Vanita Kohli Khandekar

Globally, we have 837 mn individual subscriber accounts in 2025 up from 750 mn in 2024. It's (largely) US, UK, although the US numbers are little slower than we were used to say 20 years ago, she said

SVF eyes growth beyond Bengal with Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi bets, leveraging its integrated model as it tests scale in India's competitive content market

In 2019, over 210 million Indian homes had a television set - an audience size of almost 900 million. Most of these were DTH (direct-to-home) or cable homes

The next cycle offers no lift, with broadcasters staring at losses of over $1.75 billion

Within the shrinking TV universe news is a tiny sliver. News channels form just under 7% of all the TV viewed in India

Cricket's dominance in India is built on deep structural strengths-from grassroots systems to governance-while other sports struggle to scale beyond visibility

India's sports economy is booming past $2 billion, but cricket's overwhelming dominance is squeezing growth in other sports

Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar, one of the biggest hits in recent times, also employs an unusual, eight-chapter narrative to tell the story of spies

Today we have crossed over 7,000 publishers (Time, AP and Adweek, among others) in the US, Europe, South Asia and Japan, says Toshit Panigrahi

Not every film can be a crowd-puller, but in over 80 per cent of India's pin codes, there aren't even screens for those interested

Bhansali Productions will sell all its future film music exclusively to Saregama, giving it steady pipeline of premium music

An IIM-A report says the growth may be led by rural, low-income states

India's box office crossed ₹13,000 crore in 2025 as ticket prices surged and regional cinema surprised, even as overall footfalls slipped

A decade after launch, Netflix has won India's premium viewers - and now eyes mass scale with sports, ads and connected TVs

A sharp, funny and deeply personal memoir, The Outsider traces how Vir Das's life across continents shaped the voice of India's most global stand-up comic

Universal Music India has acquired a 30% stake in Excel Entertainment, betting on film music and pan-diaspora storytelling to drive its next phase of growth

From House of Cards to Indian stories going global, Netflix's decade in India marks how streaming reshaped entertainment, redrew media power, and changed what the world watches

The new is beginning to resemble the old, tech is playing both hero and villain, and cinemas are starting to get their sheen back

The stand-up business in India is roaring, even going global, despite challenges

Culture of watching movies is stronger in South, says PVR Inox MD