Building on its successful launch, WAVES Bazaar is transitioning into a year-round engagement hub by launching a structured series of industry-led webinars and masterclasses. The initiative is designed to strengthen professional capacity across India’s film, music, animation, and gaming sectors.

New Educational Programming

The upcoming programme will focus on providing creators, studios, and startups with direct access to established industry professionals. Key areas of focus include:

• Practical Content Creation: Insights into production and creative workflows.
• Monetisation & IP: Strategies for intellectual property and revenue generation.
• Global Reach: Market preparedness and digital ecosystems for international outreach.

These interactive online sessions will feature dedicated Q&A segments, ensuring that independent professionals and entrepreneurs can engage directly with experts to facilitate real-world knowledge exchange.

Now, to make it a year-round engagement platform, WAVES Bazaar will conduct a structured series of industry-led webinars and masterclasses throughout the year, aimed at strengthening professional capacity across India’s film, music, animation and gaming sectors. The programme is designed to facilitate knowledge exchange, global market preparedness and sector-specific insights through direct engagement with established industry professionals.

The webinar programme forms part of WAVES Bazaar’s broader mandate to support creative entrepreneurship, global collaboration and ecosystem development.

By equipping participants with sector-relevant information, the initiative supports informed decision-making across creative and digital ecosystems. It also enables sustained, structured engagement across the film, music, and gaming domains, fostering collaboration, capacity building, and long-term ecosystem development.

All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation from WAVES Bazaar upon successful completion of the sessions.

Webinar Schedule

In January 2026, WAVES Bazaar will host two confirmed industry-led webinars focusing on global market access and intellectual property in the creative sector.

On 15 January, Academy Award–winning producer Guneet Monga will lead a film-focused session titled Taking India to the International Market.

This will be followed on 22 January by a music-sector webinar on Intellectual Property Rights Protection in the Digital Music World, led by Gaurav Dagaonkar, founder of Hoopr - AI-powered music licensing platform.

In February 2026, WAVES Bazaar will host a series of online sessions across film, gaming, animation and platform enablement. The programme will cover screenplay development and storytelling, expectations of global game publishers, packaging Indian mythology for global audiences, the business of design in animation, and navigating the WAVES Bazaar portal and viewing rooms.

The March 2026 schedule will focus on key market and growth themes. Sessions will address monetisation in the Indian gaming ecosystem, funding challenges in a tightening investment climate, music royalties and digital distribution on platforms such as YouTube and the resurgence of PC gaming in India.

These sessions form part of a broader, year-round knowledge programme, with more webinars planned across film, music, gaming, and emerging media to address market access, monetisation, technology and global collaboration.

Launched on 27^th  January 2025, at the National Media Centre by Union Ministers Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw and Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, WAVES Bazaar is a premier global marketplace for the Media and Entertainment sector.

The platform serves as a central hub for stakeholders in television, gaming, advertising, XR, and allied fields. Since its inception, the platform has achieved significant milestones:

• Over 5,000 Registered Buyers and an equal number of Sellers
• Over 1,900 Active Projects across multiple verticals

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