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  • TV18 & CNN extend partnership on CNN IBN

    TV18 & CNN extend partnership on CNN IBN

    MUMBAI: TV18 and CNN International have extended their collaboration on CNN-IBN.

     

    In this second term, the two will strive to take the partnership to next level, enabling CNN-IBN viewers to stay ahead on news from around the world and across multi-platforms.

     

    Talking about the extension, Network18 chairman Adil Zainulbhai said, “We are delighted to announce the renewal of this extremely cherished partnership between two most respected brands in journalism. In this second term, we aim to present a brand new CNN-IBN that will bring news with even greater speed, accuracy, clarity and credibility and keep the viewers tuned to global developments much ahead of others. With this renewed partnership, we will enhance the process of news gathering and delivering it to our viewers by informing and enlightening.”

     

    The renewed addendum aims to cut through the noise and clutter that is currently prevailing on the television news space. It will also provide the channel an opportunity to access live reports and discussions in real time from CNN studios around the world. CNN will also provide the technical knowhow and training to CNN-IBN anchors and editors.

  • BBC inks partnership with Hull City of Culture 2017

    BBC inks partnership with Hull City of Culture 2017

    MUMBAI: The BBC has inked a new partnership with Hull City of Culture 2017. It will mean the BBC will provide significant regional, national and international coverage of Hull’s year as the UK’s City of Culture.

     

    The BBC will also commission a substantial raft of new content to showcase the arts and produce a major programme of activity in 2017.

     

    BBC director general Tony Hall said the BBC would play a crucial role promoting UK City of Culture in 2017.

     

    Hall said, “I’m proud to announce our partnership today. The BBC is going to be unashamedly ‘Hull-centric’ in 2017. We are really looking forward to working with the city to create something very special for audiences across the UK and around the world. I recently set out our case for an open, enabling BBC that supports creativity in all kinds of ways. I want the BBC to be at the heart of Hull’s big year because I recognise that by working closely together as equal partners we can achieve so much more.”

     

    The BBC’s activities for 2017 will include:

     

    1) A world-class celebration of poetry, performance and the spoken word – shaped and made in Hull and inspired by the city’s rich poetry heritage, which includes the likes of Andrew Marvell and Philip Larkin.

    2) BBC Learning will be working with schools and organisations across Hull to deliver targeted projects to inspire and create educational opportunities for the city’s young people.

    3) BBC Writers Room will be looking for writers – new and established – to develop stories inspired by Hull.

    4) Some of the BBC’s biggest events will go to Hull during 2017 and the BBC will create new ones.

     

    Further details will be released in the coming year.

     

    The BBC has already begun building its presence in Hull. On 31 October and 1 November, CBBC Live and Digital will take place in Hull city centre. It will be a weekend of live broadcasts and digital activities aimed children and their families. The event is part of BBC Make it Digital – the BBC’s initiative to inspire a new generation to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology.

     

    Earlier this year, the BBC’s Make It Digital roadshow attracted 17,000 visitors at the Hull Freedom Festival. BBC Radio 4 is currently broadcasting Hull comedian Lucy Beaumont’s first radio project, To Hull And Back, which also stars Maureen Lipman. Earlier this month, BBC Four broadcast a documentary about Philip Larkin, which formed part of the BBC’s poetry season.

     

    The BBC’s Hull-based regional platforms, including BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Look North, are already providing comprehensive coverage of plans for Hull 2017.

     

    Hull City of Culture CEO Martin Green said, “It’s wonderful to have the BBC, the world’s greatest cultural organisation, on board for Hull 2017. Our partnership with the BBC will allow us to engage the entire country and encourage people across Britain to look again at Hull and think again about what culture really is.”

  • Tinyowl partners Ameyo to boost food ordering process

    Tinyowl partners Ameyo to boost food ordering process

    MUMBAI:  Tinyowl has joined hands with customer interaction management platform expert, Ameyo. The tie up involves Tinyowl implementing Ameyo’s Customer Engagement Hub to power its inbound and outbound food ordering processes.

     

    Prior to implementing Ameyo, Tinyowl got frequent consumer requests on call drops. This led the company to search for an intelligent contact center technology that was capable of automating the entire dialling process, reducing call abandonments and powering customers’ experience.

     

    Tinyowl co-founder and CEO Harshvardhan Mandad said, “Ameyo’s highly scalable and stable technology has undoubtedly enabled us to manage our entire calling operations in an efficient and smoother way. We have been able to reduce the number of dropped calls from 25% to negligible percentage after its implementation, thus witnessing a significant increase in the business volume.”

     

    “We aim to make consumer’s life easier not just by providing quicker platform but also offering seamless experience to them. For this we always take our consumer’s feedback seriously and work towards the goal,” he added.

     

     Tinyowl believes in customers first theory and have reduced the dropped calls drastically with the help of Ameyo. This led to the increment in their business volume. The abandoned calls, if any, get automatically listed on the Ameyo system, which makes it easy for the agents to follow up.

     

    TinyOwl currently has 140 licenses from Ameyo, which robusts both outbound and inbound call processes.

  • Disney Movies Anywhere partners Amazon & Microsoft’s stores

    Disney Movies Anywhere partners Amazon & Microsoft’s stores

    MUMBAI: Just in time for the early digital release of one of the biggest movies of the year, Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, Disney has named significant partner and device additions to its cloud-based digital movie service, Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA).

     

    Continuing to expand upon its promise to provide more ways to buy and watch Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars movies at home or on the go, DMA has partnered with azon Video and Microsoft Movies & TV.

     

    Starting today in the US, Amazon Video and Microsoft Movies & TV customers can connect to Disney Movies Anywhere and access their digital collection across the Disney Movies Anywhere ecosystem, including via the new Disney Movies Anywhere app for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and for Amazon’s Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.

     

    In addition to the Disney Movies Anywhere app, customers can access and watch titles in their Disney digital collection directly through the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/amazonvideo, and via the Microsoft Movies and TV service on Windows and Microsoft Xbox devices or at microsoft.com/en-us/store/movies-and-tv.

     

    Launching on 15 September, with the release of Disney’s live action Cinderella, the Disney Movies Anywhere app will become available on the Roku platform and Android TV allowing consumers to access their DMA movie collections. Disney Movies Anywhere already works with iTunes, Google Play, and Walmart’s VUDU.

     

    “We’re thrilled to bring these new partners to Disney Movies Anywhere, expanding its reach into the living room and beyond with an unprecedented Disney experience that is both easy and fun. As consumers seek to build their digital libraries and protect their purchases for the long term, Disney Movies Anywhere makes it easier than ever to buy once and watch anywhere,” said Disney/ABC Home Entertainment & Television Distribution president Janice Marinelli.

     

    In celebration of this partner launch, for a limited time Disney Movies Anywhere is offering a free digital copy of Disney•Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. to new and existing members who connect an iTunes, Amazon Video, VUDU, Microsoft Movies & TV or Google Play account for the first time.

  • Rentrak & MovieTickets.com team up to co-develop products

    Rentrak & MovieTickets.com team up to co-develop products

    MUMBAI: Rentrak has partnered with MovieTickets.com, the provider of advance movie ticketing, representing 28,000 screens, to co-develop products that unlock a suite of marketing, planning and ROI measurement tools for the movie and television industries.

     

    Rentrak will link its merged TV viewing and box office sales ticket information with MovieTickets.com’s individual-level ticket purchasing information, in a privacy compliant way, to help studios and TV programmers better target television advertising and interpret the effectiveness of their ad campaigns.

     

    Together, Rentrak and MovieTickets.com information creates a suite of products that will connect the ecosystem of TV viewers and moviegoers. The products will include a combination of movie data and demographic household information that will allow film distributors, theater owners, movie studios, advertising agencies, MPVD operators and television programmers to more precisely target audiences.

     

    “As MovieTickets.com continues to build out and focus on research initiatives, Rentrak is a perfect fit for us. We’re combining our strengths to deliver authoritative solutions that will contribute to an improved media planning process,” said MovieTickets.com CEO Joel Cohen.

     

    “Rentrak is delighted to partner with MovieTickets.com to launch technology that combines our expertise with theirs. This partnership combines two of Rentrak’s areas of expertise: Movies and Television. Combined with our other analytics, these products further strengthen our ability to help the movie and television industries,” added Rentrak CEO and vice chairman Bill Livek.

  • WWE partners Vuclip for ‘Direct-To-Fans’ mobile service

    WWE partners Vuclip for ‘Direct-To-Fans’ mobile service

    MUMBAI: Video on demand (VOD) platform Vuclip has partnered with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to engage WWE fans in emerging markets of the world with video clips on their mobile phones. Through this partnership, Vuclip will make available WWE’s video clips on the Vuclip service in the markets of India, Africa, Middle East and South East Asia.

     

    Via this arrangement, WWE fans can stream the following mix of video clips on their mobile devices: match highlights such as Slam of the Week from both RAW and Smackdown; The Vault, a flashback to a monumental match; WWE Classics from legends of the past; and WWE Countdown which shows favourite superstars and match moments.

     

    Vuclip director and head of distribution Nikhil Naik said, “For more than three decades, WWE has been entertaining its fans across the world. With emerging markets such as India and Africa seen as ‘Mobile first’ markets, Vuclip will help pave the way for engaging WWE’s fan base in these countries along with deepening the engagement in the Middle Eastern and South East Asian markets. We are happy to offer WWE fans premium mobile entertainment in these markets.”

  • U Mumba partners Enerzal for Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League 2

    U Mumba partners Enerzal for Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League 2

    MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala owned Kabbadi team U Mumba has partnered with energy drink Enerzal as its official ‘Hydration Partner’ for this season of Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League.

     

    With this alliance, Enerzal will be featured on the back of the players’ jersey and on LED display panels at match venues.

     

    Supporting sports has been an integral part of Enerzal’s profile and consumer engagement. Prior to this, the brand has associated with events such as Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, Airtel Delhi Half Marathon and Tata Consultancy Services World 10K amongst other sporting properties.

     

    FDC executive director Ameya Chandavarkar said, “Enerzal is delighted to be associated with U Mumba as the Official Hydration Partner. This association is our first step into the spectator sporting arena and we are excited to further our role in the sporting revolution India is experiencing. Enerzal is a balanced energy drink and will ensure that the players are optimally hydrated during training as well as the Pro Kabaddi League matches. We wish the entire U Mumba team all the success and hope they continue their winning streak in the competition.”

     

    U Mumba, runner-up in season one of the League, is leading the points table in this season led by captain Anup Kumar and coached by Bhaskaran Edachery. The team concluded their home leg undefeated and will be playing next in Patna, after winning their games in Kolkata and Jaipur.

     

    “We’re delighted to have Enerzal on board as our Official Hydration Partner. They’re one of the leading brands in the category and the product will certainly be vital in helping the team maintain optimum energy levels during their matches as well as training,” said U Sports CEO Supratik Sen.

  • FremantleMedia, Jadran Film partner to produce Croatian drama series

    FremantleMedia, Jadran Film partner to produce Croatian drama series

    MUMBAI: FremantleMedia and Jadran Film Zagreb have inked a strategic partnership in order to bring the literary work of one of Croatia’s most popular writers – Marija Juric Zagorka – to global TV audiences.

    Designated Croatia’s first female journalist, Zagorka is one of the most read writers in Croatia and a best-seller in Central and Eastern Europe, although her novels have never been translated into English. Jadran Film, which has produced over 200 regional and international movies in its 70 year history, will combine its cinematic expertise with FremantleMedia’s production and distribution capabilities to develop scripts based on the novels and look for international investment in order to bring the works to Croatian, as well as global, audiences.

    Jadran Film CEO Vinko Grubisic said, “Jadran Film has long held the ambition to bring Marija Juric Zagorka’s work to audiences outside Central Europe. By working with the production and distribution expertise of FremantleMedia, there is now a real opportunity to bring audiences around world the brilliant storytelling of one of Croatia’s most-loved authors.”

    FremantleMedia Croatia managing director Ana Habajec added, “We are thrilled to be partnering with Jadran Film in order to bring the work of Marija Juric Zagorka to international audiences, and that the combination of our skills and passion will see Zagorka recognized, not just as a Croatian heroine, but as a world brand!”

    The partnership kicks off with a joint production of one of Zagorka’s most famous works: The Witch of Grich (Gricka vjestica), of which more than 10 million copies have been sold so far in Eastern Europe. Set in the second half of the 18th century and combining the genres of historical novel, romance and adventure, it tells the story of young Countess, Nera Keglevic, famed for her beauty and kindness.

    FremantleMedia and Jadran Film are already looking at how they might develop subsequent titles such as Kneginja iz Petrinjske ulice, Gordana and Jadranka.

  • PayTM & Dineout partner for cashback programme

    PayTM & Dineout partner for cashback programme

    MUMBAI: In a bid to tempt foodies to dine out and indulge in a wonderful gastronomical affair, mobile commerce platform PayTM has partnered with Dineout.co.in, an online table reservation service.

     

    Through the Dineout loyalty programme, users can take advantage of having a table reserved, avail discounts and additional savings in the form of cashback and loyalty points credited into their PayTM wallets.

     

    By completing tasks like writing reviews, inviting friends and checking-in while at the restaurant through the Dineout app, users can earn loyalty points. All these points are redeemable to cash directly into a users PayTM wallet.

     

    PayTM VP Amit Lakhotia said, “PayTM and Dineout enjoy massive popularity and the loyalty programme that we have devised is a truly innovative concept for the benefit of our users. PayTM is committed to coming up with extremely innovative tie-ups to offer customers maximum benefit while using their digital wallets. Through this first-of-its-kind partnership, we aim to give food connoisseurs in India another reason to turn to technology for the most convenient and rewarding dining out experience till date.”

     

    Dineout.co.in co-founder Ankit Mehrotra added, “For serious foodies, dining out is beyond a hobby, it is a way of life! After speaking to many Dineout users we arrived at a loyalty program where our valued patrons can reap the benefits of sticking with a great service. PayTM was an obvious choice for this partnership owing to their wide consumer reach, and the ease of use of the service. Dineout users can now enjoy additional earnings in the form of direct cash back into their PayTM wallet for writing-reviews, inviting their friends and via check-ins when they arrive at the restaurant/venue.”