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Yahoo Music & Nvidia launch animated music video tool
BANGALORE: Yahoo! Music, the Internet’s number one site for music content, and Nvidia Corporation have announced “Yahoo! Artist Mods,” a new program that lets consumers create unique animated music videos by combining hot music titles with interactive digital animation.
Yahoo! Music will promote Yahoo! Artist Mods throughout the extensive Yahoo! network, including front page placement on Yahoo!. The selection of digitized music videos will be updated regularly at http://music.yahoo.com/promos/artistmods, a click away for the more than 23 million unique users who visit Yahoo! Music each month. Yahoo! Artist Mods will also join the rest of Yahoo! Music videos in high rotation.
“Yahoo! Artist Mods is the perfect blend of two favorite pastimes – watching music videos and playing video games,” stated Yahoo! Music GM Dave Goldberg. “We’re excited to be the first to bring this cutting-edge technology online and give users control of their music content experience.”
ModMaker was developed for Yahoo! Music by Big Bear Entertainment using Nvidia Quadro professional graphics technology. ModMaker achieves optimal performance when played back on PCs equipped with Nvidia GeForce graphics. Tony Shiff, president of Big Bear Entertainment, commented: “Nvidia gave us the power to create fully animated music videos in weeks, rather than months.”
Yahoo! Artist Mods premiered with two videos: “Just Stop” by Disturbed and “Good Times” by Tommy Lee. Three more videos, including ones featuring platinum artists Sean Paul and Lil’ Wayne, will follow in the upcoming weeks to complete the five-part series, states an official release.
Yahoo! Artist Mods showcases today’s coolest music video artists using digitized models of the artists, stage sets, and instruments. To become “virtual directors,” with control over backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles, users can download the ModMaker rendering engine from the NvidianZone Web site. Once a new video is finished, users can replay their creation and share it with a friend by email, the release adds.
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Network18 Q4 revenue grows 9.7 per cent, EBITDA at Rs 30 crore
PAT improves to Rs 306.6 crore, margins steady amid cost pressures.
MUMBAI: Not all news is breaking, some of it is quietly improving. Network18 Media & Investments Limited appears to be doing just that, tightening losses and stabilising margins even as costs continue to weigh on the business. For FY26, the company reported revenue from operations of Rs 1,955.1 crore, up from Rs 1,896.2 crore in FY25, signalling modest top-line growth in a challenging media environment. Total income stood at Rs 1,978.2 crore, compared to Rs 1,913 crore a year earlier.
Profit after tax came in at Rs 306.6 crore for the year, a sharp turnaround from Rs 3,225.4 crore in FY25, largely reflecting the absence of large exceptional items that had inflated the previous year’s numbers. On a more comparable basis, the company’s operating performance showed signs of gradual stabilisation.
However, the quarterly picture remained under pressure. For the March quarter, Network18 reported a loss of Rs 53.1 crore, narrower than the Rs 98.1 crore loss in the same period last year, but still indicative of ongoing cost challenges.
Expenses continued to track high. Total expenses for FY26 stood at Rs 2,235.7 crore, up from Rs 2,197.8 crore in FY25. Key cost heads included operational expenses of Rs 765.9 crore, employee benefits of Rs 475.9 crore, and marketing, distribution and promotional spends of Rs 427.1 crore, underlining the continued investment required to sustain reach and engagement.
At an operating level, margins remained under strain. Operating margin stood at 2.33 per cent for FY26, marginally higher than 1.77 per cent in FY25, while net profit margin remained negative at -13.02 per cent, though improved from -14.89 per cent.
On the balance sheet, total assets rose to Rs 8,957.6 crore as of 31 March 2026, from Rs 8,317.5 crore a year earlier. Equity strengthened to Rs 4,958.7 crore, while borrowings increased to Rs 3,112.8 crore, reflecting a higher reliance on debt to support operations.
Cash flows told a mixed story. While financing activities generated Rs 83.9 crore, operating cash flow remained negative at Rs -24 crore, highlighting ongoing pressure on core cash generation. Cash and cash equivalents, however, improved to Rs 33.9 crore from Rs 1.8 crore.
The numbers point to a company in transition growing revenues, trimming losses, but still grappling with structural cost pressures. In a sector where scale often comes at a price, Network18 seems to be inching towards balance, one quarter at a time.
