The world’s largest OTT streaming platform for South-East Asian content, Zee5, has partnered with Ticker News to bring its world news to Zee5’s extensive platform.
Zee5 is India’s leading subscription video-on-demand and over-the-top service, with 79 million active users each month.
Ticker founder and CEO Ahron Young explained: “This is a ground-breaking announcement for Ticker and Zee5, which will significantly increase the reach and viewership of Ticker News and allow us to strengthen our footprint in South East Asia.
“Ticker is now on the ground in India just as Netflix, Amazon and Disney are trying to gain a foothold,” Young said.
Ahron Young
The Zee5 platform is available in 12 languages, and Ticker’s content will feature on both Live News and VOD as well as text news.
News category head at Zee5, Pranav Chopra, said: “We are very excited to partner with Ticker and have them on board as we continue on our growth journey towards becoming a distinguished news aggregator in the country.
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“Having Ticker on Zee5 brings in a fresh perspective and authentic voice to the existing international news content in our portfolio. As India’s top news destination, with Ticker on Zee5, our users will now have access to their transformative news content from around the world,” Pranav Chopra added.
Ticker News on the Zee5 app
The Zee5 app can be downloaded from Google Play Store or the iOS App Store. Zee5 is also available on www.Zee5.com. The app is also available on Samsung Smart TV, Apple TV, Android TV and Amazon Fire TV. (The Ticker News feed via Zee5 is geo-blocked for Australia.)
Zee5 is home to 200,000+ hours of on-demand content and 200+ live TV channels. The platform brings together the best of Originals, Movies and TV Shows, Live News and Health and Lifestyle content all in a single destination.
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