An average of 21% users in India use digital media, consuming an average of 1.7 hours of content every day. But in the past few weeks there has been an extension.

Art has once again emerged as a healer and also as a weapon to spread awareness about corona virus that has been causing illness and death across the world.

Part of the reason is that social media algorithms are geared to appeal to someone's habits and interests: the emphasis is on likability, not accuracy. Changing that would require Facebook, Twitter and other such companies to alter what people see on screen.

With over 40 million monthly listeners and 60 percent year-on-year growth in 2018, India is among top three podcast listing markets.

Superstar Salman Khan has pledged to donate for 25,000 daily wage artistes of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE), whose livelihood has been severely affected owing to the lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak, reveals its president, BN Tiwari.

According to a new report by The Economic Times, the company is planning to launch JioFiber free basic broadband offer. Under this offer, the company will offer data speed of 10mbps with FUP of 100GB. After exhausting 100GB, the speed will switch to 1mbps.

The broadcasting fraternity believes that this will provide people who are restricted to their homes, entertainment will help provide relief during the period of lockdown.

It remains to be seen how Sagar’s Ramayan is received now by the public considering Doordarshan’s monopoly over television viewership has long been broken and the serial itself lacks the accouterments of a televised epic that TV and the more recent OTT audiences have become used to.

Meetings are also being held at the Film Chamber to decide the course of action regarding the daily wage workers and other issues, as the lockdown is going to continue till April 16 in Telangana with the number of coronavirus positive cases on the rise.