Over-The-Top (OTT) media Services platforms have become quite popular in India since the last few years. Due to COVID-19 outbreak in the country, many filmmakers are now releasing their movies on major OTT platforms, instead of waiting for the theatres to re-open. India has a lot of options when we talk about OTT services…Here are the Top 10 OTT platforms in India.

DISNEY + HOTSTAR

Disney + Hotstar is an online Indian video streaming service provider that is owned by Star India. It is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. It currently offers over 100,000 hours of TV content and movies across 9 languages, and every major sport covered live.

It has at least 300 million active users and Over 350 million downloads.Hotstar is an Indian digital and mobile entertainment platform launched in February 2015. Disney & Hotstar now has around 46.4 million paid

Subscribers, taking the global subscriber base of Disney + up to 116 million. With that, Disney + Hotstar

Disney + and Disney+ Hotstar added about 12 million Subscribers this past quarter. As always, IPL remains a significant boost for Disney + Hotstar.

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

Amazon Prime Video, is an American OTT platform that connects users with films and TV series produced by Amazon Studios. It is owned by Amazon Inc. and launched in September 2006.

Prime Video has 18 million subscribers in India, taking the global subscribers base of prime video up to 200 million. In the past few years the company increased its subscriber base by 25%. (50 million).

It currently offers unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and TV shows.

NETFLIX

Netflix Inc is an American OTT headquartered in California. It was launched in 1997. The prime business of the company is subscription – based streaming services. Netflix has 5 million subscribers in India,taking the global subscribers base of Netflix Video up to 214.8 million. Due to COVID-19 , the increase of the company’s growth by 23%. The OTT platform offers four subscription plans including Mobile, Basic, Standard and premium.we can watch videos on 4 devices at the same time and watch the videos on any devices..

Aha

Aha is an Indian OTT platform that is owned by Arha Media & Broadcasting Private limited that is a joint venture by Geeta Arts and My Home Group. It offers Telugu content. It was launched in the year 2020. They provide ad-free content and viewing because the company believes that nothing should come in between entertainment between the viewer and the show.

The platform has 2.5 million monthly active users. It is in the initial stages of setting up,the revenue growth is expected to happen soon.

VOOT

Voot is an Indian OTT platform launched in the year of 2016. The owner of voot is Viacom 18. It is available in languages like Hindi, English, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi and kannada. It is headquartered in Mumbai

It reports having 100 million active users monthly.

Voot has 1 million Subscribers in India. The premium content of the platform can be availed for as little as INR 99 per month and INR 999 per year. Some free-ad support can be found by the users as it is still not a completely paid-form of the platform.

ALT BALAJI

ALT Balaji is an Indian Subscription OTT platform. It is owned by Balaji Telefilms Ltd. It is launched in the year 2017.The company entered the field of digital entertainment to create original OTT content.

The platform is reported to have around 34 million paid users. ALT Balaji is available across 32 million different interfaces for its viewers.

The content bank also includes 100+ hours of Kids content as well as urban regional shows in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil & many more languages. You have a choice of three streaming membership plans 3 months for Rs. 100, 6 months for Rs. 180 or 12 months for Rs. 300

SONYLIV

Sonyliv is an Indian OTT platform that is owned by Sony Pictures Network India Pvt. Ltd. It is headquartered in Mumbai. It was founded in the year 2013. It is available in Hindi, English, and several regional languages of India

The platform has an active user subscription of 70-80 million monthly and 14-20 million paid. Some of the content available on the platform can be availed without registering. The free service is ad-supported while the premium or paid service is ad-free.

Zee5

Zee5 is an Indian video on demand OTT platform that is owned by Essel Group Via its subsidiary Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was established in 2018 in 12 languages and is a premiere streaming platform in India.

The platform has 76.4 million active users per month.As per the latest reports, the OTT platform has recorded a revenue growth of 2.3% this year.

JIO CINEMA

Jio is an Indian OTT platform offered by the Ambani-Owned telco, Reliance Jio. It is an exclusive platform for Jio Users and is offered without any additional charges. It is available for almost all of Jio’s postpaid and prepaid.

It was launched in September 2016. This app makes it the Top 10 OTT platforms in India because of its partnerships with Disney in the past to provide some of its content on its own Jio cinema platform.They publish movies, TV shows, Documentaries and Jio Exclusives