Pricey Hollywood tickets deter Indian moviegoers, dent box office in 2024
Lack of fresh, high-impact content pushing audiences towards easily accessible FTA options, note experts; FTA channels also drawing FMCG, beverage advertisers who want to tap expanding rural audience
Harvard fellow and Ex-Twitter India Head Manish Maheshwari returns to lead India operations
The award will honor companies, startups, entrepreneurs, and filmmakers using tech, including AI, to reshape how films are produced, financed, and distributed.
“What we’re doing here with Netflix is a carrot to attract them rather than hitting people over the head with sticks,” Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter.
WBD CEO David Zaslav announced the move, with the company declaring, "no consumer today is saying they want more content, but better content."
The streaming giant also plans a new ad product that uses generative AI as it rolls out its in house ad tech suite.
A deep dive with Prashant Khanna, Head – Production Services, Studios & Production Tech – Sports, JioStar, on how Star Lab’s relentless innovation has helped make the IPL the gold standard of immersive sports entertainment; its close, mutually aligned association with SVG India; and how JioStar, through Star Lab, is set to play a key role in empowering the upcoming Indian Institute for Creative Technology (IICT) which was announced at WAVES 2025. And more.
SoundCloud changed its terms of use, allowing the company to use content uploaded by users to “inform, train or develop” AI.