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  • KathaVersse Media Network appoints Ravi Luthria as Chief Revenue Officer

    KathaVersse Media Network appoints Ravi Luthria as Chief Revenue Officer

    KathaVersse, the content IP company on a mission to build a “Marvel for Bharat”, has appointed Ravi Luthria as its Chief Revenue Officer.

    An IIM Lucknow alum and former Head of Videos at Pocket FM–US, Ravi is a seasoned strategic and entrepreneurial leader with over 20 years of cross-industry experience spanning content, FMCG, marketing, and content-tech. He has successfully led multi-crore P&L mandates, scaled content businesses, and built high-performance teams in India, the U.S., and beyond.

    With deep expertise in branded content IPs, IP monetization and scaling, and emerging technologies such as Generative AI, Ravi is known for combining big-picture vision with disciplined execution. 
    In his new role, Ravi will drive KathaVersse’s revenue engine, monetize Digital Commentary — the company’s flagship non-fiction platform with a 1.1M+ community and 120M+ monthly views — and lead its services division KVGYAPAAN. 

    Positioned as a Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) brand, KVGYAPAAN delivers high-impact, platform-optimized video campaigns for brands, social media content creation and strategy for brands including the high quality Micro Dramas for Micro Drama OTT’s and more. 

    With an ambition to become one of India’s largest IP companies, Ravi’s focus will be on integrating IPs with advertiser partnerships in innovative, ROI-driven ways — addressing a market where Indian youth now spend 3.5–4 hours daily consuming video content.

    “What impressed me most about KathaVersse is the absolute clarity and scale of their IP ambition. The founding team is already well on their way to making this vision a reality,” said Ravi.

    Aakash Kumar, CEO of KathaVersse, added: “Ravi is one of the most important additions to our core team — a game-changer for IP monetization and scaling. His content business expertise makes him the perfect fit for our next growth phase, as we gear up to launch 10+ universe- and format-driven long-form IPs over the next 15 months.”

    For partnerships and brand enquiries: connect with Ravi Luthria on LinkedIn. 
     

  • Improved profitability in India contributes to overall Sony Media Network’s growth

    Improved profitability in India contributes to overall Sony Media Network’s growth

    MUMBAI: Sony Corp reported a record second-quarter profit thanks to heavy demand for smartphone image sensors. The company’s quarterly operating profit jumped by 16 per cent.

    Operating income for the company stood at 278.96 billion yen ($2.56 billion for the July-September quarter, above the 239.5 billion yen in the same period a year earlier while the result beat an average estimate of 235.13 billion yen. Moreover, Sony raised its annual profit forecast to 840 billion yen from an earlier estimate of 810 billion yen.

    The sales for the quarter increased 8 per cent year-on-year to 260.6 billion yen and operating income increased a significant 67 per cent year-on-year to 39.3 billion yen.

    “The increase in profit was primarily due to the contribution of Spider-Man: Far From Home, which, having exceeded $ 1.1 billion in global box office revenue, is the highest-grossing film of all time for Sony Pictures Entertainment, and an improvement in the profitability of Media Networks due to the benefit of the portfolio review and improved profitability in India,” the company said.

  • Al Jazeera Sport rebrands as beIN Sports

    Al Jazeera Sport rebrands as beIN Sports

     

    MUMBAI: Qatar based network Al Jazeera has rebranded its sport channel from Al Jazeera Sport to beIN Sports. The move will see Al Jazeera Media Network uniting its global sport channels under one name ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

     “As excitement builds ahead of the FIFA 2014 World Cup Finals, beIN SPORTS guarantees front row seats to all the live action in Brazil as well as live coverage from other popular worldwide sporting events,” beIN said in the statement.

    Subscribers will now have access to 19 HD channels with 12 in Arabic that were formerly called Al Jazeera 1 to 10 and will now be called beIN Sports 1 to 10. The rebranding will provided viewers more opportunities to watch their favourite sports across the globe.

  • DHX Media closes SVOD and VOD deals globally

    DHX Media closes SVOD and VOD deals globally

    MUMBAI: DHX Media, a leading producer, distributor and licensor of kid’s content, has signed a slew of international subscription video on demand (SVOD) and video on demand (VOD) deals underscoring its aim of exploiting its library through new distribution platforms.

    New partners include Tesco-owned Blinkbox which has added to its offering for the UK and Ireland alongside a deal for the same regions with FUHU, which has added titles for NABI tablet users.

    Dailymotion will provide France, Switzerland and Belgium with various titles and also in France and Belgium, viewers will now also be able to access a selection of DHX Media content via the Canal Play Infinity and Belgacom platforms, respectively.

    Elsewhere in Europe, a number of DHX Media shows will be on demand in Italy through Media Network, while in Slovakia VOD content will be provided by Voyo, in Greece and Cyprus by Riverdrop and in Turkey by D-Smart and TTNET.

    In Russia TVZOR has acquired a number of series in SVOD and advertising video on demand (AVOD) deals. In the southern hemisphere, Wananchi has snapped up key titles for the East African market and Opticom for Argentina.

    DHX Media SVP Distribution Josh Scherba said, “We are firmly committed to seeking opportunities with new platforms, and with a catalogue totalling over 8,500 half hours of programming, we are well positioned to supply digital networks with a significant volume of quality content.”