Meta is India's largest media company: A look at the ten big firms in 2022

A look at the ten big media firms in the financial year ending 2022

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Vanita Kohli-Khandekar Pune
Meta is now India’s largest media company. Its three brands, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, are among the biggest names in the fastest growing part of the Rs 161,400-crore Indian media business — digital advertising. But the company which totally dominates that space is Google with its YouTube, which comes at number four.

Google has slipped down a bit because a new contender, the about-to-be merged Sony-Zee, makes it to number two position. And after a long time there is a second publisher in the top 10. DB Corp, which publishes Dainik Bhaskar and Divya Bhaskar among others, displaces Netflix by a narrow margin.

Those roughly are the big changes in the list of top media firms that Business Standard

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