The industry is effectively bifurcated into two distinct...
MUMBAI: For the advertising and marketing industry, 2025 marked a quiet but consequential reset. As content volumes ballooned and tools multiplied, audiences grew sharper in what...
MUMBAI: If 2024 was about recovery, 2025 was about conviction. As the curtain falls on this year, India’s real estate sector is celebrating one of its...
MUMBAI: For years, women were measured by restraint, by balance, by how well they fit into spaces never designed for them. Then they stopped fitting. They...
MUMBAI: The year 2025 proved Indian streaming has evolved from adolescence into aggressive adulthood. The market surged to approximately Rs 37,940 crore ($4.44 billion), with YouTube...
CHENNAI: The lights dimmed 1,460 times across India in 2025, and audiences showed up in force. Indian cinema did not just survive the year, it thrived,...
MUMBAI: 2025 will be remembered as the year India’s OTT industry stopped chasing scale for its own sake and began reckoning with how audiences actually consume...
MUMBAI: India’s advertising world spent 2025 holding on tight as the ground shifted beneath it. It was a year where everything moved at once: the market’s steady...
The wait for 100 billion USD M&E The 2012 Media and Entertainment (M&E) Outlook Report by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an industry body, identified...
MUMBAI: India’s media and entertainment industry has emerged from disruption into a phase of reinvention in 2025, as storytelling adapts across screens and technology redraws how...
From mass sackings to AI anxiety, streaming wars to regulatory sledgehammers, 2025 was one of corporate pain—with the government playing enforcer, disruptor and occasional clown MUMBAI:...
MUMBAI: Some industries slow down gaming hit respawn. In a year when entertainment options multiplied and attention became gold dust, the global gaming sector didn’t merely keep pace, it accelerated, expanded...
MUMBAI: If curiosity had a catchphrase in 2025, it would almost certainly begin with a wake word. Across living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms, Indians turned to...
MUMBAI: At first glance, 2025 looked like just another year of steady growth for India’s digital marketing industry. Budgets rose, platforms expanded and campaigns kept coming. But...
MUMBAI: 2025 looked like a year in which nothing really happened. No seismic cultural wave, no creative renaissance, no industry-defining moment. Yet beneath that deceptive stillness,...
MUMBAI: Something fundamental shifted in India in 2025. Entertainment stopped being a casual diversion and became a deliberate choice, as intentional as deciding where to eat...
MUMBAI: India’s sports and media ecosystem is having a blockbuster year, but behind the flashy scoreboards lie silent battles for talent, revenue stability and technological readiness....
TOKYO: The trillion-dollar threshold is here. Global advertising spend will breach $1 trillion for the first time in 2026, growing 5.1 per cent and comfortably outrunning...
California: Indians asked Google everything in 2025-and they meant it. The tech giant’s annual search roundup reveals a nation simultaneously gripped by AI mania, cricket fever,...
New Delhi: India’s digital marketers gathered at the Indian Digital Brand Fest 2025 with one shared realisation: the country’s brands are losing their identity. In a...
NEW DELHI: The Indian Digital Brand Fest 2025, held on 26 November, gathered marketers, brand chiefs and technology leaders for a day of high-velocity debate on the...
BENGALURU: The Bengaluru edition of Indiantelevision.com Group and mfilterit’s closed-door roundtable proved to be a power-packed and highly successful gathering of India’s app economy leaders. Themed...
AMSTERDAM: Amsterdam’s RAI convention centre became the epicentre of media’s digital revolution last week as 43,858 industry professionals descended on IBC2025, the world’s largest broadcasting and...
At around 10 am on 12 September, long before the espresso machines hit their stride, Hall 8 of Amsterdam’s RAI convention centre throbbed with an unexpected...
BENGALURU: With India’s app economy mushrooming and companies locked in a race for clicks and engagement in an era of attention deficit, the question is no longer...
AMSTERDAM: Amsterdam’s RAI convention centre will become the global capital of media and technology from 12–15 September when IBC 2025 opens its doors to broadcasters, streamers,...