STAR India Pvt Ltd, India’s leading broadcasting company, today announced its tie-up with Nautanki.tv, India’s leading online video channel to bring their collection of channels to a wider audience on the Nautanki.tv platform including Channel V. This platform extends to other online destination sites via a network of over 6000 widgets placed on its partner websites. Through this arrangement, STAR TV content will be available to users on demand in the online space.

Star plans to sign up with a series of online platforms to make its popular content available online and on-demand.

Marking the beginning of this association was Channel V, whose ‘Get Gorgeous’  (a reality program) delivered on an average 1.5 million video views a day. For a company that is constantly looking at innovation for its viewers and adding value to its advertisers, Star TV’s sales team will manage the ad sales for the content hosted on the Nautanki.tv platform.

Sunil R Nair, CEO Nautanki.tv said, “Today India has over 80 million internet users. 83% of SEC A audience between the ages of 16 and 30 years are online. With figures like these, Nautanki.tv offers a unique opportunity for television networks like Star TV, who can leverage our platform to make their popular channels and shows available on demand to a wide online audience. Nautanki.tv has the potential to go where traditional media does not, and most importantly gives advertisers a measurable ROI, which in turn presents an exciting and new opportunity for them to market their brands.”

Speaking on this launch, Ajay Vidyasagar, President, STAR India Pvt Ltd, said, “As the leading broadcaster in India, STAR is constantly looking at innovative ways to touch the lives of its audience outside television. This tie-up with Nautanki.tv gives us a new medium to take our content to viewers in India and across the world and add value to our advertisers. Star TV Interactive also plans to create unique channels on Nautanki.tv and also roll out many such partnerships with a few of the top online portals in the coming months.”