YuppTV re-launches Zee, the premium entertainment network’s channels in the UK and across Europe

 

Key Zee channels such as Zee TV, &TV, Zee Cinema, Zee Telugu, Zee Tamil, Zee Kannada, Zee Keralam, Zee Punjabi, Zee Marathi and Zee Bangla among others will be available to UK and European viewers

YuppTV, the world’s leading OTT platform for South-Asian content, is all set to re-launch Zee Entertainment in UK and Rest Of Europe on 3rd May 2021. Through its platform, viewers will now be able to catch a wide mix of relatable fiction, high voltage non-fiction, marquee events and blockbuster movies in Hindi & regional languages from Zee channels. 

Zee Entertainment offers a bouquet of entertainment channels and is one of the leaders among South Asian entertainment channels. With the re-launch of this network in UK and Rest of Europe markets, YuppTV users will be able to enjoy the delightful blend of programming across genres.

Commenting on the association, Mr Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV, said, ‘’We are delighted to once again join hands with one of the leading entertainment network, Zee Entertainment, to bring back its premium entertainment channels to the UK and Rest of Europe markets. These markets provide unlimited potential for Indian television with Hindi and regional languages and Zee channels will be a great value add to our already vast library. YuppTV users can now watch their favourite Zee content, giving them more entertainment options to choose from.”

Ashok Namboodiri, Chief Business Officer - International Business at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, “ZEE reaches out to1.3billion+ viewers globally and we continue to grow and delight our viewers. YuppTV and ZEE have been working together for the last decade in several markets and give audiences the best in entertainment, globally. With this partnership, audiences in UK & Europe can now enjoy a wide range of entertainment channels from ZEE and stay updated on all the latest news with Zee News and Zee Business from the Zee Media portfolio.”

Parul Goel, Business Head of ZEE UK, “We are delighted with our new Yupp TV partnership and that we can offer our award-winning and entertaining content on Yupp TV’s platform. Yupp TV viewers are in for a treat as they will be able to pick channels across six to seven Indian languages and genres from the ZEE stable.

Be it captivating family drama’s such as ‘Kumkum Bhagya’, the family comedy ‘BhabhiJi Ghar Par Hai or reality show ‘Indian Pro Music League’, YuppTV users can access the Zee channels offerings through its platform. The users will get access to channels such as Zee TV, & TV and Zee Cinema (Latest Movies) as well as various regional channels such as Zee Telugu, Zee Tamil, Zee Kannada, Zee Keralam, Zee Punjabi, Zee Marathi and Zee Bangla.

Bringing back premium content to the platform shows YuppTV’s strong commitment to the OTT space both in International & India Markets.

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 250+ TV channels, Movies and 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 also offers YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market. 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.

Visit https://www.yupptv.com for more information.

Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2021/06/yupptv-re-launches-zee-in-uk-and-across-europe.html

APR 12 ENDUKILA Telugu Web Series Trailer Out

A certain amount of bad luck is inevitable in everybody’s life but what if, there is only bad luck in a person’s entire life. And what if such a person falls in love with a beautiful girl who seems to be more than perfect for her.

A series of comical errors that happen in the life of this star-crossed fellow and how he manages to win over his lady love with the support of his friends and family overcoming his bad luck is the story of “Ëndukuila”.

Endukila is the first high-quality premium digital content In South India presented by YuppTV Originals. Launched by YuppTV, YuppTV Originals is set to bring forth unconventional storytelling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. This new content will be available in an episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform.

YuppTV Originals’ first mini-series, Endukila, presented by Deva Katta’ iCandy Creations, written and directed by Laxman Karya has Sumanth Ashwin and Yamini Bhaskar in the leads. The trailer definitely looks too interesting and entertaining, viewers will have a great time while watching the web series. The first episode to be out on April 19 2017. 

Watch the Trailer of Endukila Telugu Web Series here:

Sumanth plays a youth who carries bad luck wherever he goes. The trailer promises an entertaining setup. The first episode will be telecast on YuppTV on April 19. - See more at: http://www.gulte.com/movienews/57280/Trailer-Endukila-Web-Series-By-Yupptv-Originals#sthash.9WUV2GFa.dpuf

Sumanth plays a youth who carries bad luck wherever he goes. The trailer promises an entertaining setup. The first episode will be telecast on YuppTV on April 19. - See more at: http://www.gulte.com/movienews/57280/Trailer-Endukila-Web-Series-By-Yupptv-Originals#sthash.9WUV2GFa.dpuf

Follow all the episodes @ http://www.yupptv.com/tvshows/Endukila

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/04/endukila-trailer-telugu-webseries.html

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.

Source link : http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/03/yupptv-unveils-YuppTVOriginals.html

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

Digital Premiers of 2016 Blockbusters Oopiri and Thozha on YuppTV

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

Stream Thousands Of Movies Online Using YuppFlix

YuppTV brings superlative movie experience on fingertips for expats with the launch of YuppFlix!



On-demand movie streaming service with 5000+ movies in 12 languages goes live!

Chennai, December 2, 2015: In a move that will delight Indian movie buffs the world over, YuppTV, the World’s largest Over-The-Top (OTT) provider for Indian content, recently launched its on-demand movie streaming service YuppFlix. Backed by its extensive library of more than 5000+ movies in 12 languages, YuppFlix will offer its users on-the-go entertainment across genres like Comedy, Thriller, Romance, Action, Drama, Devotional & more. Users will never miss another movie from the Thalaiva Rajnikanth or the smashing Joseph Vijay ‘Anna’!

Keeping in line with its global promise, the latest offering by YuppTV caters to the varied entertainment demands of the Indian Diaspora across the world. YuppFlix will keep its users up to date with all the latest blockbusters by providing instant movie updates through ad campaigns & push notifications, internet premiers of upcoming movies and blockbusters made available.

Speaking on the launch, Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV, said, “The Indian expat communities living overseas have limited access to legal regional movie content. Having established YuppTV as the digital destination for over-the-top Indian content, we felt the time was right for us to launch YuppFlix as the premier on-demand digital movie solution for Indian expats. With our extensive database of movies in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi and Kannada, we are confident of delivering high-quality digital movie solutions for our users across the globe.”

YuppFlix currently has the biggest catalogue in the industry with over 25000 hours of on-demand content accessible with a subscription and an internet connection. With the catalogue refreshed every week and new entertainment content added daily to YuppFlix’s library, Indian entertainment fans will now be able access their favorite movies anytime, anywhere at the click of a button.

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s leading Over-the-top (OTT) content providers for South Asian Content. YuppTV was founded in 2006, with headquarters in Atlanta, GA, and has branch offices in the USA and India. YuppTV started with two channels and has grown to deliver more than 200+ TV Channels today. YuppTV is accessible on more than 25 internet enabled - Connected TVs, Internet STBs, Smart Blu-ray players, PCs, Smart Phones and Tablets.

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

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2015/12/yupptv-brings-superlative-movie.html

YuppTV ShortFilm Contest - 5 Lacs Worth Prize

YuppTV an internet based TV streaming service provider, announces its first Shortfilm contest for upcoming content creators.

YuppTV was founded in 2006 with intent to deliver South Asian Television content to the expats.

On 14th October, YuppTV did an official launch of its services in India under the auspices of Shri K T Rama Rao, Hon’ble Minister of Panchayat Raj and IT, Government of Telangana, in the presence of Cricket Legend Mr. Brian Lara and popular Bollywood actress Ms. Parineeti Chopra.

YuppTV is now giving a platform to content creators to reach the Television audience, although they might or not have attracted the internet users so far.

In this regard YuppTV announced a ShortFilm Contest, to which participation entry started yesterday. The participants can send in their short films in any language or genre with mandatory English sub-titles. The Jury Panel comprises of popular Indian film Directors - Anurag Kashyap, Ketan Mehta, and Sudhir Mishra.

The last day to send in your entries is 11th December. Participate and win upto prizes worth Rs.5lakhs. Best 20 videos will be made live on YuppTV for the world to watch your talent.

For more information on the contest visit www.yupptv.in/contest/

About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s leading Over-the-top (OTT) content providers for South Asian Content. YuppTV was founded in 2006, with headquarters in Atlanta, GA, and has branch offices in the USA and India. YuppTV started with two channels and has grown to deliver more than 200+ TV Channels today. YuppTV is accessible on more than 25 internet enabled - Connected TVs, Internet STBs, Smart Blu-ray players, PCs, Smart Phones and Tablets.

Article Source: http://www.greatandhra.com/articles/special-articles/yupptv-shortfilm-contest-prizes-worth-5-lacs-70872.html