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Qyuki and Fullscreen join forces to enhance opportunities for content creators
MUMBAI: Qyuki, a multichannel network founded by Shekhar Kapur, Samir Bangara and A. R. Rahman and global youth media company Fullscreen, has announced an exclusive alliance that becomes one of India’s multichannel networks.
Indian creators in the Qyuki-Fullscreen network will receive opportunities to develop, monetise and distribute their content and leverage technology, production and optimisation of services from both networks.
Speaking about the development Qyuki co-founder and managing director Sanir Bangara said, “The internet is about collaboration and as we build out our vision to create the largest online media company for Indian youth, we believe we have found a great partner in Fullscreen which will enable us to not only grow the Indian market rapidly but also present Indian talent at a global scale”.
Indian creators will have access to Fullscreen’s tools and services that intersect every aspect of their careers. Its proprietary technology, the ‘Creator Platform’, offers production, audience development and measurement tools.
Fullscreen president Ezra Cooperstein commented, “Qyuki has built a strong network and content studio featuring some of India’s most creative and acclaimed talent in music and storytelling. This partnership will strengthen our global creator network and further empower the next generation of Indian creators with Fullscreen’s global best practices in content creation and monetisation.”
Marquee creators in the Qyuki network include AR Rahman, Ranjit Barot, Salim-Sulaiman, and YouTubers Shraddha Sharma, Gaurav Dagaonkar and Siddharth Slathia, amongst several others.
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
