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Nikhil Chinapa joins DotMe as advisor, backing startup’s global ambitions
MUMBAI: Nikhil Chinapa, the media personality who helped build India’s electronic music scene from scratch, has thrown his weight behind DotMe, a Mumbai creator-tech platform gunning for global reach.
Chinapa, co-founder of Submerge and the curator behind festivals including Sunburn and VH1 Supersonic, stumbled across DotMe as a user before deciding to come aboard. Terms remain under wraps, but the deal marks a coup for the startup, which has quietly attracted over 100,000 monthly users with its link-in-bio tools.
The platform lets creators corral their digital lives into one slick hub: content sharing, product sales, community management and analytics, all in a single interface. Now DotMe is building a business-to-business suite for agencies and brands to wrangle creators, campaigns and data through one dashboard.
“DotMe represents what the new India stands for: products built with ambition, clarity, and the ability to scale globally,” said Chinapa, now strategic advisor. “I’m excited to join the journey and contribute to taking Indian innovation to the world”.
The timing is ripe. The global creator economy is forecast to balloon from $127.65bn in 2023 to $528.39bn by 2030, growing at 22.5 per cent annually.
India’s digital content creation market alone should hit $4.40bn by decade’s end. Indian creators already sway over $350bn in consumer spending each year, a figure that underscores how content and commerce are colliding.
DotMe raised $150,000 in March at a $1.25m valuation, led by Mirza Baig, former co-founder of Jimmy’s Cocktails. Co-founder Harsh Vijaykumar said Chinapa’s arrival “pushes us to innovate even faster”.
Whether DotMe can elbow past established players like Linktree remains an open question. But with Chinapa’s cultural clout and India’s booming creator class, the platform has picked its moment to make noise.
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JioStar revenue hits Rs 9,784 crore as cricket fuels 22 per cent growth
A surge in digital viewership and sports dominance fuels a blockbuster quarter for the media giant
MUMBAI: JioStar is batting on a flat pitch. The media titan’s fourth-quarter results for the financial year 2026 reveal a business scaling new heights, propelled by an unprecedented appetite for premium sports and digital-first storytelling.
Gross revenue for the quarter soared by 22.15 per cent to Rs 9,784 crore, up from Rs 8,010 crore in the third quarter. Operationally, the momentum was equally strong; revenue from operations climbed 21 per cent to Rs 8,372 crore. These figures underscore the firm’s successful integration following the Reliance and Disney merger, creating a dominant force in the Indian market.
The annual performance has been nothing short of a spectacle. Full-year gross revenue reached a massive Rs 36,248 crore, while annual profit after tax hit Rs 3,210 crore. This rapid expansion reflects JioStar’s ability to capture and monetise the massive growth in India’s media consumption.
Cricket proved to be the ultimate growth engine. The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 and TATA IPL 2026 delivered “record-breaking viewership” across both television and digital screens. The World Cup final alone drew a global peak concurrency of 72.5 million on JioHotstar, cementing its status as the nation’s premier streaming destination. On television, JioStar maintained a commanding 34.2 per cent viewership share, reaching a staggering 810 million viewers nationwide.
The digital numbers were just as impressive. JioHotstar averaged 500 million monthly active users, driven by consistent subscriber growth and innovative AI-led content discovery tools. These advancements are ensuring that JioStar remains at the cutting edge of the global “Race for Attention.”
With a firm grip on the country’s most valuable sporting rights and a rapidly growing digital footprint, JioStar is perfectly positioned for the future. It has built the ultimate content powerhouse—one that is ready to dominate the Indian living room for years to come.
