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    Why Netflix Chose Microsoft to Power Its Advertising Ambitions

    • 15.07.2022
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The ability to provide privacy, combined with an established ad tech stack through Xandr, and a strong ability to iterate quickly, helped push the computing giant over the finish line.

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    Hollywood’s Spending in New Mexico Hits $855M

    • 15.07.2022
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    Direct spending in New Mexico by film, TV and digital media productions reached $855 million in fiscal year 2022 that ended June 30, the state’s governor’s office said Thursday.

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    IPL media rights: Will the split make monetisation tougher?

    • 15.07.2022
    • exchange4media

    After having a five-year run as an exclusive media rights owner for the Indian Premier League (IPL), Disney Star India will have to remain content with airing the tournament’s matches on its sports channels as Viacom18 has wrested the digital rights for the next five years (2023-27).

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    Streaming services wary of poor free-to-paid-user conversion

    • 15.07.2022
    • LiveMint

    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.

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    Here Are the States That Incentivize Filming and Also Outlaw Abortion

    • 15.07.2022
    • Variety

    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?

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    Govt revives registration of press and periodicals bill to regulate digital news media industry

    • 15.07.2022
    • EconomicTimes

    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.

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    RIAA Takes Down ‘Infringing’ .ETH Domain Auctions from OpenSea

    • 15.07.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    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.

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    Media ownership: BIF decries few stakeholders’ bid to ‘confuse, confound’ concepts

    • 14.07.2022
    • IBW News

    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.

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    India SVOD revenue to reach $2.7 bn by ’26: GlobalData

    • 14.07.2022
    • IBW News

    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.

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    Music Companies Don’t Want ISP to Bring Up “Human Rights” and “Spying” in Piracy Trial

    • 14.07.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    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.

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