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Dish TV Q1 net loss at Rs 898 million, revenue up
MUMBAI: Dish TV, Zee‘s demerged direct-to-home (DTH) company, has added substantial subscribers in the first quarter of this fiscal but losses have mounted on the back of subsidies due to intense competition. Net loss stood at Rs 897.64 million while the company claims to have added 180000 new subscribers during the quarter ended 30 June 2007. Added Dish TV MD Jawahar Goel: “A strong regional content is one of our strongest muscles. To ensure the bandwidhth for this width of content, we have recently acquired two additional satellite transponders. Also, we have adequate capacity expansion planned for the future.” Dishtv has content strength of 170 channels, adding eight channels in the quarter.
Operating revenues were at Rs 892.86 million while expenditure stood at a whopping Rs 1.38 billion. Dish TV‘s main expenses are towards content, selling and distribution, employees and administrative.
Operating loss was Rs 488 million as the company says it has been investing on growth.
Commenting on the performance, Dish TV chairman Subhash Chandra said: “The standalone revenue has increased to Rs 893.37 million up by 35 per cent as compared to the last quarter of the last fiscal year. This quarter we have consolidated our efforts in capturing more market share and due to this Dish TV continues to be a dominant market leader. The strength arises not just from numbers of subscribers, but also through Dish TV‘s commitment of ‘providing wholesome entertainment to every Indian‘, that translates into an unbeatable basket of content and value added services and a robust infrastructure of sales and service to take it to market.”
Dish TV has enhanced its infrastructure and services in the quarter. “A dealer universe of 30,000 outlets today caters to consumers across 4300 towns. There are over 10,000 service personnel in the market, delivering installations and service support to our subscribers. The service organisation is also supported by 1000 call centre agents speaking 10 different languages from 7 different locations. Moreover there are service centers across the country, all in an effort to reach the consumer in the shortest possible time, if the need arises,” the company said in a statement.
Dish TV CEO Arun Kapoor said, “We are poised for an explosive growth; and we will set the rules that will define the category in the country. The last quarter has been driven by consumer offers that helped us acquire 180,000 new subscribers helping us to retain dominant market leadership. This reinforces our connect with the consumers in terms of brand preference. This also supports our belief that increasingly large parts of the country are choosing to go digital on the Dish platform. These offers that we have rolled out over the past quarter have enthralled consumers with their great value for money proposition as well as helped us build awareness and usage of our unique services like sports active, movie on demand and regional content. Further, we have also enhanced our ground presence through substantial aggregation of company warehouses, distributors and dealers across markets, thereby increasing our speed to market.”
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With 57 per cent single new users, Ashley Madison rebrands as discreet dating platform
Platform says majority of new members now identify as single
INDIA: Ashley Madison is shedding the “married-dating” label that defined it for two decades, repositioning itself as a platform for discreet dating in what it calls the post-social media age.
The rebrand, unveiled in India on 27 February, 2026, marks a structural shift in business model and identity. Once synonymous with married dating, the company now describes itself as the “premier destination for discreet dating” under a new tagline: Where Desire Meets Discretion.
The pivot is data-driven. Internal figures show that 57 per cent of global sign-ups between 1 January and 31 December, 2025 identified as single: a notable departure from the platform’s married core. The company argues that its community has already evolved beyond its original positioning.
“In an age where our lives have been constantly put on public display, privacy has become the new luxury,” said Ashley Madison chief strategy officer Paul Keable. He framed the platform’s offering as “ethical discretion” for singles, separated, divorced and non-monogamous users seeking private connections.
The shift also taps into wider digital fatigue. A global survey conducted by YouGov for Ashley Madison, covering 13,071 adults across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US, found mounting discomfort with hyper-public online lives.
Among dating app users, 30 per cent cited constant swiping and messaging as a source of fatigue, while 24 per cent pointed to pressure to curate public-facing profiles and early personal disclosure. Some 27 per cent said fears of screenshots or information being shared contributed to exhaustion; an equal share cited unwanted attention.
The retreat from oversharing appears broader. According to the survey, 46 per cent of adults actively try to keep most aspects of their life private online. Only 8 per cent feel comfortable sharing most aspects publicly, while 35 per cent say they are becoming more selective about what they disclose.
Ashley Madison is betting that this cultural recalibration towards controlled visibility can be monetised. By doubling down on privacy infrastructure and reframing itself around discretion rather than infidelity, the company is attempting to convert reputational baggage into a premium proposition.
