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Shashi Sinha appointed new BARC India Chairman

Shashi Sinha, Chief Executive Officer at IPG Mediabrands India, has been unanimously elected as the new Chairman of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India by the Board following its meeting held on Friday.

Sinha, who also represents the Advertising Agencies Association of I...

Vedantu announces broadcast association with IPL 2022

Vedantu, the LIVE online learning platform, has announced the broadcast association with IPL for the upcoming season of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 starting on March 26, 2022. Vedantu will be one of the key advertisers on the Star Sports Network for the IPL 2022 this season as part of this deal. The second-largest K-12 brand ...

Meta makes it easier for brands to create 3D ads on FB, Insta

Meta Platforms Inc. will make it easier for brands to run three-dimensional ads on Facebook and Instagram through a new partnership with an ecommerce technology firm, VNTANA. Via the new integration, VNTANA would allow brands to upload their existing 3D designs from programs like Browzwear, Clo, Keyshot, Modo, and others and automatically con...

Edtech firm Byju’s named sponsor for Fifa WC ’22

Ed-tech company BYJU'S, which also sponsors the Indian cricket team, on Thursday said it has been named as an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup 2022 to be held at Qatar. BYJU'S, through this partnership, will leverage its rights to the football World Cup 2022 marks, emblem, and assets, and run unique promotions to connect with football ...

TV9 says retained No. 1 network as per BARC data

Seventy-four weeks of a concerted effort to cover up the emergence of a new leader in the Hindi news genre has come to naught. As TV9 Bharatvarsh has become the country’s most-watched national Hindi news channel disrupting the old order dominated by legacy channels. The BARC data for television news channels

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...

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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!