{"id":279540,"date":"2025-04-11T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/jiohotstar-crosses-200-million-paying-subscribers-on-ipl-frenzy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:17:31","slug":"jiohotstar-crosses-200-million-paying-subscribers-on-ipl-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/jiohotstar-crosses-200-million-paying-subscribers-on-ipl-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"JioHotstar Crosses 200 Million Paying Subscribers on IPL Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/jiohotstar_1739465658958.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"JioHotstar Crosses 200 Million Paying Subscribers on IPL Frenzy\" title=\"JioHotstar Crosses 200 Million Paying Subscribers on IPL Frenzy\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>JioHotstar, India&#8217;s largest streaming platform, has increased its paying subscriber base to over 200 million, driven by multi-language live broadcasts of the hugely popular Indian Premier League cricket matches, a senior executive said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat makes us one of the biggest streaming services anywhere in the world,\u201d said Uday Shankar, vice chairman of JioStar, the joint venture between Reliance Industries and Walt Disney, which runs the <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/jiohotstar\">JioHotstar<\/a> platform.<\/p>\n<p>To get so many paying subscribers just from India in such a short time was \u201cpretty satisfying,\u201d he said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone makes JioHotstar the third-largest video streaming service globally by user count, trailing only <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a>\u00a0and Amazon.com&#8217;s <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/amazon-prime-video\">Prime Video<\/a>. All three are locked in a battle for supremacy in India&#8217;s fast growing but fiercely competitive streaming market.<\/p>\n<p>While JioStar is aggressively wooing users with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-14\/reliance-to-merge-streaming-platforms-under-jiohotstar-brand\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">low fees<\/a>\u00a0and live sports streaming, Netflix is ramping up original local content and Prime Video has tied up with Apple TV+ and Crunchyroll to attract viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Shankar, who played a key role in stitching the Disney-Reliance media merger, said the broader ambition is to get every potential customer in the country onto his platform.<\/p>\n<article>\n<p><em>\u00a9\u00a02025\u00a0Bloomberg LP<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/entertainment\/news\/jiohotstar-subscribers-top-200-million-ipl-frenzy-8140129#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JioHotstar, India&#8217;s largest streaming platform, has increased its paying subscriber base to over 200 million, driven by multi-language live broadcasts of the hugely popular Indian Premier League cricket matches, a senior executive said. \u201cThat makes us one of the biggest streaming services anywhere in the world,\u201d said Uday Shankar, vice chairman of JioStar, the joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/jiohotstar_1739465658958.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[3865,1954,7717,15446,336,125602,216253,185509,2458,2611,4477,5989,27040],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279542,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279540\/revisions\/279542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}