{"id":2504,"date":"2026-06-19T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:35:00","slug":"dhurandhar-ipl-power-indias-reliance-industries-media-business-to-3-7-billion-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dhurandhar,\u2019 IPL Power India\u2019s Reliance Industries\u2019 Media Business to $3.7 Billion Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nReliance Industries\u2018 media and entertainment operations generated revenue of INR34,917 crore ($3.7 billion) in FY26, chair Mukesh Ambani disclosed at the company\u2019s annual general meeting in Mumbai on Friday, with live sports and the \u201cDhurandhar\u201d film franchise among the primary drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2502\">Luca Guadagnino\u2019s Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie \u2018Artificial\u2019 Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe business \u2013 spanning JioStar, JioHotstar, Jio Studios, and Network18 \u2013 recorded an EBITDA of INR5,842 crore ($616 million) and a net profit of INR3,434 crore ($362 million) for the fiscal year. On the linear side, JioStar held a 34.7% television viewership share, which Ambani said was \u201cnearly equal to the next three players combined,\u201d with 389 million viewers tuning in daily.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJioHotstar averaged 451 million monthly active users across the year and crossed one billion downloads \u2013 a first for any Indian paid streaming platform \u2013 and is now available on 99% of connected televisions in the country. Live cricket powered the platform\u2019s biggest numbers: JioHotstar recorded 72.5 million concurrent viewers during the T20 World Cup, and Ambani said nine of the ten highest global concurrency records now belong to the service. The IPL cricket tournament 2026 drew over 700 million viewers on the platform across the season.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJio Studios, the group\u2019s film production arm, completed a third consecutive year as India\u2019s highest-grossing Hindi studio. The \u201cDhurandhar\u201d franchise crossed INR3,000 crore ($318 million) in worldwide box office, becoming the first Indian film duology in which each installment individually surpassed the INR1,000 crore ($105 million) mark, Ambani said in his speech, adding that the studio now holds over 500 awards across its content slate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2500\">Anthony Chen and Yeo Yann Yann on 14 Years of \u2018Growing Up\u2019 Trilogy and New Korean Project: \u2018A Comic Take on a Tragic Story\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn the product side, JioHotstar launched Tadka, a short-form content hub, in April 2026, reaching more than 100 million users within two months. An in-app commerce integration with Swiggy, enabling food ordering without exiting a live stream, debuted during IPL matches. Interactivity features including voting, live chat, and meme creation have generated over 11 billion interactions from more than 100 million unique users.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAmbani also unveiled JioStar GenAI Media Studio \u2013 JAMS \u2013 describing it as \u201can end-to-end, AI-native content production pipeline for Bharat, spanning the full journey from ideation and storytelling to image, audio, video, and final production workflows.\u201d The platform also added ChatGPT-powered conversational content discovery with support for Indian accents and regional languages, alongside a new multiview feature.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNetwork18 reached 250 million people monthly via television and reported more than 450 million subscribers and followers across digital platforms, logging over 65 billion video views in FY26. The group launched Creator18, a new offering targeting the creator economy, designed to develop formats for younger audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2498\">\u2018Dear You\u2019 Director Credits Overseas Chinese Letter-Writing Tradition for Sleeper Hit\u2019s Emotional Power<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Industries&#8217; media arm posts $3.7 billion revenue in FY26, led by JioHotstar&#8217;s monthly users, IPL, and Jio Studios&#8217; &#8216;Dhurandhar&#8217; franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2131,2132,2133,2134],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-dhurandhar","tag-ipl","tag-mukesh-ambani","tag-reliance-industries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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