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Hotstar

Entertainment — Watch TV shows, movies, sports online — Hotstar is an online video streaming platform owned by N…
Entertainmentsaasest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 49.8 · 2/4
49.8
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
37
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 37 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
37 probes · Jun 12, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 37 probesavg response 1679 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
hotstar.com
edge
direct origin
server
AkamaiNetStorage
Tranco rank
#4,215
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Hotstar's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.8 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
FXNOWentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Tobble Kidsentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Acorn TVentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Hopster on Apple TVentertainmentsimilar100%41.50.0● live
Grokkerhealthtag-overlap100%45.40.0● live
Mirrorhealthtag-overlap100%21.70.0→ redirected
Playboy NOW Appentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0— unverified
YouTube Redentertainmentsimilar83%16.00.0→ redirected

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:13Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1842alive
2026-08-26 09:43Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1535alive
2026-08-19 14:04Z200hotstar.com1809alive
2026-08-11 00:39Z200hotstar.com2432alive
2026-08-08 06:32Z200hotstar.com2172alive
2026-08-05 18:52Z200hotstar.com1920alive
2026-07-30 18:06Z200hotstar.com2021alive
2026-07-23 09:27Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1833alive
2026-07-22 09:31Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1212alive
2026-07-21 09:32Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1439alive
2026-07-20 09:59Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1920alive
2026-07-19 09:11Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1188alive
2026-07-18 08:51Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage571alive
2026-07-17 09:13Z200hotstar.comAkamaiNetStorage1614alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Hotstar · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/hotstar · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.