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Meta India elevates Arun Srinivas as director & head of ads business

Meta India has elevated Arun Srinivas as the director and head of the ads business. Prior to this role, he was the director and head, of the global business group at Meta. In his new role, he will be responsible for over...

Colors Tamil lines up new fiction shows

Tamil Nadu’s youngest GEC, Colors Tamil, is all set to enrich its content line-up with the launch of two brand-new fiction shows – ‘Jamelaa’ and ‘Ullathai Allitha’. Premiering on October 10, ‘Jamelaa’, (played by Actor Tanvi Rao in the titular role) ...

Q Marathi announces its first multi-platform show

In a bid to introduce fresh zest to the Marathi GEC category with a differentiated and disruptive content strategy, Q Marathi, a family-oriented Marathi GEC announced its first integrated multi-platform show ‘Q Marathi YouthFull Mahakarandak’. The m...

RED FM launches ‘Stree-Rickshaw’ campaign

93.5 RED FM, one of India’s leading private radio and entertainment networks, has kick-started its ‘Stree-Rickshaw’ an on-air campaign to enlighten listeners about the perseverance of a rare female e-rickshaw driver; Chanchal Sharma, a single mother who drives o...

Spotify acquires harmful content identifier Kinzen

Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology SA has said it had acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform.

The acquisition is part of

Nielsen enables ‘Always On’ measurement for YouTube campaigns

Nielsen’s ‘Always On’ Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) will now measure YouTube video ad campaigns. This release expands Nielsen’s coverage of YouTube and YouTube TV in DAR and will provide advertisers and agencies with the data needed to better understand reach, m...

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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!