{"id":958192,"date":"2025-08-28T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958192"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:25:23","slug":"ban-on-real-money-gaming-sends-rs-10000-crore-ad-market-into-flux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/ban-on-real-money-gaming-sends-rs-10000-crore-ad-market-into-flux\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on real money gaming sends Rs 10,000-crore ad market into flux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was nothing short of a gank. In one fell swoop, the new online gaming law banned all forms of real money games (RMG) and their advertisements, putting a question mark before the estimated 10,000-crore (80% digital) marketing investments of leading brands in the category. For the Indian advertising business, which is expected to cross 1.5 trillion in 2025, their elimination presents serious short-term challenges, though most insiders remain optimistic that the festive season will keep the industry buoyant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nothing short of a gank. In one fell swoop, the new online gaming law banned all forms of real money games (RMG) and their advertisements, putting a question mark before the estimated 10,000-crore (80% digital) marketing investments of leading brands in the category. For the Indian advertising business, which is expected to cross 1.5 trillion in 2025, their elimination presents serious short-term challenges, though most insiders remain optimistic that the festive season will keep the industry buoyant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}