YuppTV unveils originals, bringing unconventional storytelling and cinematic brilliance to the digital space

Announces partnerships with prominent directors and production houses from the movie industry to provide high quality digital content.

Hyderabad, 16th March 2017: Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV along with YuppTV’s Brand Ambassador “Superstar Mahesh Babu” has launched YuppTV Originals, the OTT platform’s foray into original content production. Exploring concepts beyond cinema, YuppTV Originals is set to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. This new content will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform.

At the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “We disrupted the entertainment sector with technology by launching YuppTV in 2006. Now with YuppTV Originals, we aim to disrupt the content space, following the needs of our evolving audience, and our vision of providing high-quality engaging content. Besides, YuppTV Originals will empower the content creators by providing direct access to the audience and thereby streamlining distribution. I’d further extend heartiest welcome to our associates from the film fraternity, ensuring optimum growth for the content ecosystem.”''

Speaking on the occasion, Tollywood Superstar Mahesh Babu said, “I congratulate YuppTV for this novel concept and associating with big names in the industry. I am confident that ‘YuppTV Originals’ will have a wide reach, and recommend artists and visionaries from the industry to make use of this opportunity to showcase their creative pursuits and connect instantly with the internet audience.”

YuppTV Original’s initial focus to be on regional content in episodic format, while also making endeavors for Feature Film Production. To produce their first few series, YuppTV has associated with prominent production houses such as I-candy creation, Early Morning Tales – a division of Vijayanthi Movies, TrendLoud – The digital arm of Vision Times, Madhura Entertainment and Tamada Media.

Commenting on the partnership, popular Tollywood Director Deva Katta -  said “Originals provide immense creative freedom for the evolving talent in the industry. As YuppTV provides a direct reach to the audience it will also help us pool in fresh talent and bring their creativity to the spotlight. Myself, my partner Krishna Vijay and our company iCandy Creations is delighted to be part of Originals and look forward to a prolonged partnership in producing engaging new-age content.” 

                

YuppTV Originals’ first mini-series, Endukila, presented by Deva Katta’ iCandy Creations, written and directed by Laxman Karya will be launched during Ugadi, followed by another exciting series produced by Swapna Dutt’s Early Morning Tales-a division of Vijayanthi Movies and director supervision by Nandini Reddy. Catering to global audiences, YuppTV is overcoming the language barrier by including subtitles and will be dubbed in other languages. YuppTV is further calling out the talent in the industry to come on-board and become part of this digital evolution.

That aspiring content creators and artists can reach out to us at originals@yupptv.com

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It has recently launched YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and YuppTV Bazaar an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Visit www.yupptv.com for more information.

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YuppTV Channel Makes a Comeback on Roku Players and Roku TVs

Atlanta, July 20, 2016: The leading OTT player in South Asian content, YuppTV has made its mighty comeback on the Roku® platform in the USA & Canada, introducing its extensively updated video content, packaged in a superior and advanced user interface. In 2010, YuppTV has been the first Live TV channel on the Roku platform, which includes the Roku Streaming Stick®, Roku Streaming players and Roku TV™, providing Indian expat community, easy access to high quality South Asian entertainment content. Post 2012, the channel continued to provide the content to other markets, except USA & Canada.

Roku users in USA & Canada will now be able to access YuppTV’s 200+ LIVE TV channels, Catch-up TV and YuppFlix, the largest Bollywood and South Asian regional language movie catalogue, with more than 5,000 titles. Further enhancing the content offering, the app will also offer online movie premiers mostly within three weeks of the release in YuppTV’s Pay per View movies.

Speaking at the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV said, “We are thrilled to launch our updated YuppTV app on the Roku platform in USA & Canada. Incepted with the vision of providing the most authentic and entertaining Indian national and regional content to the Indian expat and diaspora community across the globe, we are affirmative that the users will enjoy and appreciate our content offering.”

“It is inspiring the way YuppTV has evolved its service offering over the years and we’re excited to be able to once again offer Roku consumers in the U.S. and Canada an amazing selection of premium South Asian content,” said Ziba Kaboli-Gerbrands, director of content acquisition, Roku, Inc.

In succession to the launch, YuppTV has also added new languages in its offering, now allowing more Roku users to enjoy video content in Sinhala, Urdu, Nepali and Bangla. YuppTV will also offer nine popular channels from Argentina like TYC Sports, El Trece, America Sports available for Argentine expats living in USA & Canada. With the newly updated user interface, the channel offers an aesthetically enriching experience. Furthermore, the next update of the channel will also feature YuppTV Bazaar, the online marketplace for video content, and Yupp News, which curates the top news from around the world in short video snippets.

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 200+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 13 languages.

YuppTV has 25,000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2,500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. YuppTV has its presence in more than 50 countries. It has recently launched YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and YuppTV Bazaar an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and also the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

For more information: http://www.yupptv.com/

Roku and Streaming Stick are registered trademarks and Roku TV is a trademark of Roku, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2016/07/yupptv-channel-makes-comeback-on-roku.html

YuppTV and ACT Fibernet partner to Delight Their Hyderabad Users

Move to deliver a seamless viewing experience by integrating great content with high speed connectivity

New Delhi|Hyderabad, May 24, 2016: YuppTV, the world’s largest Over-The-Top (OTT) provider for South Asian content, has announced its collaboration with ACT (Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), the country's fourth largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the wired broadband category and pioneers in Fiber-to-the-Home technology. As a part of the partnership, the entire array of YuppTV’s diverse content of 200+ Live TV channels, 2000+ movies, 100+ TV shows and 1000+ short movies will be available for as low as INR 99 per month for ACT subscribers in Hyderabad as an add-on package. With top TV channels and latest movies from Tollywood amongst the content on offer, the move comes as a very attractive development for the audience in the city of Hyderabad.

ACT is currently leading in net wired broadband subscriber additions in calendar year 2016 and continues to offer consumers the fastest, most consistent and unparalleled Internet experience, through the immensely scalable and future proof technology of fiber optics. It is at the forefront of driving Internet consumption in India, not just in terms of growing the market but also changing the online user behavior and enhancing the way users experience this medium.

YuppTV’s latest collaboration will enable its high-quality content to be bundled with the best high-speed internet connectivity for the city’s users. YuppTV’s provision of Catch-up TV, which allows users to watch their favorite programmes from the last 7 days at their convenient time, will also be a major attraction for viewers.





Speaking on the partnership, Mr. Bala Malladi, CEO of the ACT Group said “Hyderabad is one of the highest internet penetrated cities in the country and we are delighted to associate with YuppTV which is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV. This partnership is line with our strategic plans for Hyderabad as the city continues to be a key market for us and we will always attempt to give reliable high speeds with upload and download, the consumers can enjoy equal data limit on both.”

Speaking on the partnership, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV, said, “Streaming videos require high fidelity networks with consistent speeds to deliver a buffer-free experience. With this partnership, we are attempting to enhance accessibility to YuppTV content and solve internet connectivity concerns for our users through ACT’s high-speed broadband framework. We are confident that our Hyderabad users will welcome the initiative, and be able to seamlessly enjoy our library of diverse entertainment solutions through ACT.”

To activate their YuppTV subscriptions, users can log onto the ACT portal and select YuppTV as an add-on package or call the ACT helpline at 040-66272727. Activating the deal will also enable users to stream their favorite content on more than five screens, including TV, web and mobile, with a single subscription. YuppTV can be accessed through its website, www.yupptv.in, or via its app on Android and iOS smartphones, and on YuppTV App on LG, Sony and Samsung Smart TVs.

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 200+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 12 languages.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. YuppTV has its presence in more than 50 countries. It has recently launched YuppTV Bazaar, an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and also the largest Internet TV platform for premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile app downloads with >4.0 user rating.

For more information: http://www.yupptv.in/

About ACT Group:

ACT (Atria Convergence Technologies Pvt Ltd.) is one of the country’s most renowned triple play service providers with close to 1.5 million happy customers. ACT is a 1000 crore plus revenue company with a strong team of more than 6,500 employees across it’s markets.

The company offers the following state-of-the-art services under the ACT brand:


• Fibernet (Internet over Fiber Optics)


• HD TV


• Digital TV


Headquartered in Bangalore, ACT is spread across the length and breadth of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana and Tamil Nadu. Pioneers in Fiber-To-The-Home technology, ACT Fibernet is currently the largest non-telco and the fastest growing Internet Service Provider in the country.

 Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2016/05/yupptv-and-act-fibernet-partner-to-delight-hyderabad-users.html

YuppTV Announces The Digital Premiere of 2016 Blockbusters, Oopiri and Thozha!

Starring leading stars Nagarjuna, Karthi, Tamannah, Prakash Raj & Jayasudha, these critically acclaimed films are now available on the YuppTV platform



New Delhi, April 29, 2016: In a move to delight the Indian expat community, YuppTV, the world’s largest Over-The-Top (OTT) provider for South Asian content, has announced the digital premiere of two super-hit movies, Oopiri and Thozha. The movies, which stars renowned actors such as Nagarjuna Akkineni, Karthi, Tamannah, Prakash Raj and Jayasudha, will be made available for YuppTV users across the world, with the exception of India.

The Indian Telugu-Tamil comedy-drama film adaptation of the French film The Intouchables, Oopiri (Telugu) and Thozha (Tamil) are directed by Vamsi Paidipally and chart the life of a paraplegic billionaire Vikram Aditya, playedby Nagarjuna, and his topsy-turvy relationship with his caretaker Seenu, enacted by Karthi. The unique concept of the movies and the performances has been appreciated by both critics and the viewers, resulting in their superlative success.

Speaking on the announcement, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO, YuppTV, said, “We, at YuppTV, have always endeavoured to provide highly curated, relevant and the latest entertainment solutions to our viewers across the globe. Making these movies available through YuppTV’s platform will allow our expat users to see their favourite superstars in action, and underlines our commitment to enable access to the latest super hits off the shelf.”

Prasad V. Potluri, Chairman of the PVP Group, added, “Being the largest OTT enabler for South Asian content in the world, partnering with YuppTV for the digital premiere of our movies will allow us to reach out a massive viewer base. Our Oopiri/Thozha is a movie celebrating life and it showcases the relationship between a physically challenged billionaire and a socially challenged slum dweller. We are confident that the Telugu and Tamil speaking viewers around the globe will enjoy this movie.”

The movies can be accessed through the YuppTV website, www.yupptv.com, or via its app on Smart TVs, Smart blu-ray players, streaming media players, gaming consoles, smartphones and tablets.
 
About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 200+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 12 languages. YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. YuppTV has its presence in more than 50 countries. It has recently launched Yupp Flix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and YuppTV Bazaar an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and also the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian Smart TV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Watch Thozha & Oopiri Movie at http://www.yupptv.com/movies/Oopiri
http://www.yupptv.com/movies/Thozha

Article source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2016/04/yupptv-announces-digital-premiere-of-oopiri-thozha.html

YuppTV Partners with Hisense USA Corporation to launch its innovative application on Hisense Smart TV

YuppTV Offering viewers a world class viewing experience with an extensive range of channels and unlimited Movies, YuppTV today announced the launch of YuppTV application on Hisense Smart TV for the US audiences.

YuppTV’s partnership with Hisense is part of an ongoing effort to reach out to global television audience with the most comprehensive South Asian content. This endeavor has enabled YuppTV to grow into the world’s leading over-the-top (OTT) content player.

Viewers can now benefit from 200+ channels in 13 South Asian languages available worldwide, as Live TV, and 10 days of revolutionary Catch-up TV. Unlimited movies in different genres from leading production houses make this an unbeatable offering for Hisense Smart TV owners. The YuppTV app is available to download FREE. This innovative application from YuppTV, on Hisense Smart TV will be available for customers in the US region.

At the time of launch, the YuppTV application will be available to viewers using Hisense Smart TVs.  These TVs are available with a stunning range of features and wide variety of screen sizes. Hisense Smart TVs with full high definition resolution are equipped with WIFI, internet and built-in apps.

Speaking about the launch, Mr. Uday Reddy, CEO of YuppTV said, “YuppTV is thrilled to partner with Hisense USA Corporation and launch its application on Hisense Smart TVs. The launch is a big part our mission to make it simple and instant for broadcasters to deliver entertainment anytime and anywhere in the world and present consumers with yet another avenue to access their favorite South Asian content with ease.”

Lawrence Li, VP of Marketing, Hisense said “Hisense USA aims to deliver high quality and great value for its customers.  We know that YuppTV customers spend a considerable number of hours everyday consuming content from their home countries and we pleased to make this application and the 100s of channels and immense movie library available on our new line of Smart TVs.

                                                                                                       

 About YuppTV: YuppTV has grown into the world’s leading over-the-top (OTT) content player for South Asian Content as live TV, Catch-up TV, and on-demand Movie Solutions. YuppTV is one of the largest internet TV providers of south Asian Content with its headquarters in Atlanta, GA, and having branch offices in the USA and India. YuppTV delivers more than 200+ TV Channels worldwide, Unlimited Movies and a lot more to the six screens for Video content consumption i.e. Connected TVs, Internet STBs, Smart Blu-ray players, PCs, Smart Phones and Tablets.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2015/06/yupptv-partners-with-hisense-usa.html

YuppTV joins the prestigious global league of Technology Pioneers & Innovators

Recognized among Top 100 Red Herring North America company listings, YuppTV joins the prestigious global league of Technology Pioneers & Innovators.

YuppTV, a world leader in delivering over-the-top (OTT) South Asian Content, live TV, video on demand, and on-demand Movie Solutions, announced that it has won the coveted Red Herring Top 100 North America Award. Red Herring annually honors the most promising private technology companies that are positioned to become market leaders within their respective sectors. YuppTV was selected from among hundreds of technology/life science companies in North America and the only company to be awarded in the entertainment & media sector.

The Red Herring Top 100 award is widely recognized as one of the industry’s more prestigious recognitions, with hundreds of candidates from each continent competing for a Top 100 spot. Since 1996, Red Herring 100 lists have been valued by technology industry executives, investors, and strategists as an instrument for discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures from around the world. Some of the previous notable winners include Google, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and eBay

As part of the rigorous three step vetting process, the Red Herring editorial team analyzes approximately 1,200 cutting edge companies, only awarding those organizations that not just meet – but surpassed – their criteria for success.

“In 2015, selecting the top achievers was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “In fact, we had the toughest time in years because so many entrepreneurs had crossed significant milestones so early. But after much thought, rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across North America to the North America winners. We believe YuppTV embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. YuppTV should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”

YuppTV’s selection for the award among key players in an intensely competitive industry was based on high scores achieved in levels of specialty, social contribution, international foot print, growth rate, technological advantage, team quality and experience as well as exemplary performance, on all other counts.

"It is an honor to be recognized by Red Herring from among some of the best ventures in the industry." said UdaynandanReddy, CEO of YuppTV. “With continued focus on customer needs and end-user experience, innovation and technology to deliver live and video on demand content globally, we look forward to even greater success in the future."

About YuppTV

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, YuppTV is the world’s leading over-the-top (OTT) content player for South Asian Content, live TV, video on demand, and on-demand Movie Solutions. The pioneering six-year-old company delivers more than 200 television channels in 13 languages, 4500 videos (daily), movies, and a lot more. Content is offered to viewers through a single subscription-based service in the form of Live TV, Catch-up TV and Movies that can be viewed on any of the six screens for video content consumption - Connected TVs, Internet STBs, smart Blu-ray players, PCs, Smart Phones and Tablets.

YuppTV services, currently has one of the industry’s highest content user engagement rate. Not surprising that millions of satisfied customers across the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Middle East rely on YuppTV for their choice of entertainment.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2015/06/yupptv-joins-prestigious-global-league.html

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