Over the last few years, India’s over the top (OTT) media services sector has more than doubled in size. According to the Ormax OTT Audience Sizing Report 2022, the Indian OTT audience universe now stands at 424 million people. In India, 119 million of these are active paid OTT subscriptions and increased by 20 per cent between 2021 and 2022.
India is drafting new rules to limit the amount of time children can spend on a gaming app, and may also mandate gaming companies to submit anonymised reports on such usage, people in the know told ET. The intent, they said, is to check addiction to gaming, especially among children. The new provisions are likely to be a part of the upcoming Digital India Act.
The Indian media and entertainment (M&E) industry may log 12-14% year-on-year increase in revenues to ₹1.6 lakh crore in fiscal 2024, against 16% growth expected this fiscal, according to a latest report by rating agency CRISIL.
The health ministry is consulting the information & broadcasting ministry and other key stakeholders on issuing a notification to OTT platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar to carry anti-tobacco warning messages like we see in movies screened in theatres and TV programmes.
Gaming firms that do not comply with the new rules will lose their safe harbour and can be prosecuted, said Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
Just Google and Facebook ad mop up from India amounted to Rs 41,115 crore in FY22. Twitter India does not give a separate India advertising split, so it hasn’t been included in the sample.
The government should give companies at least 24 months to comply with and implement the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill once it is passed, experts have said.
Former Disney India head Siddharth Roy Kapur, producer of Oscar-shortlisted film “Last Film Show,” has an eclectic range of films and series due in 2023 from his Roy Kapur Films outfit.
A court in Spain has handed down an order that requires Google to remove popular IPTV app 'IPTV Smarters Pro' from the Google Play Store. Filed by top-tier football league LaLiga, the initial complaint received support from UDEV, a police unit tackling specialist and violent crime, including national and international copyright cases
News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), an association of News TV broadcasters, on Monday announces the launch of its special venture- Digital News Federation (DNF) - an exclusive organization, to uphold the editorial freedom and ensure business interests of online news platforms.