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The Online Video Platforms market is a comprehensive market research report which provides market analysis with a historical & futuristic perspective for the following parameters; market size, revenue, demand, and supply data (as applicable). The report offers a detailed market analysis to provide a 360-degree research study on the global Online Video Platforms market. Some of the tools used for this are SWOT, PESTEL, and Porter’s 5-forces analysis frameworks. The report includes detailed information on the key trends, market drivers, challenges, regulatory landscape, deployment models, opportunities, future roadmaps, value chains, player profiles, and strategies. The impact of the COVID-19, and also forecasts its recovery post-COVID-19. The report also presents forecasts for Online Video Platforms from 2021 till 2026. The online video platforms market is expected to register a CAGR of 16% over the forecast period from 2020 to 2025. The last decade has seen immense changes in how customers view media, how companies create those media, and how marketers advertise on them. AT&T, for instance, lost 946,000 TV subscribers in Q2 2019. The maximum loss was in the “Premium TV” category, which includes its DirecTV satellite and U-verse wireline TV services. The company is attributing this to the increased competition…

‘Avastha’, a mini-web series on the effect of lockdown, has won them a dedicated following As a wannabe bridegroom discusses the ‘gifts’ the woman might get from her father as he is a ‘government employee’, he learns to his dismay that she is actually his new boss before he is thrown out of the house. Part of a web mini-series, Avastha (situation or state of being), this episode is one the many that has gone viral on social media. To circumvent restrictions of lockdown, many stage artistes have taken to YouTube and Whatsapp with talk shows, music programmes, comedies and mini-series to earn a living.Devaraj Dev, a mimicry artiste from Kozhikode, decided to try his hand at writing and directing web series. After some of his three- and four-minute shows became popular, he decided to make a series of light-hearted episodes on the lockdown.“Avastha is an honest look at how the lockdown has affected our lives, including animate and inanimate objects,” says Devaraj. “We also take up whatever is trending in the news. I sent an episode to Millenium Audios and Videos who have a channel to promote shows on YouTube. They liked the idea and are producing all the…

Irish musician CMAT is famed for her sense of humor, referring to herself as "the jackass of the Dublin music scene" among other fitting descriptors. In her "2 Wrecked 2 Care" video, premiering above, however, she uses jokes to shine a light on her problems sleeping. Tapping into how stress-related insomnia can completely change your mood, CMAT sings "One hour sleep, I'm the missing link between the living and the dead," over a country pop beat. Anyone who has watched their bedside clock slowly tick its way through the night will surely relate. The "2 Wrecked 2 Care" video takes the fever dream-like state extreme tiredness can induce as its launching pad. CMAT is the glamorous figure in her bedroom, eye mask on somewhat hopefully. As she sings the song it emerges that she's performing for an animorphic hairbrush and slippers, plus a picture of CMAT's idol Dolly Parton. It's all deeply camp and a lot of fun. Enough to make you need a lie down, in fact. Speaking to The FADER via email, CMAT said: "I worked out the concept for this video with the director, Avesta, outside a pub one day, and we had a lot of fun…

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by Debra Werner — July 6, 2021 OneWeb announced the winners of its 2021 Innovation Challenge: IRT Saint Exupéry, Mbryonics, Morpheus Space, Oledcomm and R3-IoT. Credit: OneWeb screenshot SAN FRANCISCO – IRT Saint Exupéry, Mbryonics, Morpheus Space, Oledcomm and R3-IoT were the winners of OneWeb’s 2021 Innovation Challenge, a campaign to designed to “rethink satellite connectivity” and establish new partnerships, according to London-based OneWeb. OneWeb announced the winners July 1 during an online event tracking the launch of 36 broadband communications satellites on an Arianespace Soyuz rocket from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome. In addition to the industry winners, OneWeb named three research organizations as Innovation Challenge winners: Munich-based Fraunhofer, Imperial College London and Digantara, an Indian space technology company. OneWeb’s 2021 Innovation Challenge attracted more than 300 submissions from 19 countries in six weeks, Valery Gineste, OneWeb senior director of technologies, said during the broadcast. Companies and research organizations shared ideas ranging from sustainable materials and efficient propulsion to new satellite payloads and spaceflight safety improvements. It’s not yet clear what role the new companies will play in OneWeb’s campaign to establish a 648-satellite global broadband constellation. With the July 1 launch, OneWeb’s constellation grew to 256 satellites. When OneWeb announced…

Facebook’s director-marketing Avinash Pant holds forth in an exclusive chat with The Drum on the social networking brand’s consumer marketing strategy in India, its evolution, and the way forward for the Facebook family of apps.There are over 330m users of Facebook in India, making it the social network's largest audience in the world by country, according to Statista. Alongside this, both Instagram and Whatsapp are also widely used, creating an interesting opportunity for consumer marketing within the Facebook family of services. To understand how this is being executed, The Drum spoke to Facebook's director of marketing, India, Avinash Pant.From 15-second films to over 7-minute-long brand films, how do you navigate the diverse journey of creating stories for the Facebook family that also includes, Instagram and WhatsApp? Each of the platforms plays a different role in our lives and the family of apps is deeply enmeshed in the cultural fabric of the country - from messaging for Whatsapp to self-expression on Instagram to engage with communities at large on Facebook. While the journey of creating stories for our apps has been diverse (from building and reinforcing our 15-second narrative for Instagram Reels,  » Read More

Now that the Italian Olympic roster has officially been announced, follow the swimmers on Instagram and Twitter. Below are the usernames for each athlete.  One athlete to highlight is Gregorio Paltrinieri. Paltrinieri was the 2016 Olympic Champion in the 1500, and holds the #1 time in the world this year in the men’s 800 free as well as the #2 time in the 1500. Northwestern University swimmer Federico Burdisso holds the #2 time in the world this year in the men’s 200 butterfly respectively.  On the women’s side, Federica Pellegrini holds the World Record in the 200 freestyle. Margherita Panziera holds the #2 time in the world in the 200 backstroke this year. At the 2016 Rio Games, Italy earned one gold, one silver, and two bronze medals. The total of four medals earned the nation 9th place on the final swimming medal table. 

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image copyrightBrewdog image captionThe advertising watchdog agreed and banned this Instragram ad postThe advertising watchdog, the ASA, has banned an advert by controversial brewer Brewdog for misleading claims.An Instagram post for its Clean & Press Hard Seltzer said: "Due to advertising regulations we cannot claim this drink is healthy," but continued with a reference to a low calorie claim. Brewdog said the ad was "tongue-in-cheek" but agreed not to use it again.Brewdog was also reported to the ASA last week for claiming a competition prize was solid gold and worth £15,000.The Scottish firm had offered 10 people the chance to find a gold can hidden in a case of its beer.Several winners of the gold beer can prize contested Brewdog's claim about its value when they discovered it was merely gold plated. Brewdog said it stood by the valuation. Meanwhile, the Advertising Standards Authority continues to look into whether the competition breached any of its rules.Healthy beer?The company's ad for its Clean & Press seltzer ran in January. It said: "Even though Clean & Press is only 90 calories per can, with no carbs or sugar and a little bit of alcohol, this is not a health drink. If you…