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Sporty Solutionz and Aidem Ventures form Aidem Sporty
MUMBAI: Aidem Ventures and reputed sports Management Company, Sporty Solutionz have formed a joint venture under the name of ‘Aidem Sporty’. Aidem Sporty would announce about their other sports properties in due course of time.
Aidem Sporty as a venture is set to provide holistic solutions and create success stories for the current Sports league and team owners on board. As per the contract, the highly experienced Aidem team will be managing and monetising the valuable sports properties in India.
In the past, Aidem has been an exclusive media representation house for established sports properties such as Indian Badminton League [a Sporty Solutionz property], National Games Kerala 2015, Bangladesh Premier League, Sri Lanka Premier League and many other salient properties.
Since 2011, Sporty Solutionz has been actively launching various sports properties in India. As a leader in media rights distribution in the Indian sub-continent, Sporty Solutionz has a 360 degree expertise in the business of sports.
Aidem Ventures chairman Ashok Kumar Gupta said, “This expansion will now help us to streamline our focus on general entertainment and sports entertainment as two individual platforms enticing brands to leverage our segmented products on board. With Aidem Sporty, we are looking forward to being one of the leading solution providers in the field of sports consultancy and marketing.”
Sporty Solutionz CEO Ashish Chadha mentioned, “I believe this synergy of two successful businesses will be an ideal promotional vehicle for all the sports-based brands in India.”
Recently, AidemSporty seized their first deal with a newly-launched sports portal, www.insidesport.co that delves into the business of Sports in India and overseas. The portal was unveiled in Pune amidst the presence of global sports legends like Shane Warne, Harbhajan Singh, Sunil Gavaskar, Virendra Sehwag, VVS Laxman and many other luminaries.
“We are confident to scale up the sports business with our expertise,” exclaimed Aidem Ventures president Alok Rakshit.
Digital
Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
