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TV Ad demand weakens as ratings blackout hits festive season

Television advertising demand is slowing as the TV ratings blackout continues ahead of the festive season, according to a report by The Economic Times today. BARC India has withheld TV ratings since week 24 following an Information and Broadcasting Ministry directive. BARC India released ratings for the April-June quarter only up to week 24. ...

Apple TV unveils ‘Stillwater’ S5 trailer

Apple TV has released the official trailer for the fifth season of its award-winning animated kids and family series ‘Stillwater’. According to an Apple TV press release yesterday, the new season will premiere on August 21, 2026, with five episodes. Base...

Netflix unveils trailer for ‘The Perfect Lie’

Netflix has released the official trailer for its upcoming Dutch drama series ‘The Perfect Lie’, based on Saskia Noort’s bestselling novel ‘The Dinner Club’. The seven-part series will premiere globally on Netflix on September 10, 2026. According to a Ne...

‘Fauda’ S5 to stream on Netflix India from September 8

Popular Israeli political thriller series ‘Fauda’ is set to return with its fifth season on Netflix India on September 8, 2026. The release date was announced by the Embassy of Israel in India. Created by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, ‘Fauda’ follows an ...

Casagrand partners with AdLift for AI search visibility

Real estate developer Casagrand has appointed digital marketing agency AdLift to strengthen its visibility across AI-powered search and discovery platforms. Under the mandate, AdLift will deploy its proprietary AI Search Visibility platform, Tesseract, to help Casagrand track and improve how its brand appears on platforms such as ChatGPT, Gem...

Indian music industry faces over Rs.350 cr annual sync revenue risk

The Indian music industry could be losing upwards of Rs.350 crore in annual sync revenue due to the unlicensed commercial use of copyrighted music across social media platforms, according to a ContentLens press release yesterday. The AI-powered intellectual property protection platform said the estimate is based on revenue-at-risk assessments...

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“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!