Readiness assessment
Media & Entertainment · OTT

The DPDP Act for OTT & Streaming

Streaming runs on viewing data and recommendation engines, and minors are often in the audience.

In short

The Act requires consent for profiling, care with children data, and control of the ad and analytics chain. Penalties reach ₹250 crore, and ₹200 crore for children-data violations.

Core impacts

What changes for this sub-sector.

Viewing and recommendation data

Watch history and profiling for recommendations is processing that needs consent.

Children in the audience

Kids profiles need verifiable parental consent and no behavioural targeting.

Profile and content controls

Give households profile controls and honour consent choices.

Ad chain

Ad-supported tiers share data with ad partners; contract and disclose.

Rights

Support access, correction and erasure of viewing profiles.

Security and vendors

CDN, analytics and ad vendors are processors.

Check your streaming data.

The readiness check maps profiling, children and ad-chain gaps.

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