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  • Cricbuzz touches 1.5 billion visits during IPL 2016; users consumed 30 billion pageviews

    Cricbuzz touches 1.5 billion visits during IPL 2016; users consumed 30 billion pageviews

    MUMBAI:  The 9th edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) witnessed a 40 per cent higher viewership than the 2015 edition on Cricbuzz.

    According to Comscore, over 3.7 million users accessed the Cricbuzz desktop site in India in April . In the WT20, 6.63 million users accessed Cricbuzz.

    Cricbuzz received 30 billion page views across its properties during IPL 2016, with users together spending over 24 billion minutes (equivalent to over 45667 years). Across platforms, Cricbuzz averaged 14 million Daily Active Users, and on the final on May 29th, Cricbuzz saw 18.9 million users.

    This online engagement threw some stimulating insights on fan-preferences in polls conducted by Cricbuzz, where over 2.5 million users participated.

    Most Exciting Player

    Virat Kohli

    Best Captain

    Virat Kohli

    Best Emerging Player

    Mustafizur Rahman

    Best Overseas Player

    AB de Villiers

    The 5 most followed league matches as per Cricbuzz data were:

    1.      RCB v RPS (May 7)

    2.      RPS v GL (Apr 29)

    3.      KKR v RCB (May 16)

    4.      KXIP v RCB (May 9)

    5.      RCB v MI (May 11)

    These trends and data reveal that Virat Kohli and the Royal Challengers Bangalore were the toast of this year’s IPL and Dhoni continued to be a crowd puller.

     Commenting on the development, Cricbuzz CEO Pankaj Chhaparwal said, “Cricbuzz is quickly becoming the default platform for every cricket fan, and we’re humbled by the response. We consider this traction as a feedback from our users in terms of our services and we look forward to keeping our users entertained in times to come.”

  • Cricbuzz touches 1.5 billion visits during IPL 2016; users consumed 30 billion pageviews

    Cricbuzz touches 1.5 billion visits during IPL 2016; users consumed 30 billion pageviews

    MUMBAI:  The 9th edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) witnessed a 40 per cent higher viewership than the 2015 edition on Cricbuzz.

    According to Comscore, over 3.7 million users accessed the Cricbuzz desktop site in India in April . In the WT20, 6.63 million users accessed Cricbuzz.

    Cricbuzz received 30 billion page views across its properties during IPL 2016, with users together spending over 24 billion minutes (equivalent to over 45667 years). Across platforms, Cricbuzz averaged 14 million Daily Active Users, and on the final on May 29th, Cricbuzz saw 18.9 million users.

    This online engagement threw some stimulating insights on fan-preferences in polls conducted by Cricbuzz, where over 2.5 million users participated.

    Most Exciting Player

    Virat Kohli

    Best Captain

    Virat Kohli

    Best Emerging Player

    Mustafizur Rahman

    Best Overseas Player

    AB de Villiers

    The 5 most followed league matches as per Cricbuzz data were:

    1.      RCB v RPS (May 7)

    2.      RPS v GL (Apr 29)

    3.      KKR v RCB (May 16)

    4.      KXIP v RCB (May 9)

    5.      RCB v MI (May 11)

    These trends and data reveal that Virat Kohli and the Royal Challengers Bangalore were the toast of this year’s IPL and Dhoni continued to be a crowd puller.

     Commenting on the development, Cricbuzz CEO Pankaj Chhaparwal said, “Cricbuzz is quickly becoming the default platform for every cricket fan, and we’re humbled by the response. We consider this traction as a feedback from our users in terms of our services and we look forward to keeping our users entertained in times to come.”

  • News Republic – Cricbuzz partner to bring cricket scores on mobile

    News Republic – Cricbuzz partner to bring cricket scores on mobile

    NEW DELHI: Global mobile media group News Republic has entered into a strategic partnership with Cricbuzz, which will allow its app users to access the latest cricket news and scores of all matches. 

     

    News Republic India country director Radhika Shukla said, “We want to ensure that our users have access to the news from all genres. Bringing the excitement of sports news to our readers is something we are delighted to do.”

     

    Cricbuzz.com CEO Pankaj Chhaparwal added, “Being a part of digital media, we understand the importance of expanding our user base continuously and with News Republic coming to India, we are excited to get on board and offer cricket updates to its growing audience.”

     

    News Republic app users can now read the Cricbuzz content that is, “news” and “latest scores” side by side with one easy tap, share it and save it to view later while travelling even when they are offline. They can also receive notifications every time there is a new article from Cricbuzz.

     

    The app provides a variety of content to its readers across all genres ranging from politics, business, sports, entertainment, technology etc.

     

    With 1,500 licensed news feeds worldwide, News Republic shares 50,000 unique articles every day from news organisations like Reuters, BBC, AFP, Bloomberg, Guardian, HuffingtonPost and Mashable amongst others.

     

    In India, News Republic has partnered with Hindustan Times, India Today, Aaj Tak, Business Today, Cricbuzz, New Indian Express, Oneindia, BBC, India.com and others. The apps also incorporate RSS feeds to cover specialized reader interests.

  • Cricbuzz hops on as title sponsor for 2015 Sri Lanka Vs India Test series

    Cricbuzz hops on as title sponsor for 2015 Sri Lanka Vs India Test series

    MUMBAI: Times Internet’s mobile cricket news and information venture Cricbuzz has hopped on board as the title sponsor for the Sri Lanka vs India 2015 Test Series.

     

    This sponsorship marks a major investment by the cricket information platform as it looks to build its association with the sport through the test series, which will take place between 12 August – 1 September, 2015.

     

    The 20-day tour includes three Test matches. The English feed will be shown live on Sony Six and Sony Six HD, while Sony Kix will be relaying the Hindi feed.

     

    Cricbuzz CEO Pankaj Chhaparwal said, “We are thrilled with the association, which represents a great opportunity towards scaling up our user base and operations. Cricket is the defining sport in capturing consumer interest and through this engagement, we will look to exponentially increase our global visibility and footprint. Through the years, we have built a sizeable, strong and loyal user base, and with Cricbuzz being the top cricket app in the world, we will look to consolidate our position as the preferred destination for cricket.”

  • Cricket tweets on Cricbuzz

    Cricket tweets on Cricbuzz

    MUMBAI: Cricbuzz, a Cricket app, has now partnered with Twitter, the social soundtrack for cricket fans across the world, to create a whole new experience of following a live match. With live opinion through Tweets, photographs and videos shared by Twitter users, the new version of Cricbuzz is a treat for cricket fans who can now feel the pulse of every ongoing match. The most popular and relevant Tweets, curated by editors at Cricbuzz.com, will now reach each and every device with the Cricbuzz app.

    With a special Twitter Timeline on Cricbuzz, the app followers can now read real time Tweets from Cricket experts, players and fans, to know what the world is talking about with just a few clicks.  The thoughts and views of people who share the same passion for the game, can be read and replied to on Cricbuzz, thereby creating a whole new level of user engagement.

    The Twitter Timeline in the match centre of the Cricbuzz App allows users to retweet, favourite and reply to Tweets. It even gives the opportunity to interact with people having the same zeal for the game of Cricket anywhere across the world. Cricbuzz’s Twitter Timeline also has hashtag counters indicating the number of people talking about the cricket match. It also gives a fair indication of which team is more popular among the two on the field.

    People without data connectivity need not fret. Cricbuzz and Twitter have launched a missed-call service. All that one needs to do is give a missed call to 011 6657 5665, a Cricbuzz dedicated number, and the user will begin to receive four of the best Tweets of the day. This is an exciting service that will ensure that the fans don’t miss out on the best Tweets from Cricbuzz even if they are unable to get online.

    Ravi Bhaskaran, Head, Business Development, Twitter India & South Asia, comments, “We are delighted with the way Cricbuzz has used Twitter to deliver a comprehensive Cricket experience for its users across its properties on iOS, Android & web.  Supplementing live commentary on Cricbuzz with Tweets is clearly a compelling experience for sports fans. This underlines Twitter’s importance as an indispensable companion to live sport viewing. It also helps highlight how easily Twitter can be used by third party apps & portals to integrate seamlessly within their native product experience.”

    Pankaj Chhaparwal, CEO, Cricbuzz.com said, “Cricbuzz is always looking for newer ways to deliver compelling cricket content to its users. A curated timeline of the most interesting and relevant tweets from players, experts and fans alike is an exciting addition which will provide an engaging experience to users while following a live game.”