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OTT Summit ’22 focuses on growth as global competition intensifies

The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) is set to host its annual OTT Summit from March 30-31, 2022 as the video industry continues to go through massive evolution.

With the global OTT market valued at over US$100

Snapchat rolls out special Holi features

American multimedia instant messaging app Snapchat has rolled out a number of Holi-themed AR lenses and stickers during the festive season. The new themes include Gulaal Bitmoji, specially curated Holi playlists, and various oth...

BARC Rating 10th Week: Star Maa regains top spot in all genres

Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) 10th Week (5th March – 11th March 2022) has released its report. In India, Star Maa who gets the second spot from the past four weeks has backed again to their seat of the first spot in the list of top 10 channels across genres (All India 2+), the channel registered 2541.6 impressions. Sun TV h...

Voot brings second season of ‘Apharan – Sabka Katega Dobara’

With its exceptional content and diverse library of shows across genres, Voot Select has undeniably proven itself to be one of the fastest-growing OTT platforms in India. Adding another show to its glorious repertoire, it brings the second season of one of the most highly anticipated shows ‘Apharan 2’. Taking the action-thriller quotient t...

‘Puzhu’, ‘Salute’ to have direct release on SonyLiv

The streaming platform, SonyLiv has announced the direct-to-digital release of 2 new Malayalam films – ‘Salute’ and ‘Puzhu’. The platform will see the father-son duo Mammootty and Dulquer Salmaan launching their films for the very first time on the same OTT platform. ‘Salute’ is a grounded procedural drama, which...

BARC resumes audience ratings for TV news channels

BARC India has resumed the ratings for individual news channels with the release of data for Week 10, 2022. Following an industry-wide consultative process, the BARC Team, along with the BARC TechComm, developed the Augmented Data Reporting Standards for News and Special Interest genres, aligned with the Industry’s needs. As per these revi...

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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!