The COVID-19 hit came after the best year for the film industry in its history. In 2019, box office revenues hit $42.3bn, revealed the Motion Picture Association`s 2020 Theatrical and Home Entertainment report. In fact, this was a peak of impressive revenue growth that had been ongoing for over a decade.

Streaming analytics, in essence, is more about extracting realtime business value from data in motion in the same way that conventional analytics methods do with data at rest.

Apple, Amazon, Google & Facebook, popularly known as the big four, have not only survived a combination of calamities but registered profits.

Pricing is a crucial factor for the PPV model as industry players say it is very difficult for a critical mass to pay for a single piece of content. Pricing is going to be crucial, and anything more than Rs 100-150 can come across as prohibitive, says one analyst.

The total number of SVOD subscriptions in 138 countries is set to increase by 65% between 2020 and 2026.

Producers continue to shoot in bio-bubbles, however, content does reflect the times around and that is impacting storytellers, storytelling.

‘We are asking people to pay Rs 249 for the whole family and watch the film at home, which is effectively the price of one multiplex ticket’.

The EU is under pressure to ink an investment deal with India after tax disputes.

The IT Rules 2021 will not be used for forcing intermediary platforms such as WhatsApp, Signal, etc. to break end-to-end encryption, said Rakesh Maheshwari, Group Coordinator, and Head– Cyber Law, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY).