Dream11 will exit the web gaming section and pivot to the rising stay sports activities enterprise in India, cofounder Harsh Jain mentioned.

Jain mentioned the corporate will now function as a sports activities leisure platform and goals to grow to be a second display for viewers watching stay matches. He mentioned the platform will permit customers to look at video games together with creators, and that the brand new app shall be obtainable on the App Retailer and Play Retailer throughout the subsequent 24 hours.

Commercials will stay obtainable on the brand new platform. A paid advert free model is deliberate for a later stage. Dream11 is onboarding creators and influencers and Jain mentioned they are going to obtain the lion’s share of the income. He added that extra creators will be part of the platform over time.

Jain additionally indicated that Dream11 will undergo employees restructuring. He mentioned the corporate has practically 1,000 workers immediately however the brand new enterprise would require solely round 200 folks. The remaining workers are anticipated to maneuver to different firms throughout the Dream Sports activities ecosystem. These embrace Dream Cash, Fancode, Dream Sports activities AI and Dream Cricket.

The transition follows main modifications within the regulatory panorama. In October, the Promotion and Regulation of On-line Gaming Invoice, 2025 got here into impact and banned actual cash based mostly gaming whereas supporting e-sports and on-line social video games. The regulation prohibits promoting or endorsements of platforms that facilitate on-line video games involving financial stakes. It additionally proposed restrictions on banks and non banking monetary establishments from processing funds linked to actual cash gaming.

Dream Sports activities, the father or mother firm, can be diversifying its portfolio. It lately launched Dream Cash, a private finance app that lets customers put money into digital gold, open fastened deposits and observe bills and property.