The ministry of information & broadcasting has released its "Accounts At A Glance for 2021–2022." The total budget for the years 2021–22 was Rs 4,079.71 crore (revenue and capital), while the capital budget stood at Rs 21.10 crore and the revenue budget at Rs 4,058.61 crore.
Times Now editorial director & editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar is happy with the current Broadcast Audience Research Council (Barc) ratings process, which he claims is fair and authentic compared to pre-blackout and post-rating resumption data. Rahul Shivshankar shared the current Barc rating and compared it with pre-blackout data, where the Times Now's rating was allegedly tampered with.
According to reliable industry sources, Disney+ Hotstar executive vice president and chief technology officer Akash Saxena has called it quits. He is expected to be replaced by Mukund Acharya, who has been playing the role of executive director of engineering at the OTT giant up until now.
Parks Associates has released its updated list of the top 10 US subscription over-the-top (OTT) video services, based on estimated numbers of subscribers through September 2022 from the firm's OTT Video Market Tracker. The research firm reports that 83 per cent of broadband households have at least one OTT service, with 23 per cent having nine or more OTT subscriptions.
Sony Entertainment Television brings a beguiling story titled Kathaa Ankahee, a Hindi remake of the acclaimed Turkish drama 1001 Nights, delving deep into the feelings of love, repentance, and an unforgivable wound (Binbir Gece).
At a session at AnimationXpress' dentsu MGEN Summit that looked at how brands can tell stories through gaming as a medium, several points were made. One is that lots of work needs to be done for brands to use gaming effectively in a digital marketer's strategy.
In a presentation at the MGEN Summit, which was organised by Animation Xpress and explored the areas of the metaverse, games, esports, and NFT, densu's director of global solutions Jamie McConville noted that virtual identities are connecting ageing brands with younger audiences.
Media Partners Asia (MPA) has released a report titled "Asia Pacific Pay-TV Distribution 2022," which predicts that, excluding China, Asia-Pacific (APAC) Pay-TV revenues will reach $35 billion by 2027.