Our content library is much bigger than that of Netflix: JioStar's Mani

JioHotstar was born on February 14 this year. We have averaged over 300 million active users and are sitting at well over 100 million plus subscribers: Kiran Mani, CEO, JioStar

JioStar is India’s second largest media company after Google. It was born in November 2024 after the merger of Viacom18 and Star India, owned by Reliance Industries/Bodhi Tree Systems, and The Walt Disney Company respectively. The ₹26,000 crore firm’s merged app, JioHostar, just hit 170 million subscribers. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar spoke to Kiran Mani in a Zoom interview, chief executive officer, digital, JioStar on what this means. Edited excerpts:

 

How many subscribers did JioHotstar have before it began streaming the Indian Premier League (IPL) on March 22?

 

When we merged (in November 2024), we had roughly 45 million subscribers. Both the