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AliveYouth71
Stealth
a year ago
Disney is itsef fcked due to it's woke policies
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Yaar Hotstar toh mai soch raha hu, mai kharid lu, bus thode $2-4 billion kam pad rahe hai. Matlab ek-do lakh ka jugad hai, baki kam pad rahe hai.
Fufa aur taau sai manga hai, dekho kya bolte hai aab vo.
AliveYouth71
Stealth
a year ago
Hasna hai kya? Joke mara?
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Disney+Hotstar went from the OTT platform to topple Netflix and taking a huge chunk of the market share to losing IPL rights and about to close shop.
I'm not sure how they have failed so spectacularly and continue to do so
Content is king. Amazon Prime realized it in India and made India specific content, one that appeals to masses. Whereas Netflix usually makes shows for modern India.
As soon as Hotstar lost rights for major IPs the downward spiral started.
anonymous_soul
Student
a year ago
They started losing when Uday Shankar quit. Uday is one of the sharpest and smartest brains. He joined forces with ex-boss’ son, started a new firm that invested in Viacom (which is owned by Reliance and Paramount). A lot of top guys started quitting when the shots were called from Disney HQ rather than being given a free hand. Uday, when at Star (prior Disney takeover) was given a free hand and took it to stupendous heights. If Disney and Star does get acquired by Jio, it will be a sweet victory for everyone, but the guy who will have the last laugh will be Uday Shankar. Not stretching, but the way Uday’s career was shaping up, he could’ve been one of the contenders for top job at Disney. But, they lost him, and now they’re losing Disney and Star too!
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I hope they put jio content on Hotstar tech and not the other way around. JioCinema sucks
I agree. However, if you remember the early days of hotstar, it had similar experience.
I am surprised at how bad JIO cinema streaming tech is, being such a big company n all
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Holy shit, this is big
How did they screw it up, it felt literally until last year this time that they were one of the best performing OTTs
The one by one…
They are icebergs, 90% of things they do, most of us don't know.
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They ruined it to a point it is worth selling off or shutting only, I think
LooseGoose
Stealth
a year ago
Ruined it how?
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moyemoye
Stealth
a year ago
As far as tech goes, most of original hotstar team is working at jio already. If this goes through codebase will get a reunion with their OCs 😂
moyemoye
Stealth
a year ago
The Backend isn’t bad if it scaled to 2.5 concurrent users during IPL. App UI and stuff will take time and get better. I wouldn’t bet against Viacom 18’s tech team.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
a year ago
If they sell, it will not be free
It will be free as till they get maybe 20% of market share. It's hard to get a market share more than that in OTT space. Even in USA market is very segmented with every production house launching their own platform. Amazon Prime is winning in India surprisingly
RashWorld57
Stealth
a year ago
Prime is just winning because of Amazon itself. Prime Video is an additional benefit onto Prime.
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Gonedalf
Stealth
a year ago
Didn’t think it’d get to this. Had a few doubts when a majority of the great shows moved from Hotstar to JioCinema, but this is just on another level.
Gonedalf
Stealth
a year ago
Also, curious to know about what’ll happen to Marvel and Star Wars. We’ll probably have to subscribe to Disney+ separately.
This will be bottleneck for the deal. Ambani bhai will push to get rights for Disney IPs. Disney may have to comply since it's a distress sell
i suspected this when HBO moved from hotstar to jio. but didn't anticipate to be this quick
I lost the interest in Disney+hotstar when they stopped showing live F1 🏎️ races
It isn't hotstar's fault. f1 didn't make any deal as they wanted to push F1 TV. It's done in most countries not only India.
IPL is overvalued and our country's ghamand of cricket is ruining the sport altogether but nobody is ready for that conversation. This is the first collateral damage.
Wow exactly my thoughts man , even I had an argument with my friends when I said Cricket is overrated. The so called cricket "World Cup" has only 10 teams 😂. Crickets over obsession has made us below par performers in other sports
No cricket isn't overrated. IPL is. Our obsession with winning always, of critiquing the players always, is wrong. Look at how bcci managed asia cup. Just money minded folks and no worry for sport.
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Indusplateau
Stealth
a year ago
There is nothing free boss. You will be sharing all your data to reliance.
Watch reliance owned OTT, wear reliance owned brands, watch news on relaince owned channel, eat food bought from relaince owned retial stores.
Kaunse dhande mein nahi hai ye log, hospitals in big cities, education institute, soon banking and mutual funds, and soon cities too
RashWorld57
Stealth
a year ago
Yes, long term this monopoly is going to suck.
LidiaPoet22
Stealth
a year ago
chappal or toiletries me bhi hai
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Sindeho
Stealth
a year ago
There is a good chance that uday shanker (viacom) will buy this. He made hotstar and star sports what it is today.
Agree. He built the team there and knows most of the folks. It's a distress sell by Disney. Let's see
Disney realising Indian market doesn't care much for woke Marvel and Star wars
As bad as monopolies are, it sure is interesting to see how the negotiations pan out. Bob Iger is going all out after he came back to the helm.
Kevin
Student
a year ago
One Nation One OTT 🫣
Whitefang
Stealth
a year ago
All the major show channels from Hotstar like HBO moved to Jio. And the nail in the coffin was losing IPL rights.
I'm really hoping they use Hotstar tech. It's actually better in comparison to other platforms in live streaming sense
