Indian streamer SonyLIV has unveiled a slate of more than 20 new and returning shows for 2024 and is expanding its content focus.

Asia’s video industry is set to grow by an annual 2.6% over the next five years to reach $165 billion by 2028, says a new study from research and consultancy firm Media Partners Asia. That follows 5.5% growth in 2023.

As per a study by Cheil India, Data privacy has emerged as the biggest bottleneck in AI adoption – 64% of respondents think that if they start using AI, all their data will be exposed to AI companies, while 70% are worried about those companies misusing the data they share.

Programmatic advertising has made media buying automated, real-time and more measurable with AI offering real-time campaign insights for marketers, share industry player

Last Wednesday, New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement, alleging that millions of its articles were used without consent to train chatbots and AI models, which now compete with it.

There is a case for sharp tariff hikes by telcos such as Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) in calendar 2024 as both Jio and Airtel are slated to complete pan-India rollouts of their 5G services shortly, analysts said.

M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me. With several asterisks, qualifications and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader of the band of characters, films and books that will become public domain as the year turns to 2024.

This assignment takes immediate effect and will continue until the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further directives are issued, whichever occurs first.

A decade ago, nearly all screener copies of all Oscar-nominated films leaked online. Today, these types of screener leaks are non-existent. Changes in the movie industry contributed to this change but the bust of piracy group EVO a year ago had a big impact too.