Kuku FM to diversify beyond audio, eyes overseas markets

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Regional creators fuel the rise of short-video platforms in India

Short-form content platforms such as ShareChat, Moj, Josh, and Instagram Reels have grown rapidly in 2024, as users from India's small towns rise steadily and regional-language creators keep them hooked through local, innovative content. Further, audio is emerging as a big draw within the short-form content space, with audio stories and live, personalized calls with creators amplifying both engagement and …

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Sneha Khanwalkar Partners with Pocket FM

Deccan Chronicle

Mumbai: What happens when Bollywood brilliance meets global creativity? Audio series platform Pocket FM has joined hands with Bollywood’s much-celebrated music director Sneha Khanwalkar to create the world-first crowdsourced sonic tune that embodies the spirit of collaboration, creativity, and entertainment. Together with Pocket FM’s 200M+ global listeners community, they are setting out to crowdsource an iconic tune that will echo …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Virgin Music Group and Hungama Digital Media Announce Alliance to Expand Music Distribution Worldwide

Deccan Chronicle

Virgin Music Group -- the world’s leading partner to independent artists, labels and entrepreneurs -- announced today a strategic long-term agreement with Hungama Digital Media, South Asia’s leading digital entertainment company expanding the reach of Hungama’s extensive music catalogue, including SVF, Grassroute, OTV and numerous film soundtracks to markets through Virgin Music Group's global distribution network. Through this alliance, Virgin …

Global Music India Indian Group Digital Media Hungama

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Affordable subscriptions, wide content selection drive audio entertainment growth

Live Mint

Audio entertainment startups Pocket FM, Kuku FM, and Pratilipi FM are gaining in popularity, especially beyond the metro cities, thanks to affordable subscription plans and a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction content that keeps users glued to the platforms. Pratilipi’s audio content vertical Pratilipi FM, although a tiny portion of the firm’s overall business, grew 300% between from August …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

NVIDIA takes on Google, OpenAI, launches new AI model Fugatto that can create audio from texts

Firstpost

NVIDIA’s Fugatto offers a range of applications for professionals in fields like music, language education, and game development. Music producers, for example, can use the AI to quickly draft song prototypes, experimenting with styles, voices, and instruments NVIDIA has not yet disclosed plans to make Fugatto publicly available. Image Credit: Reuters NVIDIA has launched Fugatto, a groundbreaking generative AI model …

Music Sound Model Audio Ai Nvidia Fugatto

4 weeks, 1 day ago

Nvidia Introduces Fugatto, An AI Tool That Can Turn Text Prompts Into Music, Speech, New Sounds

ABP News

Nvidia has launched Fugatto, a cutting-edge AI-powered audio editor designed to create original and unique soundscapes. Billed as a “creative breakthrough,” the tool transforms user prompts—text or audio—into imaginative outputs, producing sounds, music, and speech it hasn't explicitly learned. One example showcased the tool creating a composition titled “Saxophone howling, barking, and transitioning into electronic music with dogs barking.” The …

Music Sound Audio Ai Nvidia Fugatto

4 weeks, 1 day ago

DJ Boris Brejcha on performing in India: Audience connects on an emotional level

India Today

Boris Brejcha, the masked maestro of high-tech minimal, is a global phenomenon redefining electronic music. Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of artists in this space experimenting with different sounds and textures, merging minimalism with elements from other genres, and incorporating new technology into their productions. It’s honestly one of the most rewarding things about being an artist—to see …

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Nikhil Kamath-backed Streambox Media's 'Dor' TV OS set to transform content discovery

India TV News

Tech entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath and a venture investment group called Stride Ventures have recently invested in a company called Streambox Media. This company, started by experienced media professional Anuj Gandhi and supported by the well-known phone brand Micromax, is looking to make a big splash in India’s growing market for connected TVs. Streambox is getting ready to launch a new …

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1 month ago

The unforgettable soundtracks: How K-Drama OSTs bring stories to life

India Today

Imagine watching a K-drama like Boys Over Flowers without hearing SHINee's iconic song Stand By Me. The influence of K-drama OSTs extends far beyond the screen, with many tracks achieving global recognition and standing alone as powerful musical compositions. The soundtrack’s impact extended well beyond the show itself, climbing global music charts and introducing audiences worldwide to the artistry of …

Music Emotional Storytelling Tracks Korean Soundtracks Ost

1 month, 1 week ago

Viewers spoilt for choice as hit franchises transcend platforms

Live Mint

Hit franchises having released initially as either theatrical films or OTT platform shows are no longer restricted to the medium they first arrived on. Streaming platforms provide the chance to delve deeper into characters' motivations and backstories, creating a more immersive connection with the audience," said Manish Menghani, director, content licensing, Prime Video, India. "Adapting successful OTT series into films …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Most popular Indian OTT originals reach one-third of overall streaming universe amid content discovery challenges

Live Mint

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

OTT: A Canvas for New-Age Storytelling

Hindustan Times

OTT is a democratic platform for new-age stories, offering a space for diverse narratives and fostering innovation and authenticity in storytelling. The platform allows for more daring narratives and prioritizes stories above other factors such as popularity or box-office figures. This allows for the emergence of new-age stories from Indian filmmakers, pushing the envelope and contributing to the growth of …

International Collaboration OTT Platforms New-Age Stories Creative Freedom

1 month, 4 weeks ago

OTT: A Canvas for Storytelling, Where New-Age Narratives Take Flight

Hindustan Times

OTT is a democratic platform for new-age stories, offering a space for diverse narratives and fostering innovation and authenticity in storytelling. The platform's diverse content and focus on international projects have inspired Indian filmmakers to push the envelope and create high-quality, original content.

International Collaboration New-Age Stories OTT Platform Storytelling Innovation

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Media Embraces Tech, Focuses on User-Centric Content for Global Reach

China Daily

Chinese media officials and operators emphasize the need to integrate digital thinking and produce higher quality content to meet audience needs and improve global communications. They highlighted the importance of mobile internet platforms, content quality, and proactive addressing of misinformation during big events. The forum also discussed the adoption of new technologies such as artificial intelligence to enhance international communication …

Technology Media AI Content Beijing

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Media Embraces Tech, Focuses on User-Centric Content for Global Reach

China Daily

Chinese media officials and operators emphasize the need to integrate digital thinking and produce higher quality content to meet audience needs and improve global communications. They highlighted the importance of mobile internet platforms, content quality, and proactive addressing of misinformation during big events. The forum also discussed the adoption of new technologies such as artificial intelligence to enhance international communication …

Entertainment Technology Culture Media Beijing

3 months, 3 weeks ago

OTT platforms mainstream documentaries among urban audiences

Live Mint

Documentaries and docu-series, a genre often ignored for its sedate pace and dense storyline, appear to have found their moment under the sun, thanks to streaming platforms. Sports based docu-series The platform’s slate of unscripted original content includes sports-based docuseries like Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers, First Act that chronicles the journey of child actors and their parents …

Video Streaming Prime Video Urban Audiences Documentaries Indian Documentary

5 months ago

ZEE5 sees traction from tier-two, three markets as regional content soars

Live Mint

NEW DELHI : ZEE5 is leveraging regional content as a key growth driver in India's competitive OTT landscape. Manish Kalra, chief business officer, ZEE5 India, in an interview, highlighted a 25% annual growth in time spent per user, attributing this to the platform's strategic focus on regional content and targeted investments. Plus, because of our foray into regional languages, content …

India Tamil Content Platform Regional Kalra Zee5

6 months ago

AI enabled audio devices adoption grows among Gen Z and millennials in India

The Hindu

Over 54% Gen Z and millennials in India have adopted for AI-enabled audio devices, 43% like intelligent playlist curation and automatic audio optimisation, and 83% say that AI helps them in discovering global music, revealed the third edition of JBL’s World Music Day survey. Almost 30% seek better voice recognition accuracy in AI powered music devices, and 20% desire more …

India Ai

8 months, 2 weeks ago

How female filmmakers in Tamil Nadu are using streaming platforms to up the ante

The Hindu

After the boom of streaming platforms and the myriad range of content it introduced to housebound consumers during the pandemic-induced lockdown, it’s safe to say that the medium has settled with the masses. Commissioning stories from the heart Director Nandhini JS who made one of the first Tamil web series, Nila Nila Odi Vaa in 2018, recently returned with Prime …

Film Women Video Streaming Tamil Filmmakers Platforms

11 months ago

Crime, romance and stories for kids: Audio is making it big on web

Live Mint

New Delhi: From true crime to tales for children, audio entertainment is finding new listeners in India, widening a segment that started off with music and podcasts years ago. This allows the listener to easily binge on a great series and ensures an engaging pace for a story," said Karen Appathurai Wiggins, vice-president and head of content, APAC, Audible, an …

Fiction Audio Content Listeners Pocket Fm

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MANGNA-FICENT

Deccan Chronicle

For a long time, anime and manga was looked down upon and pushed under the umbrella term of “cartoons”. Chetan Upadhyay, a law student recalls, “I watched Dragon Ball Z and Inazuma Eleven but became an avid anime watcher during the lockdown.” A 2022 survey by JetSynthesys, an Indian digital entertainment company found that 83% of individuals prefer anime across …

India Anime Japan Indian Manga Japanese Jujutsu Kaisen

1 year ago

Advancement in audio processing technologies to keep an eye on, Jabra says

The Hindu

Advancement in audio processing technologies, including noise cancellation and spatial audio, enhancing clarity and immersive experience for users are the technologies to keep an eye on, said Peter Jayaseelan, VP & MD- South Asia and Head- Public Sector at Jabra in an exclusive interaction with The Hindu. “With growing population of knowledge workers working in a distributed environment, demand for …

India Work Audio Jabra Jayaseelan

1 year, 1 month ago

Publishing platform Pratilipi seeks mainstream partnerships

Live Mint

NEW DELHI : Online self-publishing and audiobook portal Pratilipi, which has diversified from text to audio and now comics, has found a bunch of mainstream partners to churn out different versions of its successful stories. In 2020, it launched two more storytelling platforms, Pratilipi Comics and Pratilipi FM, to expand into newer formats such as audio and graphics, and acquired …

Audio Hindi Platform Singh Format Comics Pratilipi Comics

1 year, 2 months ago

Hyderabad-based IMP-X gives Indie music a digital boost

The Hindu

When management consultant Siddharth Bhargav returned to Hyderabad after a 10-year stint in Dubai, his passion for music made him embark on a journey that opened new vistas to independent music artistes. When he returned from Dubai in 2021, Siddharth found people’s obsession with film music was unwavering; he felt independent music was still underrated. This led to the idea …

Music Hyderabad Independent Indian Platform Siddharth Independent Music

1 year, 3 months ago

Democratising Creativity: How AI-Powered Tools Are Making Content Creation Accessible to All

ABP News

By Meghna Krishna Content creation was once for the privileged. Content creation is no longer a walled garden, thanks to the advent of generative AI solutions across a wide range of media, including text, photo, video, and even code. There is also generative AI for social media: Video.ai offers templates that enhance content creators' videos with unique features and amplify …

Video Indian Content Creation Content Creators Content Ai Indians

1 year, 3 months ago

K-pop seeks to broaden its global reach

China Daily

A member of the K-pop girl group NewJeans.KOREA POOL/GETTY IMAGES Genre faces challenge of becoming accepted by other cultures. In summer 2012, Korean pop music, or K-pop, took a huge leap forward in the global music industry. Pop music critic Jung Min-jae told The Korea Herald: "K-pop has its roots in the early gayo songs. Pop music critic Kim Do-heon …

Pop Global Music

1 year, 3 months ago

K-pop seeks to broaden its global reach

China Daily

Singers perform during the K-pop Super Live concert after the 2023 World Scout Jamboree closing ceremony at Sangam World Cup Stadium in Seoul last month. CHINA DAILY "K-pop is not just a music genre, but an entire production system in which pop idols and their music are carefully planned out and released into the market," Kim said. Lee Gyu-tag, a …

Korean

1 year, 3 months ago

K-pop seeks to broaden its global reach

China Daily

A member of the K-pop girl group NewJeans.KOREA POOL/GETTY IMAGES Genre faces challenge of becoming accepted by other cultures. In summer 2012, Korean pop music, or K-pop, took a huge leap forward in the global music industry. Pop music critic Jung Min-jae told The Korea Herald: "K-pop has its roots in the early gayo songs. Pop music critic Kim Do-heon …

Music Pop Global Reach

1 year, 3 months ago

K-pop seeks to broaden its global reach

China Daily

A member of the K-pop girl group NewJeans.KOREA POOL/GETTY IMAGES Genre faces challenge of becoming accepted by other cultures. In summer 2012, Korean pop music, or K-pop, took a huge leap forward in the global music industry. Pop music critic Jung Min-jae told The Korea Herald: "K-pop has its roots in the early gayo songs. Pop music critic Kim Do-heon …

Music Pop Global Reach

1 year, 3 months ago

K-pop seeks to broaden its global reach

China Daily

A member of the K-pop girl group NewJeans.KOREA POOL/GETTY IMAGES Genre faces challenge of becoming accepted by other cultures. In summer 2012, Korean pop music, or K-pop, took a huge leap forward in the global music industry. Pop music critic Jung Min-jae told The Korea Herald: "K-pop has its roots in the early gayo songs. Pop music critic Kim Do-heon …

Global Music Pop

1 year, 4 months ago

YouTube Music Launches AI Incubator, Partners With Universal Music

News 18

YouTube is developing an ‘AI framework’ and launching the YouTube Music AI Incubator by working with its music partners such as Universal Music to identify how generative AI can be a part of the music industry moving forward. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said that they’re coming up with “three fundamental AI principles” to enhance music creatively, while also protecting music …

Music Youtube Ai Universal Music

1 year, 5 months ago

AI sets new musical boundaries

China Daily

Dancer Wang Peixian's movements are captured by AI and translated into music. Kugou used the technology to release new songs performed by the AI singer imitating pop stars such as Teresa Teng and Anita Mui. On June 15, NetEase Cloud Music, a mainstream online streaming platform, announced its latest AI singer technology, which generates highly expressive singing voices. Discussion of …

Technology Music Voice Singer Sun Chinese Ai

1 year, 5 months ago

Artificial intelligence lashes at the doorstep of films, entertainment

Live Mint

NEW DELHI :India’s entertainment industry is poised to witness the gradual integration of artificial intelligence into its operations, with growing anticipation regarding its potential impact on various aspects of the industry, like in other sectors. AI can also generate valuable data on audience preferences and potential box office performance and help scale up content production and democratize opportunities. There could …

India Film Impact Production Ai

1 year, 6 months ago

Indians prefer conversational AI in audio products: Report

The Hindu

A JBL survey reveals the growing significance of conversational AI in audio products, with respondents highlighting voice assistants such as Google, Siri and other built-in voice recognition as top features they seek in their audio gadgets. AR Rahman emerged as the favourite music artist among nearly half of the 2,100 millennials surveyed by JBL for World Music Day celebrated on …

Music India Jbl

1 year, 9 months ago

Letting audiences listen to news articles

ABC

This project was about creating an embedded audio player that lets audiences listen to ABC News articles. That means a virtual voice player on an article gives us the chance to broaden the audience for ABC News’ journalism beyond those Australians who consume content in English. A small group of journalists, designers, developers and strategists from Innovation Lab, ABC News …

English Software Voice Audio Cent Player David

1 year, 10 months ago

'Pocket FM Expects 4x Growth To $100 Million ARR By 2023-End': CEO Rohan Nayak

News 18

Even as the online content market is seeing a boom across the world, various platforms are offering users different experience of consuming the content. Rohan Nayak, CEO and co-founder of audio streaming platform Pocket FM, speaks with news18.com on various aspect of the audio series market and about his company’s current & future plans. We will continue to build and …

Community India Audio Content Platform Million Series

2 years, 5 months ago

Five homegrown audio apps reaching out to Indians in their own languages

Live Mint

Another day, yet another audio-based app launch on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store. Kuku FM Founded in: 2018 Available on: Google Play Store and Apple App Store Premium cost: Rs 399/year Kuku FM Founded by Lal Chand Bisu, Vinod Kumar Meena and Vikas Goyalback in 2018, Kuku FM is a Mumbai-based podcast and audiobooks platform. Pratilipi FM Founded …

India Indian Google Apple Languages Audio Play

2 years, 5 months ago

Trends to look forward in 2023- social media, music and gaming

India TV News

Music and game industries have been going together for more than a decade now, but it was this year where a lot of talking related to the music and ‘the metaverse’ took place. The company’s musical ambition has stretched beyond and in November 2021 it acquired Harmonix, a veteran music-games developer to “develop musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite.” Meta …

Music Games Company Play Tiktok Bytedance Metaverse

2 years, 5 months ago

Spotify Podcast: This new programme will elevate the budding podcasters in India

India TV News

Spotify, a Swedish music streaming platform has launched a new programme which is designed to elevate emerging podcasters around the world, including in India, and provide them with support to grow their audiences. The first three podcasts chosen from India to be a part of this slate, include 'Anurag Minus Verma,' 'Chumma conversations with Satshyaa' and 'Getting Lost with Archit …

India Podcast Spotify Radar

2 years, 7 months ago

Why K-dramas are so addictive

Live Mint

In January, we did a cover story on how “Hallyu”, or the Korean cultural wave that encompasses everything from films to dramas on Netflix to Korean beauty products and, of course, ramen, was paving the way for Korean businesses to make inroads into markets like India—the perfect synergy of soft power and economic power that had once been the sole …

India Netflix Korean Sadhana Hallyu Nirupama

2 years, 10 months ago

Apple Acquires AI Music That Uses AI To Make Adaptive Music: Report

ABP News

New Delhi: In a bid to give a boost to its audio technology, Apple has purchased AI Music that is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to make adaptive music and generate personalised soundtracks, based on a user's heartbeat, the media has reported. Technology developed by AI Music can create soundtracks using royalty-free music and artificial intelligence, according to a …

Music Report Cent Ai

2 years, 10 months ago

Masters of the soundscape

China Daily

In an effort to popularize kouji, Fang has appeared on variety shows. CHINA DAILY Fang argued that using such devices did not mean kouji performers had thrown tradition to the wind, but that young people were applying traditional techniques to create things in accordance with current fashions that closely reflect modern lifestyles. With the help of the innovative audio technology, …

Sound Sounds Fang Kouji

2 years, 11 months ago

Music app Gaana launches new AI-based feature

Live Mint

New Delhi: Music streaming app Gaana has added a new product feature for an enhanced music listening experience for its listeners using artificial intelligence. This, the company said, dramatically reduces manual searching time and solves for “listener’s block”, where one struggles to think of the next song to play. AutoQueue, it said, also makes discovery of new music easier, as …

Music Song Gaana

2 years, 11 months ago

Digital music market rapidly expanding

China Daily

A passenger uses a smartphone on a subway in Shanghai in October. China's digital music market has witnessed steady growth along with the popularization of the mobile internet and relentless official efforts to combat piracy, and Generation Z consumers－born between the mid-1990s and the early 2010s－are increasingly willing to pay for copyrighted online music, experts said. Revenue of China's digital …

Music China Services Digital Online Wang Million

3 years ago

The Sameer Nair interview | Dubbed and subtitled content have always been there but adaptations make global shows Indian

Firstpost

“Call My Agent: Bollywood was not supposed to be an authentic documentation of the industry. But if you actually spoke to financial experts, they’ll call it nonsense for so simplistically explaining away complicated finance,” says Sameer Nair. It’s the same for Aamir Khan making Laal Singh Chaddha or Martin Scorsese making The Departed, which was a remake of a Hong …

India Indian Nair Shows Applause Hotstar My Agent

3 years, 1 month ago

Manj Musik calls out Bollywood’s remix culture and monopoly in the music industry

Hindustan Times

Indo-Brit composer and singer Manj Musik feels the remix culture trend along with big music labels working on creating their own clout is destroying the independent music scene. Earlier, Manj Musik was one-third of seminal bhangra group RDB “Labels will always try and create a monopoly but independent music is stronger than ever today. You can create a super hit …

Music Bollywood Independent Manj Musik Manj

3 years, 3 months ago

Addicted to K-drama or K-pop? Now, dive into Korean digital comics or K-webtoons in Indian languages

The Hindu

Nineteen-year-old Prathyusha G credits her interest in everything K- to the Korean face masks she stumbled upon at a neighbourhood store. Sixteen-year-old Subiksha, another loyal reader, says she enjoys Korean webtoons “way better” than Indian movies or TV shows. In India, in particular, back in 2015 I was surprised to find that the wave had not started despite the glaring …

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