The Russo brothers and Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Indian production house Excel Entertainment (“Gully Boy,” “Made in Heaven”) are exploring a partnership.
With the U.S. and Europe fast maturing and China inaccessible, APAC’s large markets – India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Thailand – will be increasingly important to global platforms, said consultancy and research firm Media Partners Asia in its report “Asia Pacific Online Video & Broadband Distribution 2022.”
India’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur had advised the media needs to introspect its role if wrong perceptions were being created.
In June, streaming captured 33.7 per cent of total television consumption in the US, according to The Gauge, which is Nielsen's monthly total TV and streaming snapshot. This is streaming's largest share of TV usage to be measured by The Gauge since its inception in May 2021. Conversely, while viewership for broadcast and cable is traditionally lower during the summer.
Disney+Hotstar’s Ajay Devgn starrer Rudra: The Edge of Darkness is ranked number one show across platforms, followed by the third season of Aashram on MX Player and the second season of Panchayat on Amazon Prime Video
The latest edition of YouTube's copyright transparency report reveals that the streaming platform processed almost 1.5 billion Content ID claims last year. This figure represents roughly 98% of all copyright claims received by YouTube. Most of these complaints are handled without human intervention, but a small error rate still triggers millions of disputes.
India’s first 5G spectrum auction — the telecom sector’s most awaited event — starts on July 26. Top carriers — Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea — will bid for 5G airwaves to roll out next-gen mobile broadband networks capable of 10 times faster data speeds than 4G and a host of industrial/enterprise applications across industry verticals.
Movie theater giants may be on top of the world right now … but they are also staring off a cliff. It’s been a blockbuster few months for, well, blockbusters, and films like Top Gun: Maverick and Minions: The Rise of Gru proved that groups that may have been wary of returning to theaters (older moviegoers and young families) are willing to go back for the right film.
There is a high likelihood of near-term weakness for exhibitors as Hindi content remains below par, though regional and Hollywood films continue to show strong performance.
Meta has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit demanding at least $142 million in damages. Epidemic Sound, a company that provides royalty-free music to YouTubers and other creators, claims that Meta hosts 94% of Epidemic's music in its own library, none of it licensed. According to Epidemic, this has resulted in billions of illegal views across Facebook and Instagram.