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Ormax Media expands Showbuzz coverage to 14 cities
MUMBAI: Ormax Media’s proprietary tool Showbuzz, which measures the pre-launch awareness of new shows on Hindi GECs, has now expanded its market coverage. The tool will cover 14 cities in its research methodology from this April, up from six cities.
The new cities being added are Pune, Kolhpaur, Kanpur, Bareilly, Allahabad, Gwalior, Ludhiana and Jamnagar. It currently covers Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Indore and Jalandhar.
The sample size covered per week has also increased from 600 to 800. The data will be reported for eight market clusters – Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab, Rest Of Maharashtra, MP, UP (Big) and UP (Small).
Ormax Media CEO Shailesh Kapoor said, “Showbuzz scores have become an industry currency for channels and advertisers to track and evaluate launch campaigns of new Hindi GEC shows. It is a product that has been supported by the media community whole-heartedly. As we prepare to enter the fourth year of Showbuzz, a market expansion was the logical next step.”
Showbuzz tracks unaided and total awareness of upcoming and newly launched shows across Hindi GECs in the TG 15-44 years, SEC ABC.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
