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  • OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    NEW DELHI: Digital Over the Top sevice Eros Now has become available on the Apple TV media platform, Eros International Plc announced today.

    The announcement made simultaneously in New Delhi and London said Eros Now is now showcasing its extensive repository of Bollywood and regional language films and music videos, across Apple TV’s presence in 80 key countries including the USA, UK, India, Canada, Australia, and Malaysia.

    The Indian entertainment service includes full length movies, thematic curated playlists, English and Arabic subtitles for movies, music video playlists, regional language filters, video progression (users can continue watching a title they were watching on TV, mobile, tablet or computer) and access to a watchlist of titles discovered on any media platform that Eros Now is available on.

    Subscribers can now download the Eros Now app through the Apple TV App Store.

    Eros Digital CEO Rishika Lulla Singh said, “We are pleased to announce Eros Now’s further expansion to additional media platforms offered by Apple, an illustrious global brand. With the success of our iOS application on iPhone and iPad, we are strengthening our connection to our subscribers who are using Apple’s products everyday by now bringing a compelling array of Bollywood and regional language content to their living room.”

    The Apple TV association reaffirms Eros Now’s presence across top streaming devices. The app is available across most smart TV platforms including Android TV, Samsung, Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV.

  • OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    OTT service ErosNow on Apple TV

    NEW DELHI: Digital Over the Top sevice Eros Now has become available on the Apple TV media platform, Eros International Plc announced today.

    The announcement made simultaneously in New Delhi and London said Eros Now is now showcasing its extensive repository of Bollywood and regional language films and music videos, across Apple TV’s presence in 80 key countries including the USA, UK, India, Canada, Australia, and Malaysia.

    The Indian entertainment service includes full length movies, thematic curated playlists, English and Arabic subtitles for movies, music video playlists, regional language filters, video progression (users can continue watching a title they were watching on TV, mobile, tablet or computer) and access to a watchlist of titles discovered on any media platform that Eros Now is available on.

    Subscribers can now download the Eros Now app through the Apple TV App Store.

    Eros Digital CEO Rishika Lulla Singh said, “We are pleased to announce Eros Now’s further expansion to additional media platforms offered by Apple, an illustrious global brand. With the success of our iOS application on iPhone and iPad, we are strengthening our connection to our subscribers who are using Apple’s products everyday by now bringing a compelling array of Bollywood and regional language content to their living room.”

    The Apple TV association reaffirms Eros Now’s presence across top streaming devices. The app is available across most smart TV platforms including Android TV, Samsung, Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV.

  • Sports only OTT service Veqta to launch in June

    Sports only OTT service Veqta to launch in June

    MUMBAI: With the aim of expanding its portfolio, Veqta, a digital broadcast network dedicated to sports is all geared up to launch its OTT service in June 2016. With the launch of the platform, the venture will also roll-out its application followed by content in various regional languages.

    Through this platform, sports fans across India can engage into various other categories of sports content that they have not yet explored. Breaking apart from the other content providers, Veqta plans to provide content via on-demand videos and live streaming.

    “Veqta will follow a very friendly content format. There is very little sports content for the viewers. We will be a destination for sports fans to enjoy high quality content coming from the biggest names in the business”, asserts Veqta ‎co-founder and director Varun Mathur.

    It has raised $500,000 (Rs 3.4 cr) in seed funding from Chatsworth Management and sports management company ITW Consulting Pvt. Ltd. The firm had earlier received initial-stage backing from ITW.

    “What will make us different form the rest is our packaging, our different formats of short form and live streaming content as well as feeds in various regional languages which everyone can understand,” says Mathur.

    The platform will follow the freemium model wherein the users will have some content available for free while there will be a pay wall for some premium content. Its offerings will include licensed content and flagship studio content across various ‘underpunctuated’ categories like cricket, football, motorsports, basketball, tennis, badminton and a range of Olympic sports.

    The venture has signed deals with various international partners from the field of sports.  The venture has not locked deals with any advertisers as of yet and are just focused at expanding its consumer reach, building team and strengthening its product development.

    Taking a hint from this, it will be interesting to see whether the other OTT players like HotStar, Spuul, Hooq, Eros Now, Sony Liv, Ditto TV, VOOT, etc, might also look at mushrooming their target niche audiences.

  • Sports only OTT service Veqta to launch in June

    Sports only OTT service Veqta to launch in June

    MUMBAI: With the aim of expanding its portfolio, Veqta, a digital broadcast network dedicated to sports is all geared up to launch its OTT service in June 2016. With the launch of the platform, the venture will also roll-out its application followed by content in various regional languages.

    Through this platform, sports fans across India can engage into various other categories of sports content that they have not yet explored. Breaking apart from the other content providers, Veqta plans to provide content via on-demand videos and live streaming.

    “Veqta will follow a very friendly content format. There is very little sports content for the viewers. We will be a destination for sports fans to enjoy high quality content coming from the biggest names in the business”, asserts Veqta ‎co-founder and director Varun Mathur.

    It has raised $500,000 (Rs 3.4 cr) in seed funding from Chatsworth Management and sports management company ITW Consulting Pvt. Ltd. The firm had earlier received initial-stage backing from ITW.

    “What will make us different form the rest is our packaging, our different formats of short form and live streaming content as well as feeds in various regional languages which everyone can understand,” says Mathur.

    The platform will follow the freemium model wherein the users will have some content available for free while there will be a pay wall for some premium content. Its offerings will include licensed content and flagship studio content across various ‘underpunctuated’ categories like cricket, football, motorsports, basketball, tennis, badminton and a range of Olympic sports.

    The venture has signed deals with various international partners from the field of sports.  The venture has not locked deals with any advertisers as of yet and are just focused at expanding its consumer reach, building team and strengthening its product development.

    Taking a hint from this, it will be interesting to see whether the other OTT players like HotStar, Spuul, Hooq, Eros Now, Sony Liv, Ditto TV, VOOT, etc, might also look at mushrooming their target niche audiences.

  • Le 1s Eco sale to boom with Flipkart’s Big Shopping Days

    Le 1s Eco sale to boom with Flipkart’s Big Shopping Days

    MUMBAI: LeEco, the multinational internet ecosystem conglomerate announces that the highly popular Le 1s Eco will be on open sale during the Big Shopping Days of Flipkart on 25, 26 and 27 May, 2016 with very attractive offers.

    During this period, the company is looking to present appealing offers on the Le1s Eco, which will be one of the best in the industry.

    The consumers who buys a Le 1s Eco during this time will be offered the following –
    1.       LeEco Earphone worth Rs. 1300/- on every purchase
    2.       Additional 10% Cash Back on Citi Debit and Credit Cards
    3.       Additional Rs. 2000/- on exchange of the old phone.
    4.       Free Back Cover on every purchase
    5.       Le Eco Membership worth Rs. 4900/-

    Commenting on the announcement, LeEco India COO smart electronics business Atul Jain said, “We are humbled and overwhelmed with the kind of responses we are getting from our users. This announcement of giving special offers is a way of expressing our gratitude to our loyal users”.
     LeEco has recently launched its first Made for India Le 1s Eco Superphone that comes bundled with one year Supertainment program membership. Apart from the impressive number of devices sold, the company also notched up an industry first by bundling content worth Rs. 500+ million through LeEco memberships. It also made an unprecedented record of selling more than 5 lakh units of its Superphones within just 100 days after it officially entered into India.

    At a compelling price of Rs. 9,999, Le1 1s Eco is the first device to showcase the integrated content one-stop experience coupled with breakthrough technology that will disrupt boundaries and bring true value to users. It packs superlative specs with first of its kind Made for India Supertainment. All Le Superphones would be upgraded with an OTA, after which Supertainment program members would have access to excellent movies, music and TV channels.

    LeEco’s unique content ecosystem brings alive the company’s partnerships with Eros Now and YuppTV, through its platforms – Levidi and Live. The third premium content under LeEco Membership Program will be LeMusic that will allow members to listen to their favorite songs from over a wide range of *3.5+ million songs, that will come live on Q3 of 2016.

  • Le 1s Eco sale to boom with Flipkart’s Big Shopping Days

    Le 1s Eco sale to boom with Flipkart’s Big Shopping Days

    MUMBAI: LeEco, the multinational internet ecosystem conglomerate announces that the highly popular Le 1s Eco will be on open sale during the Big Shopping Days of Flipkart on 25, 26 and 27 May, 2016 with very attractive offers.

    During this period, the company is looking to present appealing offers on the Le1s Eco, which will be one of the best in the industry.

    The consumers who buys a Le 1s Eco during this time will be offered the following –
    1.       LeEco Earphone worth Rs. 1300/- on every purchase
    2.       Additional 10% Cash Back on Citi Debit and Credit Cards
    3.       Additional Rs. 2000/- on exchange of the old phone.
    4.       Free Back Cover on every purchase
    5.       Le Eco Membership worth Rs. 4900/-

    Commenting on the announcement, LeEco India COO smart electronics business Atul Jain said, “We are humbled and overwhelmed with the kind of responses we are getting from our users. This announcement of giving special offers is a way of expressing our gratitude to our loyal users”.
     LeEco has recently launched its first Made for India Le 1s Eco Superphone that comes bundled with one year Supertainment program membership. Apart from the impressive number of devices sold, the company also notched up an industry first by bundling content worth Rs. 500+ million through LeEco memberships. It also made an unprecedented record of selling more than 5 lakh units of its Superphones within just 100 days after it officially entered into India.

    At a compelling price of Rs. 9,999, Le1 1s Eco is the first device to showcase the integrated content one-stop experience coupled with breakthrough technology that will disrupt boundaries and bring true value to users. It packs superlative specs with first of its kind Made for India Supertainment. All Le Superphones would be upgraded with an OTA, after which Supertainment program members would have access to excellent movies, music and TV channels.

    LeEco’s unique content ecosystem brings alive the company’s partnerships with Eros Now and YuppTV, through its platforms – Levidi and Live. The third premium content under LeEco Membership Program will be LeMusic that will allow members to listen to their favorite songs from over a wide range of *3.5+ million songs, that will come live on Q3 of 2016.

  • Ditto TV aims to double revenues this fiscal; plans more original shows

    Ditto TV aims to double revenues this fiscal; plans more original shows

    MUMBAI: It’s gotten late off the blocks but it sure is looking to sprint ahead and fast. We are talking about the Zee network’s digital over the top (OTT) offering Ditto TV.

     

    Zee Digital Convergence (ZDC) Chief Executive Officer Debashish Ghosh told PTI over the weekend  that his goal is to double his company’s revenue from around Rs 30 crore to Rs 60 crore this year, with almost 95 per cent of it coming courtesy subscription.

     

    With 1.8 million subscribers on a monthly basis and almost 60 percent of them being repeat viewers, Ditto TV is present in 167 countries. Most of its consumption is however happening in India. With the exception of Star and Sun group channels, Ditto TV offers 156 channels across 13 languages. Ghosh further told PTI that almost 30 per cent of Ditto TV subscribers consume live TV.

     

    ZDC  has invested around $5 million in Ditto TV over the past three to four years, Ghosh disclosed. That is slated to go up in the coming months as it starts pumping in money into original content. The first of these is a music based show called Life is Music; other programmes are being planned in-house as well as with outside producers.

     

    Clearly, the OTT original content space is seeing a lot of action.

     

    Netflix is slated to launch in India by mid next year and invest top dollar in cutting edge content. Star India’s Hotstar already has an average of 20 million users every month. It has paid a fat commissioning fee to stand up comedy group All India Bakchod to produce shows running over 20 episodes. Then it has been premiering some of its big-ticket Bollywood movies and TV shows on Hotstar.

     

    Entertainment major Eros International recently announced that the registered user base of its OTT service Eros Now has grown to 30 million as of 30 September.  It has ordered six new original shows which are slated to debut soon and feature big name stars.

     

    MSM Media’s Sony Liv, on the other hand, notches up an average of 5-7 million monthly users, and is also getting into OTT content.  It is experimenting with a fiction show titled  Love Bytes. Then the Viacom18 group is also pacing on the sidelines, gearing up to launch its own OTT service under the leadership of Gaurav Gandhi.

     

    Ghosh, while speaking at IDOS (organized by Indiantelevision.com and MPA in September) said that the hyper activity is good for the OTT sector as a whole.

     

    He further  told PTI, that India is expected to have 500 million Internet users by 2017, out of which 382 million would be smartphone users, 70 per cent whom would be 3G/4G customers. And that is what is exciting the Zee TV network to further invest in Ditto TV.  Add to that the prediction that almost 60 per cent of India’s population is going to below 40 by 2020, and that both wired and wireless broadband infrastructure will be in place. That’s the positive side.

     

    “But the fact is that the OTT players will find the going challenging,” says a media observer. “At least until the numbers really scale up and bandwidth constraints and costs fall. Indian consumers are chary of paying for content, apart from cricket. Hence, Hotstar has taken the AVOD route (advertising video on demand). But advertisers and agencies have been reluctant to buy into the medium; at least at prices Star has envisaged. Eros Now has announced a multiple revenue stream offering which includes advertising, transactional (TVOD) and subscription video on demand (SVOD), with differential pricing for Indian and international consumers. Ditto TV is primarily SVOD and its growth has been limited so far. Each of them has to find a robust and sustainable revenue model.”

  • Eros Now to launch three original shows; ties up with Anil Kapoor Film Company

    Eros Now to launch three original shows; ties up with Anil Kapoor Film Company

    MUMBAI: As India’s digital landscape is poised to undergo a renaissance, Eros International’s over-the-top (OTT) platform Eros Now is gearing up to  produce multiple in-house flagship original programmes. Additionally, the platform will also showcase premieres of recently released Bollywood films. 

     

    The Eros Now mobile app for Android and iOS platforms, which will be free for download as of now, has also tied up with Anil Kapoor Film Company to co-produce the Indian adaptation of a popular international sitcom, the name of which will be revealed at a later date.

     

    Eros’ OTT platform will roll out its original content strategy with three ad-free shows namely Khel, The Client and Ponniyin Selvan. These shows will have film-like production values targeted at young Indians, which is the largest demographic of the Indian population. 

     

    Khel is a wicked dark drama featuring an insider’s perspective on the twisted characters that populate the world of cricket and the Indian Premier League. It is directed by Karan Anshuman. On the other hand, Rohan Sippy will helm The Client, which is a thriller based show starring Bipasha Basu as the main character. Ponniyin Selvan is an epic period drama based on a popular Tamil historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, which is an in-house production by Eros South. 

     

    Moreover, in a bid to create hype for internet users, Eros Now will also be premiering the latest Bollywood movie Tanu Weds Manu Returns on 19 July even prior to its television release. The other Bollywood movies that are scheduled to stream on the platform are Badlapur, NH10, Shamitabhand Happy Ending amongst others.

     

    Eros Now COO Karan Bedi said, “Eros Now is a premier online application for Android and IOS users, which will feature different genre of movies, TV serials, music albums and releases, that too free of cost. Eros Now’s library has over 1.5 lakh movies, which will be showcased only for the online app users. The app will also feature TV shows of different channels like Colors, Sab, Sony and Pakistani TV channel Hum TV.

     

    While the Eros Now app will be free for now, the company will be building an in-app payment mechanism, wherein users will have to pay for some content that they want to watch exclusively in the near future. These may be movies sans ads or movies in HD quality. The price point will range from Rs 50 – 150, which might include daily, weekly or monthly chargers.

     

    Eros International Plc Group CEO and managing director Jyoti Deshpande said, “Eros Now app has over 19 million users across the country in its pre-launch phase and Eros has done their market survey in which there are 500 million internet users out of which 382 million people are active smart phone users, so as consumption patterns has change globally, Internet entertainment networks have begun to rapidly replace traditional, linear television. It’s our turn now. And I believe that Eros will have the first mover advantage in this space with the strength of its vast content library and dominant market share to further consolidate its leadership position as it reinvents itself from a film studio to a more consumer facing content and digital company in the next phase of growth.”

     

    It may be recalled that recently Asian OTT player HOOQ entered the Indian market and also has plans to introduce original content. On the other hand, Indian broadcasters like Star India, Zee Entertainment Enterprises and Sony Entertainment Television are also upping their digital strategy by putting their might behind their OTT platforms namely Hotstar, Ditto TV and Sony Liv respectively. With more and more players entering the digital fray, premium content and competitive price points will play a major role in acquiring subscribers as well as raking in the moolah.

  • Eros Now inks content acquisition deal with Pakistan’s Hum TV

    Eros Now inks content acquisition deal with Pakistan’s Hum TV

    MUMBAI: Eros Now has inked an exclusive content acquisition deal with Pakistan’s on air and digital content company, Hum TV.

     

    The deal gives Eros Now users access to Hum TV’s entire library, including the current shows at no extra subscription cost. The deal also gives Eros Now subscribers in India an exclusive opportunity to view the content 48 hours prior to its telecast on any other platform.

     

    Hum TV is a 24-hour entertainment TV channel in Pakistan, which provides programming across a wide spectrum of genres. Eros Now users will be privy to some of Hum TV’s television shows like Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Humsafar and Dastaan.

     

    Eros Now CEO Rishika Lulla Singh said, “We are extremely happy to introduce Pakistan’s popular soaps to a new digital generation of South Asians globally and add to our roster of content. The partnership with a leading channel like Hum will give our subscribers an opportunity to view the much sought after and varied Pakistani content.”

     

    Hum Network president Sultana Siddiqui added, “This association enables us in reaching out and providing some of our best Pakistani content to millions of keen internet users across the globe.”

  • Hathway launches ‘Broadband Movies’ for its subscribers across India

    Hathway launches ‘Broadband Movies’ for its subscribers across India

    MUMBAI: Hathway Cable and Datacom is expanding its business. The multi system operator (MSO) has now entered into the movie streaming service. With this, the Hathway broadband customers will be able to watch high quality movies on multiple devices like smart- TVs, PCs, laptops, tablets and mobiles. This subscription service, sourced from Eros Now’s exclusive library, will be available to Hathway broadband customers across the country.

     

    After setting industry benchmark by offering 50 Mbps as the default minimum speed for broadband in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad, Hathway is now foraying into value-added services to help the customers fully enjoy the benefits of their high speed Hathway broadband.

     

    “Broadband Movies is our endeavour to provide consumers with meaningful services to make the most of their high speed connection in a completely legal and secure manner,” said Hathway MD Jagdish Kumar.

     

    “50 Mbps speeds are essential for delivering the HD quality videos that are available through the library of Eros Now,” he added.

     

    Hathway chief operating officer broadband Kunal Ramteke said, “On demand video consumption and multiple device access are no longer emerging trends, they are here and a reality. Our strategy is to deliver a holistic broadband experience. We do not just provide the connectivity but also deliver relevant services, which make the most of our 50 Mbps high speed broadband offering.”

     

    The broadband movies service is available for Hathway’s broadband customers across the country.

     

    The service is being launched with a two months free viewing period for any Hathway customer and will be available with a monthly subscription based pricing for unlimited viewing of movies.