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Pocket FM hits $200 million ARR after six years of operations in Q4 of FY25, and it achieved about $400 million ARR in Q4 of FY26. Currently, the platform has over 300,000 creators producing more than 80,000 hours of content monthly.Listen to this article in summarized format
“While building Pocket, we reimagined the entertainment playbook by pivoting to an AI-native storytelling system. At the core of this AI-native engine is our fiction writing co-pilot, trained on billions of minutes of engagement data,” Nayak said in his post.
The company hit $200 million ARR after six years of operations in Q4 of FY25, and it achieved about $400 million ARR in Q4 of FY26. Currently, the platform has over 300,000 creators producing more than 80,000 hours of content monthly.
“We are very bullish on the use of AI; it has helped us expand into multiple countries, localise content quickly, and build our user-generated content (UGC) business with extreme efficiency,” said a Pocket FM spokesperson. Its business is present in over 20 countries.
It offers tools like an AI co-pilot for writers to help elevate their stories, AI tools for translation which adapt the story to local culture, and more. “This allows us to test and scale blockbusters globally almost immediately,” the spokesperson said.
Its revenue stood at Rs 1,768 crore for FY25, up 68% year-on-year from the previous year, ET reported in April 2025. More than half of the platform’s revenue comes from users paying for content through microtransactions, and the rest from advertisements.
Pocket FM competes with Spotify and several new-age content platforms such as Krafton-backed Kuku FM and Pratilipi. Kuku FM closed $85 million in a round led by Granite Asia, which valued the platform at $550 million in October 2025. Pratilipi closed a $20-million round led by Jungle Ventures last April.
