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MUMBAI: December proved one thing beyond doubt: nothing pulls audiences together quite like festive favourites and a bit of football. Nielsen’s December 2025 Media Distributor Gauge...
MUMBAI: The American television industry’s production decline accelerated in 2025, with the total number of original series falling for the third consecutive year, according to research...
MUMBAI: Nielsen-owned Gracenote has brought in seasoned adtech leader Bill Condon as its first-ever head of advertising sales, signalling a sharper push into the fast-moving world...
California: Netflix is turbocharging the shift to ad-supported streaming. Usage of cheaper, advert-backed tiers climbed across major platforms between Q4 2024 and Q3 2025, with Netflix...
CALIFORNIA: The Walt Disney Company has pressed refresh on how it tells its story. The entertainment giant has announced a new enterprise-wide marketing and brand organisation,...
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 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...
NEW YORK: Paramount and Netflix have delivered knockout performances in November’s streaming battle, each posting double-digit growth that has reshuffled the media distributor rankings and left...
MUMBAI: If connected TV has been improvising, IAB Tech Lab is finally handing it the sheet music. The global digital advertising standards body has unveiled a...
CALIFORNIA: Disney is bringing Silicon Valley muscle into its boardroom. The Walt Disney Company has nominated former Apple chief operating officer Jeff Williams as an independent...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have sealed a landmark three-year deal that brings more than 200 beloved characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star...
MUMBAI: In what can only be described as the streaming industry’s biggest power grab, Netflix has outmanoeuvred Paramount and Comcast to snap up Warner Bros Discovery’s...
MUMBAI: JioStar is preparing to walk away from its marquee International Cricket Council media rights agreement, according to a report by The Economic Times, the company...
PARIS: Havas has pounced on Bearded Kitten, scooping up the multi-award-winning experiential agency in a move that proves live brand experiences are no longer the industry’s...
MUMBAI: Under the era of Youtube, Netflix and along with it the access to a lot of international and hyper local content, is buried a little piece of...
GURGAON: Samsung Ads has tapped Vignesh V as director of ad sales for India, handing him the mandate to crank up growth, sharpen strategy and cement...
MUMBAI: When it comes to endings, Disney’s latest financial chapter could give its own films a run for their money. The entertainment powerhouse closed its fiscal...
MUMBAI: Looks like Shraddha Kapoor is ready to hop into action! JioStar, through its studio arm Star Studio18, has announced that the Hindi cinema star will...
MUMBAI: Mythik, the tech-first entertainment company aiming to become the “Disney from the East”, has appointed Gunjan Bhow, a veteran of Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video...
MUMBAI: Bhartiya Mall of Bengaluru, the city’s premier lifestyle and shopping destination, has strengthened its retail portfolio with 16 brand launches in just six months, marking...
BURBANK: Disney is ditching Star. From 8 October, Hulu—until now available only in America and Japan—will become the entertainment brand for adult content on Disney+ in...
MUMBAI: The global entertainment startup, on a mission to be the “Disney from the East” has unveiled a heavyweight product and technology leadership team with three...
MUMBAI: Bennett Coleman & Co, publisher of the Times of India, has hired Roshin Mascarenhas as its new head of talent acquisition, luring her from WPP...
PARIS: Mipcom Cannes is recasting itself as the global meeting ground for the creator economy, unveiling a 13–16 October programme that director Lucy Smith calls “the...
MUMBAI: IMDb is betting that entertainment companies will pay handsomely for insights into what 250 million monthly users are actually watching. The world’s largest film and...
MUMBAI: Mythik, the tech-first entertainment upstart styling itself as the “Disney from the East”, has hired Preeti Vyas as president of content strategy, partnerships and consumer...
MUMBAI: Free ad-supported television (Fast) is enjoying a blistering run. The number of Fast channels worldwide has climbed nearly 14 per cent since the start of...
LOS ANGELES: : Parrot Analytics, the media analytics firm known for pioneering streaming valuation, has launched Sports Demand, billed as the most advanced global sports analytics...
MUMBAI: His is a familiar face to Indian music and streaming industry professionals. We are talking about Tony Zameczkowski who used to jet his way to...
MUMBAI: Sportz Interactive (SI) is changing its game plan and it’s going big on both people and pixels. In a strategic shake-up aimed at fuelling its...
MUMBAI: The world’s biggest brand owners have turned emotional connections into cold, hard cash. Disney sits atop a licensing empire worth $62 billion in retail sales,...
MUMBAI: Amazon Prime Video has roped in media veteran Aditi Guha as head of programming & content insights for Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios India....
MUMBAI: A+E Global Media, home to A&E, History and Lifetime, is up for grabs as Disney and Hearst are exploring a potential sale of their 50-50...
MUMBAI: Disney+ and Nippon TV are teaming up for a genre-first from Japan—an unscripted travel reality series titled “Traveling with Snow Man,” set to premiere on...
MUMBAI: The golden age of eak TV is officially over, and streamers are reaching for the remote to change channels back to safety. According to Digital...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company’s Q2 2025 earnings have delivered a star-studded performance, with revenues climbing seven per cent to $23.6 billion, driven by robust gains...
MUMBAI: Magnite is turning up the volume in the streaming ad world with the next-gen launch of its Springserve video platform, an upgraded OTT/CTV solution that...
MUMBAI: Nielsen’s March 2025 report on The Gauge indicates a shift towards more seasonal television viewing patterns in the US. Overall television viewing declined by six...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Co has launched new advertising technology integrations to enhance live streaming monetisation on its platforms earlier this week. Advertisers can now programmatically...
MUMBAI: The Maruti Suzuki Arena Mumbai Comic Con powered by Crunchyroll is all set to wrap up Comic Con India’s 2025 calendar with a spectacular finale...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has recruited Jay Levine, former CEO of Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat media company, to serve as executive vice president, chief strategy officer...
MUMBAI: Khyati Madaan, a film marketing professional with over a decade of experience at some of India’s most prestigious entertainment companies, has announced the official launch...
He is an award-winning sound guy. Sound as in reliable; sound as in to do with audio. Cory Choy and his boutique sound studio Silver Sound...
MUMBAI: There is nothing such as a freebie; everything has a price. A lot of misinformation has been put out about the charges that JioHotstar is...
MUMBAI: The British media is all agog about British prime minister Keir Starmer’s government’s plans to modernise the BBC licence fee, including extending it to those...
MUMBAI: The ambitious Venu Sports streaming service, a joint venture between Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, will not be launching after all. The only launch...
MUMBAI: In the enchanted realm of acquisitions, The Walt Disney Company has long been the master storyteller, weaving tales of strategic mergers and blockbuster stakes. With...
MUMBAI: The big media and entertainment boys are at it, despite all round murmurings that the content production business is seeing a massive slowdown. At least,...
Mumbai: Sumner Redstone, the influential US media mogul who owned CBS and Viacom, passed away at the age of 97, as confirmed by his family on...
MUMBAI: 11 October marked a new way of program scheduling for Disney+. The streamer dropped five episodes of drama series Return to Las Sabinas on its...
