Skip to main content
DuolingoPartnership

Duolingo partners with Airtel to give subscribers a free 12-month Super Duolingo subscription

What happened

Duolingo has partnered with Bharti Airtel to offer a free 12-month subscription to its premium Super Duolingo service to all 376 million of Airtel's subscribers.

Source

Article excerpt

Highlighted: the sentence this signal was extracted from

MUMBAI: Free stuff rarely comes this well targeted. Duolingo, styled by its own marketing as the world's leading mobile learning platform, has partnered with Bharti Airtel to give 12 months of Super Duolingo, its premium ad-free tier, to Airtel's entire subscriber base, all 376 million of them, at no additional cost. No credit card, no fine print gymnastics, just access through the Airtel Thanks app across mobile, Wi-Fi and DTH services. For a subscription that typically sits behind a paywall, this is about as generous a customer giveaway as Indian telecom has seen in a while. The mechanics of what subscribers actually get are worth dwelling on. Super Duolingo strips out ads entirely and layers on unlimited energy, AI-powered real-time speaking practice, personalised exercises and a mistakes review feature, essentially the full toolkit the company reserves for paying users. Duolingo currently runs courses across more than 40 languages, alongside its newer forays into chess, maths and music, and has been quietly building out its India-specific offering too, most recently launching a Learn English from Punjabi course to sit alongside its existing Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Urdu options. The strategic logic on both sides is fairly transparent. Rashi Dhanani, head of business development at Duolingo India, framed the deal as recognition that India is one of the company's...

Keep reading with a free account

The rest of this article, and every signal for Duolingo, is in your free account.

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Event
Partnership

What this signalsA new partnership often opens integration and co-selling work.

Location
India

Companies

  • Bharti AirtelPartnerairtel.in

More partnership signals at other companies

The full record

From the Signal API record

Extraction

Confidence
95%
Detected
Sep 4, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
partners_with

Use this data

Get every partnership signal for Duolingo and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Duolingo this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns partnership signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full news record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/e6ea6802-0c4c-ad4b-83f7-21c286f988cc returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for duolingo.com.

{
  "signal_id": "e6ea6802-0c4c-ad4b-83f7-21c286f988cc",
  "signal_type": "news",
  "signal_subtype": "partners_with",
  "detected_at": "2026-09-04T11:03:39+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Duolingo",
    "domain": "duolingo.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "url": "https://indiantelevision.com/iworld/duolingo-partners-with-airtel-to-give-subscribers-a-free-12-month-super-duolingo-subscription/",
    "title": "Duolingo partners with Airtel to give subscribers a free 12-month Super Duolingo subscription - Indian Television Dot Com",
    "excerpt": "MUMBAI: Free stuff rarely comes this well targeted. Duolingo, styled by its own marketing as the world’s leading mobile learning platform, has partnered with Bharti Airtel to give 12 months of Super Duolingo, its premium ad-free tier, to Airtel’s entire subscriber base, all 376 million of them, at no additional cost. No credit card, no fine print gymnastics, just access through the Airtel Thanks app across mobile, Wi-Fi and DTH services. For a subscription that typically sits behind a paywall, this is about as generous a customer giveaway as Indian telecom has seen in a while. The mechanics of what subscribers actually get are worth dwelling on. Super Duolingo strips out ads entirely and layers on unlimited energy, AI-powered real-time speaking practice, personalised exercises and a mistakes review feature, essentially the full toolkit the company reserves for paying users. Duolingo currently runs courses across more than 40 languages, alongside its newer forays into chess, maths and music, and has been quietly building out its India-specific offering too, most recently launching a Learn English from Punjabi course to sit alongside its existing Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Urdu options. The strategic logic on both sides is fairly transparent. Rashi Dhanani, head of business development at Duolingo India, framed the deal as recognition that India is one of the company’s...",
    "summary": "Duolingo has partnered with Bharti Airtel to offer a free 12-month subscription to its premium Super Duolingo service to all 376 million of Airtel's subscribers.",
    "location": "India",
    "planning": false,
    "image_url": "https://indiantelevision.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/airtel-Duolingo-1000x600.jpg",
    "confidence": 0.95,
    "published_at": "2026-09-04T11:03:39Z",
    "location_data": [
      {
        "region": "Southern Asia",
        "country": "India",
        "continent": "Asia",
        "fuzzy_match": false
      }
    ],
    "article_sentence": "Duolingo, styled by its own marketing as the world’s leading mobile learning platform, has partnered with Bharti Airtel to give 12 months of Super Duolingo, its premium ad-free tier, to Airtel’s entire subscriber base, all 376 million of them, at no additional cost.",
    "related_company_name": "Bharti Airtel",
    "related_company_domain": "airtel.in"
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.