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Netflix brings password-sharing crackdown to India and every other market

July 19, 2023

Manish Singh

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 sign up nearly 6 million subscribers in the quarter ending June. The streaming giant said it will start to address account sharing between households in…
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Disney’s Hotstar to offer free mobile cricket streaming in India to take on Reliance’s JioCinema

June 9, 2023

Jagmeet Singh

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 announced it would lift the paywall on the Asia Cup and ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup live streams to let all mobile viewers watch these…
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New regulation in India seeks to stub out tobacco glorification on streaming platforms

May 30, 2023

Manish Singh

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. The new regulations, termed as the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Amendments Rules, 2023, will come into effect in three months. The updated policy mandates…
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Reliance’s JioCinema breaks world record with free cricket streaming

May 29, 2023

Manish Singh

India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set by Disney’s Hotstar, as the Asian tycoon Mukesh Ambani spares no expense in expanding his digital empire. The Indian streaming app, whose partner includes James Murdoch’s Bodhi Tree-backed Viacom18, surpassed the record…
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Ambani’s JioCinema secures NBCUniversal titles, escalates Netflix and Disney rivalry

May 29, 2023

Manish Singh

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 service said on Monday it has signed a “multi-year” partnership with NBCUniversal to bring “thousands of hours” of NBCU movies and TV shows to India.…
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Disney’s Hotstar loses 8.4 million subscribers as Ambani’s JioCinema ascends

May 10, 2023

Manish Singh

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 largely attributed to one specific streaming service: Hotstar. The Disney+ Hotstar platform, catering to viewers in India and Southeast Asia, lost 4.6 million subscribers during…
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Ambani bats for cricket glory as Disney scales back

March 31, 2023

Manish Singh

Mukesh Ambani’s Jio, the South Asian telecom powerhouse, has long sought to entice its customer base with a plethora of services aimed at boosting subscriber retention. Despite amassing over 425 million customers and claiming the mantle of India’s top network provider—due in large part to its aggressively competitive data pricing—Jio’s array of additional services has…
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India won’t tolerate abusive, obscene content on streaming services, minister warns

March 20, 2023

Manish Singh

India will not tolerate use of abusive language in movies and TV shows on on-demand video streaming services, a key minister has warned in a move that illustrates how the nation’s IT rules have “handed over direct ministerial power for censorship.” Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of Information Broadcasting and Sports and Youth Affairs, said at…
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Soon not streaming on Disney+ Hotstar: HBO content

March 7, 2023

Manish Singh

Hotstar will lose HBO content at the end of this month in the latest setback for the Disney-owned on-demand video streaming giant that recently also lost rights for a popular cricket tournament in the country. HBO’s catalog will leave Disney+ Hotstar starting March 31, the Indian streamer said in a tweet. Amazon may broaden its…
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Disney’s Hotstar suffers outage in an apparent domain renewal mess

February 17, 2023

Manish Singh

Disney+ Hotstar is suffering an outage for some users in India in the middle of a popular cricket match, drawing flak from customers at a time when the Disney crown jewel is already facing several setbacks in the South Asian market. It’s unclear what prompted the glitch, which Hotstar acknowledged as “unforeseen technical issues” across…
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