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Dish TV Q4 net loss widens due to rupee swings
MUMBAI: The wild swing in the rupee continues to pinch India’s leading direct-to-home service provider for the second straight quarter. Dish TV has widened its fiscal-fourth quarter net loss to Rs 490 million due to foreign exchange loss of Rs 65 million.
The company had posted a net loss of Rs 430 million in the trailing quarter.
Dish TV’s net sales rose to Rs 5.24 billion in the three-month period ended 31 March 2012, up from Rs 4.90 billion in the prior quarter.
Ebitda stood at Rs 1.44 billion, up 20 per cent from the trailing quarter and 60 per cent from the year-ago period. Assuming there are no one off write backs, the Ebitda performance was clearly much better than what the market expected.
“This was mainly triggered by renegotiation of content cost in the fourth quarter of this fiscal,” a media analyst says.
The company’s total expenses jumped to Rs 5.45 billion during the quarter under review, from Rs 4.93 billion.
Subscription revenues stood at Rs 4.34 billion. The ARPU rose by just one per cent to Rs 153.
Dish TV added 4,15000 subscribers in the quarter, achieving a total of 12.9 million gross and 9.6 million net subscribers at the end of the period.
Says Dish TV managing director Jawahar Goel, “While managing a trade-off between quality and quantity of new subscribers in the fiscal gone by, the DTH category witnessed a slowdown after a price hike at the entry level. The category added 10.5 million subscribers in fiscal 2012 compared to 13.3 million in the year before that. However, Dish TV witnessed a marked improvement in its key metrics after the price hike was initiated. With quality subscribers coming on board thereafter, Dish TV’s monthly churn number in the fourth quarter aligned with its internal benchmark.”
Subscriber Acquisition Cost (SAC) stayed flat at Rs 2,127 compared to Rs 2,124 in the preceding quarter.
Financial performance for the full fiscal
The standalone net loss for the full-fiscal stood at Rs 1.33 billion due to foreign exchange loss of Rs 510 million, narrowing from Rs 1.92 billion in the year-ago period.
Revenue grew 36.3 per cent to Rs 19.58 billion, while Ebitda improved strongly to Rs 4.96 billion, from Rs 2.38 billion a year ago.
The company also revealed that it has received a demand notice for income-tax and interest aggregating to Rs. 264.2 million pertaining to an alleged short deduction of tax at source on certain payments and interest thereon for delayed period. The company has disputed the issue and has filed an appeal.
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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.
