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Last month, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) promoted Ashish Sehgal (former Chief Operating Officer of ZEE Unimedia) to the position of Chief Growth Officer, ZEEL. The change of designation came following the dissolution of Zee Unimedia, a vertical that was set up by the broadcast network in 2016 to boost ad sales monetisation.
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Every brand, irrespective of its category, understands the important recall factor that music brings in. This is evident from well-established instances such as MTV Coke Studio and Mahindra Blues Festival among others. In keeping with the changing music consumption pattern, Sony Music updated its Sony Music India Segmentation Study, which now covers 31 unique segments.
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Rajan Anandan, VP, South East Asia & India, Google is IMPACT Person of the Year 2018 for being a dynamic leader in India’s digital ecosystem, accelerating innovation, growing Internet adoption, enabling vernacular language access of the Internet and making ‘Internet for every Indian’ his mission.
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Wrapping up 2018, YouTube released its annual ads Leaderboard for India. The leaderboard captures ads that receive the maximum views, shares and love from audiences across India.
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MUMBAI: Malayala Manorama Company Limited (MMCL) had invested Rs 154.55 crore in its TV broadcasting subsidiary MMTV, which owns and operates GEC Mazhavol Manorama and news channel Manorama News.
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MUMBAI: Video streaming platform Netflix is scaling up its original content offering in the Indian market. The entertainment platform has finalised an ambitious slate of 12 series and 20 original local language films which are in various stages of production.
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MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has moved the Supreme Court seeking the quashing of Madras High Court judgement and order dated 2 March 2018 and 23 May 2018 that held the 15% cap on the discount of MRP of a bouquet as arbitrary and not enforceable.
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MUMBAI: India’s telecom and broadcast regulator TRAI released a new consultation paper last month on OTT services seeking to expand the definition of the sector and also the regulator’s jurisdiction over a sector till now “unregulated”. The deadline for receiving comments on the consultation paper has been extended up to 7 January 2019 and counter comments by 21 January.
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MUMBAI: Months after a country-wide uproar and nudges from the judiciary forced the Indian government to shutter a Big Brother-type initiative involving tracking of Indians’ digital footprints, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is taking another shot to “understand citizen views expressed publicly in print, television, online and social media platforms”.
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NEW DELHI: India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is exploring formulating a national broadcast policy or NBP with an aim to ease lengthy and time consuming government processes that media and entertainment industry players have to go through while conducting their businesses.
