2025 emerged as a telling year, with legacy IPs and long-running daily soaps continuing to command attention across genres—from family dramas and mythologicals to crime procedurals and comedies
Low-quality AI-generated videos now make up a significant share of what users see on YouTube, raising concerns about platform quality, monetisation, and misinformation, according to new research by Kapwing.
Franchises, free originals and reality formats power a year of scale and intent
This growth is driven by a rise in pay TV households and industry experts say India’s history as a shared
screen market helps where families see OTT as additive, not substitutive to cable.
Saregama’s investment in Sanjay Leela Bhansali–promoted Bhansali Productions without acquiring film IP signals a structural shift in Indian cinema financing. How will this play out in the long term?
Cloudflare’s latest transparency report reveals a massive 3,800% surge in copyright-related takedown actions, fueled by a shift to more automated enforcement. By granting rightsholders direct API access, the company says that it was able to target live sports streaming piracy more effectively. This resulted in the termination of over 20,000 R2 storage accounts in just six months.
Satellite communication services will be rolled out in the country after players in the segment, including Elon Musk-owned Starlink, comply with the demands of security agencies, Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said.
The government has begun the groundwork for putting in place the procedure and modalities for appointing members to the new Data Protection Board, while the requisite software for a fully online office of the body has already been developed, IT Secretary S Krishnan has said.
This growth is driven by a rise in pay TV households and industry experts say India’s history as a shared
screen market helps where families see OTT as additive, not substitutive to cable.
For Bhansali Productions, retaining film IP preserves creative control, valuation upside, and flexibility to
negotiate theatrical, OTT.