WinZO celebrates creator economy, felicitates gaming influencers, developers

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, WinZO, India’s largest interactive entertainment platform, honoured 80 gaming content creators, 18 game developers, and students at the Creator’s Awards held during Startup Mahakumbh 2025 in New Delhi. Popular YouTuber and WinZO’s brand ambassador, Carry Minati, personally felicitated the winners, recognising their contribution to India’s rapidly growing gaming and content creation landscape.

The event, organized in collaboration with the Media and Entertainment Skills Council (MESC), awarded the winners with a ‘Skill India’ certificate, validating their skills and influence in the digital economy. This comes at a time when India’s creator economy has witnessed explosive growth—from 962,000 influencers in 2020 to over 4.06 million by 2024, according to the India Gaming Report 2025 by WinZO and the Interactive Entertainment and Innovation Council (IEIC).

The gaming-driven creator economy recorded a 213 percent growth between 2020 and 2022 alone, showcasing the rising demand for gaming-related content, tutorials, and strategy insights.

Key Highlights:
WinZO’s initiatives have generated over 100,000 direct and indirect gig jobs across India.

The platform supports content creation in regional languages like Konkani, Haryanvi, and Kutchi, making it accessible across diverse socio-economic groups.

Through the WinZO Superstar Initiative, over 75,000 influencers have found flexible income streams, with 20% filing income tax returns for the first time.

WinZO currently boasts 250 million registered users and processes over 5 billion monthly transactions.

Carry Minati, while congratulating the awardees, said, “Gaming is more than entertainment; it’s a thriving industry. Platforms like WinZO allow creators to build careers by monetizing their passion and engaging audiences globally.”

WinZO Co-founder Paavan Nanda added, “We aim to democratize digital entrepreneurship by enabling creators to thrive through direct monetization and performance-driven incentives.”

The event also witnessed the felicitation of winners of the Bharat Tech Triumph Program (BTTP). Launched in 2023, BTTP identifies innovators in gaming and interactive entertainment, offering exposure through events like GDC San Francisco and Startup Mahakumbh. The program continues to strengthen India’s presence in global gaming innovation.

Our Events

SatCab symposium organized by Aavishkar Media Group is an annual event. It's a well-informed event where we have a panel discussion on the current affairs and future forecasting on our industry.

BCS Ratna Award organized by Aavishkar Media Group is an annual event. In this award function, a community of our industry is honored by receiving the award for the contribution of their work.

Chetna Yatra organized by Aavishkar Media Group is an annual event. Held by Dr. AK Rastogi, Chairman of Aavishkar Media Group. Pilgrimage India in his car for connecting the people of our industry.

Imaan India Samman is an event mobilized by Aavishkar Media Group, which was launched in 2012. Giving the award to the NGOs for giving their contribution to society.

Quote-UnQuote

“This initiative will empower subscribers to pay online and subscribe to the channels they want to watch and get it activated on their TV sets in real-time without any delay. Without needing to undertake any software development, LMOs can approach Mobiezy for their pre-built and pre-integrated solution that uses NXTDigital’s news APIs and can be up and running with their own mobile apps within just a few days.”

RU Ediriwira, Group CTO, NXTDigital Limited

“With the launch of Partnership for Growth 3.0 we intend to expand our network with 40 new NXTHUBs, each offering up to 650 live TV channels and broadband. Our efforts are focused on harnessing the convergence of technologies, developing robust apps and creating new business models that will help the overall ecosystem, delivering the best experience to our subscribers. We hope to achieve a stronger foothold in the rural regions of the country and grow our subscriber base.”

N.K. Rouse, COO, NXT Digital Ltd

“One of the key principles of the Hinduja Group is ‘Partnership for Growth’. After 2.0 saw the launch of HITS to connect LMOs in even the most remote locations through the only satellite-based cable TV platform in India; 3.0 focuses not just on strengthening the overall ecosystem we have built, but harnessing the convergence of technologies – to be delivered through a national network of NXTHUBs. Video and broadband are only the beginning of the digital highway of services that we have developed for roll-out backed by a robust suite of innovative apps developed by service providers exclusively for our LMOs and subscribers.”

Vynsley Fernandes, MD & CEO, NXTDigital Limited

“Wireline broadband is becoming ever more important not only in connecting homes across the country but also small to large enterprises-to the digital economy. The NXTHUBs will be the perfect point-of-presence to offer broadband services to cater to these consumer needs.”

Yugal Kishore Sharma CEO, ONEOTT Intertainment Limited

Amazing and grim battle for survival. Guess it will end up in Supreme Court. All that NCLT asked Zee to do was to file a reply to Invesco petition for a EGM. Now this is getting too serious. So far Invesco has been hammered for demanding an EGM. What is Zee upto? Ofcourse my lawyer community knows better!