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Sociowash wins digital mandate for Viacom18’s music and English entertainment brands

Digital and youth marketing agency Sociowash has bagged the digital marketing mandate for Viacom18’s music brands MTV Beats, VH1 and KaanPhod, English Entertainment brands Colors Infinity and Comedy Central, and multiformat content destination Fully Faltoo YouTube channel. The Mumbai branch of the agency will be responsible for all activities...

ZEE5 to premiere RRR in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam

ZEE5, India and Bharat’s largest home-grown video streaming platform and multilingual storyteller, on the eve of superstar NTR’s birthday, announced the release of the blockbuster movie ‘RRR’ on ZEE5 from May 20, 2022. Expanding its TVOD portfolio, ZEE5 is set to launch the movie in multiple regional languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Mala...

National Film Festival of J&K to be held from June 15-20

Jammu and Kashmir's first-ever national film festival will be held from June 15-20 and the event will highlight films, music, and a creative ecosystem, an official spokesman said on Sunday. The National Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir (NFFJK) is being organized by the Jammu and Kashmir Film Development Council in association with the Natio...

aha launches Telugu remake of #BFF

aha, the leading regional OTT platform in Telugu states, and Dice Media, a long-form premium storytelling platform by Pocket Aces, collaborate for the second time after Alludu Garu for the launch of a coming age web series #BFF. The new series is a remake of Dice Media’s popular series ‘Adulting’ that has seen 3 successful seasons. #BFF captu...

Adanis to take 49% stake in Quintillion Business Media

The Gautam Adani-founded Adani Enterprises Ltd., through a wholly-owned subsidiary, has taken a 49 percent stake in Quintillion Business Media Limited (QBML), which is part of Quintillion Media Limited.

Making the announcement of the shareholding percentage in a regulatory filing lat...

Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed to star in ‘Fingernails’

British stars Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed are set to feature together in a sci-fi romance film, ‘Fingernails’. Christos Nikou, best known for the 2020 Greek-language drama ‘Apples’, will direct the film from a script he penned with Sam Steiner and Stavros Raptis, PTI reported. Described as a ...

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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!