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Post Office Studios partners with Asian Paints for their new campaign ‘Colour Next’

Post Office Studios, a leading animation and new media technology company based in Mumbai, has partnered with Asian Paints to conceptualise and produce five animated films for their campaign ‘Colour Next 2020’. The campaign was released at India Design ID 2020, the country’s most definitive design and...

Leading International TV content market, MipTV called off due to Coronavirus scare

MIPTV, one of the leading international television conferences and markets, stands cancelled due to concerns related to the coronavirus (Covid-19). The organising committee, Reed MIDEM, has also announced that besides MIPTV, MIPDoc and MIPFormats and Canneseries 2020 have been cancelled. The event was scheduled between 30 March...

Dubai KHDA releases comics to spread awareness of Coronavirus

Dubai’s education regulator, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), through Twitter, shared an informative comic for kids (and adults) to expel any fears they may have about the COVID-19 outbreak. Originally published by the American National Public Radio (NPR) two days ago, the eight-page comic is...

ZEE5 wins ‘India’s Most Desired Video Streaming Brand’ Title in TRA’s report

ZEE5 has been named as ‘India’s Most Desired Video Streaming Brand’ as per TRA’s recently-released Most Desired Brands 2020 report. India witnessed a digital explosion 2016 onward due to the rapid increase in smartphone uses and cheaper internet. Since then, digital content consumption, leisure binge-watching has become...

Netflix announces partnership with six Japanese creators to develop Anime Originals

Netflix announced from Tokyo this week that it has partnered with six Japanese creators to develop original anime series for fans around the world, as part of the company’s continued effort to build on its best-in-class anime originals with deep creative roots in Japan. The six creators...

OTT platform ZEE5 joins hands with Alliance Broadband to spread wide in Eastern India

ZEE5 has collaborated with Alliance Broadband, the biggest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Eastern India, to offer easy access to over 1.25 lakh hours of a wide variety of content across different genres in 12 languages to its customers on the platform. Alliance Broadband customers with Alliance...

Nickelodeon’s former president Cyma Zarghami returns to business with children’s content studio

Nickelodeon former president Cyma Zarghami, after leaving the company has returned to the business of creating content for kids. She recently launched MiMO Studio, a production company and consultancy that will put its initial focus on developing original movies based on properties she thinks will win over...

Bombay HC issues order for deferment of TRAI’s New Tariff Order 2.0

The Bombay High Court has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to look after instructions on deferment of the NTO (new tariff order) 2.0 similar to what they did in the 2017 regime before the Madras High Court. According to reliable sources, TRAI has to...

HBO Max signs Multi-Year deals with children’s author Mo Willems

HBO Max has announced an exclusive, multi-year deal with beloved children’s author Mo Willems, an Emmy Award-winning writer, New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, establishing Willems as HBO Max’s very first artist in residence. As part of this two-year deal, HBO Max has acquired streaming rights...

Succeeding Iger, Bob Chapek becomes the next CEO of Walt Disney

Disney CEO Bob Iger will be replaced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products chairman Bob Chapek as CEO, effective immediately, the board of directors of Walt Disney Co. broke the news on Tuesday. Iger will stay on as executive chairman through the end of 2021, with a...