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Brand D2H brings a new perspective, introduces ‘Alag Hi View’ campaign for the festive season
MUMBAI: Dish TV India Limited, the world’s largest single-country DTH Company, launched a new brand campaign for its D2H brand titled ‘Alag Hi View’ for the forthcoming festive season. The campaign aims to highlight the younger, innovative avatar of D2H brand, bringing out its technologically advanced offerings & customer centric solutions. With this campaign, D2H is providing variety of offers to customers for the upcoming festive season. Now, new customers can opt for Standard Definition and High-Definition connections with 100 percent special cashback offer that includes a set top box along with a popular recharge pack, starting at just Rs 2100 for SD connection, Rs. 2500 for D2H HD connection and Rs 2600 for HD with RF Remote connections. With the cashback offer, customers can redeem the full offer amount from their D2H payment account for up to 12 months.
The core idea of the TVC is that technology isn’t just simplifying life of our core customer base of young people, it is making them more aware, opening up their minds, and it helped them have a very different point of view. This is the core insight around which the brand platform was built. It captures the mind-set of this audience and the brand’s philosophy in one evocative line -‘Alag Hi View Hai!’
The current TVC highlights how D2H offers something different and how that enables the consumer to have a different point of view either in life or when it comes to watching television. The campaign brings alive the different product / service offerings D2H has in a youthful, vibrant way.
The new campaign ‘Alag Hi View’ highlights the unique offerings of D2H brand for this festive season. The TVC ‘Alag Hi View’ has a montage of situations with Diwali festival as the backdrop and showcases D2H bringing families and friends together with D2H’s varied offerings. The product window includes D2H’s technologically advanced products such as Smart Remote Mobile App, Radio Frequency Remote and HD STBs.
Commenting on the new D2H campaign, Mr. Anil Dua, Group CEO – Dish TV India Limited said, “Our D2H brand believes in giving our customers technological advanced solutions to enhance their TV viewing experience. Through this new campaign ‘Alag Hi View’, we would like to highlight the unique customer experience and technological solutions offered by D2H platform in India. D2H is transforming the way we watch television, with its advanced Smart Remote Mobile App, RF Remote, HD STBs and now taking forward our vision of providing customers with a robust and enhanced television viewing experience. Adding to its unique technology solutions is a unique cashback offer this Diwali, with which we wish to light our customer’s TV viewing experience this Diwali.”
Speaking on the new campaign, Mr. Sugato Banerji, Corporate Head – Marketing, D2H brand said, “The hero of the new D2H campaign is our very different Diwali offer. In the process we are also positioning D2H a technology driven brand for the younger tech savvy generation. Today’s gen X is about having a perspective, a view and an opinion. This campaign celebrates this spirit.”
Speaking on the new campaign, Mr. Arko Bose, Group Creative Director, Mullen Lintas Lowe Group – said, “’Alag hi view’ mirrors the thought process of the youth today. They have different perspectives and different ways of doing things, meandering away from the traditional approaches. With television viewing evolving itself in distinct ways using the plank of technology, we feel that the campaign finds a sweet spot in balancing youth-speak and brand philosophy.”
This latest campaign has been conceptualized by Mullen Lintas Lowe Group and is now live across India.
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Prasar Bharati’s WAVES earns Rs 2.9 crore in first year
Platform scales content, users but monetisation gaps limit revenue growth.
MUMBAI: Big waves, small ripples at least for now. When Prasar Bharati launched its OTT platform WAVES at the 55th International Film Festival of India in November 2024, it pitched a bold vision: a homegrown rival to global and domestic streaming giants, blending video, audio, gaming and commerce into a single digital ecosystem. Five months into FY2024–25, however, the platform’s revenue stands at just Rs 2.90 crore, a figure that underscores the gap between ambition and monetisation.
On paper, WAVES looks anything but modest. The platform has ingested 13,608 titles, totalling 9,495 hours of content, with over 13,000 titles already live. It has streamed more than 575 live events from the Mahakumbh Amrit Snan and the 76th Republic Day parade to the Hockey India League, Kabaddi World Cup and Mann Ki Baat while offering 74 live TV channels and 12 radio channels. With over 10 lakh registered users and more than 200 content partners onboarded, the scale resembles that of a fully operational streaming service rather than a pilot project.
The architecture supporting this scale is equally robust. Built under Prasar Bharati’s Central Archives vertical, WAVES runs on a cloud-based infrastructure with DRM, encryption and an integrated analytics dashboard. It includes dedicated units for content ingestion, quality control, publishing, graphics, marketing and billing, and is distributed across platforms such as OTTplay, Tata Play and BSNL. The offering extends beyond video to include audio-on-demand, e-games and even e-commerce via ONDC integration.
Yet, the numbers reveal a core disconnect. Despite its scale, WAVES generated just Rs 2.90 crore in a market where India’s OTT industry crossed Rs 23,000 crore in 2024. A key bottleneck lies in monetisation infrastructure: subscriptions cannot currently be purchased within the app and must be completed via an external website. In a mobile-first country where over 95 per cent of OTT consumption happens on smartphones, this extra step creates friction that most users are unlikely to overcome.
Ironically, content is not the problem, it is the platform’s biggest strength. Prasar Bharati holds one of the world’s richest broadcast archives, including 45,154 hours of digitised Akashvani programming and 35,723 hours from Doordarshan. For WAVES alone, over 3,800 hours of archival content have been made OTT-ready, including classics such as Ramayan and Shaktimaan, alongside rare cultural recordings and historical broadcasts.
There are early signs that this library holds commercial potential. Revenue from archival content licensing rose sharply to Rs 3.38 crore in FY24, up from Rs 67 lakh the previous year. Meanwhile, free digital platforms continue to drive massive reach, the PB Archives Youtube channel clocked 119.78 million views and added 4,02,000 subscribers in FY2024–25, crossing 1.7 million in total, while DD News has over 5.84 million subscribers.
That, however, presents a strategic dilemma. While free distribution builds scale, it also conditions audiences to expect content at zero cost making it harder to transition to paid models. WAVES, designed as a hybrid AVOD-SVOD platform with advertising and subscription layers, is yet to fully crack this balance.
The broader challenge is not technological but strategic. In an ecosystem dominated by platforms offering seamless payments, aggressive pricing and high-budget originals, WAVES is still bridging the gap between being a content repository and a commercially viable product.
For now, the platform reflects both promise and paradox. It has the scale, the content and the infrastructure but until monetisation catches up, WAVES remains less a revenue engine and more a digital showcase of what India’s public broadcaster could become.
