Digital TV News: Viacom 18

Reliance and Disney complete India JV transaction
Nov 14, 2024 – Reliance Industries, Viacom 18 Media and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) have announced that the merger of the media and JioCinema businesses of Viacom18 into Star India has become effective.
News categories: The Walt Disney Company, Reliance Industries, Viacom 18, Robert A. Iger, Mukesh D Ambani, Nita M. Ambani, Uday Shankar, Digital TV, India, MandA

Planetcast announces faultless delivery of 2024 IPL season
Jul 3, 2024 – Planetcast Media Services has announced faultless delivery of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season, with zero downtime or glitches across 74 matches held in 13 stadiums.
News categories: Planetcast, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Worldwide

Paramount to sell 13.01% stake in Viacom18 to Reliance Industries
Mar 13, 2024 – Paramount Global has agreed to sell its subsidiaries' entire 13.01% equity interest in Viacom 18 Media to Reliance Industries for 42,86,00,00,000 Indian rupees (~$517 million).
News categories: Paramount, Reliance Industries, Digital TV, India, MandA

Indian M&E sector at $27.9 billion in 2023
Mar 5, 2024 – The latest FICCI-EY report has revealed that the Indian M&E sector grew by 8% in 2023, reaching INR2.3 trillion (US$27.9 billion), 21% above its pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
News categories: EY, FICCI, Ashish Pherwani, Kevin Vaz, Digital TV, Gaming, India, Market Research

Viacom18 to be merged into Star India
Feb 28, 2024 – Reliance Industries, Viacom 18 Media and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) have signed agreements to create a JV that will combine the businesses of Viacom18 and Star India.
News categories: The Walt Disney Company, Reliance Industries, Bob Iger, Mukesh D Ambani, Nita M. Ambani, Uday Shankar, Digital TV, India, MandA, Streaming

Paramount+ reveals global expansion plans
May 3, 2022 – Paramount+ (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) will launch in the UK and Ireland on 22 June 2022. Paramount+ will also launch in South Korea in June, with further launches planned in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria in 2H 2022.
News categories: Paramount, Raffaele Annecchino, Maria Kyriacou, Austria, Digital TV, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Streaming, Switzerland, UK

Over 100 million monthly active users for ThinkAnalytics' cloud content discovery
Jul 9, 2019 – ThinkAnalytics has announced that its cloud-based personalized content discovery platform is the first in the industry to scale to over 100 million monthly active users in the cloud. Four of the firm’s OTT customers now have a combined user base that exceeds that number.
News categories: ThinkAnalytics, Peter Docherty, Big Data, Digital TV, UX, Worldwide

Viacom18 adds ThinkAnalytics personalized multi-language recommendations to VOOT
Sep 11, 2018 – ThinkAnalytics has announced that Viacom18 in India has gone live with ThinkAnalytics on the ad-funded OTT service VOOT. VOOT’s users now have personalized recommendations on the home screen, making it quicker and easier to find content they want to watch.
News categories: ThinkAnalytics, Viacom18, Peter Docherty, Mohit Srivastava, Big Data, Digital TV, IBCShow, India, Streaming, UX

Global OTT revenues to grow at 14.5% pa from 2016 to 2026
Nov 18, 2016 – According to a report from Future Market Insights, the global OTT content market was valued at US$ 47.7 Bn in 2015 and is expected to reach a market valuation of US$ 53.2 Bn by the end of 2016.
News categories: Future Market Insights, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, Worldwide