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I P L 2 0 1 5 W H A T D O E S S O C I A L M E D I A S A Y ? AN ANALYSIS OF THE OPENING WEEK OF IPL 8

IPL's Opening Week Receives Over 186K Mentions

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IPL 2015

W H A T D O E S S O C I A L M E D I A S A Y ?

A N A N A L Y S I S O F T H E O P E N I N G W E E K O F I P L 8

Executive summary

• Total Mentions of IPL 8 season on Social Media till date is 1,86,569. 88.55% on Twitter!

• Gender Distribution: 85% Male & 15% Female • Sentiment: Neutral – 89.35%, Positive – 9.85%, Negative – 0.80% • Buzz of #IPL8 in last 9 Days on Twitter – 69K • Buzz of #PEPSIIPL in last 30 Days on Twitter – 109K • The official Page of IPL on Facebook has increased its fan base by 400K this

season • KKR is the favorite team on Facebook with 11 Million Fans • IPL official profile has 2.5 Million Followers on Twitter! • CSK is the favourite team with 1.4 Million Followers on Twitter • 1 Lakh views of IPL 8 Opening ceremony promotion video on Youtube! • 52,778 Followers on Instagram • 1 Million Followers on Google +

IPL T20 - the world’s “richest cricket tournament”

League's chairman and Commissioner: Ranjib Biswal

IPL chief operating officer: Sundar Raman

IPL 8 Dates: 8th April 2015 to 24th May 2015

Participants and Matches: 8 Participants and 60 Matches

Key Facts:• The IPL is the most-watched Twenty20 league in the world• The IPL was inaugurated in 2008• In 2008, Sony paid $1 billion for the broadcasting rights over a ten-year period• In 2010, the IPL became the first sporting event to be broadcast live on YouTube• IPL was sponsored by DLF after they paid $50 million for a five-year sponsorship of

the competition till 2012• Pepsi took over the contract for the 2013 IPL season after paying close to $72 million

for the 5-year contract• The brand value of the 2014 Indian Premier League was estimated to be around US

$7.2 billion

Champions of IPL8 (2015) bag 15 Crores!According to the rules of IPL, half of the prize money must be given to the players

The Indian Premier League (IPL) (currently known as the PepsiIndian Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is an annualIndian Twenty20 cricket tournament, founded in 2008 by theBCCI.

Franchises retained 123 players 8th IPL season before movinginto auction. Yuvraj Singh (RCB player) was sold to DelhiDaredevils for 16 crores INR - a record bid in IPL auction history.A total of 67 players were sold out in the auction and all

franchises spent total of 87.60 Crores to buy players.

IPL Champions so far!

KingsXIPunjab vs KKRCSK vs MIKKR vs CSK

CSK vs RCB CSK vs MI RCB vs DC CSK vs RR

201420132012

2008200920102011

? #2015

Total Mentions of IPL 8 season on Social Media till date is

1,86,56988.55%

10.93%

0.42% 0.08% 0.01%

Twitter Facebook Google + Tumblr videos

Source Distribution of Buzz

Gender Distribution of Buzz on Social Media

85%Male

15%Female

Sentiment Distribution as per the buzz on Social Media

0.80%

9.85%

89.35%

0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00% 90.00% 100.00%

Negative

Positive

Neutral

Buzz of #IPL8 in last 9 Days on Twitter

69,263Overall Buzz

16,043Mentions on

07th April 2015

Buzz of #PepsiIPL in last 30 Days on Twitter

109,115Overall Buzz

14,298Mentions on

07th April 2015Did you know?

All the Teams this IPL season has a PPI (Profile Performance Indicator)* of 100%on Twitter!

* The PPI shows how many interactions happen on a profile, how engaged the followers are and how fast a profile is growing.

It helps to gauge the real image of a profile.

1,988 Runs Scored from boundaries

3,371Total Runs Scored in IPL8

Did you know?

Virender Sehwag has hit 438 boundaries (332 fours and 106 sixes) - most by any

batsman in the IPL. Sehwag is ahead of Chris Gayle's tally of 432

IPL buzz across the Globe

IPL-8 (2015) Leveraged on Social Media PlatformsThey marked their footprint on social medias like Facebook, Twitter,

Youtube, Instagram and Google +

India 76.46%

US 5.06%

Pakistan – 3.65%

UK – 2.91%

Nepal – 1.47%

UAE – 1.27%

Others – 3.34%

Increase in Fanbase on IPLs facebook Page

Increased by 400,00013.1Million likes currentlyTotal Increase since 07/04/2015

Fanbase of IPL 8 Teams on facebook Page

1105780610751675

8656962

7054705

6025220

2865372 2855632

2367379

0

2000000

4000000

6000000

8000000

10000000

12000000

Kolkata KnightRiders

Chennai SuperKings

Mumbai Indians Kings XI Punjab Royal ChallengersBangalore

SunRisersHyderabad

Rajasthan Royals Delhi Daredevils

KKR is the favorite team on

FB with 11 Million Fans

Popular posts on their Team pages on Facebook

230K likes!

2.5 Million Followers on Twitter!

CSK is the favourite team with 1.4 MillionFollowers on Twitter

1443629

1043671

955294914484

652414

622353

568819

539529Chennai Super Kings

KolkataKnightRiders

Mumbai Indians

Royal Challengers

Kings XI Punjab

Rajasthan Royals

SunRisers Hyderabad

Delhi Daredevils

Number of FollowersTeams: Increasing order by their Fanbase

Popular Tweets so far

1 Lakh views of IPL 8 Opening ceremony promotion video on Y !

52,778 Followers on Instagram

Glimpses of various posts on Instagram

1 Million Followers on Google +

Regular updates by IPL on Google +

Players support on Twitter!

Methodology

Simplify360’s online proprietary listening tool is used for collecting the data, counting

the number of mentions and other stats.

All the data and images are take from the official pages on Twitter, Facebook. And

IPLT20 website.

Period of analysis: April 07, 2015 to April 16, 2015