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Disney+ Hotstar collaborates with MediaMath
MUMBAI: Disney+ Hotstar has collaborated with MediaMath to enable advertisers and agencies to measure reach and frequency on the OTT platform’s programmatic inventory in a trusted, and brand-safe environment.
With this offering, brands can purchase premium inventory on Disney+ Hotstar through programmatic guaranteed (PG) and private marketplace (PMP) deals to reach India’s affluent, urban audiences via a multitude of ad formats that suit their marketing objectives. Disney+ Hotstar currently offers pre-roll and mid-roll ad formats on entertainment content and pre-rolls on sports content for programmatic buying. The streaming platform also offers a wide range of targeting solutions with its audience solution.
Disney+ Hotstar’s massive reach and sharp targeting options extend an incredible opportunity for brands, especially regional players, to tap the right audience whether on live sports or entertainment.
Star & Disney India president Nitin Bawankule said, “We are committed to enabling marketers and agency partners to reach new and existing audiences at scale and build incremental reach. By activating audience-based buying in a private programmatic environment, brands can target precise, highly engaged audience cohorts, exercise more control with transparency, and attain higher visibility of their campaigns. MediaMath offers a cutting-edge technology platform and this association will help us offer efficient programmatic advertising solutions to clients.”
“OTT is a critical and fast-growing channel for driving addressability, and our association with Disney+ Hotstar helps us offer a forward-looking, sophisticated programmatic setup,” MediaMath country manager Pranjal Desai said. “Disney+ Hotstar has already established itself as the largest AR4 player in the OTT space, and this collaboration has been the natural next step in making media buying on OTT a more streamlined, efficient and accountable process.”
Swiggy director marketing Umesh Krishna said, "Swiggy and Disney+ Hotstar have had a long association, especially when it comes to cricket. In fact, food and video-on-demand are categories that go hand-in-hand, and they both cater to similar psychographics. Having tried out programmatic campaigns on the Disney+ Hotstar marketing platform recently, we are extremely pleased about the scale and targeting options that it offers us. I am confident that it can serve our various marketing goals effectively."
Interactive Avenues co-founder & CEO Amardeep Singh said, "We are looking forward to programmatically accessing India’s most premium and brand-safe video inventory on Disney+ Hotstar via MediaMath – the leading independent DSP in the country. This is an offering that the market has been waiting for quite some time now. Interactive Avenues works extensively with both MediaMath and Disney+ Hotstar and we are very excited for this offering which will help us to further augment our promise to our clients to give them the best ROI on their investments."
Additionally, buyers can access other key features such as viewability measurement, frequency-capping, and real-time analytics. With Disney+ Hotstar, brands can reach India’s affluent, urban audiences via a multitude of ad formats that suit their marketing objectives. The platform’s massive reach and sharp targeting options extend an incredible opportunity for brands, especially regional players, to reach the right audience whether on live sports or entertainment.
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Infosys rolls out AI-first framework, eyes $300–400bn opportunity
Infosys Topaz to anchor push into agentic and generative AI services
BENGALURU: Infosys has unveiled an AI-first value framework, positioning itself to tap what it estimates to be a $300–400 billion global services opportunity as enterprises race to scale artificial intelligence.
The Bengaluru-based IT major said the framework is designed to help clients move from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment of generative and agentic AI, anchored by its Infosys Topaz platform. The opportunity estimate is drawn from a recent Nasscom–McKinsey report.
The strategy rests on two pillars: capturing fresh demand for AI-first services and embedding AI across existing engagements to expand wallet share. Infosys has mapped six value pools spanning AI strategy and engineering, data readiness, process transformation, legacy modernisation, physical AI and AI trust.
At the heart of the approach is the orchestration of AI agents, proprietary platforms and third-party tools on purpose-built infrastructure, aimed at redesigning workflows, modernising legacy systems and embedding intelligence into physical products and operations.
Infosys said it is working with about 90 per cent of its top 200 clients on AI programmes and has more than 4,600 AI projects under way. It has also developed over 30 new service offerings aligned to the six value pools, covering revenue growth, cost optimisation and innovation outcomes.
Co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani, said IT services firms would play a more critical role in the AI era as enterprises grapple with integration, governance and trust at scale. Chief executive and managing director Salil Parekh, said the AI-first framework positions Infosys to capture market share as clients accelerate adoption.
