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In just five years, the startup has managed to create a profitable streaming business in a category that truly captures the India digital video consumption opportunity: Titillation.
For years now, countless startup founders have toiled wearily to exploit the Indian market, making a song and dance about their painful undertaking. Ullu is the opposite.
Consider these numbers. Born in January 2019, Ullu Digital Ltd ended the 2022-23 fiscal with total revenue of Rs 93 crore and profit after tax of Rs 15 crore. A bulk of this revenue is subscription income from its video streaming app, Ullu. As of September 2023, Ullu had nearly 2.1 million paying subscribers (down from 2.7 million as of March 2023 though). Buoyed by this performance, the company has filed a draft …
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
Highlights from Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Qatar’s new (and bolder) AI ambition and the bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.
Indians who are among the world’s largest consumers of free tech products and also significant beneficiaries of free markets suffer from a poor understanding of both technology and accountability. Separately, Aamir Khan breaks a paradigm with a YouTube release.