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BARC report: Nov-21 displays steady growth of TV ads, brands

Television ad volumes continued to showcase steady growth with 156 million-seconds in November 2021, three percent higher than November 2020 and 31 percent higher than November 2019, according to ‘BARC India THINK Report- Ad Volumes Nov. ’21.

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Sling TV partners with Eros Now

American streaming television service Sling TV announced a partnership with streaming platform Eros Now, to expand its South-Asian offering addition. Following the launch, Sling’s International subscribers will have access to Er...

Q India poised to launch new Marathi channel

In a country with diverse audience preferences, a leading youth and general Hindi entertainment platform, The Q India announced its second channel in India, The Q Marathi, to be launched in India on January 31, 2022. The new cha...

Network18 appoints Sohini Guharoy as head of audience growth

The country’s premier multilingual digital news platform, Network18, has announced the appointment of Sohini Guharoy as head of audience growth. The news was shared by Sohini on her LinkedIn a...

Discovery South Asia SVP Vijay Rajput set to retire

American pay television network and flagship channel Discovery’s, SVP, affiliate sales and business head, Eurosport, Vijay Rajput, is retiring at the end of the year after seven years. Ruchir Jain, who currently heads finance at ...

Hiveminds appoints Mohit Grover to head its north branch

Hiveminds Innovative Market Solutions, a division of Madison World, has announced a formal expansion in the Delhi-NCR region. The company has opened a new office in Gurugram. To head its north branch, the digital agency has appointed Mohit ...

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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!