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Reach over revenue: India’s lesson for developed sports markets

Srishti Das

26 Feb 2021

cricket

hotstar

Disney+

India is growing as a sporting nation, with athletes performing across different international sports outside of cricket like kabaddi, motorsports, basketball, chess and so on. The majority of media consumption...

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Hotstar's potential Disney+ partnership raises brand challenges

Amanda Stears

12 Dec 2019

21CF

21st Century Fox

ad-free

Yesterday Indian streaming service Hotstar published its 2019 India Watch Report . Hotstar (a fully-owned Disney subsidiary since the 21CF acquisition by Disney back in March of this year) now boldly states...

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Why Facebook Is Getting Serious About Delivering Sports Video To The Next Billion Digital Users

Tim Mulligan

6 Sep 2017

Facebook

IPL

Media

On Monday, September 4th, the Indian Premier League (IPL) held its media rights tender process for the rights to stream Indian Cricket matches for five years from 2018 to 2022. A total of 24 companies...

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