Vanita Kohli Khandekar

The growth in M&E slowed to 3.3 per cent in 2024 from 8.3 per cent in the previous year, thanks to a drop in revenue for TV, animation and visual effects

Tariffs may hurt Hollywood's business, but the bigger blow will be to the stories that built America's image in our minds

Magical records will find their audience. All these labels are signing artists based on how many subscribers or likes, and things like that, says Cohen

Omdia research also shows that the US makes less than 10 per cent of the global output of movies, although it accounts for half of the $30.6 billion global film revenues in cinemas

At 250 million unique visitors a month, MX Player has for long been in the same bracket as YouTube (454 million) and Meta (324 million) in reach

A digital persona can do funny hours. If I could have an anchor in the studio when the newsroom has woken up to a big event like an earthquake, it can be fed in, says Purie

The IPL will see its ad revenues rise by 50 per cent to touch $600 million (Rs 5,340 crore) across TV and the over-the-top (OTT) platform

This faux democratisation, concentration of economic power, and the polarisation it has created raises valid questions about the "social good" that social media has done

JioHotstar was born on February 14 this year. We have averaged over 300 million active users and are sitting at well over 100 million plus subscribers: Kiran Mani, CEO, JioStar

Password sharing for Netflix is still active for premium subscriptions with multiple devices

India had 125 million OTT subscribers in 2024, that amounts to a reach of about 375 million viewers

Says nothing is too late in the media and entertainment industry. If you get the content right, the audience will follow

The rise of streaming video since 2016 has not only created the pan-Indian film and the domestic crossover - helping Indians discover Malayalam, Tamil, Assamese, and Bengali cinema, among others

Its series, Panchayat, is one of India's most popular OTT shows. Panchayat's Tamil remake, Thalaivettiyaan Paalayam, released last year, and the Telugu one, Sivarapalli, came last month

Says can we make a biopic of an actor, of a sports person, or a big political leader, without having to put a standard actor and use the AI to create the actual personality?

Maybe newspaper publishers are right - if the biggest platforms and advertisers don't give a damn about data, why should publishers?

2024 was Netflix India's biggest year yet, says Monika Shergill

Google and Meta accounted for over 95 per cent of the Rs 64,500 crore spent on digital media in 2023

Not surprisingly, our ability to savour, appreciate, and discuss things goes down

Sukumar's Pushpa 2: The Rule, a blockbuster that hit over Rs 1,400 crore at the domestic BO, is a Telugu film, also released in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada