Sarkar predicts forty percent growth for digital revenue in the coming year - from digital content, gaming as well as advertising for his company.
Producers have money stuck in multiple projects that are waiting it out to hit the big screen at a time when many cinemas have shut shop permanently.
A closer look at the numbers for 2016, 2018 and 2020, shows that just over half of TV viewers and homes have always been in rural India.
India's proposal to regulate non-personal data is symptomatic of a larger trend of over-intervention in competition in India. Abandoning commendable restraint India has shown over the years will also abandon thriving competition and innovation that this approach has spurred.
Around the world, governments are moving simultaneously to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before.
Netflix Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer Greg Peters spoke about the partnership with Jio and how it has helped Netflix to reach a new set of users.
The European Commission on Wednesday announced tough draft rules governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI), including hefty fines for violations, a ban on surveillance with a few exceptions and strict safeguards for high risk AI applications.
The Federation of Western India Cine Employees is insisting that the producer on whose set any worker contracts the coronavirus, pays for the treatment of the worker.
Rattled by Covid-19’s second wave, OTT players look towards the hinterlands as they hope regional production will help them sustain their subscription base. Some, however, feel the growth will have a multiplier effect, possibly even greater than the previous year on the back of fresh global-level originals and e-sports.