Viewership records have been broken in the first 3 matches of IPL.
Viewership records have been broken in the first 3 matches of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). According to BARC data, the opening weekend of IPL 2025 on television has set new records. The first 3 matches on Star Sports have received a viewership of 25.3 crores. This is the first time that such viewership has come in an opening weekend. There has been a watch time of 2,770 crore minutes. Which is 22% more than last year.
The first 3 matches got 137 crore views on JioHotstar. These 3 matches have got 137 crore views on JioHotstar. This is the first time that such viewership has come in the opening weekend on a digital platform. This is 40% more than the previous season. The watch time of these matches on the digital platform is 2,186 crore minutes.
These 3 matches had a watch time of 5 thousand crore minutes on digital and TV platforms. The watch time is 33% more than the opening weekend of the last season.
Viewership records have been broken in the first 3 matches of IPL.
IPL 2025- Television and digital streaming is happening in 12 languages on JioHotstar.
All matches in IPL 2025 are available on television and digital streaming in more than 25 feeds and 12 languages. More than 170 experts are giving information about IPL this season. Which includes IPL champions, World Cup winners and legendary cricketers.
Apart from English, coverage on TV will be available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. On the other hand, live streaming is being done in 12 languages (English, Hindi, Marathi, Haryanvi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati and Punjabi) on the digital platform by JioHotstar.
3 matches were played in the opening weekThe first match of the season was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders on 22 March (Saturday). In this, Bangalore defeated Kolkata by 7 wickets. The first double header of the season was played on 23 March (Sunday).
In the first match of the day, Hyderabad defeated Rajasthan. In the second match, Chennai defeated Mumbai.
JioHotstar crosses 100 million paying users mark. Formed by the merger of JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar.
JioHotstar crosses 100 million paying users mark
JioHotstar, formed by the merger of JioCinema and Disney + Hotstar, has crossed the mark of 10 crore paying users. Last year, Reliance Industries and Disney merged their media businesses to form a joint venture. Under this, Disney sold its streaming services in India to Reliance.
Jio Star launched a new platform ‘Jio Hotstar’ Jio Star launched a new OTT platform ‘JioHotstar’ last month. This platform is formed by the merger of Jio Cinema and Disney Plus Hotstar. Now users are able to watch the content of both Jio Cinema.