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Reliance-owned Jio Studios is likely to invest Rs 2,200 crore to create a library of 100 movies and web series to retain customers after the IPL

The companies are waiting for the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to conclude before finalising the merger

Road Safety World Series 2022: India Legends will play South Africa Legends in the inaugural match of RSWS 2022. Read this detailed report on live streaming, telecast and where to watch the matches

Last week, Bodhi Tree Systems, an arm of James Murdoch's Lupa Systems, announced that it will be picking up a 40 per cent stake in Viacom18 for Rs 13,500 crore

The video on making rotis? Or the sites offering false narratives of Indian history. Or will it be the ones that report real news, not propaganda? As the first building blocks of a regulatory architecture around digital news fall in place, a guessing game on what will be hit has begun. The final part of the series looks at online news, as a regulatory regime for online content is being put in place.

A kiss, a love story, meat on the table? It's not clear what can offend people's sensibilities. They are all over social media, filing public interest litigation (PILs) and are issuing calls to ban, maim or kill a film, show, or a celebrity every other day. Will a content code stop them? Should we be afraid that the regulation their clamour pushes through will inhibit the wonderfully different programming on offer by streaming brands such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Voot? Why aren’t Google, Facebook, YouTube et al a part of this regulatory sweep? The first part of a series looks at streaming video as a regulatory regime for online content is being put in place. As the government and industry frantically put together a regulatory architecture around digital (entertainment) content, Business Standard's Vanita Kohli-Khandekar analyses three main questions that arise.

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta''s "Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story" has emerged as the highest user-rated show in IMDb''s ''Top 10 Indian Web Series of 2020'' list. "Scam 1992" earned acclaim for the thrilling portrayal of stockbroker Harshad Mehta, played by Pratik Gandhi, who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights, and his catastrophic downfall. The IMDb ratings are determined by users who rate films and TV shows on a 10-point scale. With a rating of 9.5 out of 10, "Scam 1992", a SonyLIV show, has also landed a spot in IMDb''s top 250 TV series of all time.

Of the top 10 kids networks almost all - Viacom 18, WarnerMedia, Disney, Sony Yay, Discovery Kids, and Sun Network - have seen a rise of 20-100 per cent in viewership.

Here are the top 10 recently launched web series that you can binge-watch during this lockdown

Not just TV shows and web shows, viewers can access performances by artists such as Prateek Kuhad, Vir Das, Karsh Kale, Kamakshi Khanna, music band Indian Ocean on their Instagram accounts

COAI has written to a dozen streaming platform including Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Hotstar, Zee5, Alt Balaji, Voot, Sony Liv, Viuclip, Hoichoi, Netflix, SunNXT and Voot seeking their cooperation.

From 100 million monthly active users, Voot sees its user base increase to 150 million by the end of this year as a whole

Network-backed OTTs see fast growth alongside an increase in demand for regional content

Viacom 18 bets on reality shows and regional content as it switches over to a paid viewership model

YouTube recorded 274 million total unique viewers in March 2019, occupying a 93.4% reach

'We don't want further changes to the new tariff order', said Sudhanshu Vats

Voot has already crossed the 100 billion watch-minutes mark in three years, and is now targeting 100 million MAUs this financial year

Airtel has already announced such offers for its fibre broadband

Viacom18 had earlier announced it would launch its first Tamil entertainment channel by the end of the current fiscal or early next fiscal

Voot stacks up on reality, kids' shows, Hotstar focuses on non-fiction and sports as online players