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Is the Indian OTT industry maturing? For the first time in five years, since we began tracking Indian original content from streaming services, there were fewer originals in 2022 than what we had last year. That might be in part to the fact that cinemas were open for business across most of 2022. While OTT platforms enjoyed the benefit of a restrictive film market during the COVID-19 lockdown years, that advantage evaporated this year. Movies that were sold to the likes of Netflix, Zee5, Disney+ Hotstar, and Amazon Prime…

HBO Max and Discovery+ will combine into a single brand starting the summer of 2023. In a Q2 2022 earnings call webcast, Warner Bros. Discovery detailed its expansion plans, following a merger earlier this year. The currently unnamed platform, headed by CEO David Zaslav, will first release in the US, after which it will move into other regions. “With respect to streaming, our main priority right now is launching an integrated SVOD service,” he said. “Our streaming strategy has evolved over the past year and really…

What is the best streaming service in India for watching movies and TV shows? A few years ago, there were too few to matter, but the launch of Reliance Jio changed everything. Asia's richest man entered the telecom business and launched India's mobile network wars, which saw the price of 4G data slashed to a negligible amount. Today, India has the world's cheapest mobile data rates per gigabyte. While other telco heads have said this is bad for business, it's been great for their subscribers, who have turned into…

The 2022 Australian Open has finally begun. After weeks of off-court drama surrounding the visa exemption given to anti-vaxxer and men's tennis no. 1 Novak Djokovic — who lost his court appeal Sunday and was deported later that day — the first Grand Slam of this year kicked off on Monday, January 17 and will run until the end of the month on Sunday, January 30. With Djokovic out, the Australian Open men's singles defending champion is gone, and all eyes are on Rafael Nadal as he seeks to win his 21st Grand Slam and…