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Rajan Anandan spoke on the current internet Daily Hunt app is the largest news destination on
ecosystem in India and the major internet trends, internet in India today. This simple and powerful
latest scenario of technology startups in India and app is an aggregator of non-English news and
present day activities of Google in India. content in India. At least 100 million Indians have
In the current scenario, India has about 400 million downloaded this app and about 26 million use it
internet users at the current growth rate, it is regularly. The app has 3.5 billion page views per
expected to reach 650 million internet users by month. Reading news online has become much
2020. Half of the 1.3 billion Indians will have access faster and convenient than any other medium.
to internet by 2020. The total revenue from non travel products on
e-commerce was at 10 billion dollars in 2015 and
Over a period of six years, smartphone internet is expected to reach 200 billion dollars by 2025.
users in India increased from 5 million to 220 In 2016 about 60 million Indians bought products
million today. It is expected to rise to 500 million online and the number is expected to reach 175
by 2020. An average Indian spends about 200 million by 2020.
minutes on internet on smartphone every single
day. On an average they check their internet As most of India is un-organised retail,
connected smartphones for at least 165 times per e-commerce will boost that up in coming years
day. Affordable smartphones are the reasons why by pulling in organized retail under one umbrella.
the internet consumer base has expanded so much
in India. The arrival of high-speed connectivity has
brought about a change in the internet ecosystem
of India.

The huge increase in mobile broadband has led
to explosive growth in online videos. 180 million
Indians watch videos on YouTube and the watch
time is growing at a rate of 300%. Non English
search queries on the internet are growing 10
times faster than English search queries. The local
language internet has arrived and it is growing
much faster than the English internet.