'As a nation, we create beautiful content and a high volume of it (films) but we are limited by the number of theatres and screen density.' 'You now have a living-room large screen available to showcase that.'
Apple's high-octane racing film "F1: The Movie" roared to the top of the U.S. and Canadian box office this weekend, fueled by star-power and a finely-tuned marketing campaign
At 8,700 screens, India, the world's largest film producing country, has just six screens for every million of its people, compared to 125 in the US and 30 in China. With Sitaare Zameen Par, Aamir Khan hopes to expand the market for Indian cinema.
Across the board, brands use influencers like a Bhuvan Bam or Kusha Kapila as the second or third rung of their strategy. The first rung is always a celebrity that has been created outside the Internet, through mainstream media.
'There is simply too much to watch, read and absorb.' 'Just online consumption (news, entertainment, social media) in India was 2.5 hours a day in November 2024.' 'Add TV (just under 4 hours), other media, and the figure is closer to 7 to 8 hours a day for over one-third of Indians,' points out Vanita Kohli Khandekar.
'If you are watching cricket and don't want to leave the screen, you could check the menu and order through Zomato (or any other app) from a small part of your screen. That is what we are working towards.'
'Fan armies are not just followers; they are a force of nature.'
The way video is being watched and monetised is changing. This is the first thing that stands out as the penetration of smart TVs continues to rise.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries and Tata Group have made it to the prestigious TIME's list of 100 World's Most Influential Companies of 2024. TIME called Reliance 'India's Juggernaut'. This is the second time that Reliance has found its way into the TIME list. Jio Platforms, the firm that holds digital properties of the conglomerate, was included in the inaugural TIME 100 Most Influential Companies List of 2021. Serum Institute is the other Indian company on the list.
Assume Voot, JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar are merged into one entertainment app, and you have a streaming service with more than 233 million unique visitors. That is a reach just under half of India's largest streaming app: YouTube. 'This level of consolidation does not exist even in the US.'
'Advertising this season will help IPL surpass $550 million in ad revenues, across digital and pay TV.' 'It should still represent a steep loss against annualised 2023-2027 IPL rights fees of $1.2 billion.'
In the quarter ending June 2022, the growth of Internet subscribers was less than one per cent of all of 2021.
The number of Internet users globally has crossed one billion-visitor mark in December 2008, with the Asia-Pacific region accounting for the highest 41 per cent, as per a leading internet marketing research firm comScore.
Social networking giant Facebook's growth appears to be slowing down, especially in the United States, according to a report.
In its latest report on social networking activity in the Asia-Pacific region, comScore says the Google-owned Orkut is ranked as the top social networking site in India, with 46.8 per cent of the nation's web population using the website.
Retail e-commerce spending for the holiday season from November 1 through Christmas eve was around $27 billion, which represents an increase of five per cent over the same period a year ago.
About 18 months after its entry in India, a Spotify listener spent an average of 97 minutes on the app, almost ten times more than any other streaming music brand.
The growing online retail market in the country has become a lucrative business in the past two years. Here's how these companies have fared.
The growing online retail market in the country has become a lucrative business in the past two years. Here's how these companies have fared.
End of the smartphone battle may be coming into sight, but the operating system war is heating up.
Online video consumption in India stood at 1.86 billion per month as on March 2011.
Let's take a look at 10 websites where users spend the most time.
According to a new research conducted by market research firm comScore in the United States has revealed that one in four smartphone owners used a tablet between February and April this year, an increase of 14 per cent over last year.
Social media is opening whole new avenues for companies.
Search giant Google's social networking foray, Google+, is steadily gathering steam, owing primarily to users in India and the United States.
Google's latest offering 'Google Plus' is steadily gaining ground in the social networking space, so far dominated by Facebook, with the internet giant's social network attracting about 20 million visitors in the initial three weeks and nearly half of these visitors hailing from US and India.
18.5 million online users aged 15 or above visited a travel site in April.
In India, nearly 64 per cent Facebook users access its photo-sharing services.
An increasing number of people are going online for finance-related content, with 19.7 million Internet users in the country logging on to business websites in June, says a survey.
Automotive portal CarDekho.com is in the fast lane and in top gear as it has reached the top spot by becoming India's number one auto portal, said a media statement from CarDekho.
India stands at seventh position among the top 10 countries in Asia-Pacific in terms of the average time spent by visitors on social networking portals like Orkut, Facebook and Hi5.
The Times group job site, Timesjobs.com, yesterday said it was the largest recruitment portal with 3.073 million active resumes.
The recall of faulty batteries present in more than 4 million Dell notebooks is turning out to be as famous as the global PC giant itself on the world wide Web.\n\n
Zee5 is now the fifth largest streaming app after YouTube, Hotstar, MX Player and Voot, and there is talk of hiving off Zee5 to drive valuation, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Search engine Google continues to dominate the market share for the ninth consecutive month, according to a report released by Internet metrics company comScore Networks.
People in India are taking onto the world wide web in a big way outpacing anyone else across the globe -- including big brothers like the US, China, Japan and Germany in terms of the online population.
Monetising online readership, a deeper focus on content and getting revenue from the reader are ways to make the business future-proof, observes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
From convincing film-makers to do shows for online, to having a slate with some of the best films and shows, Amazon Prime Video has come a long way since it came to India four years ago.
Since its entry in 2016, Netflix has announced over 60 titles to be sourced from India.
The argument that the pandemic has given a boost to streaming video is fallacious. Only three OTTs saw a rise in viewership; the others fell.
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