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Wikipedia’s first ever protest – To stage 24 hr blackout!

by Arun Prabhudesai on January 17, 2012 |

wikipedia black-out

This is a first – Wikipedia has decided to stage a black out for entire English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC (10:30 am India time) on Wednesday, January 18. This Wikipedia blackout is arranged in protest of proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy …

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Accel Partners Invests in company behind Techtree.com!

by Arun Prabhudesai
techtree-traffic

This investment should bring some cheer to the online publishers and bloggers – According to press release sent to us, Accel Partners has completed ‘Series A’ investment in Trivone Digital, a Bangalore-based digital media and content company behind sites like www.techtree.com, www.channeltimes.com and www.cxotoday.com. The details of funding have not been disclosed. According to …

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Impact Person of the Year Award 2011 goes to Agnello Dias of TapRoot – Advertising finally gets its due![Event]

by guest
agnello-haresh

[Note: This event coverage is written by Mr. Pavan R Chawla, Vice President -- Media & Entertainment of Adfactors PR Pvt. Ltd.] Finally, when Chief Guest Shivraj Patil, the Governor of Punjab (and former Home Minister of India) announced the winners of top Industry Award Jagran Presents Impact Person of the Year 2011, it …

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Why NRIs are watching their favorite Indian TV shows online!

by Kaushambi

NRIs living in foreign countries have found newer and better ways to keep in touch with their Indian roots. One of them is watching a constant stream of Indian TV shows on their Satellite TV, Internet TV or just a regular notebook. It wouldn’t be surprising if a student in Australia was more …

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What’s so common between top TV shows and… yes FACEBOOK? [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
ghazab

Have you ever wondered why Rakhi Sawant is so much loved by Imagine TV producers? Or how shows like “Emotional Atyachaar” can run for 3 straight (successful) seasons? Why do you think TV series like “Balika Vadhu” or “Na Aana Is Des Laado” grab so much eyeballs? Any answers yet? …

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After IPL get set go for some fresh content on TV [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
what to watch

I hope IPL Vulture didn’t suck every bit of your blood, and you’re still alive to at least switch ON your TVs? Well, if you have plans for same I must encourage you to do so because in coming days there are not 5 or 10 but 55 new shows lined up to appear on [...]

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Self regulation for TV Channels but parental control for Bloggers- is it Fair? [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
internettv_parental_controls

Last week Indian Broadcasting Federation (IBF), decided to have a self-regulatory mechanism for content control of non-news channels. For news channels, there is already a self regulatory mechanism named (News Broadcasters Association or NBA), whose effectiveness is yet to be seen. The new regulation also includes having a complaints redressal mechanism through the Broadcasting Content [...]

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Ready for Rediff group deals?

by rabigupta
26group-deals

Rediff.com India Ltd (NASDAQ listed) is the new entrant in the super hot group-deal market with- Rediff Deal Ho Jaye! [Picture courtesy: Rediff.com] As per the report and as quoted by Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan: The service, essentially, offers consumers local services in about 40 cities across …

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HD services offerings in India – Options galore!

by rabigupta
Asli HD

Were you the one impressed by High-definition ads telecasted during IPL? Aamir Khan in Tata Sky+ HD ad saying that he can record and watch 625 hours of High Definition Cricket and other stuff on TV and Shahrukh on the other hand claiming that Dish TV offers highest number (30) of HD TV Channels in [...]

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Lukup for i-Ads on TV: revolutionary idea? [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
iAds

Lukup, a Bangalore based company run by Headstart founder Kallol Borah has come out with first of it’s kind concept in India- interactive Ads on Television sets! The ads are 100/100 pixel small ads which are shown as hot spot format at bottom right end of Television (as seen in their website demo) and run [...]

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Everyone wants a pie of World Cup- lessons from IPL

by rabigupta
circket

Blame it to IPL, Cricket is no more a One day format monopoly and thanks to IPL for exposing various innovative revenue models around a game called ‘Cricket’. If you look at today’s One-Day Cricket format it looks like its fighting a battle for survival- 3 powerplays, Free hit after a no-ball and players psyche [...]

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Indian Media & Entertainment Industry crosses USD 14 bn, advertising spends grow by 17%!

by Arun Prabhudesai
FICCI Frames

The Indian Median & Entertainment Industry has shown strong growth recovery in 2010 by logging growth of 11% over 2009 and touching Rs 65,200 crore (USD 14 billion) in revenue and is estimated to achieve a growth rate of 13% in 2011. Overall, Indian Media & Entertainment Industry is set to double to USD 28 [...]

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Has social media already started affecting your TV viewing? [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
Ireland update

Very recently I switched on TV to watch Ireland thrashing England, not because I love watching  any Cricket match, but because I saw my Facebook wall getting printed with Kevin O Brien’s fastest century updates. Here is a snapshot- Yesterday when everyone was busy watching Ind Vs Ireland match, I switched to another channel and [...]

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Movie rental in India falls flat before even taking off? [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
movie rentals

That’s a question I have been asking people for quite sometime, not before I asked it on Quora (How Indian Movie rental services are doing? Subscription numbers for services like bigflix.com and seventymm.com?) and it was Sidharth’s answer which then triggered this post! When I tried to dig more I found out a question on [...]

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DTH+3G: Can it bring the next big revolution? [Media Monday]

by rabigupta
airtel 3G

These days I’m in Mumbai, and as I entered here while coming from Delhi I found almost every slum house on the way fitted with Airtel DTH. That’s some awesome thing, isn’t? DTH subscribers are over 20 Million now and guess what? It added 10 million subscribers during 2009-2010 i.e. adding half of it’s 5 [...]

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