Scary Good: Selling Horror Content in India
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2023-05-06
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MICA Ahmedabad
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Our next guest cracked the content code for Indian audiences, disrupting genres and platforms with his scary good (and record-breaking) horror content. We’re on a quest to find out how. MICAST is in conversation with Divay Agarwal - Head of Content at The Mad Virus Studios and creator of the immensely popular YouTube horror show, Khooni Monday. With over 7 years of experience ranging from product management to content creation, across organizations such as Lionsgate, Jio Cinemas, JioTV+ and HT Media. He’s a content extraordinaire from MICA’s batch of 2018! In this episode we discuss: 01:37 - Horror entertainment vs. the Indian mainstream 08:16 - The key to engaging fans and keeping them hooked to your content 12:03 - Decoding Divay’s process - adapting animation for audio formats 20:00 - The business reality of creative content endeavours Stream NOW on all your favourite platforms! Follow MICAST on Instagram: / micast_them… MICA, Where Management Meets Creativity for more info, visit: www.mica.ac.in