Flowers TV now exclusively available on YuppTV, in North America

New Delhi, July 25, 2017: Global OTT leader for South-Asian content, YuppTV has entered into an exclusive partnership with Flowers TV, a 24-hour Premium Malayalam Entertainment Channel for expat community in North America. Flowers TV will also be available for viewing in geographies other than North America on a non-exclusive basis.

Commenting on the latest development, Mr Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV said, “We are glad to announce the exclusive partnership with Flowers TV, a premium Malayalam Entertainment Channel for North America. Flowers TV is recognized for creating strong, entertaining and riveting Malayalam content. We are affirmative that the expat community in North America and across the globe would be happy to watch their favourite Malayalam content.”

Elucidating upon the association, Mr. Sreekandan Nair, Managing Director of Flowers TV added, “We are excited to partner with YuppTV, a globally renowned OTT brand and present our shows to its extensive user base, spanning across the globe. At Flowers TV, it has been our constant endeavor to evolve with time and provide our viewers with the best content that they are looking for, both entertainment and otherwise. The association will enable us to reach out to new users, along with giving them access to our shows to watch at their convenience. We look forward to a warm welcome and positive response from YuppTV users.”

Flowers TV offers a vivid collection of shows, serials, movies, music and other content in Malayalam. With the latest addition, YuppTV is again registered its Industry leadership in providing high-quality South Asian entertainment to global users.

About YuppTV
YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It also offers YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and recently launched YuppTV Originals to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. Originals will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 13 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

For more details visit www.yupptv.com

Blog Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/07/flowerstv-now-exclusively-available-on-yupptv-in-north-america.html

Ram Nath Kovind Elected as 14th President of India

BJP nominee Ram Nath Kovind's win as President-elect is an indicator of the changed political map with the saffron party and its allies picking up two-thirds of the vote.

BJP managers are not unduly perturbed by Congress's claim that Meira Kumar won the most votes by an opposition candidate, saying the result only showed the inversion of political equations.

"Usually BJP would, as the opposition party, get less than a third of the vote in such a contest. It's the other  

The support Kovind received across regions and from small parties and Independents points to BJP's increased acceptability and augurs well for the party's move to build a strong pan-India coalition ahead of the 2019 election, said BJP netas.

They argued that the support will help BJP expand its footprint beyond the party's existing geographical boundaries.

Poll managers said Kovind has attracted close to around 115 votes in excess to their estimates. Other than 18 NDA

"More than 30 MPs in excess to our calculations voted for Kovind," said a senior BJP leader. The advantage was somewhat lost with BJP calculating that 13 of 21 MPs who cast invalid votes were from its camp.

Maximum number of cross voting was reported from Maharashtra where reports suggest probably 13 Congress-NCP legislators voted for the NDA nominee.NCP chief Sharad Pawar had expressed his doubts about the viability of an opposition candida ..

Of 288 legislators in Maharashtra, 287 voted. Of them, 208 legislators favoured Kovind, 77 voted for Congress nominee Meira Kumar, while two votes were declared invalid. Going by the BJP-led alliance's strength, Kovind should have got 185 votes -122 of BJP and 63 of Shiv Sena - plus votes of other alliance partners, but he got 208 votes.

Cross-voting was reported in Gujarat, home state of PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. At least eight MLAs from Congress seem to have voted for t ..

Kovind received votes of 132 MLAs in Gujarat and the UPA nominee Meira Kumar 49. Congress has 57 MLAs in the 182-member state assembly. Cross voting in Gujarat is being attributed largely to Congress rebel leader Shankarsinh Vaghela. 

 

For more India news and updates, click to India News Live on YuppTV.

YuppTV partners with Foxxum, a leading Smart TV solution provider

Global distribution reach expands through Foxxum connected devices

The world’s largest OTT player in South-Asian content, YuppTV, is making strong strides in expanding globally. YuppTV has formed a strategic partnership with Foxxum, the leading provider of Smart TV solutions, making its envious collection of online TV channels & movies available on an exclusive range of new devices, hence further extending its global reach.

YuppTV provides content in 14 languages with an offer of over 250+ TV channels, more than 100 TV shows and over 5000 movies. Following the association, YuppTV services will be available on the Foxxum App Store, having presence in Western and Eastern Europe, Nordics, Russia, Northern Africa, Australia and LatAm.

Further commenting on the development, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV said: “We are glad to enter into an alliance with Foxxum, hence extending the content offered by YuppTV to an exclusive range of devices. We have always endeavored to provide the South Asian expat community with the most enthralling entertainment solution and are excited to open our doors to newer audiences.”

“At Foxxum, we are constantly pursuing the opportunity to bring together hardware platforms and good quality content, which is entertaining and relevant for the audience. We are happy to associate with YuppTV, which presents an exhaustive list of South Asian TV channels & Movies and are affirmative at enhancing the value of the entertainment solutions that we provide to our users”, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.


About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.
YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added every day. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads.

For more information: http://www.yupptv.com/

About Foxxum

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop Smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters, the most important video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best in class content portfolio containing the most
important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers.

Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience possible, with innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and an outstanding design. Foxxum provides its clients with highly tailored, personal collaboration, which includes the possibility of jointly tapping into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential.

Further information can be found at www.foxxum.com.

Blog Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/06/yupptv-partners-with-foxxum-leading-smarttv-solution-provider.html

YuppTV partners with one of India’s leading production house, Yash Raj Films, offers premium Hindi cinema on YuppFlix

YuppFlix users can now access latest Hindi movies from Yash Raj Films, including Sultan, Fan, Befikre and more

New Delhi, June 6, 2017: World’s largest OTT player for South-Indian content, YuppTV, announced its partnership with one of the leading Indian production houses, Yash Raj Films (YRF). As part of the association, YuppTV will now host popular Hindi movies produced by Yash Raj Films on its movie-on-demand service, YuppFlix. These titles include the latest and popular offerings by Yash Raj Films, such as Sultan, Fan, Befikre, Dhoom:3 among others, that will be available in TVOD model within India and in SVOD / TVOD models outside India.

Commenting on the association, Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV said, “We are glad to announce the association with Yash Raj Films and offer our users a stimulating assortment of latest movies made under their banner. At YuppTV, we are driven with the vision to extend the most captivating entertainment solutions to our expat community of users and view this association as another step in the same direction. I am affirmative that our global audiences will enjoy the latest offering at YuppTV and we will continue to bring more awaited movies on YuppFlix.”

Commenting on the association, Mr. Anand Gurnani, Vice President – Digital, Yash Raj Films Pvt. Ltd. said, “We are glad to associate with YuppTV and expand the digital reach of YRF’s bouquet of movies across global markets. We are affirmative that users across different countries will be happy to watch and enjoy their favourite YRF titles online on YuppFlix.”

YuppTV users across the globe can now enjoy the latest collection of movies through its movie-on-demand service, YuppFlix. In addition to the fascinating bouquet of movies from Yash Raj Films, YuppTV is further committed to updating its movie catalogue on a weekly basis. With such an envious collection of popular movies. Global users can easily access these movies on all YuppTV platforms, including the website and Android and iOS apps and via internet-enabled devices.

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It also offers YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and recently launched YuppTV Originals to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. Originals will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 13 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Blog Source http://blog.yuppflix.com/top-story/yupptv-partners-indias-leading-production-house-yash-raj-films-offers-premium-hindi-cinema/

YuppTV bags exclusive digital rights of ICC Champions Trophy 2017

YuppTV users in Canada & Continental Europe to enjoy LIVE broadcast

New Delhi, May 29, 2017: To the delight of cricket enthusiasts on its platform, YuppTV, the world’s largest OTT player in South-Asian content, has bagged the exclusive digital rights for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2017 for Canada and non-exclusive digital rights for Continental Europe. With the latest development, YuppTV users in Canada and Continental Europe, excluding Germany, Switzerland and Austria, will be able to catch the intense cricketing action LIVE on YuppTV.

Commenting on the latest undertaking, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV, said, “We are glad to bag the Digital Rights for the ICC Champions Trophy, 2017. It has been our constant endeavour to make it easier for users to access entertainment over the internet. Now, with the latest development, cricket enthusiasts will be able to catch the intense cricketing action LIVE on YuppTV. Since cricket enjoys a cult following across the globe, we look forward to receiving a positive response from our customers”.

The ICC Champions Trophy 2017 is going to witness eight top-ranking teams in the world to compete for the top spot. The 18 days long event is going to commence on June 1, promises to an action-packed cricketing extravaganza. YuppTV users can grab all the action, LIVE from 1st to 18th June 2017.

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added every day. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads.

Visit www.yupptv.com/cricket/icc-champions-trophy-2017-live for more information

Blog Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/05/yupptv-bags-exclusive-digital-rights-of-ICC-Champions-Trophy-2017.html

If you're an Indian expat, YuppTV's newly launched 'Mini Theatre' will make you happy

The movie shall be made available on a pay-per-view basis with a 6-hour viewing window 

New Delhi, May 10, 2017: The global OTT leader in the South-Asian content, YuppTV, announced the launch of its new platform, Mini Theatre. YuppTV makes new movies available on the Mini Theatre platform on the first day or the following weekend of theatrical release, even in geographies where the movie is not available outside of India. The movies shall be made available on YuppTV platform only on Samsung, Apple, Roku, LG, Sony TV Devices/interfaces.

Commenting on the latest development, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “At YuppTV, we have a great opportunity of bringing best quality South-Asian content to our users across the Globe. Launching Mini Theatre is another step in the same direction. The release of various Indian movies is often limited only to very few selected geographies across the world and sometimes limited only to the Indian subcontinent. Hence, users end up missing out on these high-quality and entertaining movies missing a worldwide release. Following the launch of Mini Theatre, our users outside of India will have the opportunity to access new Indian movie releases, just like they used to, back at home in India. Furthermore, filmmakers may now showcase their movies to a global audience, notwithstanding exorbitant investment for an overseas release. Since the launch is slated to benefit every stakeholder in the ecosystem, we look forward to receiving a huge response from both, expat audiences and filmmakers.”

 

YuppTV is further exercising complete piracy control of the movies showcased in the Mini Theatre. Users need to accept the piracy agreement conditions before they start watching the movie. The movie shall be made available on a pay-per-view basis with a 6-hour viewing window. Furthermore, the movies are secured with DRM, Invisible user based/Forensic watermarking and encryption and users are authenticated by mobile and location verification. Under the Invisible or Forensic Watermarking, each user who will get the stream to watch the movie will have unique identification in the invisible mode. It is an imperceptible & non-removable unique identifier that is embedded in the video, enabling YuppTV to trace any content breach. The pirate, if in case found guilty of breaching the privacy guidelines, will be charged with a heavy penalty.

 

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It also offers YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and recently launched YuppTV Originals to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. Originals will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 13 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Visit www.yupptv.com for more information.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/05/yupptv-launches-mini-theatre-to-premier-new-movies-for-indian-expats.html

Akshay Kumar’s upcoming film, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, is based on PM Modi’s clean India drive, popularly known as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Actor Akshay Kumar has all the right reasons to be on cloud nine these days . On May 3, President Pranab Mukherjee presented the actor with the National Award for his performance in Rustom and Airlift.

And, May 9, the actor met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Capital to tell him about his upcoming film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha . Akshay shared a photo with NaMo on his Twitter page and it didn’t take long for it to become viral.

The film, which also stars actor Bhumi Pednekar, is a satirical comedy based on Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan— a governmental initiative to improve the sanitation conditions in India. Helmed by Shree Narayan Singh, it will highlight the importance of the pay-and-use toilet scheme and bring to light the issue of open defecation, mostly in rural areas of India. The film releases on August 11, and will clash with Imtiaz Ali’s Shah Rukh Khan-Anushka Sharma starrer. 

For more entertainment and Bollywood news , click to India Today Live on YuppTV

YuppTV makes Live Streaming effortless with the launch of Freedocast Pro Device and Live Streaming Platform

Las Vegas, April 24, 2017: One of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, YuppTV, announced the launch of Freedocast Pro Device and Freedocast Live Streaming Platform. Providing end-to-end solutions for users to go LIVE instantly, anywhere anytime, the Pro Device & Live-Streaming platform also enables users to broadcast live videos on multiple platforms such as, Facebook and YouTube Live, Twitter/Periscope and others.

The latest offering, Freedocast Pro Device broadcasts live videos in HD Quality. The Device can be connected to any video source including camera and switcher to go live and can be easily controlled via Android/iOS App. The App can be used to preview, control & monitor live broadcasts. The Device also has a rechargeable battery supporting over 2 hours of continuous live streaming and offers HDMI IN/OUT & MIC-in for AV source connectivity.

To best suit the needs of broadcasters, Freedocast Live Streaming Platform is designed as a one-stop-solution providing cloud transcoding & Adaptive Bitrate streaming for best viewing experience in low bandwidths, real-time analytics, viewer interactivity with chat moderation, Ad-integration, pay -per-view, geo-blocking & password protection for control of events. Any external encoder can be used to go live through Freedocast Platform and simultaneously stream to multiple platforms

Commenting on the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “The rapid growth of Live broadcasting could change the way users consume content. In this age of information overload, people expect to see events unfold in real-time. Globally renowned for our technical superiority in the field of internet TV and OTT, we at YuppTV are now extending the same expertise in live-streaming. With the launch of Freedocast Pro Device & Freedocast Live Streaming Platform, we further intent to deliver cost-effective, scalable, and robust LIVE broadcasting solutions. We shall continue to innovate and provide the best services to constantly address the needs of our users.”

Freedocast offers tailor-made solutions for broadcasters to aggregate, edit and broadcast events in-real time to their studios and multiple platforms. This solution is aimed to improve Broadcasters efficiency and productivity to stay ahead of competition. Celebrities and influencers can maximize the value of their social media programs by hosting special interactive sessions through Freedocast. Broadcasting sporting events, webinars, etc can be streamed to multiple platforms to increase the audience size and bring in new revenue streams for the broadcasters.

YuppTV will demonstrate its new offering Freedocast Pro and Freedocast Platform at NAB show 2017 at YuppTV booth SU11402CM, Las Vegas Convention Centre.

About Freedocast

Freedocast is a product by YuppTV, pioneer and one of the world’s largest online over-the-top (OTT) entertainment solutions provider. Freedocast is a live broadcasting solution which enables the user to live stream instantly anywhere anytime. Broadcast simultaneously to multiple platforms like fb Live, YouTube Live, etc. Freedocast provides Adaptive Bitrate Streaming which enables streaming even in low bandwidth.

For more information: http://www.freedocast.com

 

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/04/freedocast-pro-device-launched-by-yupptv.html 

Endukila Episode 1: Telugu Web Series

Like promised the First episode of Endukila Web Series released on 19^th April, so here it is:

YuppTV Originals‘s first Web Series Endukila is about a boy whose bad luck follows him from the birth. Everyone in his family and friends aware of his luck factor and keeps taunting him.

Dhanush Rishi (DhaRi) is born to Subramanyam  a software engineer and Padma a house wife. DhaRi faces misfortunes throughout the start from his life and bad luck becomes synonymous with his name.

Watch the first episode of Endukila and know how bad luck become the second name of the innocent idiot Dhari.

Follow all the episodes at http://www.yupptv.com/tvshows/Endukila or http://www.yupptv.in/#!/shows/yupptv-originals/endukila 

YuppTV App Links: https://goo.gl/DFcrJR https://goo.gl/jhi73p

US's Mother of all Bombs killed 94 ISIS fighters in Afghanistan

At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Saturday.

"The number of Daesh fighters killed in the US bomb in Achin district jumped to 94, including four commanders," Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogiani told CNN, using an alternative name for ISIS. 

"Our team is in the area and they are doing clearance, so the figure might change as they find more bodies," said Dawlat Waziri, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense.

For more world news and international updates, click to NDTV Live

YuppTV unveils originals, bringing unconventional storytelling and cinematic brilliance to the digital space

Announces partnerships with prominent directors and production houses from the movie industry to provide high quality digital content. 

 
Hyderabad, 16^th March 2017: Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV along with YuppTV’s Brand Ambassador “Superstar Mahesh Babu” has launched YuppTV Originals, the OTT platform’s foray into original content production. Exploring concepts beyond cinema, YuppTV Originals is set to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. This new content will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform.

At the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “We disrupted the entertainment sector with technology by launching YuppTV in 2006. Now with YuppTV Originals, we aim to disrupt the content space, following the needs of our evolving audience, and our vision of providing high-quality engaging content. Besides, YuppTV Originals will empower the content creators by providing direct access to the audience and thereby streamlining distribution. I’d further extend heartiest welcome to our associates from the film fraternity, ensuring optimum growth for the content ecosystem.”''

Speaking on the occasion, Tollywood Superstar Mahesh Babu said, “I congratulate YuppTV for this novel concept and associating with big names in the industry. I am confident that ‘YuppTV Originals’ will have a wide reach, and recommend artists and visionaries from the industry to make use of this opportunity to showcase their creative pursuits and connect instantly with the internet audience.”

YuppTV Original’s initial focus to be on regional content in episodic format, while also making endeavors for Feature Film Production. To produce their first few series, YuppTV has associated with prominent production houses such as I-candy creation, Early Morning Tales – a division of Vijayanthi Movies, TrendLoud – The digital arm of Vision Times, Madhura Entertainment and Tamada Media.

Commenting on the partnership, popular Tollywood Director Deva Katta -  said “Originals provide immense creative freedom for the evolving talent in the industry. As YuppTV provides a direct reach to the audience it will also help us pool in fresh talent and bring their creativity to the spotlight. Myself, my partner Krishna Vijay and our company iCandy Creations is delighted to be part of Originals and look forward to a prolonged partnership in producing engaging new-age content.” 

               

YuppTV Originals’ first mini-series, Endukila, presented by Deva Katta’ iCandy Creations, written and directed by Laxman Karya will be launched during Ugadi, followed by another exciting series produced by Swapna Dutt’s Early Morning Tales-a division of Vijayanthi Movies and director supervision by Nandini Reddy. Catering to global audiences, YuppTV is overcoming the language barrier by including subtitles and will be dubbed in other languages. YuppTV is further calling out the talent in the industry to come on-board and become part of this digital evolution.

That aspiring content creators and artists can reach out to us at originals@yupptv.com

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It has recently launched YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and YuppTV Bazaar an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Visit www.yupptv.com for more information.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/03/yupptv-unveils-YuppTVOriginals.html

UP Election 2017 Live: Final Phase Polls Begins Today

The seventh and final phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh is taking place on Wednesday. Polling has begun in 40 constituencies including PM Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi. The last week saw a series of rallies and campaigning by leaders from all parties, especially in Varanasi. Prime Minister Modi spent three days in his constituency taking out two road shows and addressing two major rallies.

The elections are being held in seven phases in Uttar Pradesh and so far six phases have been concluded peacefully. The results will be declared on March 11 along with that of Manipur, Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab.

 

Get Assembly Election 2017 Results and Live Updates on YuppTV.

Assembly Elections 2017: Battleground UP and Uttarakhand

 Assembly Elections 2017:Around 45 percent of the electorate have exercised their franchise by 4 pm in Uttar Pradesh and in Uttarakhand around 53 percent voter turnout.

For live and latest updates on UP elections and results, click to Assembly Elections 2017