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    Time Spent With Ads on TV Sets to Drop Sharply by 2027, New Forecast Suggests

    • 25.10.2023
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The age of streaming and connected TVs will keep changing the landscape, including reducing the amount of TV advertising viewers are exposed to, even at a time when streaming services roll out advertising-funded tiers.

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    Luca Guadagnino, Mani Ratnam to Receive Excellence in Cinema Awards at Mumbai Film Festival

    • 25.10.2023
    • Variety

    Ratnam will receive the Excellence in Cinema (South Asia) award and Guadagnino the Excellence in Cinema (International) award. The awards will be presented at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 27.

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    Govt eyes regulatory sandbox for OTT communication apps

    • 25.10.2023
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    New Delhi: The government is likely to provide the option of a regulatory sandbox for existing and new over-the-top (OTT) communication apps to test features in a “live but safe environment” before they are allowed to be released for all users.

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    Sky Asked Govt. to Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New Dedicated Police Unit

    • 25.10.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    The chief executive of Sky TV in Ireland met with a government minister in May 2023 requesting the formation of a "dedicated anti-piracy unit" to crack down on the sale of pirate IPTV subscriptions.

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    SIDDHARTH ROY KAPUR TO RECEIVE MPA PACIFIC COPYRIGHT EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD AT CINEASIA 2023

    • 23.10.2023
    • FilmExpoGroup

    “It is with great pleasure we announce the honoring of Siddharth Lan with this award,” stated the President of Film Expo Group, Andrew Sunshine. “CineAsia and the MPA have worked together for many years to recognize individuals who have gone above and beyond for the industry.”

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    Global Streaming and TV Market Revenues Set To Reach $700 Billion for 2023

    • 23.10.2023
    • Variety

    The global TV and streaming market is estimated to be worth $700 billion globally in 2023, with $164 billion earmarked for investment in programming, according to a Mipcom presentation last Wednesday by Omdia research analyst Tim Westcott.

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    UNC3T and INTERPOL Awarded for Taking Down Piracy Group EVO

    • 23.10.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has awarded INTERPOL's digital piracy unit and Portuguese cybercrime police unit UNC3T for their role in the dismantling of piracy release group EVO last year.

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    Pirate Infrastructure: The CDNs and Hosting Companies Under U.S. Scrutiny

    • 23.10.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    Whether pirate sites specialize in the latest Hollywood movies, huge archives of TV shows, or thousands of live premium TV channels via IPTV, reliance on third-party services is a common denominator.

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    Free digital streaming of cricket World Cup shrinks TV viewership

    • 23.10.2023
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    Media experts attribute the drop in TV viewership to free cricket streaming by Disney+ Hotstar, which is raking in record viewership. Disney+ Hotstar is streaming the ICC Men's Cricket WC for free to mobile users. The event has returned to India after more than a decade.

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    ‘Disney+ Hotstar is here to serve many Indias, not one’

    • 23.10.2023
    • LiveMint

    New Delhi: Video streaming service Disney+Hotstar is shifting gears to adapt to changing subscriber dynamics in the Indian market, following a drop in its paid subscriber base from over 61.3 million to 40.4 million over the past nine months.

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