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

Watch: Time travel with Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif

Bollywood Actors Katrina Kaif and Sidharth Malhotra are all excited as their Baar Baar Dekho is set to hit the screens this Friday but what was their reaction when they first heard the film? Well, totally opposite. Katrina was all teary eyed asking, 'What next?' and 'Does anyone come for her?' and on other hand, Sidharth was hungry. The actor was bulking up for his film Brothers and hence could not think of anything except for food while listening to the script.

  

Well looks movie will surely get some results for the actors as the storyline arouse the curiosity of the movie lovers. Hop on to this friday for Baar Baar Dekho Release. for more news updates click to NDTV India Live

Prime Minister Mann Ki Baat for the Nation

  

The Prime Minister spoke on a range of issues in the course of his 35-minute address, including relations with Pakistan, the canonization of Mother Teresa, GST, Swachch Bharat, gas subsidy, floods, teacher-student relationships and sports in the context of India’s performance at the Rio Olympics.

Issuing a general appeal to people to strengthen the unity of the country, he said, “This country is very big, full of diversities. To keep it united, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individual citizens, as a society and as a government, to strengthen our unity as much as we can, highlight it as much as we can. Only then can the nation achieve its bright future. I have confidence in the power of 125 crore people of the country.”

For more news and updates click to NDTV Live. 

YuppTV acquires exclusive broadcasting rights for the USA T-20 series

OTT player to broadcast the T20 matches between India & West Indies in USA, Canada and Caribbean islands

Atlanta, August 23, 2016: Delighting the tech-savvy cricket enthusiasts in USA, Canada and Caribbean islands, YuppTV, the largest OTT player for the South-Asian content has secured the exclusive broadcasting rights of the T20 matches to be held between Team India and the current T20 world champions, West Indies.

The T20 series, taking place in Florida, USA on 27th and 28th August will be available LIVE on YuppTV through multiple internet enabled devices, including Smart TVs, Smart Blu-Ray players, laptops, gaming consoles, streaming media players, smartphones and tablets.

Further commenting on the development, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV said, “We started YuppTV with the vision of providing the most entertaining South-Asian content to the expat community, to be consumed by them at their convenience. Cricket, as a sport has a cult following amongst the viewers and we are glad to deliver top-notch entertainment to the sports enthusiasts on our platform. We further hope that our audience will enjoy the latest offering on YuppTV, catching the LIVE and exclusive Ind vs WI T20 Trophy match.

This offering for the cricket enthusiasts isn’t the first for YuppTV. Previously, they had also successfully broadcasted the Asia Cup on their platform, held between Feb-March, 2016.

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service providers for South Asian content, offering more than 200+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 13 languages.

YuppTV has 25,000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2,500 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 also 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.

For more information: http://www.yupptv.com/cricket/india-vs-west-indies-t20-live.html

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2016/08/yupptv-acquires-exclusive-broadcasting-rights-for-the-USA-T20series.html

India vs West Indies T20 Cricket 2016 Live & Exclusively on YuppTV

 

 Don't miss the clash of T20 giants when India take on the World T20 champions West indies in a 2 match series in Florida (USA) on 27th and 28th Aug 2016. Live and Exclusive streaming in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean Islands. 

Watch Live at http://www.yupptv.com/cricket/india-vs-west-indies-t20-live.html