In this episode, I discuss IPL franchises expanding their presence in International T20 leagues. I also have interesting updates from Cricket on Web3. I will briefly discuss Team India’s sponsors for the Commonwealth games and give my verdict on India’s first-ever televised eSports tournament by Nodwin Gaming and Star Sports.

In episode 30 of Sports Business Updates, I will cover four big news from the Indian sports industry featuring interesting facts and statistics about the importance of television for live sports consumption in India, Jeet 11, a Sharechat-owned and Twitter-backed fantasy sports platform shuts down, CricInfo launches India’s first cricket-based metaverse, and I will wrap up the episode with an update from HCL Software’s latest sponsorship and why they consider India as a very important market from a fan perspective.

In episode 29 of SBU, I have five big news from the Indian sports industry featuring BCCI’s equal pay announcement, Hardik Pandya becoming the face of a new athleisure brand by Reliance Retail, viacom18 partners with South African T20 league, Hitwicket raising funds to build a multiplayer cricket game with an NFT focus and some mindblowing KPI’s achieved from their debut eSports tournament.

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Episode 28 of Sports Business Updates features five big news from the Indian sports industry featuring the most prominent news including NBA signs up for the biggest sports licensing & merchandising program in India, How a new broadcast/digital partnership is taking the ICC T20 World Cup to 75 countries, how the jam-packed global sports events will help broadcasters earn big dollars during the festive season, how Glance gaming is building Multi Online Battle Arena gaming community in India and I will wrap up this episode with news of Sachin Tendulkar’s growing tech business investments, particularly in the Web3 space.

In this episode, I cover five big news from the Indian sports industry featuring Disney-Star’s ad revenue status for the T20 Cricket world cup, sticking to the theme of ad revenue I will cover Viacom 18’s ad revenue targets for the FIFA world cup in Qatar, Football viewership growth in India, Indian web3 startup Stan launching creator NFTs and I will wrap up the episode with an insight into what's going wrong with the online gaming sector in India.

In the episode I discuss JSW Sports and their ambition to become India’s first sports IPO, International Cricket broadcast deals negotiated by Indian sports channels, Khelo India’s new funding plan for women's sports in India, the impact of banning Battle Ground Mobile India on the Indian eSports industry and I will wrap up the episode with highlights from the Pro Kabaddi League player auction.

In this episode, I discuss IPL franchises expanding their presence in International T20 leagues. I also have interesting updates from Cricket on Web3. I will briefly discuss Team India’s sponsors for the Commonwealth games and give my verdict on India’s first-ever televised eSports tournament by Nodwin Gaming and Star Sports.

In this episode of Sports Business Updates, I have presented a comprehensive breakdown of the biggest ever IPL media rights auction. In this episode, you will get an understanding of the base prices vs the final costs to acquire media rights, How digital media rights continue to grow and what is the future for the incumbent digital rights holder, where does IPL rank in comparison to other global sports media rights deals and I conclude the episode with some interesting digital consumption numbers from India and my observations on how Viacom18 is building something interesting in Indian sports broadcast. 

In 2022’s first episode, I will share updates and our opinions on four big sports business news from India. I will discuss How Indian Information Tech giant Infosys is helping develop sports infrastructure, Is the Sony-Star duopoly in Indian sports media under threat by Viacom18 and others, How ShareChat and Moj are competing with MX Takatak in the sports space in India and COVID-19’s impact on the Indian Premier League and how 2022 can turn things around for India’s global Cricket league.

Latest sports business news featuring the surprising revival of the Pro Volleyball League, who is behind the revamp of the sport of Handball in India which includes a professional league and a mind-boggling investment of 240 Crore Rupees and Reliance Industries and Viacom18 take another huge step to disrupt the sports broadcasting business in India.