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India’s JioCinema offers Hollywood streaming for a penny a day to box out Netflix and Prime Video
JioCinema introduced new monthly subscription plan on Thursday, with the lowest tier costing just 35 cents.
Reliance buys Paramount’s stake in Indian media Viacom18 for $517 million
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is buying Paramount Global’s 13% stake in Viacom18 for $517 million as Asia’s richest man broadens his entertainment business just weeks after striking a multibillion dollars deal…
Reliance-Disney India media merger to control 85% of streaming, half of TV audience
The merger of Indian media assets of Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney will create an entity that captures 85% of the country’s on-demand streaming service audience and about half…
Ambani’s Reliance and Disney merge India media assets to form $8.5B joint venture
Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney are merging their media businesses in India, creating the largest media entity in the world’s most populous nation. Reliance, which will control the joint…
‘Sign from the Lord’: Sony tells Zee it’s terminating the $10B India merger
Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a two-year acquisition deliberation that would have created a $10 billion media powerhouse in the…
Reliance nears deal to acquire Disney’s India business, report says
Reliance is nearing a deal to acquire Disney’s India business, according to a report, as Mukesh Ambani’s oil-to-telecom empire eyes broadening digital and television assets. Disney values its India business…
Netflix’s 6.5M India subscribers dwarfed by Prime Video and Disney, Bernstein says
Netflix has “not succeeded” in scaling up its business in India despite the global streaming giant consistently lowering the subscription costs in the country, analysts at AllianceBernstein wrote in a…
Netflix brings password-sharing crackdown to India and every other market
Netflix is bringing password-sharing crackdown to consumers in India and every other market starting today, the global streaming giant said after a limited rollout of the restriction helped the firm…
Disney’s Hotstar to offer free mobile cricket streaming in India to take on Reliance’s JioCinema
Disney’s Hotstar will offer free streaming of cricket tournaments to mobile users in India, following Reliance’s JioCinema comparable approach that helped it attract millions of viewers. On Friday, Disney+ Hotstar…
New regulation in India seeks to stub out tobacco glorification on streaming platforms
India’s health ministry has unveiled stringent guidelines for on-demand video streaming services, necessitating warnings about smoking and the use of other tobacco products when such activities are portrayed on screen.…
Reliance’s JioCinema breaks world record with free cricket streaming
India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a livestreamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set by Disney’s Hotstar, as the Asian tycoon Mukesh…
Ambani’s JioCinema secures NBCUniversal titles, escalates Netflix and Disney rivalry
JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service rival to Netflix and Disney’s Hotstar in India, will soon be the home for “The Office” and other NBCUniversal titles. The Viacom18 streaming…
Disney’s Hotstar loses 8.4 million subscribers as Ambani’s JioCinema ascends
Disney, the global entertainment conglomerate operating a variety of streaming platforms, suffered a 2% contraction in its total subscriber base for the quarter ending March this year. The decline is…
Ambani and James Murdoch bring HBO content to India
Warner Bros. Discovery has partnered with Mukesh Ambani-backed Viacom18 to bring HBO and other movies and shows from the WB catalog to India in a major win for the Reliance…
