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Eros Now uses Verizon Media’s streaming network to reach global audiences
MUMBAI: Verizon Media and Eros Now have partnered to meet global consumer demand for high quality streaming of Indian cinema. With more than 140 points of presence globally and 100Tbps of capacity at the end of 2019, the Verizon Media platform provides Eros Now with a high performance streaming network to reach consumers in India and worldwide.
Eros Now chose the Verizon Media platform to simplify its video workflow and provide an end to end managed service from ingest to delivery. Verizon Media’s workflow includes encoding, storage, delivery and provides support for all major DRMs including license server management. The cost and time-consuming nature of constantly updating these services individually is mitigated by delivering them all seamlessly via the Verizon Media platform.
India is a home to bollywood. Global demand for bollywood content is growing rapidly and Eros Now has attracted more than 177 million users to its service by housing over 12,000 movie titles, TV shows, Eros Now Originals and short-format content – Eros Now quickie. In order to retain its market leading position in India and also futureproof its ability to penetrate additional markets, Eros Now chose to migrate from its technology-dense streaming stack to a fully managed streaming service.
“As we continue our mission of bringing bollywood content to a global audience, it’s crucial that we invest in cutting edge technologies to maintain high quality online experiences for the millions of users accessing our service from a range of devices and locations. Verizon Media’s platform is renowned for its unparalleled streaming capabilities and high performance network, which will play an important role in helping us deliver an unrivalled user experience to our customers around the world,” said Eros Now chief executive officer Ali Hussein.
“One of the biggest challenges content service providers face is being able to deliver high quality experiences to international audiences,” said Verizon Media president Ralf Jacob. “Eros Now is meeting this challenge head-on by using the Verizon Media platform to simplify its video workflow so it can focus to deliver compelling user experiences. We’re honored that Eros Now chose Verizon Media to help further elevate the visibility of bollywood content among an international audience.”
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Paisabazaar launches Credit Premier League 2.0
Nationwide campaign rewards highest credit scores with Rs 1 lakh top prize.
MUMBAI: When credit scores become a national league, even your CIBIL report starts feeling like it’s playing in the IPL and Paisabazaar has just kicked off the second season. Paisabazaar, India’s leading marketplace for financial products and the country’s largest free credit score platform, has announced the return of the Credit Premier League (CPL) 2.0, a fun, nationwide initiative to recognise and reward individuals with the highest credit scores.
Building on the success of the first edition, CPL 2.0 introduces higher rewards and broader participation. The individual(s) with the highest credit score in the country will win Rs 1 lakh, while state champions will each receive Rs 10,000. Additionally, all participants from the winning state, the one with the highest average credit score will also be rewarded.
All winnings will be credited directly to winners’ PB Wallet, allowing them to pay credit card bills, recharge mobiles, or settle utility bills seamlessly on the Paisabazaar platform.
Paisabazaar CEO Santosh Agarwal said the campaign aims to make credit awareness more engaging and mainstream. “With CPL, we are bringing together engagement, gamification and rewards to make conversations around credit scores more mainstream,” he noted. “Our focus remains on building a financially aware and credit-healthy Bharat.”
The first edition of CPL saw over 5.5 million participants, with the highest individual score touching 861. Delhi recorded the highest average credit score of 746.
Consumers can participate simply by checking their free credit score on the Paisabazaar platform or app. The CPL leaderboard and rankings will be available exclusively on the Paisabazaar App.
In a country where financial dreams are serious business, Paisabazaar has found a smart way to turn credit scores into an exciting game – because when your financial health gets rewarded, everyone wants to play.
