Hotstar

News

Hotstar goes down during IND-AUS test match: Flood of memes emerge on Twitter

Disney+Hotstar is yet to reveal the exact cause of the failure.

1 min read17 Feb 2023
Industry

Disney+ Hotstar adds 3 mn subscribers in Q4; absence of IPL may shrink additions

This August, Walt Disney had lowered its subscriber guidance for Hotstar to 80 million by the end of fiscal 2024 after the loss of rights to stream the Indian Premier League online

5 min read10 Nov 2022
Companies

Jio prepaid users to get one-year free Disney+Hotstar subscription: Here's how

Users can avail themselves of the offer by either opting for ₹401 monthly plan or ₹2,599 plan or through add-on data packs

1 min read7 Jun 2020
Companies

All you need to know about Netflix’s new ₹5 trial plan

It may sound like a steal deal for most potential subscribers but not every new user will get this offerNetflix India is testing the new subscription for select users and will roll it out to a broader audience

1 min read29 Feb 2020
Industry

Hotstar blocks John Oliver show critical of PM Modi

Oliver was previewing US President Donald Trump’s visit to India on the showOn his maiden visit to India this week, Trump was accosted with questions on controversial CAA

2 min read26 Feb 2020
Companies

Hotstar is Disney's weapon against Netflix, Amazon Prime in India

Disney Plus is set to make its debut in India on 29 March, 2020Hotstar clocked 300 million monthly active users last year

2 min read6 Feb 2020
Industry

Disney’s streaming service Disney+ to enter India on 29 March

Disney+ was launched in the US last November and was expected to make its debut in India in the second half of 2020The company is expected to give stiff competition to other OTT players, especially Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

1 min read5 Feb 2020
Technology

Netflix, Amazon, Hotstar ought to be first casualty in India's telecom tariffs hike

Netflix Inc. and its rivals are facing a price war in India as a jump in the cost of watching video on mobile phones threatens to slow demand in what is shaping up as a key growth market globally for streaming

3 min read23 Dec 2019
Industry

Non-metro cities, regional languages drive Hotstar growth in 2019

This year, Hotstar registered more than 400 million downloads—twice the number of installs as 2018India’s non-metros users contributed 63% to the total entertainment video consumption in 2019 on Hotstar

3 min read10 Dec 2019
Companies

Star India reports loss of ₹1,216 crore in FY19

Walt Disney had acquired Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. in a $71 billion cash and stock deal in June 2018The company’s total revenue from operations stood at ₹12,341 crore in FY19 compared with ₹9,149 crore a year ago

2 min read27 Nov 2019