Indian streaming video service Hotstar has set a new world record for online streaming with 8.26 million concurrent viewers, according to the company’s CDN provider Akamai. On May 22 Hotstar streamed the first qualifier match of this season’s Vivo Indian Premier league cricket between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings, with 8.26 million peak concurrent […]
Twenty-First Century Fox has announced plans to up its investment in its Indian streaming service Hotstar after seeing strong reach and an increase in viewers for IPL cricket. Speaking on 21st Century Fox’s third quarter earnings call last week, CEO James Murdoch said that the company’s Star India subsidiary will invest about US$50 million in […]
Vice Media has opened its first offices in India, the nation set to become “the youngest country in the world” by 2020. New offices in Mumbai and Delhi will host full-scale Vice operations, including a local offering of Virtue Worldwide, Vice’s in-house creative agency, and a full-service content production studio, Vice Studio, producing local news, […]
Amazon Prime Video is to bring original reality series Hear Me. Love Me to its platform, based on the concept of blind dating. The format takes a single female looking for love and sets her up on three dates. She’s not allowed to see what her dates look like, and will combine “modern day technology with the […]
Indian service provider Tata Sky has tapped Accedo to provide a unified live and video-on-demand experience across the web and Android and iOS apps for its mobile video service. Tata Sky selected Accedo to create an engaging mobile video experience for the service, which comprises sports, news and 5000-plus entertainment titles, along with a seven […]
India will be a major driver for Netflix’s future growth with the company already benefitting from low internet costs and the expansion of 4G in the country, according to CEO Reed Hastings. Speaking at the Economic Times Global Business Summit in New Delhi, Hastings reportedly told attendees that while Netflix’s global subscriber base currently stands […]
Netflix is set to bring in three more Indian originals, including a drama, horror and mystery. The three titles will appear exclusively to Netflix members across 190 countries. Leila, from writer and executive producer Urmi Juvekar, tells the story of Shalini, a free-thinking woman in search of the daughter she lost upon her arrest 16 […]
Online subscription film service Mubi is making a push into India after agreeing a deal with the investment arm of Indian media company The Times Group. Times Bridge joins as an investor will support Mubi as it expands into the Indian market, which is already the third biggest source of traffic to the service after the US and UK. […]
Netflix is attempting to make up lost ground in India by snagging rights to programming from a new local Discovery-operated network. Netflix has beaten off the likes of Amazon Prime Video to land programming from Jeet, a new channel launching in India next month on DTH and cable platforms. The deal means Netflix has exclusive […]
Indian DTH pay TV provider Tata Sky has expanded its contract with content security specialist Irdeto to protect its expanded range of services. Tata Sky will use Irdeto Cloaked CA and middleware to deliver an improved customer experience while ensuring that its content remains secure, according to Irdeto. Cloaked CA is a cardless conditional access […]
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