Cricket fans watch a broadcast of the final match of ICC Champions Trophy cricket between India and New Zealand on a big screen between Edward Elliot in Chennai on March 9, 2025. Photo Credit: AP
Jiohotstar has set new records in India’s live sports streaming with more than 540 million crores of views and about 11,000 million minutes of clock time, which is the ICC men’s Champions Trophy 2025 during the clock time during 2025.
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The final match, where India won their third Champions Trophy title by defeating New Zealand, saw an unprecedented 124.2 crore scene at Gehotstar.
The match set a new record with 6.12 crore peak concurrent audiences, outlining the dominance of the platform in live sports streaming.
The previous streaming record of 5.9 crore was set during the coverage of Disney Hotstar of the 2023 Cricket World Cup final.
India matches
This year the final between India and New Zealand saw a total of 90 crores on the streaming platform. The final exceeded 66.9 crores, which is associated with India’s semi -final win over Australia on the same platform.
India’s game against Pakistan recorded 60.2 crore streaming scenes on Jiohotstar.
In this year’s Champions Trophy, India vs. Australia semi-final match set a new record with the highest single-day membership by the OTT platform!, Mani said.
“But beyond the numbers, which actually comes out, is how our teams are constantly pushing boundaries to make sports experiences easily accessible to millions,” he said. “What we have created together is proud of it – this is just the beginning of unlocking infinite possibilities!”
First competition since merger
The ICC Champions Trophy was the first major cricket competition to be aired on the streaming platform as the joint venture was formed after the merger between Disney Star and Reliance Industries Viacom 18 last year.
The Gostar was formed through a merger of $ 8.5 billion of Disney’s Star India, with Viacom 18 of Reliance and streaming platforms Jiocinema and Hotstar.
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During the tournament, Hindi -speaking areas contributed more than 38% of the total audience of Jiohotstar, with major consumption of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Goa, Punjab and Haryana.
In addition, Jiohotstar obtained more than 80% entry into WiFi-Saksham Join TV, with Maharashtra records the number of highest audiences.
According to the forum, this was the first time an ICC tournament was streamful in 16 feeds, which included nine languages - English, Hindi, Marathi, Haryanvi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.
The tournament also featured the Indian sign language feed and audio descriptive comments.
Published – March 14, 2025 04:30 pm IST
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