Data Analytics

The Indian Premier League 2024 registered a record 510 million viewers for the first 51 matches of the tournament, broadcaster Disney Star announced, extrapolating data provided by the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). 

This marks a 5% increase compared to the previous high recorded in 2019 for the same number of matches, the network declared. Additionally, the broadcaster asserted it has experienced an 18% increase from the previous edition in terms of total watch time, with viewers spending 356,000 million minutes.

Jan 24, 2019 13:01
BARCELONA: La Liga champions FC Barcelona will implement a new intelligent ticket sales model, based on the predictive calculation of Seient Lliure system, for the last six games of the ongoing season, starting with the game against Rayo Vallecano (9-10 March).
Jan 22, 2019 17:01
MUMBAI: The growth of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with respect to a hike in broadcast rights value saw the tournament contributing to 43% of total sports viewership in the country in 2018 vis-à-vis 22% in 2016, according to a report by TAM Media Research.
Jan 21, 2019 13:01
MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic, the world’s top ranked men's singles tennis player and the ATP Player's Council President, announced an investment and strategic partnership with Universal Tennis on Saturday.
Jan 17, 2019 10:01
MUMBAI: A new report by Tata Communications examining the commercial transformation of sports identifies 2019 as a defining tipping point for the global sports industry, with digital technology innovation set to kick-start a new era of unprecedented commercial growth for broadcasters, rights holders and sports organisations.
Jan 16, 2019 16:01
LONDON: Sports data intelligence major Sportradar Wednesday announced the launch of ad:s - a full-service marketing offer for sports betting operators. The global gaming industry has experienced tremendous growth and is expected to surpass $500 billion in the next five years and Sportradar sees an opportunity wherein bookmakers would be seeking data-driven marketing solutions.
Jan 16, 2019 13:01
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), a public sector institution in the South American nation, has concluded in its latest research that hosting the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has proven to have had a positive impact on the local economy.
Jan 10, 2019 14:01
MUMBAI: The FIFA World Cup last year certainly caught the imagination of Indian football lovers on the internet as it topped the overall list of Google Trends in the country in 2018. For the tournament, Nagaland showed the maximum interest of 100% of all states across India with four other north-eastern states namely Sikkim (86%), Manipur (78%), Meghalaya (68%) and Arunachal Pradesh (55%) completing the Top 5.
Dec 07, 2018 14:12
MUMBAI: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have collaborated once again for an exclusive report which features the media industry of the country called ‘One Consumer, Many Interactions’.
Dec 05, 2018 13:12
MUMBAI: Although football is still far off to be compared to cricket’s position as the top sport in the country, 498 million viewers from across the country watched the beautiful game on television in 2018 as compared to 741 million tuning in for cricket. This is an all-time record for Indian television for football.
Nov 26, 2018 17:11
LONDON: Formula 1 has had a mixed year of 2018 off-the-track. With the end of the season on Sunday in Abu Dhabi not considered, global sports marketing research firm Nielsen reports that television audiences have been predominantly the same as 2017, which stands at 1.3 billion across the globe.