Amazon Prime Video to introduce ads in India from 2025

Since its launch in India in December 2016, Prime Video has cemented itself as a leading entertainment platform, offering a vast selection of Indian and international films, popular shows, award-winning Amazon Originals, add-on subscriptions, and film rentals.

Prime Video will feature limited advertisements, aiming to offer fewer ads than linear TV, while providing an ad-free upgrade. No changes to Prime membership pricing in 2025.

Smytten to turn profitable by FY25-end; seeks fresh funds for offline expansion

Smytten raised around $12.9M in a Series A round in 2022 led by Fireside Ventures and Roots Ventures, and is staring at a Series B round to expand its offline presence, its co-founder Swagat Sarangi (ex-head of business marketing at Google) tells Storyboard18.

The try-and-sample e-commerce start-up Smytten is expecting Series B funding soon to expand its offline presence and technology infrastructure. Having crossed the Rs 100 crore revenue milestone recently, Swagat Sarangi, Co-founder, Smytten and Smytten Pulse, shares the plan to grow at 40% year-on-year for the next three years.

Pokémon Company seeks media, creative agencies in India as it gears up for major expansion

Susumu Fukunaga, Corporate Officer at The Pokémon Company; Pikachu wearing a saree; Genelia Deshmukh; Pikachu wearing a kurta; Yuki Kawamura, Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships and Special Projects at Niantic

The Pokemon brand is also looking to collaborate with multiple licensing agencies for deeper reach in the country.