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/

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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

YuppTV Integrates With Windows 10

YuppTV is one of the- the world’s leading over-the-top (OTT) content players for South Asian Content, YuppTV is proud to announce the launch of its app with 200+ Live linear cable networks, 10 days of Catch-up TV and 5,000 Bollywood movie titles on the new Windows 10 Platform. The YuppTV app is free to download from the Win 10 store and will be available globally on PCs and Tablets with Windows 10.

The YuppTV App on Win 10 has a simple interface and is user friendly, making it easy to navigate by all age groups. With this App, users of Windows on PCs and Tablets can access YuppTVs incredibly vast offering of South Asian Content. They can view 200+ channels in 13 South Asian languages available worldwide, as Live TV, 10 days of revolutionary Catch-up TV and unlimited movies in different genres. The technologically advanced App with multi-bit rate feeds enables it to work well on virtually any broadband connection. YuppTV app will soon be coming up with the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) feature which will allow the user to push the feed to TV or other devices that support DLNA.

Speaking about the availability of YuppTV App on the new Windows 10 platform, Mr. Uday Reddy said “The YuppTV App now available on Windows 10 Platform, opens up a whole new segment of viewership, utilizing the latest new technology and features to deliver content to our viewers in important markets like India and US. In line with our mission, we continue to upgrade our technology and expand our distribution to give a world class viewing experience to our subscribers, on the device they want, anywhere in the world.” 

About YuppTV 

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

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2015/10/yupptv-opens-on-windows-10.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

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 honours 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 speciality, 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 honour to be recognized by Red Herring from among some of the best ventures in the industry." said Udaynandan Reddy, 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