Video streaming services are struggling to expand their paid subscriber base due to low free trial conversion rates, according to a report by media consulting firm Ormax.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs decision overturning abortion rights that were established under Roe v. Wade in 1973, Hollywood creatives and bean counters have a new calculus to consider when determining where to shoot movies and TV shows: Do they accept tax incentives to film in states where abortion is banned or severely restricted, potentially endangering the reproductive rights of women working on those productions?
Reviving its 2019 plan, the Centre is finally readying to place before the Cabinet the proposed bill for a new registration regime for newspapers that will also include India's growing digital news media industry which has so far stayed out of the governmental registration framework.
The RIAA is no stranger to sending takedown requests. In most cases, these notices target pirated content but more recently the group has been defending its members against "infringing" Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain name sales on OpenSea. The NFT marketplace complied with the request and pulled the auctions, including that of RIAA.eth.
Urging India’s telecom and broadcast regulator TRAI to side with ‘regulatory restraint’ on issues relating to media ownership, Broadband India Forum (BIF) has highlighted that some stakeholders were making attempts to ‘confuse and confound’ the concepts of dominance and its abuse.
The subscription video on demand (SVOD) service revenue in India is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.5 percent from $1.3 billion in 2021 to $2.7 billion in 2026, driven by solid growth in SVOD subscriptions and an increase in unique SVOD household penetration, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Bright House Networks will go to trial accused by several major music companies of not doing enough to curb piracy. In preparation, both sides have asked the court to ban topics from being presented to the jury. The music companies, for example, don't want the ISP to argue that terminating Internet access is a human rights violation.
Netflix will work with Microsoft to launch a cheaper subscription plan that includes advertisements, the firms said Wednesday, as the streaming giant fights to attract customers.
Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) is looking to tweak its programming deals with Hollywood studios to enable the streaming pioneer's launch of an advertising-supported version of its service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
It is estimated that there are nearly 1.5 lakh professional content creators in India earning over $200 per month, while few of the breakout stars earn upwards of $100,000 per month. Also, global market size of the content creation economy is pegged at $104.2 billion.