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Cricbuzz targets 75 million users with new World Cup section
MUMBAI: Cricbuzz, a division of Times Internet, is launching a new World Cup section across web and mobile, to capitalise on the major cricket wave with the World Cup and IPL over the next four months.
Cricbuzz is a mobile app for cricket news and scores in India. During IPL 2014, Cricbuzz was used by over 50 million people, with more than 80 per cent of users on their mobile devices. In January, Cricbuzz users spent over 2.5 billion minutes on the Cricbuzz app (just under 5000 years), generating 2.6 billion page views.
The new World Cup release features a number of major new features, including:
– ‘Timelines’: go through well-crafted timelines of each tournament since 1975, to relive epic moments.
– ‘Records’: the most interesting cricket stats and figures, with a log of past WC matches
– ‘Captains and Kits’: a collection of caricatures of team captains for the last 30 years
– ‘Your Team’: sections dedicated to each team, with history, stats, and easy access
– ‘The Venue’: information on the cities & venues of matches
Cricbuzz will feature editorial content and the scores and alerts. With live reporting straight from the tournament, Cricbuzz will make sure users have the insights at their fingertips.
Last week, the Cricbuzz app crossed 10 million downloads, making it the first sports app in India to do so, and 4x the size of its nearest competition. Cricbuzz is now in the top 5 sports apps globally, behind ESPNScoreCenter and the official apps of FIFA and the NFL.
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Dailymotion Pro and Oksat team up to fast-track OTT and FAST platforms
Strategic partnership combines video infrastructure with full OTT product layer for media and brands.
MUMBAI: When video meets ambition, the result is a platform that doesn’t just stream, it sprints. Dailymotion Pro, a global leader in video distribution and monetisation, has joined forces with European OTT and FAST specialist Oksat to launch a new integrated end-to-end solution for media companies, brands and institutions.
The alliance fuses Dailymotion’s large-scale infrastructure and monetisation know-how with Oksat’s robust OTT and FAST capabilities multi-device apps, channel orchestration, product logic and advanced media workflows. Together they promise faster time-to-market, enterprise-grade scalability and flexibility to evolve business models over time.
Dailymotion Pro SVP forsupply & enterprise Sales Global Rémi Leclancher said, “Our customers are no longer just looking for video technology, they are building full media products. By partnering with Oksat, we are extending our infrastructure and monetisation strengths with a robust OTT and FAST product layer, enabling our clients to launch, scale, and evolve their services with greater speed and confidence.”
Oksat CEO Cédric Monnier added, “This partnership reflects a clear market trend, OTT and FAST platforms are best built through strong alliances between infrastructure leaders and product specialists. Together with Dailymotion Pro, we are offering a solution that is not just technologically powerful but also designed as a true media product, accessible, scalable, and aligned with the long-term strategic needs of our customers.”
The joint offering supports premium OTT services, FAST channel launches, hybrid VOD/live models and advertising-based video, all from a unified cloud-native environment. It caters to entertainment plus education, healthcare, corporate communications and professional training, with strong emphasis on sovereignty, governance and European compliance.
The platform aligns with EU-backed projects ASAP4EU and FAST4EU, advancing ad monetisation, interoperability and interactive advertising models. Early adopter Locales TV is already using the integrated solution to enhance OTT distribution and speed up new services.
In a streaming world where speed and scale win races, this tie-up aims to give customers a clear lane powerful tech plus real product muscle, minus the usual multi-vendor headaches. The finish line? Faster launches, smoother growth and happier viewers.
