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YuppTV ventures into fitness and wellbeing, partners with Brilliant Living TV
MUMBAI: YuppTV, the world’s leading OTT player for South-Asian content announced its plans of venturing into fitness and wellness space. The OTT leader will be partnering with Brilliant Living TV to spread the wave of fitness and wellbeing to millions of Indians living outside the country. Brilliant Wellness is India’s Largest content provider in the Fitness /Wellness genre.
The brand’s foray into fitness space with BLT will allow YuppTV viewers and fitness enthusiasts to get up close and personal with the celebrity fitness trainers and gain significant insights on fitness and nutrition. Coaching people to best achieve their fitness and wellbeing goals at any convenient time and place, these fitness trainers hail from diverse fields of Yoga, Meditation, Fitness, and Nutrition, and have, in the past, coached Bollywood celebrities like Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, Aamir Khan, and the likes.
Commenting on the latest endeavour, YuppTV, Founder and CEO, Uday Reddy said, “The sedentary lifestyles we have come to live these days are posing serious health hazards. People stand at the risk of being obese, suffer from fatigue, stress-related health disorders and others. To the same end, we decided to make fitness and wellness content available on our network channels, providing our users with an easy access to world-class health and fitness related content. We are further glad to partner with Brilliant Living TV and together provide high quality content to our viewers.”
On their association, BLT, CEO, Adarsh Gupta said “It has been our constant endeavour to bring everyday users closer to the best fitness and well-being practices that they can follow. To the same effect, we are glad to partner with YuppTV and make our stellar collection of fitness and nutrition coaching content available to YuppTV’s burgeoning global users. With the association, we intend to encourage users to practice healthy living, right in the comforts or their homes and hope that users will respond warmly to the latest offering.”
With this partnership, Users will be able to access high-quality fitness, nutrition, and well-being content right at the comforts of their homes on YuppTV’s TBO, KBO, BBO, MBO Channels. YuppTV will now have something to offer to all the fitness enthusiasts, right from yoga, calisthenics, weight-training, meditation, nutrition, and more.
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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.
