Southern Indian states saw a 1% drop in screen count in 2025, even as India overall recorded 3% growth. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka led the decline, driven by struggling single screens—though multiplex redevelopments may partly offset the losses.
For creators, the main casualty is visibility, great content gets buried under sheer volume, making consistent engagement and monetization much harder to sustain.
No one knew it at the time, but 2014 — more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie moment — marked the peak of a monoculture that no longer exists. The numbers show a long decay ever since.
For creators, the main casualty is visibility, great content gets buried under sheer volume, making consistent engagement and monetization much harder to sustain
Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.
Hollywood giant Warner Bros. Entertainment is concerned about the "alarming" growth of IPTV piracy in Chile. After securing a dynamic site blocking order in February, targeting brands like MagisTV and FlujoTV, the studio is now raising the stakes with a criminal complaint targeting Streaming Chile SpA, an operation that claims to serve over 35,000 customers worldwide.
OpenAI report says India is a leading AI market in coding and reasoning but usage is highly concentrated in top cities, with big gaps in access and advanced applications
Broadcast rules for teleports and DTH may be taken up soon, as a broader regulatory reset of the sector is underway.
The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Visual Effects Society (India Section), marking a strategic step toward advancing India’s Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) sector through stronger industry-academia collaboration.
The global entertainment industry is undergoing widespread layoffs as major companies like Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery, Netflix, and Sony restructure operations. Driven by streaming disruption, declining traditional revenues, and cost pressures, thousands of jobs have been cut across studios, TV networks, gaming, and digital media divisions.