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ALTBalaji leads the Chrome weekly top OTT charts amongst pureplay SVOD platforms

Chrome OTT has put out a weekly survey on Indian originals across OTT platforms, the results of which look brilliant for Indian OTT giant ALTBalaji. The Chrome panel represents 574 million internet users in India that watch shows/web series/movies and is calculated on the basis of minimum 10 mins viewing across 24 hours . The results look amazing for India’s favourite OTT platform, ALTBalaji, which is ranked the highest across subscription-based OTT platforms. The love and appreciation ALTBalaji has been receiving is truly tremendous and testimony to the varied content library, customer connect/acquisition strategies and user friendly experience.

In a country booming with so much competition in the OTT platforms sphere, ALTBalaji has been listed at the prestigious number 6 spot on COTT’s top 12 OTT platforms list for the week (14th-20th March). The top 5 platforms mentioned in the list are either free or advertising-led platforms backed by broadcasters. ALTBalaji, getting placed ahead of other subscription-led OTT platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime, shows the extent of care taken while developing content for its viewers, unique strategies to reach out to the end-consumers, and its simplistic user-friendly interface.

ALTBalaji’s creative team has been pushing the envelope on unique stories and narratives and has been consistently breaking records and barriers. Each show is created with new treatment or twists and dialogues that resonate with the audience. It is no wonder that ALTBalaji has secured itself a place amongst the top and leading the charts across paid subscribers-led OTT platforms.

Interestingly, ALTBalaji’s recent shows including, The Married Woman, Crashh, and Dev DD 2, stood at the 5th, 6th, and 9th positions on the Top 10 show list. ALTBalaji also has their shows Crashh and Dev DD 2 on the Top 10 Binged list, which takes into account at least bingeing on three episodes of a series in 24 hours less.

The shows that have made it possible, like The Married Woman, Crashh, and Dev DD 2, have been drawing all the right kinds of attention from the very beginning for their unconventional stories and their ability to address societal issues through satire subtly. This way of addressing major social problems resonates with the audience for a long time after the series is done. The talented actors in these shows who the audience has grown to love over the years help deliver these important messages to the audience in an unforgettable manner.

The Married Woman is a show that celebrates love and makes an outstanding attempt at breaking stereotypes and taboos that society’s conditioning has set in stone. The adaptation from Manju Kapur’s book is so beautifully done. With talented actors like Monica Dogra, Ridhi Dogra, Suhaas Ahuja, and Imaad Shah in the cast, there couldn’t have been anything to make the show better.

Crashh is a sibling love saga with a cast bound to bring a huge fan following to the show. This touching story has been drawing attention from everywhere and has been one of the main reasons ALTBalaji has been shooting to the top among OTT platforms. With the star cast including popular faces like Zain Imam, Rohan Mehra, Aditi Sharma, Kunj Anand, and Anushka Sen, the series’s success was inevitable.

Dev DD 2 has been all about breaking stereotypes, something ALTBalaji has been striving to do with every show since the beginning. Dev DD 2, starring veteran actor Sanjay Suri, Asheema Vardaan, Nauheed Cyrusie, Aman Uppal, Rashmi Agdekar, Rumana Molla, etc. have become a favourite among viewers looking for a laugh as well as a great message.

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Regional OTT Platforms that give the best content

With a spike in the consumption of entertainment content streaming online during the lockdown, the OTT platforms are likely to come out of pandemics and work from home situations at a better place. The path to recovery is looking a bit hard for cinema halls, hence OTT platforms can treat out new offerings. Now, even the movies have taken the OTT route for their releases without having to wait for pan-India theatre re-openings.

Amidst this, regional content is gaining momentum and attracting more viewers on the OTT platforms. There is an upward graph in consumption of dubbed cinema from the South, particularly Telugu and Tamil films.

To cater to the giant demand for regional content from the audience, here are 5 regional OTT platforms that are becoming the preference for the audience for dubbed regional content 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. The platform deals in dubbed content in the form of full movies, Mini movies, video clips, Music videos, etc.
  2. Aha –  Aha is an Indian over-the-top streaming service owned by Arha Media & Broadcasting Private Limited, a joint venture by Geetha Arts and My Home Group which offers Telugu-language content. Launched officially in March 2020, the service is loaded with films from the pre-OTT era from various production houses. Arjun Suravaram, Kaithi Telugu dubbed version and Choosi Choodangaane are the first set of feature films acquired by the service as official streaming partner
  3. Hoichoi –  Hoichoi is the on-demand platform that 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 on 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.