JioStar, also known as JioHotstar, Hotstar, Disney+ Hotstar, and Star India, is a privately owned entity headquartered in India. The company, legally incorporated as JioStar India Private Limited, was founded in 2015 and employs approximately 740 individuals. It reported $410.0M in revenue as of 2024 and is classified as a tier 1 media tech buyer. Its parent companies include Disney Direct-to-Consumer and Viacom18, with JioCinema listed as a subsidiary. Functioning as a mass media, television, and digital streaming entertainment conglomerate, JioStar primarily focuses on broadcast television and radio. The company was formed via a corporate merger between Reliance Industries, Viacom18, and The Walt Disney Company India, with Reliance Industries and Viacom18 maintaining a 63.16% controlling interest as operating partners, and Disney retaining a 36.84% equity stake. The conglomerate operates a national broadcasting footprint of over 100 linear television channels alongside a mediatech infrastructure. It reaches more than 500 million monthly active users, commands 100% geographic pin-code coverage across the Indian subcontinent, and manages over 260 million paid subscription accounts, engaging in both linear advertising and interactive content commerce.
Haier Appliances India renewed its association as Associate Partner with JioHotstar on July 8 for the exclusive streaming of Wimbledon in India. This marked the third consecutive year of collaboration, forming part of Haier India’s Sport-o-Tainment strategy to engage premium digitally savvy audiences through global sporting events. Earlier, on July 3, data from Chrome OTT (COTT) for Week 25 ’26 (June 20-26) reported JioHotstar capturing the top position in overall platform reach within the Indian streaming ecosystem, recording an 84.07% reach and attracting 129.46 million unique viewers. This followed JioHotstar's appointment of Abhimanyu Khanna as Head – Rights Acquisition (BCCI) on July 2. In his new role, Khanna, previously Senior Director – Premium Sports, will collaborate with the BCCI to assess, acquire, and manage cricket media rights.
JioStar offers 20 products in the media and telecoms services industry. JioStar's product portfolio comprises of broadcast television and radio and media and TV services.
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JioStar's revenues were less than $500M in 2024. Caretta Research has split JioStar's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is linear (national channel groups). For full access to JioStar's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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JioStar has partners like Warner Bros. Discovery Direct-to-Consumer. Examples of JioStar's suppliers include Adobe, Accenture and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
JioStar currently holds 66 broadcasting rights for sports competitions including motorsports, winter sports, tennis, golf, kabaddi, badminton, cricket, field hockey, multi-sport, combat sports, soccer | association football, australian rules football, table tennis, polo, esports, american football and baseball.
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