Raffaele Annecchino explains why the conglomerate is combining a global vision with local market-by-market execution, teaming with the likes of Sky, Canal+ and CJ ENM, the role of tentpole content and why the former ViacomCBS is "a different company now."
Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India CEO Nakul Chopra has said that the audience measurement body is in regular touch with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) about the news rating roll-out. He also said that the MIB is fully aligned with the audience viewership body's plans.
The Centre has recently begun working on the vision plan for 2047 and the 10 Sectoral Group of Secretaries (SGoS) was assigned the task of drawing up a road map for the same.
ViacomCBS President and CEO Bob Bakish has said that the company is looking at selectively adding sports rights internationally while stating that the Indian Premier League (IPL) bid is being driven by its Indian joint venture (JV) Viacom18.
The founder of the blockchain-based film sales platform Cinemarket is launching Cineverse, an ambitious start-up that will make it possible for filmmakers, distributors and producers to market films directly using blockchain and NFT tech.
FAST keeps growing from strength to strength. The free streaming format, known formally as Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV, has seen companies continue to flock to both launch or increase FAST channels or even create more and more FAST services. As audiences grow, the amount of money that can be made via advertising grows, too.
Cinedigm has launched a film submission portal for independent filmmakers that will allow select creators to distribute their work across Cinedigm’s streaming channels and third-party platforms like Amazon Prime Video and Google Play.
The US and Europe are ‘Neflix’d out’ and Netflix needs to turn to ‘emerging’ markets such as India if it wants to stop its falling new subscriber numbers and plummeting share price, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData.
NFT Music Stream bills itself as a decentralized music distribution system designed to empower artists through the wonders of NFTs. After artists in their droves complained that their songs were being distributed against their wishes, the platform admitted that the tracks were being pulled from YouTube
The maiden NFT drop of 3013 tokens, consisting of 3000 loot and 13 rare tokens from Fully Faltoo collection curated by Viacom18’s youth, music and English entertainment cluster, was an instant success amongst the cluster’s superfans and NFT collectors, globally. The range of 3000 NFTs from the loot category, priced at $10 for each token, was sold out in less than 48