JioCinema Merger With Disney+ Hotstar: Reliance Announces Merger of Its OTT Platform With Disney’s Network To Form New Merged Entity

Reliance announced that its on-demand OTT media streaming platform would be merged with Disney+ Hotstar and form a merged entity as a part of USD 8.5 billion merger.

JioCinema Merger with Disney+ Hotstar Representational Image (Photo Credits: X/@JioCinema, @DisneyPlusHS)

Reliance announced the merger of JioCinema with Disney+ Hotstar due to its better technological infrastructure. The decision will reportedly affect some employees working with Disney+ Hotstar and JioCinema. The USD 8.5 billion merger was already announced in February 2024. As per the annual report of RIL, JioCinema had around 225 million monthly active users, and Disney+ Hotstar had around 333 million monthly active users in Q4 2024. JioCinema became a fast-growing OTT platform as of September. With this merger, there will not be any JioCinema in the future, and all the content will be transferred to the Disney+ Hotstar app. The monthly subscription fee for JioCinema starts at INR 29 per month, while it starts with INR 149 Hotstar Plan. According to a post on Beebom, the combined entity will be called JioHotstar, while the other reports hinted at the JioCinema being gone and merged within the Disney+ Hotstar app. Elon Musk Responds to Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio on Administrative Spectrum Allocation, Says TRAI Auctioning It Will Be ‘Unprecedented’.

JioCinema Merged with Disney+ Hotstar Likely to Create New Entity 'JioHotstar"

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