Jiohotstar is practically India’s default streaming app, with access to the country's default sporting event. Jiohotstar doesn’t need a strategy anymore—it is the consequence of a successful strategy.

And yet, as we’re finding out, Jiohotstar isn’t content. 

All of this is still not enough. Why?

Tune in to find out.

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You can read this edition here: https://the-ken.com/the-nutgraf/jiohotstar-is-not-content/
 
Earlier editions referenced:

It’s Jio’s world now. We’re just watching it - https://the-ken.com/the-nutgraf/we-just-found-out-how-to-break-the-swiggy-zomato-duopoly/

Youtube missed - https://the-ken.com/the-nutgraf/youtube-missed/

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This is the audio edition of The Ken’s popular weekend newsletter, The Nutgraf. Every Saturday, author and host Praveen Gopal Krishnan reads aloud his latest edition, where he synthesizes and tells a story about the most interesting thing that happened that week in India’s business, tech and startup scene.

From original podcasts to writer-narrated versions of our subscriber newsletters, you can now listen to The Ken each day. Discover them all at the-ken.com/podcasts. You can also subscribe to The Ken Premium on Apple Podcasts for an easy monthly price (Rs 299 in India). The channel will include ALL our premium podcasts and audio.

Rapido and Meesho made Uber and Flipkart blink. And both companies did it by following a similar playbook. How exactly? Who is next?

Tune in to find out.

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You can read this edition here.

You can listen to the Two by Two episode referenced here.

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This is the audio edition of The Ken’s popular weekend newsletter, The Nutgraf.

Every Saturday, author and host Praveen Gopal Krishnan reads aloud his latest edition, where he synthesizes and tells a story about the most interesting thing that happened that week in India’s business, tech and startup scene.

From original podcasts to writer-narrated versions of our subscriber newsletters, you can now listen to The Ken each day. Discover them all at the-ken.com/podcasts. You can also subscribe to The Ken Premium on Apple Podcasts for an easy monthly price (Rs 299 in India). The channel will include ALL our premium podcasts and audio.

For me, the real story of India’s Got Latent isn’t about free speech, vulgarity, obscenity, or culture. It’s actually a story of what happens when “new” television tries to take on “old” television. Youtube took a swipe at the old world. And the old world punched back and gave it a bloody nose.

What lessons do Samay Raina and India's Got Latent have for the media business?

Tune in to find out.

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You can read this edition here: https://the-ken.com/the-nutgraf/youtube-missed/

You can read our Oct 2024 story titled 'TV channels, beware! Youtubers Samay Raina and TVF are taking over the screen—and the couch' here: https://the-ken.com/story/tv-channels-beware-youtubers-samay-raina-and-tvf-are-taking-over-the-screen-and-the-couch/

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This is the audio edition of The Ken’s popular weekend newsletter, The Nutgraf. Every Saturday, author and host Praveen Gopal Krishnan reads aloud his latest edition, where he synthesizes and tells a story about the most interesting thing that happened that week in India’s business, tech and startup scene.

From original podcasts to writer-narrated versions of our subscriber newsletters, you can now listen to The Ken each day. Discover them all at the-ken.com/podcasts. You can also subscribe to The Ken Premium on Apple Podcasts for an easy monthly price (Rs 299 in India). The channel will include ALL our premium podcasts and audio.

So the rumours were true. 

Five years after it was banned, Chinese fast-fashion platform is all set to be relaunched in India through a partnership with Reliance. For all practical purposes, this translates to Reliance “owning” Shein in India now. 

But while at first this may seem like a win for Reliance, there's more to this deal than meets the eye. Think about it — If you take Shein and if you remove the supply chain, and the manufacturing and its social media partner, what is left? 

Is it even Shein?

Tune in.

Welcome to the audio edition of The Ken’s popular weekend newsletter, The Nutgraf. Every Saturday, author and host Praveen Gopal Krishnan reads aloud his latest edition where he synthesizes and tells a story about the most interesting thing that happened that week in India’s business, tech and startup scene.

From original podcasts to writer-narrated versions of our subscriber newsletters, you can now listen to The Ken each day. Discover them all at the-ken.com/podcasts. You can also subscribe to The Ken Premium on Apple Podcasts for an easy monthly price (Rs 299 in India). The channel will include ALL our premium podcasts and audio.

Welcome to the audio edition of The Ken’s popular weekend newsletter, The Nutgraf. Every Saturday, author and host Praveen Gopal Krishnan reads aloud his latest edition where he synthesizes and tells a story about the most interesting thing that happened that week in India’s business, tech and startup scene.