Global Eagle Entertainment acquires content assets of Purple Media Provider of content, connectivity and digital media solutions to airlines Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (GEE), acquired the content assets of the South Indian distributor Purple Media for distribution in the airline in-flight entertainment market. Further details of the deal were undisclosed. Purple Media currently has an exclusive agreement with SUN TV to license movie and TV programming to airlines and also claims to have long-standing and extensive relationships with major studios in South India. According to GEE, Indian content is extremely popular on local and international flights and with Purple Media on board, it will be able to offer a wider variety of Indian movies and TV programs to its customers. Saavn reaches 10M milestone on Android Music streaming service Saavn (South Asian Audio Video Network) said it reached the 10 million app downloads milestone on the Android platform, reports Techcircle. The company also revealed the data usage patterns of its listeners, offering insights into listening behaviour. According to the data revealed, customers listen to music in almost equal amounts each day, with usage peaking near midnight, when users listen to soft romantic songs and post lunch, when users prefer party songs. The rest of the day users listened to various genres of music including, devotional, trending new, romantic and happy songs etc. among others. Saavn recently also entered into agreements with EMI Music and Warner Music to license 800,000 international tracks for its collection, taking its total number of songs…
