Uday Shankar and James Murdoch's private investment company Lupa Systems has announced that it is forming Bodhi Tree, an investment platform that will be financially supported by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). This new venture is designed to invest in media and consumer technology opportunities in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on India. It will be run.

There has been no decline in viewership of Doordarshan in recent years, the union information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur told Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Viewership of DD has been unaffected in spite of the increase of private TV channels in the broadcasting space during the past years and fragmentation of audience due to many private TV channels relaying

Free streaming, which comprises both on-demand AVOD titles and linear FAST channels, with the majority of services offering both, has a different business model than its SVOD brethren. It is based upon licensing content, with very few originals — the original Netflix streaming model — and bringing it to viewers for free in exchange for viewing ads.

The combined MX TakaTak-Moj platform will have 100 million creators, more than 300 million monthly active users (MAU), and nearly 250 billion monthly video views.

A U.S. federal court has handed down a 40-month prison sentence to Gary Bowser, a member of the infamous Nintendo modding group Team-Xecuter. The prosecution requested a tougher sentence but celebrates the outcome as an important victory nonetheless.

The Walt Disney Company said it now has 196.4 million subscribers for its streaming services, up from 179 million in the previous quarter. For Disney+, it reported an increase of 11.8 million subscribers (no doubt, partly driven by large interest in Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” docuseries on the Beatles, which brought in 209,000 subscriptions alone, according to Insider). Wall St. had predicted an increase of 7 million.

Analyst Michael Nathanson of Moffett Nathanson highlighted that 2 million subscriptions were a result of the automatic bundle with Hulu Live and another 2.6 million came from Disney+Hotstar, which generates about 1$ monthly revenue per user

In a recent interaction, Disney CEO Bob Chapek shared the company's vision for the future, or at least hinted at it for now. Among other things, Chapek talked about his idea of a metaverse and what it means for Disney to adopt the technology going forward.

Bharti Airtel expects revenue upside from the partnerships as well as from distribution. However, major OTT apps Netflix and Amazon Prime will maintain standalone partnerships which will be separate monetisation streams for the company