Reliance Industries‘ media and entertainment operations generated revenue of INR34,917 crore ($3.7 billion) in FY26, chair Mukesh Ambani disclosed at the company’s annual normal assembly in Mumbai on Friday, with reside sports activities and the “Dhurandhar” movie franchise among the many main drivers.
The enterprise – spanning JioStar, JioHotstar, Jio Studios, and Network18 – recorded an EBITDA of INR5,842 crore ($616 million) and a web revenue of INR3,434 crore ($362 million) for the fiscal yr. On the linear aspect, JioStar held a 34.7% tv viewership share, which Ambani mentioned was “nearly equal to the next three players combined,” with 389 million viewers tuning in day by day.
JioHotstar averaged 451 million month-to-month energetic customers throughout the yr and crossed one billion downloads – a primary for any Indian paid streaming platform – and is now obtainable on 99% of linked televisions within the nation. Stay cricket powered the platform’s greatest numbers: JioHotstar recorded 72.5 million concurrent viewers throughout the T20 World Cup, and Ambani mentioned 9 of the ten highest international concurrency data now belong to the service. The IPL cricket event 2026 drew over 700 million viewers on the platform throughout the season.
Jio Studios, the group’s movie manufacturing arm, accomplished a 3rd consecutive yr as India’s highest-grossing Hindi studio. The “Dhurandhar” franchise crossed INR3,000 crore ($318 million) in worldwide field workplace, turning into the primary Indian movie duology through which every installment individually surpassed the INR1,000 crore ($105 million) mark, Ambani mentioned in his speech, including that the studio now holds over 500 awards throughout its content material slate.
On the product aspect, JioHotstar launched Tadka, a short-form content material hub, in April 2026, reaching greater than 100 million customers inside two months. An in-app commerce integration with Swiggy, enabling meals ordering with out exiting a reside stream, debuted throughout IPL matches. Interactivity options together with voting, reside chat, and meme creation have generated over 11 billion interactions from greater than 100 million distinctive customers.
Ambani additionally unveiled JioStar GenAI Media Studio – JAMS – describing it as “an 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.” The platform additionally added ChatGPT-powered conversational content material discovery with help for Indian accents and regional languages, alongside a brand new multiview characteristic.
Network18 reached 250 million folks month-to-month by way of tv and reported greater than 450 million subscribers and followers throughout digital platforms, logging over 65 billion video views in FY26. The group launched Creator18, a brand new providing concentrating on the creator economic system, designed to develop codecs for youthful audiences.
