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Pro Kabaddi League’s Telugu Titans rope in TVS Tyres as associate sponsor
MUMBAI: In a bid to build the brand in the after-market segment, TVS Tyres has come on board as the official associate sponsor for Star Sports Pro Kabaddi League’s Telugu Titans.
The move also comes in the wake of introducing a new brand identity at the beginning of this year.
With Pro Kabaddi League being the second most watched sport show last year, TVS Tyres’ aim is not only to popularize the sport through this partnership, but to also utilise this platform to enhance the brand’s visibility across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The brand will be supporting the team throughout all the matches, which will go on till 23 August. The matches in Hyderabad are being played from 4 – 7 August.
TVS Srichakra director P Vijayaraghavan said, “With the new mantra of our brand ‘Nayi Soch Nayi Pechaan,’ this initiative is taken to support a traditional sport, which is now being presented with a lot of freshness and indeed has tremendous prospect and possibility to become one of the most popular games.”
As a part of this partnership, the company has adopted various marketing strategies to promote the brand. To gain prominence, TVS Tyres’ logo is used in the Telugu Titans official website, in-stadia digital display and perimeter boards and BTL activations. The jerseys and shorts of players will also sport the TVS Tyres logo. Special autographed merchandise and mementos by players as well as VIP match tickets are being given to after-market dealers to endorse the brand as well as the sport.
To further strengthen and re-enforce the new brand identity amongst customers and dealers, the brand carried out on-ground activations that included a meet and greet session with the players as part of the consumer campaigns and promotional events. The products of the brand are displayed at the team’s home stadium in Hyderabad along with distribution of co-branded cheering merchandise and freebies.
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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.
