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14 Jan, 9 tweets, 10 min read
Can Indian #OTT go beyond Hotstar, Netflix & Amazon Prime Video? Here are the top "pureplay" regional video-streaming platforms gaining popularity across the country.

#onlinevideo #digitalentertainment

✍🏼 - @Mittermaniac

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#Hoichoi is one of the first-movers in the regional OTT landscape. It caters to 260 million native Bengali speakers in the world.📺

@hoichoitv

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The #SunNXT library includes 4,000 movies, 40+ live TV channels, and catch-up content in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam & Kannada.

@sunnxt @SunTV

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#Aha is a Telugu-only OTT service promoted by renowned Telugu actor Allu Arjun.

The platform went live in March 2020, coinciding with the Telugu New Year & has already clocked 5 million downloads & 1.8 crore users.

@alluarjun @ahavideoIN

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#PlanetMarathi - The first-ever video-streaming platform dedicated to Marathi content, it offers 50,000 hours of programming, including films, theatre, television shows & much more.

@akshayent @PlanetMarathi

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The #Koode app has over 1,000 installs & is rated 4.9/5 on the Google Play Store. It targets not just native Malayalees in India, but also the tens & thousands of Malayalam speakers in the diaspora & Gulf nations.

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#Addatimes is one of India’s earliest vernacular OTT platforms. It focuses on Bengali content, including original web series, short films, music videos & more.

@addatimes

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#CityShorTV houses several #Gujarati movies, short films & original web series, and also curates popular Gujarati content that is available on the internet for free.

@CityshorTv @CityShor

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#Talkies, launched in late-2020, showcases content in the languages of #Karnataka: Tulu, Konkani, Kannada & the lesser-known dialect Beary (Byari).

@talkiesapp

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