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  • EPIC ON partners with CloudWalker

    EPIC ON partners with CloudWalker

    MUMBAI: EPIC ON, the premium OTT platform known for its diverse India-centric content by IN10 Media Network, today announced a significant partnership with leading online smart TV brand CloudWalker. This partnership enables EPIC ON to be pre-embedded into CloudWalker smart screens and smart TVs, allowing users quick and easy access to the platform’s exceptional content library.

    EPIC ON hosts a wide array of series focused on the premise of ‘India’s Storytellers’, and will be soon adding a mixed bag of content formats for its new and revamped avatar. Apart from the existing premium library of EPIC ON, Cloudwalker users will have access to live stream the network’s linear broadcast channels: EPIC TV – India Ka Apna Infotainment, ShowBox – Apna Music, Apna Swag and newly launched Filamchi – Filman Ka Laalchi. With this partnership, EPIC ON further strengthens its penetration in the smart TV market with CloudWalker’s 4K LED Smart Screens, thus accelerating its progress towards reaching a new set of viewers.

    Along with CloudWalker Smart TVs, EPIC ON will also be part of Cloud TV OS, a certified AOSP operating system for Android-based smart TVs. EPIC ON is now a built-in app for all Cloud TV OS powered Smart TVs like Daiwa, Shinco, Videotex, Telefunken, Hyundai, Lloyd amongst the others.

    EPIC ON COO Sourjya Mohanty said, “The Indian market has seen a rapid growth in the demand for Smart TVs and eventually the new offering of Smart Screens from CloudWalker. This shift in the consumption pattern enables us to partner and provide our high-quality content across various screens. Our association with the smart technology driven company CloudWalker, is a step forward in providing a seamless viewing experience along with further expanding our reach within Smart TV users.”

    CloudWalker president Jagdish Rajpurohit said, “In this age of digitization, consumers’ TV consumption patterns are rapidly evolving. They are now constantly looking for intelligent entertainment solutions that can allow them to easily stream a wide variety of entertainment content. We are delighted to partner with EPIC ON that offers an incredible collection of entertaining and informative India-centric TV shows, short videos, documentaries, and specials across multiple content genres. Our users will now be able to subscribe to EPIC ON as well as the ShowBox Music channel along with thousands of hours of entertaining digital content available on CloudWalker’s Smart Screens and TVs.  By bringing this vast gamut of uninterrupted immersive content, we are looking forward to an affirmative response from our users.”

    Arjun Bajaaj, director – Videotex International, CEO and founder – Daiwa and Shinco, said, “We at Videotex, want to bring the ultimate end to end experience for our OEM customers as well as our brands Daiwa, Shinco and Telefunken in India. In sync, we are glad to partner with EPIC ON which has very detailed and enriched content across genres especially for the Indian audience – Hindi language TV shows, Sports, Mythology etc. Our partnership shall strengthen the Home entertainment eco-system, with the wide base of OTT content curated for our varied demographics."

    Along with being available on the CloudWalker Smart TVs, EPIC ON smartphone app is also available across iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV and others.

  • Gemplex collaborates with Cloudwalker

    Gemplex collaborates with Cloudwalker

    MUMBAI: Web and app streaming service Gemplex has partnered with leading online smart TV brand CloudWalker to facilitate the expansion of its global on-demand internet streaming operations beyond the app module and internet TV network.

    Gemplex is has presence in 50+ countries worldwide. This expansion would bring an extensive library of high-quality content, including 4K HDR-mastered original TV series, to more markets in urban and rural India, where CloudWalker has a fair presence with a range of innovative smart screens and TVs in the online and offline markets.

    Gemplex MD-chairman Prakash Tiwari said: "The primary motive for a tie-up with CloudWalker is due to its scale of seamless digital entertainment distribution network in the Indian market via smart TVs and its latest offering of smart screens with superior, HDR picture quality and multi-tasking capabilities that it lends to the smart TV industry.”

    “Our partnership with CloudWalker will help entertainment enthusiasts across India to discover and enjoy Gemplex” said Gemplex CEO Suresh Anchan.

    “We look forward to delighting our users with cutting-edge technology and the ability to watch their favourite series in UHD and HD delivered to their homes” said Gemplex SVP Avishek Majumder.

    “We are excited to be partnering with CloudWalker and offer our original and diversified contents to their users.” said Vishalkumar Patil, SVP, Gemplex.

    CloudWalker president Jagdish Rajpurohit said: “We are excited to partner with Gemplex and bring its diverse range of exclusive, high-quality content offering to our vast audience base consuming thousands of hours of digital content on CloudWalker smart screens and smart TVs daily. Our aim is to offer variety of popular content for our users to stream on the big screen. The native content discovery engine & app recommendation on CloudWalker smart screen/TV brings curated movies, TV shows, originals, music, documentaries, spiritual content, viral videos, kids’ entertainment, apps & much more. Adding Gemplex to our vast content library gives an edge to our product offering in the market and offers a new content platform to our users for entertainment.”

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  • DocuBay brings digital content to TV screens with CloudWalker

    DocuBay brings digital content to TV screens with CloudWalker

    MUMBAI: DocuBay, the global premium membership video-on-demand platform by IN10 Media Network has joined hands with leading online Smart TV brand CloudWalker. With CloudWalker’s focus on making popular digital content accessible on big screen for the Indian audience with its Smart Screens and Smart TVs, the partnership will enable the CloudWalker users access to DocuBay’s premium library, comprising of high-definition and 4K documentary features across several genres.

    DocuBay is the only documentaries specific platform available on CloudWalker 4K LED SMART SCREEN / TV, adding to CloudWalker’s existing content offering across movies, TV shows, Music, Kids shows, popular videos & many more. Through this partnership, DocuBay gets a chance to engage with new sets of audiences and enhance its network among the Smart TV user community.

    CloudWalker users can watch DocuBay’s varied selection of international documentaries, sourced from more than 80 countries, spanning a variety of categories. DocuBay’s intuitive interface makes the discovery of films that suit each member’s preferences easy, through specially-curated categories called ‘Bays’ – Nature, Adventure, Travel, Culture, Science, Biography, and more, in addition to PoliticsBay, along with short snackable clips called DocuBytes for viewing on-the-go. The documentary features encompass diverse human experiences and opinions, varying perspectives and narratives, without boundaries of language, race, geography, or nationality.

    DocuBay is available all over the world, on the web, smartphones, and smart TV apps.

    Commenting on the partnership, DocuBay COO Akul Tripathi said, “We are confident that Smart TV audiences will be significant contributors to the ever-booming content streaming industry, especially for a platform like DocuBay where watching documentary features on the big screen, is a much enhanced experience, especially in 4K. This partnership is consistent with our vision of building a highly engaged community of documentary lovers.”

    CloudWalker president Jagdish Rajpurohit said “With digital content being the crux of today’s smart entertainment consumption amongst the Indian audience, we’re glad to introduce DocuBay’s unique and vast collection of documentaries for our users to stream on the big screen. With Content discovery and curation platform built-in CloudWalker Smart Screens/Smart TVs, bringing thousands of hours of global entertainment across Movies, TV shows, Documentaries, Music, Kids Shows & more for the users, our association with DocuBay is surely going to add more value to the content offering and delight the users.”

  • ZEE5 ASSOCIATES WITH CLOUDWALKER

    ZEE5 ASSOCIATES WITH CLOUDWALKER

    MUMBAI: ZEE5, India’s fastest growing digital entertainment platform, announced its partnership with CloudWalker, a leading online Smart TV brand from India. CloudWalker emphasizes on creating digital content solutions with the power of internet on large format screens. Equipped with a self-developed, Made-In-India content discovery and curation engine, CloudWalker Smart TVs will enable users to discover great content and have an amazing digital entertainment experience from the ZEE5 app in a seamless and hassle-free manner, on the big screen.

    According to the association, ZEE5 app will be live on CloudWalker’s flagship Smart TV range, “Cloud TV’ available on leading online platforms.  ZEE5 will be featuring on the homepage of all CloudWalker Smart TVs.

    Manish Aggarwal, Business Head ZEE5 India said, “Escalating technology in smart TVs enables us to empower and interact with our consumers. CloudWalker brings limitless digital content streaming in living rooms. This association will help more users to log onto ZEE5 and enjoy the eclectic choice of content. Additionally, this also takes a step forward to our aim of being present on all Smart TVs and connected devices by the end of this year.”

    Jagdish Rajpurohit, President, CloudWalker said, “At CloudWalker, we believe that great digital content merits to be discovered and so we connect the viewers with India’s largest selection of digital content for streaming on TVs. Our goal is to digitalize entertainment across all the living rooms and enable our customers to have a fantastic user-experience. We are hoping that partnership with ZEE5 amplifies our influence.”

    In the past few months, ZEE5 has forged several alliances with a view to bring its subscribers the best across the spectrum of digital experiences. With the recent association with VEWD, Xiaomi MiTV, Samsung and now with LG Smart TV, the platform is taking a step forward to strengthen its subscriber reach.

    With over 3500 films, 500+ TV shows, 4000+ music videos, 35+ theatre plays and 90+ LIVE TV Channels across 12 languages, ZEE5truly presents a blend of unrivalled content offering for its viewers across the nation. With ZEE5, the global content of Zindagi as a brand, which was widely appreciated across the country, has also been brought back for its loyal viewers.

  • CloudWalker partners with Spuul to liven up the living room with 10,000 hours of your favourite Bollywood and Regional movies

    CloudWalker partners with Spuul to liven up the living room with 10,000 hours of your favourite Bollywood and Regional movies

    MUMBAI: CloudWalker, a Smart TV company and Spuul, a popular online video streaming service has announced a partnership to enable users to watch Bollywood and regional movies on Cloud TV X2, India’s First 4K-Ready Full HD Smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat OS. This association will bring about more than 10,000 hours of exciting Bollywood movies right in the living rooms of users of Cloud TV X2, thus providing an immersive viewing experience promised by Cloud TV X2, that’s powered by the latest Android 7.0 Nougat.

    Commenting on the association, Jagdish Rajpurohit, President of CloudWalker, said, “At CloudWalker, we are driven with a vision to provide users with the best of digital content and technology on a Smart TV. Thus, after introducing Cloud TV X2 that packs powerful features like a Made in India content discovery & curation engine with the latest Android 7.0 Nougat, we have been working intensely to aggregate the best of digital content for our viewers. To the same end, we are delighted to announce our partnership with Spuul – one of the leading global OTT platform for latest to blockbuster Bollywood movies. We are hopeful that our viewers will prefer to consume this exciting content in our future ready Smart TV, Cloud TV X2.”

    Echoing a similar thought, Rajiv Vaidya, CEO at Spuul,  added, “Spuul has always been at the forefront of allowing users to consume content on multiple devices like phone, tablet, laptop, e-reader or TV, wherever you go. This association with the latest and futuristic features available on CloudWalker, is a step forward in providing an improved and seamless viewing experience for our users. We look forward to our association with CloudWalker and making our extensive collection of blockbuster Bollywood movies available on Cloud TV X2.”

    In the past, CloudWalker had partnered with some of the leading OTT players in India, such as Hotstar, Hungama Play, ESPN and Sun NXT. With the recent association, CloudWalker has further strengthened its content offerings for the Cloud TV X2. To help users comfortably navigate the sea pool of the available content, Cloud TV X2 is powered by a Made-In-India content discovery and curation engine. The engine analyses social and global trends and curates the most popular digital content available over the internet for the viewers.

    The Cloud TV X2, CloudWalker’s flagship Smart TV, is India’s First 4K-Ready Full HD smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat. The state-of-the-art smart TV is available in five screen sizes – 32” | 40”| 43” | 50” | 55” – and can be purchased on Amazon.

  • CloudWalker partners with Hungama Play to deliver top-notch entertainment to users, with a 90 days subscription

    CloudWalker partners with Hungama Play to deliver top-notch entertainment to users, with a 90 days subscription

    MUMBAI: Driven by the vision to disrupt and revolutionize the traditional TV viewing experience in India, CloudWalker has partnered with Hungama Play for its Cloud TV X2, India’s first-ever 4K Ready Full HD Smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat, available exclusively on Amazon. As part of the association, the Cloud TV X2 users will not only be able to stream their favourite content on the Smart TV but also receive a 90-days subscription of Hungama Play. Cloud TV X2 is powered by the Made-In-India content discovery and curation engine which facilitates decision making by curating the globally and socially trending content along with popular movies & originals from Hungama Play.  

    Commenting on the latest development, Jagdish Rajpurohit, President of CloudWalker, said, “In this age of digitization, the TV consumers are also evolving and require smart and intelligent entertainment solutions. With the advent of Cloud TV X2, they now have the choice to be future ready and get their fill of entertainment in a 4K-Ready ecosystem. We are glad to partner with Hungama Play that offers an incredible collection of Indian and international Movies, TV Shows, Documentaries, Kids shows, originals and short videos. Furthermore, our users will also receive a subscription to Hungama Play for 90 days on sign-up. This is a special addition to the thousands of hours of entertaining digital content available on Cloud TV X2 and we look forward to an affirmative response from our users.”

    Siddhartha Roy, COO, Hungama Digital Media said, “We are excited to partner with CloudWalker and offer the Hungama Play service to the users of Cloud TV X2. Besides adding to our existing customer touchpoints, the association will enable viewers to have an immersive content viewing experience on CloudWalker’s advanced smart TVs. We look forward to engaging with the new and existing users of Cloud TV X2, and are certain that our 90-days subscription will give them another reason to explore our multi-lingual and multi-genre library of films, TV shows, originals and more.”

    With this partnership, CloudWalker continues to strongly march ahead on its vision of providing an exhaustive and complete digital entertainment solution to the Indian customers. The company has been on an aggressive expansion spree, partnering with leading names in the Indian OTT industry, to offer its users millions of hours of good-quality content and an immersive viewing and audio experience. 

    The Cloud TV X2, CloudWalker’s flagship Smart TV, is India’s First 4K-Ready Full HD smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat. The state-of-the-art smart TV is available in five screen sizes – 32” | 40”| 43” | 50” | 55” – and can be purchased on Amazon.

  • FCB Kinnect becomes chosen Cloudwalker

    FCB Kinnect becomes chosen Cloudwalker

    MUMBAI: FCB Kinnect, a digital marketing agency, has won the digital media duties for Cloudwalker, a tech-entertainment company that is working to revolutionise the way television is being watched. The mandate includes content management and digital duties of creative strategy. Their digital media buying and planning will be taken care of by Media Kinnect, Social Kinnect’s exclusive unit. Cloudwalker started its commercial activity by launching Android-based TV box that converts any TV into a smart TV and are now getting ready to launch Smart TVs with the technology inbuilt. FCB Kinnect has provided ‘result-driven digital marketing services’ to the country’s top brands such as Indiabulls Home Loans, L’Oreal Professional, Zee TV, Fashion at Big Bazaar, Logha, Zee Studio, Abbott India, Star Gold, Asian Paints, PNB Metlife and Borosil. FCB Kinnect CEO Rohan Mehta said, “Cloudwalker is an exciting client to have on board, as we believe that consumption of entertainment is moving to a more personalised and an on-demand direction.” Cloudwalker Streaming Technologies president JagdishRajpurohit said, “We were looking out for an agency had the experience to wade through the vastness of the digital space to get our brand the right amount of exposure and reach.”

  • FCB Kinnect becomes chosen Cloudwalker

    FCB Kinnect becomes chosen Cloudwalker

    MUMBAI: FCB Kinnect, a digital marketing agency, has won the digital media duties for Cloudwalker, a tech-entertainment company that is working to revolutionise the way television is being watched. The mandate includes content management and digital duties of creative strategy. Their digital media buying and planning will be taken care of by Media Kinnect, Social Kinnect’s exclusive unit. Cloudwalker started its commercial activity by launching Android-based TV box that converts any TV into a smart TV and are now getting ready to launch Smart TVs with the technology inbuilt. FCB Kinnect has provided ‘result-driven digital marketing services’ to the country’s top brands such as Indiabulls Home Loans, L’Oreal Professional, Zee TV, Fashion at Big Bazaar, Logha, Zee Studio, Abbott India, Star Gold, Asian Paints, PNB Metlife and Borosil. FCB Kinnect CEO Rohan Mehta said, “Cloudwalker is an exciting client to have on board, as we believe that consumption of entertainment is moving to a more personalised and an on-demand direction.” Cloudwalker Streaming Technologies president JagdishRajpurohit said, “We were looking out for an agency had the experience to wade through the vastness of the digital space to get our brand the right amount of exposure and reach.”

  • A new ‘Cloudwalker’ in the virtual world

    A new ‘Cloudwalker’ in the virtual world

    MUMBAI: As the digital ecosystem in India is set to expand, the market for Video on Demand (VOD) platforms is only growing. A new kid on the bloc is Half Ticket, which claims to be India’s first curated VOD megastore.

     

    Launched 45 days ago by CloudWalker Streaming Technologies, the company researched for seven months before giving a go ahead to the beta version of the site. CloudWalker founder Jagdish Rajpurohit says, “We call ourselves as an enabler of one’s content in the digital world. If one has content which has a strong demand, and if people watch this content, then one will earn money.”

     

    But how different is Half Ticket from its competitors? Rajpurohit says as a matter of strategy they decided to curate content across the internet and bring it to the platform. They see themselves as digital exhibitors at par with brick and mortar multiplexes. “The difference between YouTube and other VOD’s is that one has to search content while in our case we make the content available to the audiences with ease,” says Rajpurohit while adding that they didn’t pay for the content.

     

    Besides curating, the company is also creating digital content. Explaining the same he says, “We are offering pre-marketing digital services. If one is making a film, one also shoots a lot of the making of the film which is useless. By using this and adapting our own scripts, we make customised content for producers to use for promotions.” It is also making a digital comedy serial in Hinglish of which the IP will rest with CloudWalker.

     

    The platform is also creating a space for independent cinema which will give them an opportunity to earn revenue for a longer time. “Half Ticket is not a video platform but it’s a digital distribution platform. It works on the strategy to help producers’ monetise better,” he says.

     

    While low bandwidth is one of the biggest challenges, according to Rajpurohit, the biggest opportunity will come when 4G enters the space. He further goes on to say, “Compared to the last five years, I see better days ahead. But the biggest challenge will be to make people aware that premium content is available digitally and one has to pay for it.”

     

    A 12 member team looks after curation of the content. “Our crucial point was that the internet today is uploading close to 220 hours of content every minute. In this scenario there is a 99 per cent chance of one missing the content they wish to see until and unless there is curation involved; one will not be able to choose the best,” the executive informs.

     

    So what is the checklist followed to select the content? Firstly, the content sourced is strictly family oriented. Secondly, the ratings and reviews based on film websites are taken into account before filling the content deck.

     

    The total team strength of the company is 32 and is based in Mumbai. The first level of funding came from the seven promoters of CloudWalker, who have invested a total of Rs 7 crore. It is in talks with two to three more funding companies who have expressed interest in the platform.

     

    The portal, which follows an advertisement driven model, is also reaching out to regional cinema makers. “We are telling regional cinema filmmakers that if they want to reach out to audiences worldwide, it will become much cheaper to bring the new content to a digital platform and release it. And as far as revenue is concerned, it is the same. If a film sells two to four lakh tickets across the world, then the production house can easily earn Rs 4 to 5 crore which is not possible theatrically,” he informs.

     

    The company plans to soon announce a Master Class for film distribution in the independent cinema.

     

    While content from channels like Colors, MTV, Nick, Viacom18, YouTube, History TV18, Dailymotion among others is already available on the platform, it is also in talks with two GECs. “The platform has 23,000 to 24,000 hours of content currently and is attracting a traction of 75,000 to 80,000 users every day. An app released four days ago has so far received 150 to 200 downloads,” boasts Rajpurohit.

     

    As part of its promotions, the platform tied up with My French Film Festival India and had a special screening at PVR wherein celebrities like Digamanshu Dhuliya, Ketan Mehta and Anurag Kashyap were present.

     

    Chalking the road ahead, Rajpurohit concludes, “We are in talks with new film distributors and will continue bringing festivals like ‘My French Film Festival’ to India.”