Navi Mumbai International Airport faces hoarding, dish antenna obstacles

The airport is a crucial infrastructure project for India’s aviation sector, and authorities are expected to take all necessary precautions to ensure its safe and efficient operation upon its launch.

Among the documented obstacles are a building’s dish antenna (36.3 meters), a grill top (35.8 meters), a staircase room top (34.9 meters), a hoarding top (34 meters), and a parapet wall (31.4 meters). Additional impediments include structures such as a pipe top, design top, and ladder top.

MAdtech Point: The business of identities

For the first time, holding companies are now taking a clear position to differentiate their product. For a good long time, all media plans or channel plans looked the same, predominantly controlled by the data sets of the walled gardens, writes Gowthaman Ragothaman.

The business of identities will fall into a typical 2 x 2 matrix with the players of ad tech ecosystem on one axis and the approaches to managing identities on the other axis, writes Gowthaman Ragothaman.

Beyond the sixes: What’s driving the IPL 2025 ad spend frenzy?

IPL remains an indispensable property for advertisers and will kick off in two days (on March 22), at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

The IPL remains a crucial advertising avenue for various industries. Auto, FMCG, BFSI, and infrastructure are the categories likely to see the highest surge in ad spends as the tournament progresses, experts say.

YouTube crosses 125 million paid subscribers, expands ‘Premium Lite’ tier

The new plan allows users to watch most videos ad-free across various content categories like gaming, cooking, comedy, and education, but excludes music videos, Shorts, and background play.

The Google-owned video-sharing giant continues its rapid paid subscriber growth, adding 25 million users in just over a year.

Creativeland Asia takes WinZO to court, cries foul over misuse of creative idea

Storyboard18 had first reported the legal battle on March 5, titled “Creativeland Asia Takes WinZO to Court, Cries Foul Over Misuse of Creative Idea.”

The order copy stated that before a formal agreement could be entered into, WinZO (Respondent) has made an application for registration of the tagline “Jeeto Har Dinzo” in its name as a trademark.

Bharti Airtel urges TRAI to regulate WhatsApp, other OTT platforms to tackle spam

Airtel’s vice-chairman and managing director, Gopal Vittal, proposed extending the digital consent acquisition (DCA) framework to OTT platforms, enforcing Know Your Customer (KYC) verification for users, and integrating these services into a centralised spam blacklist system.

Telecom giant calls for stricter oversight on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram to curb fraud and unsolicited communication.