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YouTube bringing shopping features in Shorts

YouTube is bringing shopping features to its TikTok-like short-form video service, as it looks to diversify its revenue stream squeezed by falling ad spending, Reuters said Tuesday quoting a Financial Times report. Ad sales on Alphabet-owned

Lionsgate Play to stream American Music Awards in India

The 2022 edition of the American Music Awards (AMAs) will exclusively be available for streaming in India on Lionsgate Play, the streamer announced on Tuesday. Lionsgate Play subscribers will be able to watch the “world’s largest fan-voted award show” liv...

‘Below Deck’ S10 to premiere on Hayu

Emmy® Award-nominated series ‘Below Deck’ is back with season 10 and will be available on Hayu from November 22. Emmy®-nominated Below Deck Mediterranean’ has been renewed for the eighth season; ‘Below Deck Sailing Yacht’ for a fourth season; and ...

Watcho brings new thriller show

WATCHO, the OTT platform from Dish TV India Limited, India’s leading content distribution company, has premiered a new thriller series ‘Wajah’. Inspired by true-life events, the story is based on the murder of a young innocent girl, Gauri Saxena, from a small town who befriends the son of fashion mogul Rakesh Mehra. In her pursuit of the k...

WhatsApp launches ‘Companion Mode’

Instant messaging and voice-over-IP service WhatsApp will now be allowing its beta users to link their accounts to a secondary phone and an Android tablet. According to ANI, the latest WhatsApp beta for Android - version 2.22.24.18 brings companion mode which allows users to link a secondary phone to their primary account. WhatsApp lets us...

Juggernaut, Merry Go Round Studios in OTT content pact

IN10 Media Network’s production house, Juggernaut Productions, announced on Tuesday a collaboration with Umesh Shukla and Ashish Wagh's Merry Go Round Studios to co-produce content for OTT platforms. Shukla, known for critical and commercially-successful films ‘Oh My God’ and Amitabh Bachchan...

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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!