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  • Chingari collaborates with Benchmark Entertainment for 20 music videos

    Chingari collaborates with Benchmark Entertainment for 20 music videos

    Mumbai: Homegrown short-video sharing platform Chingari on Tuesday announced its partnership with Benchmark Entertainment. As a part of the deal, Chingari along with Benchmark Entertainment will be releasing 20 new songs over the next six months.

    Chingari app users will be able to get access to the new music videos that will be launched by Benchmark Entertainment. The users will be able to watch the full videos of these songs on Chingari Multiplex/Superhit Songs platform. These songs will remain on Chingari app for a period of three years, said the statement.

    “Chingari has catapulted to become one of the most successful short video apps in India as it continues to innovate and expand its offering to suit the needs of its users,” remarked Chingari app co-founder and CEO Sumit Ghosh. “We have a strong media library and are constantly working at strengthening it with exclusive, entertaining content. Our association with Benchmark Entertainment is a step in this direction.”

    Benchmark Entertainment has released thirteen blockbuster videos featuring popular names such as Karan Kundra, Shraddha Arya, Suyyash Rai, Gajendra Verma, and Ieshaan Sehgal. Their latest track “Insaaf” featuring TV actor Parth Samthaan and Samreen Kaurwas was released in conjunction with Chingari on 8 October and is already gaining in the popularity charts on the Chingari app. “Our focus is to bring together a community of people who want to do more with music and redefine ways in which content is consumed,” said Benchmark Entertainment COO Mukesh Mishra on the association.

    “This partnership will help us both to explore new opportunities & areas to foster the growth. We believe that it is an ideal platform to promote our music videos and the users of Chingari will appreciate this content,” commented Benchmark Entertainment founder Sandil Dang.

    To promote the song “Insaaf,” Chingari has also organised a contest for its users. As a part of this contest, content creators and influencers are being encouraged to make videos using the song Insaaf and the best videos in this segment stand a chance to win 20 lakh Chingari coins, said the platform.

    “At Chingari, we are always looking at new and innovative ways to connect with the customers and add stickiness to the platform,” said Chingari app co-founder and COO Deepak Salvi. “We are happy to partner with Benchmark Entertainment and hope that our users will find these tracks a good addition to our music library.”

  • Facebook introduces official music videos in India

    Facebook introduces official music videos in India

    New Delhi: Facebook today introduced official music videos on the platform and launched a new Music destination on Facebook Watch in India, to allow people to view their favorite music videos and come together through music.

    You will now be able to discover, enjoy, and interact with today’s top-charting tracks to old catalog favorites across various music genres on Facebook.

    Manish Chopra, Director, and Head of Partnerships, Facebook India, said, “Over the past year, we have been working with partners in the Indian music industry to build the foundation of a music video experience for our consumers, and are thrilled to launch official music videos on the platform. We will continue to find opportunities to add more unique social sharing experiences and bring music into the ways people share and connect on Facebook".

    Official music videos on Facebook will create new social experiences that go beyond just watching the video. On Facebook, you will be able to discover new artists and tracks through social sharing, clicking through to a song [from a Music Sticker / Music Video] shared to a friend’s story or a post in News Feed. Without leaving Facebook, you can connect with and learn more about an artist and their creative ambitions, watch the story behind their music on their Page, a label page  and connect through real-time interactions on Facebook Live.

    The music video experience on Facebook is available in India, Thailand, and the US, and you’ll be able to watch your favorites from the country’s top music labels – T -Series Music, Zee Music Company, and Yash Raj Films.

    How to access Music Videos on Facebook:

    Facebook has made it easier to find and discover music videos on its platform. You can access the videos in different ways, including:

    Music Destination on Facebook Watch where you can explore music videos by genre, artist, or mood, as well as theme-based playlists like “Top Bollywood”, “Top Artists,” among others. The music destination on Facebook Watch is available on iOS and Android mobile devices and will be available on desktop soon.

    You can also access and discover music videos directly on your News Feed allowing friends and family to share their favorite music, or through Search. 

  • Eros Now partners with Vindicia to further enhance the entertainment experience

    Eros Now partners with Vindicia to further enhance the entertainment experience

    MUMBAI: Today at Mobile World Congress, Vindicia, an Amdocs company (NASDAQ: DOX) and a leader in business-to-consumer digital services monetization, announced that Eros Now, a cutting-edge digital over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform has selected Vindicia CashBox to enhance consumer experience. Through this alliance Vindicia CashBox will help in accelerating the subscriber growth of Eros Now around the world.

    Eros Now offers a vast library of over 12,000 Indian films, music videos, TV shows, original web-series and short-format content to more than 142 million registered users and 15.9 million paying subscribers. The platform delivers the best blockbuster movies in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Punjabi as well as Indian music, music videos, high-end digital original series and the recently launched Eros Now Quickie, a new short-form content segment.

    Commenting on the strategic alliance, Rishika Lulla Singh, CEO – Eros Digital said, “Eros Now has been a front-runner with its technological advancement and the only Indian player to have global reach. This alliance with Vindicia will enhance the consumer experience and offer seamless transaction capabilities. With changing consumer dynamics, the association will also help to provide subscriber intelligence that will bring business agility to continuously boost the overall video watching experience, thus driving consumer retention, global connecting and increasing subscriber growth.”

    Watch Ali Hussein, Chief Operating Officer at Eros digital, highlighting how Vindicia CashBox will enable Eros Now enhance consumer experience.

    “With the continued and growing traction of our media business in the Asia Pacific region, we are thrilled that Eros Now has selected Vindicia CashBox to support all aspects of their digital subscription business requirements,” said Darcy Antonellis, head of Media, Amdocs. “With the implementation of CashBox, Eros Now can immediately start to reallocate resources from digital services monetization to more strategic areas as they expand their offerings both within India and internationally, enabling them to more effectively sign-up new customers and retain existing ones.”

    As a leading provider in the entertainment technology space, Amdocs continues to execute on its media strategy, helping its customers deliver premium content services across multiple channels and capture a leading position in the digital economy. Vindicia CashBox is an extension of this industry leadership and addresses the demands of OTT and Internet companies to provide enhanced digital experiences while also driving higher subscription revenue growth.

    Vindicia CashBox is a SaaS-based digital subscription platform for digital goods that accelerates business growth via data-driven insights, improved customer acquisition and extreme ease of use for subscribers. Other benefits include scalability and reliability; big data and AI-based analysis; go-to-market flexibility; international and multiple payment options; and finance, tax and anti-fraud capabilities.

  • ZEE’s 37 LIVE TV Channels now available for Jio’s Subscribers

    ZEE’s 37 LIVE TV Channels now available for Jio’s Subscribers

    Mumbai: ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (“ZEE”), a global media and entertainment powerhouse and Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (“Jio”), India’s leading digital  services  provider,  today  announced  that  an  agreement  has  been  achieved  to release ZEE’s entire content library on Jio’s platforms, with immediate effect, enhancing the growth of the overall digital ecosystem.

    This decision enhances the experience of 227+ Mn subscribers of Jio, giving them an access to ZEE’s rich and engaging content, which comprises of 37 LIVE TV channels.

    In order to further integrate this strategic content alliance, ZEE5 App, the home of extensive digital content library of ZEE, which includes the Video on Demand (VOD) network content along with the recently launched ZEE5 Originals, Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, Lifestyle shows, Kids shows and Plays, will also be available for download.

    The alliance aims to leverage ZEE’s rich and hugely popular content portfolio and nationwide reach of Reliance Jio to serve customers with exciting and innovative content solutions.

    Speaking on this decision, Mr. Amit Goenka, CEO, ZEE International & Z5 Global said, “We are extremely glad and excited about this positive development. As content creators our primary objective is to create rich and engaging content for our viewers across the nation and the globe. The expansive reach of Jio enables us to entertain a larger base of consumers with an appetite to consume content-on-the-go. Our content which spans across
    12 Indian languages, empowers Reliance Jio’s value offering to its subscribers and we’re
    extremely glad to take this association forward.”

    Akash Ambani, Director, Jio, said, “We are delighted that our esteemed customers will now  have  access  to  the  engaging  and  diverse  content  from  Zee  Group.  At  Jio  we  are

    committed to providing our consumers the best of content from India and the world in our
    quest to accelerate digital inclusion in the country.”

    ZEE Entertainment and Reliance Jio will jointly market the unique content offering by leveraging its independent consumer facing touchpoints.

  • YouTube deletes Japanese videos

    YouTube deletes Japanese videos

    MUMBAI: Video content sharing site YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files over copyright concerns after being asked to do so by a group representing Japan’s entertainment industry,

    Media reports state that the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers found 29,549 video clips such as television shows, music videos and movies posted on YouTube’s site without permission.

    Yotube now shows more than 100 million video clips per day. YouTube’s worldwide audience was 72.1 million by August, up 2.8 million from a year earlier, according to comScore Media Metrix.