At least 26 per cent of people surf the internet while watching Television, revealed Axis My India CSI Survey for February, thus opening deeper conversations on rising multi-screen user behaviour and scope of competitive advertising among different platforms. The survey covered as many as 10, 525 people across different states via Computer-Aided Telephonic Interviews.
"We are looking at deepening the process of ease of doing business, essentially compliance. Last year, 87 compliances were done away with. A number of other licenses, both wireless as well as wireline, need to be further simplified."
The company said that the price of its annual membership will rise by $20 to $139, while monthly memberships will rise by $2 per month to $14.99. The company cited all of the additions to Prime since it last raised prices in 2018 in explaining the rationale.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended the deadline for implementation of the new tariff order (NTO 2.0) to 1 June from 1 April this year.
The number of accounts, websites and URLs stood at blocked during 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 stood at 2799, 3603, 9849 and 6096 respectively Chandrasekhar added.
Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, has seen a slower user growth in India due to the data price hike by telecom operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea. The company's shares plunged more than 20% on February 2 as Facebook's global daily active users declined for the first time.
Alphabet-owned video streaming service YouTube will launch its commerce-related features first in India before rolling them out globally, CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts during the Q4 2021 earnings conference call.
Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced the creation of Sony Entertainment Talent Ventures India (SETVI), a new entertainment company focused on creating ventures for media talent in India.
For its long-running flagship drama “The Walking Dead,” AMC Networks is taking a big swing at the ongoing mania for nonfungible tokens — with a multiyear NFT strategy aimed at keeping the undead franchise alive long after the show leaves TV.
The company’s stated aim is to create content “which shall appeal to all sectors of the audience, with gripping shows across genres,” including action thrillers, biopics, murder mysteries and jailbreak dramas.