Cricbuzz
| File:Coast cricbuzz logo.png CricBuzz Logo | |
Type of site | Sports website |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, Hindi and other Indian Regional Languages |
| Owner | Times Internet Piyush Agrawal |
| Created by | Pankaj Chhaparwal Piyush Agrawal Pravin Hegde |
| Revenue | 7.8 million$[1] |
| URL | cricbuzz.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 50 million (Feb 2015)[2] |
| Launched | 1 November 2004 |
CricBuzz is a sports news website and app to all exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including videos and scorecards), player rankings and team rankings. The website also offers many mobile apps. CricBuzz is also the largest mobile app for cricket news and scores in India.[4] The site was created and is edited by Piyush Agrawal.[5]
History
CricBuzz was created by three Infosys former employees Piyush Agrawal (IIT, BHU alumnus), Pankaj Chhaparwal and Pravin Hegde in the year 2004. By 2010, CricBuzz started developing mobile app for live cricket news and scores.
In Nov 2014, Times Internet, a subsidiary of Times of India acquired majority stake in CricBuzz for undisclosed sum. Post acquisition, the website continues to be managed by the original founders.[6][7]
In Jan 2015, Times Internet owned GoCricket was merged into cricbuzz. GoCricket's website was redirected to cricbuzz and the mobile app of GoCricket was also merged with that of cricbuzz. GoCricket and Times Internet started alerting its users on various social media sites to follow cricbuzz.[7]
Features
Cricbuzz contains live streaming of cricket scores, upcoming schedules, team and player rankings, videos, pictures, cricket based online games and several mobile apps (for Android, iPhone, Windows phone, BlackBerry, Nokia etc.).[5]
Popularity
Cricbuzz, in Aug 2015 was ranked 1,474 globally by Alexa Internet.[3] The site was reportedly the 7th most Googled site in India in 2014.[8] In 2014, its mobile app crossed 10 million downloads (largest in India) and the website was used by more than 50 million users worldwide and generated 2.6 billion page views in Jan 2015 alone.[9]
Sponsorship
In Aug 2015, CricBuzz was named the title sponsor of India-Sri Lanka test series (India's 20-day tour to Sri Lanka that included 3 test matches held in Galle and Colombo).[10][11]
See also
References
- ^ "estimated revenue by promising website". free website report]]. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- ^ "Number of users". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ a b "cricbuzz.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved November 2016.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "cricbuzz targets 82 million users". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ a b "cricbuzz". cricbuzz website. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Times Internet acquires cricbuzz". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ a b "GoCricket mergers into cricbuzz". medianama. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Google India's top 10 searches of 2014". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "cricbuzz targets 75 million users". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Cricbuzz named title sponsor". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Cricbuzz is title sponsor for India-Sri Lanka Test Series". bestmediainfo. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Cricbuzz – News Updates An overview.
