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hoichoi inks strategic partnership with Chingari App for a larger content promotion & distribution

hoichoi, the leading OTT platform for Bengali content, announced its collaboration with home-grown short video-sharing platform, Chingari. The collaboration is in the form of a marketing agreement featuring content from hoichoi on the ‘Made in India’ Chingari platform. Through this partnership, the Chingari consumers will have access to hoichoi’s popular and highly engaging content in the form of short video clips, dialogues and snippets from their most popular and upcoming shows.

Speaking about the association, Soumya Mukherjee, hoichoi’s Revenue and Strategy Head said, “Chingari users can now get a taste of hoichoi content on their platform. Combining efforts with another distribution platform will build a wider audience base and a powerful partnership as our content options are unlimited, when it comes to entertaining audiences globally. Hopefully, this vast array of exclusive content will be accessible to a large base of users through this association.”

Mr. Sumit Ghosh, Co-founder and CEO of Chingari App, said, “Providing our consumers with wholesome entertainment has always been the ultimate priority of the Chingari team. Both Chingari and hoichoi share the common goal of reaching out to the masses and strengthening our presence and this association is a step in that direction. From its very start, Chingari has been offering engaging short videos in Bangla on its platform and the incorporation of Hoichoi content will be an additional attraction for the 38-million-strong Chingari family. We are confident that the new content will receive immense love from our users.”

Mr Deepak Salvi, Co-founder and COO of Chingari App, said, “Chingari’s association with hoichoi is rather organic as both the platforms are committed to providing entertainment. We believe that hoichoi’s content, like ours, transcends the language barrier and strikes a chord with every viewer and thus, it is sure to engage every Chingari consumer. ” With a vast library of originals across genres that cater to all kinds of audiences, the content at hoichoi are a mix of thriller, drama, romance, youth drama, horror, comedy, amongst others. This collaboration will take both the platforms to newer heights.

It is worth mentioning that the Chingari App has touched the new milestone of achieving the average engagement time of 51 minutes, greater than foreign platforms like Facebook and Snapchat. The latest company data revealed that more than 95 million videos are viewed on the platform every day. In the last 45 days, over 2.6 billion videos on the app have been watched by its consumers.

Growing from strength to strength on the back of innovative business strategies, Chingari has become one of the major players in the Indian short-video platform and has gained further encouragement by the massive increase in subscriber base and average time spent.

Recently, the Chingari Team also collaborated with DanceWithMadhuri, providing users with a chance to access dance lessons and latest videos especially by legendary Madhuri Dixit-Nene and dance gurus like Pandit Birju Maharaj, Remo D’souza, and Terence Lewis amongst other ace choreographers.

Not just this, Chingari also teamed up with content house NH Studioz to distribute Indian cinema around the globe. For movie lovers, the platform screened blockbuster films through this association.

Notably, homegrown short video app Chingari allows its users to download and upload videos, chat with friends, interact with new people, share content, browse through feed, and much more. The app aces in offering — games, news, short entertaining videos — the three things Indians enjoy the most.

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5 regional content king OTT Platforms in today’s times

It is obvious that the majority of the audience nowadays are dependent on OTT platforms for quality entertainment. The OTT penetration has doubled now in the TeirII and Tier III markets. Within these markets, regional content is gaining momentum and attracting more viewers towards OTT platforms. While the future of OTT is bright, the competition is getting fierce and the market has gradually become the survival of the fittest.

To cater to the tremendous demand for regional content from the audience, here are 5 regional OTT platforms that are creating a wave in today’s world –

1. Dollywood Play – Dollywood Play is a dedicated OTT platform for Hindi dubbed content aims to bring the best of mass entertainment content (movies & series) across a wide range of genres like Action, Adventure, Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Love, Drama and 18+. Witnessing the wide success & acceptance of Hindi dubbed content for South Indian & Hollywood movies on digital & linear platforms for its audience in tier 2 & tier 3 towns. The platform deals in dubbed content in the form of full movies, Mini movies, video clips, Music videos, Promos etc.

2. Hoichoi – Hoichoi is the on-demand platform focuses on Bengali language films and entertainment content mainly, but also provides English subtitles to all movies. Currently, it features over 500 film titles, including more than 100 SVF produced films and about 400 other films. Apart from this, Hoichoi contains more than 1,000 Bengali songs for audio streaming globally. The platform is also introducing children’s content and has original films, web series and short films across many genres.

3. Sun Nxt – Sun NXT is an Indian video-on-demand service run by Sun TV Network. It was launched in June 2017 with content in four languages focusing the South Indian region. In February 2020, the platform’s subscriber base grew to about 15 million users and started making a profit. It is available free on Vodafone Play, Jio Cinema, Airtel Xstream.

4. Viu – Viu is a Hong Kong-based over-the-top (OTT) video streaming provider from PCCW Media, a subsidiary of PCCW. Operated in a dual-revenue model comprising subscriptions and advertising, Viu delivers content in different genres from Asia’s top content providers in a language such as English, Chinese, Arabic, Malaysian, Indonesian, Burmese, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu and Thai, as well as original production series under ‘Viu Original’ initiative.

5. Olly Plus – Olly Plus was launched in 2020, By Sk Line Production Olly Plus is Odisha’s new online Odia OTT platform where you can enjoy unlimited Odia Videos, Albums, Movies, Comedy Videos, Short Films, Audio Storys and Romantic videos on the go. Olly Plus has passionate plans to make the Cinema of Odisha touch a new height.