Mumbai: With the return to normalcy and restrictions having been lifted, broadcasters are upbeat about revenue growth during the festive season. Disney Star head of network entertainment channels, Kevin Vaz, is no exception. He tells Indiantelevision.com that the festive season this year is one of the best so far....

The European Commission's work program for 2023 contains significant disappointment for rights holders. In a call to action supported by over 100 organizations, the Commission was urged to deliver new law enabling the immediate takedown of pirated live streams. That is not going to happen for some time and rightsholders are not happy.

Inside Netflix Inc.’s movie studio, top executives lobbied Ted Sarandos, the company’s co-chief executive, for much of this year to experiment with releasing more Netflix original movies broadly in theaters.

Clearly, Netflix’s thinking about advertising has changed. Both Netflix and Disney+ are launching ad-based tiers this fall, seeking to broaden their addressable markets and tap into a new revenue stream as subscriber growth has slowed — in Netflix’s case, it lost 1.2 million in the first half of 2022, compared with a net gain of 5.5 million in the prior-year period.

Speaking to ET, the minister allayed the concerns of companies that offer over-the-top (OTT) communication services such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram, saying the government will only introduce light-touch regulations, keeping consumer interest, security and issues of cyber fraud in mind.

Major Japanese manga publishers requested assistance from a US court this week. The companies say that information held by financial and tech companies will help them file lawsuits against the operators of seven pirate sites, some with 'Mangaraw' branding. After previously using Cloudflare's services, some of the sites are now operating openly from Russia.

The Indian short-form video market has been on a strong growth trajectory ever since ByteDance-owned TikTok entered the market in 2017. Following the TikTok ban by the Indian government, the void was filled by global giants YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels besides home-grown platforms like Moj, Josh, MX TakTaka, Chingari, and Roposo among others.

As part of its ongoing efforts to confront piracy and content-security issues, the Motion Picture Association’s Trusted Partner Network is revising its membership structure and introducing a new platform that will centralize information on its member companies’ security practices.

The streaming company plans to launch its ad-tier next month and cut down on account sharing in moves to boost its revenue.