“We see this as a great opportunity to use the proven platform of Hotstar to launch the new Disney+ service in one of the most populous countries and fastest growing economies in the world.” — Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Disney+ is coming to India and it will make an early debut on March 29, 2020.
Source from techcrunch.com confirmed that Disney+ will be hosted through Hotstar. Hotstar is a Disney-owned service and it has set global streaming records. Disney has made an official statement that it will come sooner than people might expect.
Hotstar is an Indian streaming service that recorded over 100 million daily users. In 2019, there are over 300 million users in a month.
Disney+ had amassed 26.5 million paying subscribers worldwide. Bob Iger, however, declined to share the monthly subscription fee through Hotstar in India. He added:
“One will be more premium in nature that will include the entire library of original programming and the other one will be more basic that will have the library and not the original programming priced for the market and launched at a very peak period of time for the IPL, the Cricket League,”
Hotstar competes with dozens of video streaming services in India, this includes Netflix, Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. These streaming services have been making orignal series and movies and attract audience worldwide. "The Office" Remake is the most signature original series on Hotstar.
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