Faced with a hard -sell situation, corporates are gearing up to spend about 25-30% more on advertising this festive season as compared to the last year in consumer durables, electronics & auto taking the lead, according to an ASSOCHAM recent paper. The feedback from corporates suggest that the marketing teams of the companies engaged in […]
Eros Entertainment said Ajay Devgan starrer Singham Returns has collected 7.5 lakh dirhams in the UAE on Thursday, its opening day in the Arab country. The weekend begins on Thursday evening in the Gulf countries as Friday is a weekly holiday for them. Total weekend collection overseas was $2.4 million or about Rs 14.5 crore, […]
You are unlikely to read about the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s latest recommendations on Media ownership in tomorrow’s newspaper, or hear about it on tonight’s prime time TV. That is because it is perhaps the biggest ‘expose’ of the not-so-wholesome, behind-the-scenes activities in Indian media ever, except perhaps the famous Radia tapes issue. In […]
Videocon d2h has beaten bigger rivals like Tata Sky and Dish TV to the 4K Ultra HD game. The DTH operator, which already provides around 22 full HD channels, said it expects to launch 4K Ultra HD services before anyone else in India. “The 4K Ultra HD DTH services will be available commercially very soon. […]
Reliance Industries said it will spend Rs 4,000 crore to acquire control of Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, the owner of the CNN IBN channel and sister concerns like CNBC TV18, IBN 7, Firstpost.com etc. The Mukesh Ambani firm will make open offer to acquire shares held by minority shareholders in Network18. The acquisition […]
Rajinikanth starrer ‘Kochadaiiyaan – The Legend’ seems to be on its way to being a profitable venture for its producer, with opening weekend collection of Rs 42 crore, according to Eros International, distributor of the movie. The film, directed by Soundarya Rajnikanth Ashwin, was produced at a cost of Rs 125 crore. Kochadaiiyaan’s collection is […]
After the success of Ragini MMS 2, American adult film actress Sunny Leone has been roped in to host MTV’s dating cum couple reality show Splitsvilla. She, along with Nikhil Chinapa, will be the host of the seventh season of MTV Splitsvilla. “A sizzling Sunny will be seen co-hosting this immensely exciting season of the […]
Flipboard, often billed as the Google News of the mobile world, has won its first media client in India in the shape of Condé Nast, the global publisher that runs magazines such as Vogue and The New Yorker. Vogue India has become the first magazine from India to have a customized version made available on […]
Actor Anushka Sharma will turn producer for NH 10, billed as edge of the seat action thriller about a road trip that goes wrong. NH 10 is director Navdeep Singh’s second film, after Manorama 6 Feet Under, and will be produced by Eros International Media Limited (Eros International), Phantom Films and Anushka Sharma’s Clean Slate […]
Digital advertising has reached about 10% of the total advertising market in India, according to numbers from the annual FICCI KPMG media and entertainment industry report. Digital advertising, including mobile advertising and online advertising, was the fastest growing segment in 2013 at 39%, followed by radio, which grew by 15%. Among the laggards were TV […]
In an unprecedented act, the entire staff of Kerala’s oldest TV channel have struck work, stopping the transmission of Indiavision TV. The staff put up a statement on the website of the television channel, which has since been pulled down, accusing the management of violating several codes, to the detriment of the channel. The statement […]
Facebook wants to emerge as a platform for public content, and not just private or person-to-person content, but is not really offering a video platform for content providers like Youtube, Facebook’s vice president for media partnerships said. “We want to be a platform for sharing of public content,” Justin Osofsky said at India’s FICCI Frames […]
BBC World News will shift its operating base to India in April as the world’s most populous democracy goes to the polls to elect its new Parliament, said Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News said today. “We will also be bringing BBC trending from India,” said Egan, talking at the annual FICCI Frames conference. […]
Firstpost.com was born due to the global financial crisis of 2008, Raghav Behl, founder of the Network18 group said. Speaking at the annual FICCI Frames conference, Behl said his group was preparing to launch a newspaper in 2008 when the global financial crisis struck. “Then we thought, why go into an old medium…but we wanted […]
The digital advertising market in India grew by 39% to Rs 3,000 crore, or about $600 mln, in 2013, and would grow by 37% in 2014 to reach Rs 4,120 crore, according to a KPMG FICCI report on the media and entertainment sector in India released today. Mobile advertising was a relatively small part of […]
The global digital music market is expected to grow $9 billion worldwide in 2014, a report by Mahindra Comviva and Ovum Consulting said today. Across the nine markets surveyed (both emerging and developed), the share of devices used for listening, purchasing or downloading music has changed dramatically in 2013, as compared to 2010. Computer share […]
A new BBC survey has underlined the importance of mobile phones in content consumption – especially news, and shown that Indians are ahead of others when it comes to using mobile phones for productivity purposes. The study, carried out among 6,000 smartphone owners in Australia, Germany, Sweden, India, Hong Kong and the US, found that […]
With many news channels turning into ‘noise channels’ in their race for TRPs, media and communication professionals need to introspect over the need for responsible communication, experts at a conclave said. Participating in deliberations in the two-day Global Communication Conclave that concluded last night here, media and communication professionals raised questions relating to journalistic ethics […]
Mouthshut.com, an online consumer-review service, has decided to approach the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and Department of Telecommunications (DoT) as Hyderabad-based ISP Beam Fibre blocked the consumer-review website, MouthShut.com. According to Mr Faisal Farooqui, Founder & CEO, MouthShut.com, the company got in touch with the nodal officer of Beam Internet, who confirmed the […]
In a departure from previous practice, Reuters, the venerable wire agency, has started putting out exclusive content on its website, Reuters.com, in an effort to differentiate the website from others. The wire agency, run by Canada-based Thomson Reuters Corp, is trying to adapt to a new web-oriented media world where the cost of distribution is […]
