CricBuzz

CricBuzz is an Indian cricket news website owned by Times Internet. It features news, articles and live coverage of cricket matches including videos, text commentary, player stats and team rankings. Their website also offers a mobile app. CricBuzz is one of the most popular mobile apps for cricket news and scores in India.[3] It also has a feature called CricBuzz live where experts give their opinions about before the games played by India and IPL teams before and after the match.

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Type of site
Sports website exclusively for Cricket
Available inEnglish, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil and Telugu
OwnerTimes Internet
Created byPankaj Chhaparwal
Piyush Agrawal
Pravin Hegde
Rahul pandita
Revenue$7.8 million[1]
URLwww.cricbuzz.com
CommercialYes (Non-subscription Ad revenue)
RegistrationOptional
Users50 million
(January 2018)[2]
Launched1 November 2004 (2004-11-01)
Current statusActive

History

CricBuzz was created by Pankaj Chhaparwal and Pravin Hegde in 2004. In 2010, CricBuzz started developing a mobile app for live cricket news and scores.

In November 2014, Times Internet, a subsidiary of Times of India acquired a majority stake in CricBuzz for an undisclosed sum. The website continues to be managed by the original founders.[4][5]

In January 2015, Times Internet-owned GoCricket was merged into Cricbuzz. GoCricket's website was redirected to Cricbuzz and the GoCricket mobile app was also merged with that of CricBuzz.[5] Cricbuzz roped in Harsha Bhogle as ‘Voice of Cricket’ in September 2016 and has produced over 150 videos with the esteemed commentator and cricket expert ever since.[6]

Popularity

The site was the 7th most searched for site in India in 2014.[7] The mobile app has over 100 million downloads as of October 2019 and the website is used by more than 50 million users worldwide, generating 2.6 billion page views in Jan 2015.[8]

Sponsorship

In August 2015, CricBuzz was named the title sponsor of the India-Sri Lanka test series.[9][10]

See also

References
  1. "estimated revenue by promising website". free website report]]. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
  2. "Number of users". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  3. "cricbuzz targets 82 million users". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  4. "Times Internet acquires cricbuzz". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  5. "GoCricket mergers into cricbuzz". medianama. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  6. www.ETBrandEquity.com. "Harsha Bhogle's partnership with Cricbuzz hits the 100 million milestone - ET BrandEquity". ETBrandEquity.com. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  7. "Google India's top 10 searches of 2014". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  8. "cricbuzz targets 75 million users". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  9. "Cricbuzz named title sponsor". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  10. "Cricbuzz is title sponsor for India-Sri Lanka Test Series". bestmediainfo. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
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