Targeting Top Technology Minds In The Country, Hotstar Launches Bold ‘Dare Or Stay There’ Campaign

In what is a first for a consumer Internet company in India, Hotstar, India’s leading premium streaming platform, has kicked off 2018 with a bold campaign to attract India’s top product managers, designers and engineers. The campaign, taglined ‘Dare or Stay There’, is designed to connect with the cream of India’s tech minds with an inspiring call to discard their current roles and join the streaming service to build the future of online video for the world.

Since its launch in 2015, Hotstar has seen a meteoric rise in its adoption. It has become a global case study for its hockey stick growth trajectory and a curated content proposition that combines TV shows, movies, sports and news. Launched as India’s singular destination for live sports, and a wide collection of movies and shows in 9 languages, Hotstar went from 100 mn to 350 mn downloads in the year 2017 alone.

Stakeholders within the company have been clear over the last 3 years that their priority is to build Hotstar as the first video-centred technology company emerging out of India. Tech professionals at the company are now focused on addressing unique and exciting problem sets including massive scale and concurrency, the personalisation of content and advertising across tens of millions of users, and creating new consumer experiences around streaming.

Consisting of high-impact outdoor deployment across Bangalore, Hyderabad and Powai, along with large-scale digital and social media legs, the campaign is sharply targeted at the top tech hubs and parks in the country, home to some of the world’s leading technology companies.

“We are building one of the most exciting consumer Internet companies in the world and we are the natural home for the best tech talent in the country. This campaign is an invitation to this talent to come and join us and build an exciting technology company that has the opportunity to re-invent the world of video’, said Ajit Mohan, CEO, Hotstar.

“We take pride in our BS-free culture, in personal ownership and in bias for action. We obsess over every detail of our product and user experience. And, we believe that small teams of the right people can do amazing things’, added Varun Narang, Head of Product & Technology, Hotstar.

The campaign will run for 15 days, till 22^nd January 2018. For more information, please visit the microsite: https://tech.hotstar.com/

Hotstar is India’s largest premium streaming platform with more than 100,000 hours of drama and movies in 9 languages, and coverage of every major global sporting event. Launched in early 2015, it is one of India’s most downloaded apps and has attracted more than 300 million followers on the back of a highly evolved video streaming technology and high attention to quality of experience across devices and platforms. 

The Hotstar Premium service showcases the best line up of TV shows, movies and sports from around the world, including Emmy Award winning shows like Game of Thrones, Veep and Silicon Valley, and live sporting tournaments including Premier League and F1 all at a monthly subscription fee of Rs. 199. Hotstar has appropriated top spots on the Google Play Store as well as the Apple App Store, named among the most popular apps of 2017 on both platforms.

Mumbai, 16 January, 2018