HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content
HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content
And more than $900 million in annual revenue in India. — Amazon Prime Video has more than three times the subscribers as Netflix in India, according to HSBC.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzinga : Mi...
PayPal's Honey extension for Chrome has lost ~4M users from its peak of 20M after a viral December 2024 YouTube video accused Honey of employing shady tactics
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
OpenAI says ChatGPT has hit 20M paid subscribers, up from 15.5M at the end of 2024, suggesting the company is making at least $415M in monthly revenue
Before today's main column about the AI attention war between OpenAI and Google, there's OpenAI news from my colleague Natasha …
Similarweb: US DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% MoM in November; Bluesky now has 26.44M+ total users after passing 20M in November
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. — Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.a...
AllianceBernstein: Netflix has ~6.5M subscribers in India, Prime Video has 20M, and Disney+ Hotstar has 40M+; Netflix's slow growth due to lack of local content
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
AllianceBernstein: Netflix has ~6.5M subscribers in India, Prime Video has 20M, and Disney+ Hotstar has 40M+; Netflix's slow growth due to lack of local content
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
BeReal says its app has 25M+ DAUs, up from 20M in October 2022, disputing a Similarweb report estimating that BeReal's MAUs declined to 16.06M in August 2023
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs in 2022 were “automated or from bots”
What is it about SoftBank that attracted so many grifters? — https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Twitter: Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin : 95% fake!!! IRL raised $200 million from Softbank, Founder...