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Ad Firm MediaBrands launches MediaBrand Content Studio

Media agency Mediabrands India announced the launch of Mediabrands Content Studio (MBCS) in India on Monday. Globally, MBCS was launched in November 2020. MBCS is a data-driven content practice, built on the intelligence and cognizance that media provides about which content connects brands with pe...

Indian President, PM condole scribe Sunil Jain’s passing away

India’s President and Prime Minister yesterday condoled the death of senior journalist Sunil Jain, who succumbed to post-Covid-19 complications on Saturday at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

“Sunil Jain was an editor known for his candour and forthright views. It...

AT&T-Discovery talks to combine content asset: Bloomberg

AT&T Inc., which houses media assets like Warner Media, including streamer HBO Max, is in...

Move over Oscar, BAFTA, Tony, The Ambies are here!

Move over Oscar and Tony. The Ambies have arrived.

The newly formed Podcast Academy this weekend hands out its first awards, the Ambies, for the best in a booming industry that has room for everyone from Prince Harry and Kim Kardashian to a student with a smartphone.

Garmin India signs Mandira Bedi as brand ambassador

Pivoting towards strengthening the brand reach, Garmin India, a unit of Garmin Ltd, listed on Nasdaq, on Thursday announced its association with the Indian film and TV actor, television presenter, and fitness coach Mandira Bedi as brand ambassador.

The popular face of many TV shows, ...

Ad volumes on TV upped 39% Jan-Apr ’21

Advertising volumes on TV continued to scale new peaks, according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, with total ad volumes increased by 39 per cent for the January to April 2021 period as compared to 2020.

This growth is also the highest when compared to the same pe...

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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!