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Nick and Colors Kannada among top FB, YouTube monthly views: Culture Machine analysis
MUMBAI: Culture Machine, a subsidiary of The Aleph Group, Singapore, has established a leaderboard for publishers across multiple categories in India.
Founded by Sameer Pitalwalla and Venkat Prasad in 2013, Culture Machine’s patent-pending tech IP ‘Intelligence Machine’ tracked the month on month performance of Indian channels on YouTube and Facebook to provide a comprehensive view of which publisher has a maximum engagement in terms of views, likes, comments, shares and subscribers.
The partnerships with Google and Facebook, and with the use of proprietary algorithms, Intelligence Machine has the ability to track three billion videos, categorise the publishers and rank the publishers extensively.
The current report provides insights on the entertainment and news category. Future analyses by the end of 2017 will include sports, fashion, beauty, automobile and food industry.
According to Culture Machine’s report, the top five positions in Youtube ranking have been grabbed by Nick Jr. with 93.96 million monthly views, Nickelodeon with 62.94 million monthly views, Asianet with 31.33 million monthly views, Asianet Movies with 15.27 million monthly views and Colors Kannada with 8.47 million monthly views.
In the Facebook ranking list, the top five positions were taken by Nickelodeon with 98.52 million monthly views, Colors Kannada with 25.53 million monthly views, Colors Infinity with 22.60 million monthly views, History TV18 with 19.66 million monthly views and The Epic Channel with 17.03 million monthly views.
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Applause, Story TV team up to push microdrama content
Partnership to create premium short form shows for mobile first viewers
MUMBAI: Applause Entertainment and Story TV are betting on short attention spans with a long-term vision, joining forces to create a slate of premium microdramas for mobile-first audiences.
The partnership brings together Applause’s storytelling pedigree and Story TV’s fast-growing digital reach, with plans to co-produce and distribute bite-sized dramas across genres. As part of the deal, Story TV will also adapt the romantic thriller Hello Mini into a vertical microdrama format, signalling a shift in how stories are being reshaped for smaller screens.
Backed by the Aditya Birla Group, Applause Entertainment has built a reputation for high-quality content with titles like Scam 1992 and Criminal Justice. Story TV, launched in 2025, has quickly scaled up with a library of over 1,000 titles across languages and genres, riding the wave of mobile consumption.
Story TV founder and CEO Saurabh Pandey said, “Phones are now the primary screens for content consumption, and microdramas are evolving into a mainstream format. At Story TV, we are blending storytelling with technology to push this format further.”
He added that the collaboration with Applause Entertainment will help expand the reach of microdramas while introducing a layer of premium storytelling to the space.
Applause Entertainment chief business officer Prasoon Garg said, “At Applause, we have always focused on strong storytelling across formats. As microdramas gain momentum, this partnership allows us to explore the space with a platform that understands both the format and its audience.”
With mobile screens shrinking and content getting sharper, the collaboration hints at a future where storytelling is not just shorter, but smarter, designed to fit neatly into the scroll of everyday life.
