JioStar, also known as JioHotstar, Hotstar, Disney+ Hotstar, and Star India, is a privately owned company headquartered in India. Founded in 2015 and employing approximately 740 individuals, the company reported $410.0M in revenue as of 2024. It functions as a tier 1 media tech buyer. Formed as a media and entertainment joint venture from the merger between Reliance's Viacom18 and Disney's Star India, with parent companies including Disney+ (Disney Streaming), Viacom18, and JioCinema, JioStar operates as the primary media platform for Reliance's Media & Entertainment business. Its main product is broadcast television and radio. The company distributes content through a television network and a unified streaming service, JioHotstar, which integrates the former JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar platforms. Together, its television and streaming services reach an audience of over 750 million viewers weekly. JioStar's content portfolio includes entertainment and sports, featuring major brands such as Colors, Star Plus, Star Gold, and Star Sports.
On April 3, 2026, Jio Studios' decision to decline a reported ₹175 crore bundled streaming deal for "Dhurandhar" sequels, prior to the first film's theatrical release, is now viewed as an astute financial play in Indian entertainment. The company's streaming services also continued to contend with persistent illegal streaming, particularly for events like the Indian Premier League, which returned around March 28, despite official streams being freely available. This followed an announcement on March 24 by Uday Shankar, who stated that an updated organizational structure for JioHotstar would be revealed in the coming weeks, prompted by the departure of Kiran Mani, who led the streaming business and is relocating overseas for personal reasons. Earlier in March, on March 19, JioStar sharpened its ad sales pitch at ad:tech 2026, advocating for streaming commerce-led formats and offline measurement to help brands refocus on demand generation rather than merely demand fulfillment. Overseeing the end-to-end technology strategy for JioHotstar, the network’s flagship streaming platform, is Chief Technology Officer Akash Saxena, who brings over 25 years of experience to his role ensuring scalability and performance.
JioStar offers 7 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 3 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 currently holds 66 broadcasting rights for sports competitions including winter sports, baseball, golf, cricket, american football, kabaddi, soccer | association football, table tennis, esports, motorsports, polo, australian rules football, tennis, combat sports, multi-sport, field hockey and badminton.
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