EXCLUSIVE: The BBC’s controversial Narendra Modi documentary may have been banned in India but local viewers are still finding ways to watch it, according to analysts. Global analysis firm Pa…
documentary may have been banned in India but local viewers are still finding ways to watch it, according to analysts.amongst its top 10 ‘global breakout shows’ outside the U.S. for the first week in March, the most recent week for which it has data.
The consumption data tracks viewing across YouTube, social media and includes piracy, which Parrot Communications Manager Wade Payson-Denney said is “particularly relevant in this case as the content was banned in India.”“The significant global demand suggests that Indian consumers worked around the ban,” he told Deadline.a market multiplier score of 14.7, meaning that, for the week to March 3, the show had 14.7 times more demand than the average show worldwide across all platforms.
by dozens of members of Britain’s Indian diaspora outside BBC New Broadcasting House in January. In the UK, it was watched by a consolidated audience of around 650,000 people, according to Barb data from overnights.tv An appeal against its ban in India was lodged around the time of the protests and will be heard later this month.
The Indian government, meanwhile, has tried to have the BBC banned in its entirety, which was thrown out, while, in mid-February, the BBC’s offices in Mumbai and New Delhi
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