JioCinema, the official streaming associate of IPL 2023 and owned by Viacom18, has had a record-breaking opening weekend. The platform claimed to have achieved 147 crore video views throughout the primary three days, exceeding your complete digital viewership of IPL 2022 on Disney+ Hotstar. JioCinema additionally surpassed the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 when it comes to viewership. During the season’s opening match between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans, the platform had a peak concurrency of 1.6 crore viewers. Additionally, JioCinema recorded greater than 2.5 crore app downloads in a single day, with new viewership for the opening weekend standing at 10 crore and new app downloads surpassing 5 crore.
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According to the corporate, JioCinema’s distinctive options like 4K feed, 12-language protection, 16 distinctive feeds, hype mode, and multicam setup continued to draw followers. Despite preliminary glitches on the app reported by some customers, the common time spent per viewer per match reached 57 minutes, marking a 60% improve in comparison with final season’s first weekend on Hotstar.
Anil Jayaraj, CEO of Viacom18 Sports, stated that these numbers had been distinctive and proof of the digital revolution sweeping by means of the nation. He famous that digital is targetable, addressable, and interactive, with measurement based mostly on the precise quantity of people that watch, not like legacy companies, which depend on subjective extrapolation from a small pattern set.
For IPL 2023, JioCinema made free match streams obtainable in regional languages like Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Odiya, and Gujarati for the primary time, along with the same old English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada streams. Jayaraj stated that the opening weekend of IPL 2023 was a sworn statement to the religion viewers had proven in JioCinema’s choices to make the league extra accessible, inexpensive, and in distinctive first-time cricket broadcast languages.
JioCinema is estimated to garner greater than 60% of advert gross sales this IPL season, with the remaining going to TV. More than 20 manufacturers throughout client segments have partnered with JioCinema, together with Dream11, JioMart, PhonePe, Amazon, Rapido, RuPay, Tiago EV, Appy Fizz, ET Money, Castrol, TVS, Oreo, Bingo, Sting, AJIO, Haier, Louis Philippe Jeans, Ultra Tech Cement, Puma, Kamla Pasand, Kingfisher Power Soda, and Jindal Panther TMT Rebar.
