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Fork Media’s Buzzerati to gain access to readers of Twitter’s enterprise API platform Gnip
Mumbai: Fork Media’s social media influencer marketing platform Buzzerati is to get access to Twitter audience and content performance metrics for deeper business intelligence and richer analytics.
This follows a deal between Fork Media and Twitter’s enterprise API platform Gnip.
Buzzerati launched earlier this year at the Digital Marketing & Advertising Conference Adtech in New Delhi. The influencer recommendation platform helps brands strengthen their engagement with target customers on Twitter and other social media sources.
With this agreement, Buzzerati will have access to first-party Twitter data around aggregate audience demographics, brand intelligence, trend analysis, consumer interests and keyword associations. The data, along with Buzzerati’s own proprietary data processing algorithms, provides stronger recommendations to brands on choosing the right influencers for their campaigns. Brands can choose various influencer filters including the location, gender, mobile network and interests of their followers. In addition, Buzzerati will provide discovery to the absolute following, active followers, engagement of an influencer and their followers.
The data agreement also delivers more accurate measurement of impression and reaches data for influencer campaigns. Brands will now be able to view actual impressions of their influencer posts and better analyze the ROI of a campaign across paid and organic mediums. Brands can use the platform to drive brand-led advocacy campaigns or create viral distribution for their existing content.
Fork Media CEO and founder Samar Verma said, “We are excited about the opportunity to leverage Gnip data from Twitter, as we continue to evolve our offering. It will help us go to market even more rapidly and efficiently with solutions that will keep brands and agencies on top of their game. The agreement will also help us offer the most relevant and advanced influencer marketing platform. With the integration of this data, our clients will now have access to better influencer recommendations, which in turn will effectively enhance their campaign planning, execution and success. It will provide us access to the leading global source of real-time social media data, Twitter, allowing us to pursue new marketing opportunities, and offer the best analytics to more brands and agencies.”
Brad Bokal, who leads Gnip’s Twitter data partnerships and sales efforts in APAC, said: “We are committed to helping our global customers build lasting, value driven relationships with their clients.
“We are excited to work with Fork Media as they continue to integrate Twitter data into solutions that help their clients better understand user audiences and content performance on our platform” Bokal added.
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Micro-Dramas Surge in India, Redefining Mobile Content Habits
Meta-Ormax study maps rapid rise of short-form storytelling among 18–44 audiences.
MUMBAI: Micro-dramas aren’t just short, they’re the snack that ate Indian entertainment, and now everyone’s bingeing between the sofa cushions. Meta, in partnership with Ormax Media, has released ‘Micro Dramas: The India Story’, a comprehensive study unveiled at the inaugural Meta Marketing Summit: Micro-Drama Edition. The report maps how the vertical, bite-sized format is reshaping content consumption for mobile-first audiences aged 18–44 across 14 states.
Conducted between November 2025 and January 2026 through 50 in-depth interviews and 2,000 personal surveys, the research reveals that 65 per cent of viewers discovered micro-dramas within the last year proof of explosive adoption. Nearly 89 per cent encounter the format through social feeds and recommendations, making algorithm-driven discovery the primary engine rather than active search.
Key viewing patterns show a median of 3.5 hours per week (about 30 minutes daily) spread across 7–8 short sessions. Consumption peaks between 8 pm and midnight, with additional spikes during commutes and work breaks classic “in-between moments” that the format fills perfectly. Around 57 per cent of viewing happens in ambient mode (while doing something else), and 90 per cent is solo, enabling more intimate, personal storytelling.
Romance, family drama and comedy lead genre preferences. Audiences show growing openness to AI-generated content, 47 per cent find it unique and creative, while only 6 per cent say they would avoid it entirely. Regional languages are surging after Hindi and English, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada dominate consumption.
Meta, director, media & entertainment (India) Shweta Bajpai said, “Micro-drama isn’t a passing trend, it’s rewriting the rules of Indian entertainment. In under a year, an entirely new category of platforms has emerged, built audience habits from scratch, and created a business vertical that is scaling fast.”
Ormax Media founder-CEO Shailesh Kapoor added, “Micro-dramas are beginning to show the early signs of becoming a distinct content category in India’s digital entertainment landscape. When a format aligns closely with how audiences naturally engage with their devices, it has the potential to scale very quickly.”
The study proposes ecosystem-wide responsibility, universal signposting of commercial intent, shared accountability among advertisers, platforms, creators, schools and parents, built-in safeguards, and formal media literacy in schools.
In a feed that never sleeps and a day that never stops, micro-dramas have slipped into the cracks of every spare minute turning 30-second stories into the new national pastime, one vertical swipe at a time.
