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MUMBAI: Viacom18, the equal joint venture company between Viacom and TV18, is looking at launching more channels, expanding into regional markets and creating content for new...
MUMBAI: For a $15 billion media and entertainment industry, the lack of reliable data is one of the major factors pulling down growth. Star India CEO...
MUMBAI: The Indian print market is different from the west and is still showing growth in readership unlike many matured markets where digital growth is affecting...
MUMBAI: For national broadcasters, having a regional footprint is becoming imperative as it is growing at a furious pace compared to its matured richer brother that...
MUMBAI: For national broadcasters, having a regional footprint is becoming imperative as it is growing at a furious pace compared to its matured richer brother that...
MUMBAI: There is a strong future for independent cinema in India that can focus on telling stories without first worrying about stars, music. This was the...
MUMBAI: Tailoring content to fit into a fragmented television and fast-changing socio-economic milieu is a fresh challenge that content creators face in India today. An expansive...
MUMBAI: Indian films have won laurels, been applauded at the box office and are watched theatrically, on television and many other available mediums. What then is...
MUMBAI: There is nothing called niche channels as the viewership for speciality content has grown substantially and the term is used by media buyers to stitch...
MUMBAI: Price controls are limiting the revenue growth for broadcasters in India as they earn net income of $700 million from subscription after paying out carriage...
MUMBAI: Cloud-based technology will empower consumers and has the potential to change the way content is consumed. This was the underlying theme of the panel discussion...
MUMBAI: Deal activity in the Indian media and entertainment (M&E) industry stayed strong in 2011. More than 1000 deals were stitched as mergers and acquisitions and...
MUMBAI: Taj Television Thursday launched Ten Golf, its third specialised channel, and has priced it aggressively at Rs 200 per subscriber a month. The golf-dedicated channel...
MUMBAI: Cisco will become the largest video and content security solutions provider in India following its $5 billion acquisition of NDS. The California-based networking giant has...
MUMBAI: Print is still breathing strong in India while gasping for life in the US where Internet is poised to overtake the traditional media this year...
MUMBAI: Filmmakers in India have begun to realise that low-budget films do well within the country as well as outside, if the content is good and...
MUMBAI: The world is going online and Indian businesses and consumers are not far behind in accepting the notion of online purchases and e-commerce sites. ‘The...
MUMBAI: The ball has started rolling for more collaboration and cross pollination of knowledge, technology and talent between two of the world’s largest film communities –...
MUMBAI: Information & Broadcasting Secretary Uday Varma Wednesday said the government was committed to the 30 June deadline for the complete switchover from analogue to digital...
MUMBAI: Entertainment in today’s times cannot be termed as evolution anymore, it is a ‘revolution’, Zee Entertainment Enterprises MD and CEO Punit Goenka said on Wednesday...
MUMBAI: How does one react on the issue of copyright when a person appeals to a Court to remove a dialogue of the Salman Khan starrer...
MUMBAI: Fox Star Studios CEO Vijay Singh said today that compared to the film scenario some years earlier, the situation had changed considerably. ‘In recent years...
MUMBAI: Facebook has changed the way the present generation all over the globe communicates, and the world has become smaller with various social media platforms providing...
MUMBAI: Star India CEO and Ficci Broadcast Forum chairman Uday Shankar set the ball rolling at the inaugural of the 13th edition of the Ficci Frames...
MUMBAI: Even though the Indian cinema is thriving and poised to become a $ five billion industry in the next two years, the government must act...
MUMBAI: The Indian film industry is buoyant and is generating a lot of investor interests globally. However, it is marred by multiple challenges including a huge...
MUMBAI: The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) and Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) Wednesday formally announced the official formation of...
MUMBAI: For all the hype surrounding new media, few companies have figured out how to profit from their initial forays into the arena. From running a...
MUMBAI: The Indian media and entertainment industry is dangerously tilted towards advertising revenues across segments and for it to considerably scale up, subscription models have...
MUMBAI: The electronic news industry in India is in a bad shape. There is an over-dependence on advertising income, too many players (including some non-serious ones)...
MUMBAI: The arrival of 3G into the Indian telecom sector has come at the right time. That is because five years back handsets did not have...
MUMBAI: The Indian television industry is helping three million people with jobs and is fetching a revenue of $15 billion every year. However, rather than discussing...
MUMBAI: The 12th edition of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) concluded with the presentation of the Ficci-Frames Excellence awards. The...
MUMBAI: Bollywood style melodramas can look best in 3D, said Hollywood VFX Supervisor Michael Fink, while speaking at Ficci-Frames 2011. “While testing movies to be...
MUMBAI: The year 2010 stands out as the year when many newcomers came into films. It also saw filmmakers departing from the traditional ways of...
MUMBAI: The global economic slowdown shook tremors in the Indian media and entertainment sector as deal activities dropped in value in 2010, making many companies...
MUMBAI: The Wolverine of X-Men, Huge Jackman, and the he-man of ‘Main Hoon Na’ Shah Rukh Khan – known for flexing their muscles – today shook...
MUMBAI: Having squandered the capital that it raised over the last few years, the Indian film industry is facing tough times as it prepares to...
MUMBAI: For consumers, the definition of television is changing. Television is coming out of the TV screen and entering into mobile, computer and other screens....
MUMBAI: Is there any formula that could go on to prove that a film being made would become a hit with the audiences? Speakers at...
MUMBAI: Out of 800 films released a year, around 200 films are made by Bollywood. Among them, around 85 per cent of the films flop. So...
MUMBAI: Greater attention should be paid to the script that is actually the ‘paying proposition’ for any film, experts said. The session on ‘Making Cinema with...
MUMBAI: The advent of digital cinema has helped technology companies as well as film producers a great deal in terms of having their films get...
MUMBAI: Google President Asia Pacific and Japan Daniel Alegre, while speaking at the Ficci-Frames summit, started the session with a rather sweeping statement: “Online...
MUMBAI: Spreadsheet capitalism is over and no more is it viable for media companies to chase valuations but to build models that are profitable. The broadcasting...
MUMBAI: India‘s television industry is on the fast growth track again, after slowing down in 2009. The segment has seen a 15.56 per cent rise...
MUMBAI: If piracy is the biggest impediment in distributing Indian movies internationally, online innovations could be very effective in dealing with the problem, emphasised Google Japan...
MUMBAI: After de-growing for two straight years, India‘s film industry is expected to swing into positive action in 2011 due to a strong string of releases...
MUMBAI: With voice revenues having matured and tapered off, the next step in the evolution of the Indian telecom sector will be the focus of...
MUMBAI: The film industry and its problems were unfortunately not being taken seriously by the Central Government, particularly at this present juncture when it is passing...
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MUMBAI: For decades, creative storytelling has been the cornerstone of brand communication. The “big idea” amplified through catchy jingles, striking...
MUMBAI: Zepto has elevated Ahmad Muneeb to vice president – HR centre of excellence, placing him at the helm of...
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