MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel has locked in an exclusive partnership with Apple, making Apple TV+ and Apple Music available for its home wifi and postpaid customers. The...
MUMBAI: The music industry is tuning up for a record-breaking encore, with projections forecasting a $184.69 billion leap in market value between 2025 and 2029. According...
Mumbai: Digital video social network YouTube has announced the launch of ‘Primetime Channels.’ Users will be able to sign up, browse, and watch TV shows, movies,...
The over-the-top (OTT) landscape is growing significantly in India and new paid features are increasing regularly. Time spent viewing content on OTT has surged and viewers...
Mumbai: Amdocs, software and services provider to communications and media companies, on Wednesday, released the findings of its latest Streamer 2021 report which surveyed 1,000 consumers in India...
KOLKATA: With a higher-than-ever growth of streaming services in the last year, The Walt Disney Co.’s (Disney) direct-to-consumer venture Disney+ has also grown quickly to surpass...
KOLKATA: Video has emerged to be a key play for the tech giants, especially over the past year. After Google’s YouTube knocked over the industry with...
KOLKATA: Launched with the brand promise of ‘made for stories’ that are differentiated and compelling, Viacom18’s premium SVoD offering Voot Select has hit the landmark milestone...
KOLKATA: Netflix added inclusion as its cultural value in 2017. Recently, the streaming giant released its first ‘inclusion report’, which revealed that women comprised 47.1 per...
MUMBAI: 2019 has seen a significant boost in high-end television productions made in the UK. The UK ‘high end’ TV 2014-2019 report by analyst Ben Keen...
KOLKATA: Launched earlier this year, Discovery+ is all set to up the ante by foraying into original programming for the India market. With an eye on...
KOLKATA: In the sea of moody blues and ebony blacks, the orange OTT platform Aha stands out – but that alone is not enough for the...
KOLKATA: Netflix has been constantly innovating its marketing and promotion strategy in India to get more users to sign up. Now, it plans to give free...
MUMBAI: The last two weeks have seen a spate of departures at Disney Star India. It began with the announcement of chairman India and APAC president...
KOLKATA: Guddu Bhaiya, Munna Bhaiya and Kaleen Bhaiya, the much-loved characters of Amazon Prime Video's Mirzapur are back. The streaming platform has unveiled the trailer...
KOLKATA: Going beyond the initial metro syndrome, over-the-top (OTT) platforms in India are seeing massive adoption in tier II, tier III cities, and even in rural...
KOLKATA: As the over-the-top ecosystem turns more cluttered and competitive, the platforms are gearing up to retain users. Along with building a robust content slate, all...
KOLKATA: The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) today announced SonyLIV and Lionsgate as the latest leading online curated content providers in India to sign...
KOLKATA: The streaming giant Netflix has launched a new global campaign One Story Away. that focuses on the power of stories. The campaign running in 27...
KOLKATA: Netflix takes a new route to bring more consumers to the platform. It will now let viewers sample some of the most popular content without...
KOLKATA: It may be the heyday of over-the-top (OTT) platforms but it’s not like the pandemic will not have any impact on their operations. While everything...
KOLKATA: During the lockdown, ZEE5, as India’s Entertainment Super-App has continued to entertain and engage diverse audiences by serving bespoke content across languages and a spectrum...
MUMBAI: Earlier, Dailymotion made the decision to reduce the bandwidth required to broadcast videos on its platform to mitigate the risk of network saturation. The end...
MUMBAI: Streaming viewership saw rapid increase in the first quarter of the year with time spent up by 57 per cent globally year over year. On-demand...
MUMBAI: Netflix has brought good news for its investors with a high jump in subscriber growth. The streaming service added a net 15.77 million paid streaming...
MUMBAI: There is no formula to catch the audience online. Lately, many of the streaming players have been stating that every genre has different audiences and...
MUMBAI: OTT consumption has been on a steep upward curve in India for the last three years. Now, after the country has entered a lockdown phase,...
MUMBAI: This unprecedented crisis called COVID-19 has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for OTT platforms. With people locked indoors, the only refuge has...
MUMBAI: A number of countries have come to a standstill along with major industries as the number of COVID-19 infections keeps increasing unabated. Theatres across India...
MUMBAI: Multi-territory video streaming service Hooq said last week that it has filed for liquidation as giant players are looking more into streaming services and the...
MUMBAI: Disney+ marks its much-awaited arrival in the crowded over-the-top (OTT) ecosystem. Wednesday morning onwards, a large part of Disney+ content catalogue has been made available...
MUMBAI: Ekta Kapoor’s over-the-top platform has managed to solve the OTT revenue question. The ALTBalaji management always spoke of profitability and breaking even rather than cash-burn...
MUMBAI: It’s been raining premium originals on streaming services such as ZEE5, Hotstar, Netflix, Hoichoi, Arre, ALTBalaji and MX Player. The genres have been varied, but...
MUMBAI: From the later part of 2017, streaming players have delivered many “blockbuster originals”. Social media chatters, peer groups, office rooms see numerous discussions on premium...
MUMBAI: The steaming boom in India has unleashed the creativity of storytellers across the country. While several barriers to freedom of storytelling have disappeared with the...
MUMBAI: A new report from UK research firm Ampere Analysis has said that Netflix is available in more than 300 million pay-TV households. It also added...
MUMBAI: Top Netflix executive has denied the rumoured meeting of the streaming service and representatives of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Netflix India International Original film...
MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd’s (ZEEL) digital arm ZEE5 has built its library on the back of marquee properties and regional content since the time of...
MUMBAI: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) secretary Amit Khare said there is a need to rethink regulating over-the-top (OTT) platforms because some sections of the...
AMUMBAI: As over-the-top (OTT) platforms have started capturing audiences from tier II, tier-III cities, beyond the top metro cities, all major players in the ecosystem have...
MUMBAI: Digital studio Pocket Aces has raised $14.7 million from Sequoia Capital, DSP Group, 3one4 Capital along with other prominent investors. The Mumbai-based firm plans to...
MUMBAI: With the advent of subscription-based video-on-demand services (SVoD), Pay-TV households are declining globally. But numbers of SVoD only households along with SVoD-Pay-TV combined households are...
MUMBAI: Streaming giant Netflix will not make its content available on Apple’s upcoming video offering. The latter is expected to introduce its video-streaming services on 25...

