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IPLT20 Community Stats - Which IPL Team Has A Bigger Online Fan Community?
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IPLT20 mania is reaching its peak lately with the teams moving into the second round of clashes with each other in the run up to the semi finals. So if last time we discussed about the website wars and how each website compared to the other in terms of traffic. This time we are looking at community management or fan base that these teams are garnering online through their own sites and through other social media communities with IPL being one of the hottest properties on television right now.
An article in ET states the following stats for community sizes of Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Dare Devils and Bangalore Royal Challengers..
KolkataKnightRiders.com - 37,000 registered users
DelhiDaredevils.com - 30,000 registered users
Royal Challengers.com - 10,000 registered users
I did a bit of research myself and found that other teams had the following fan base
DeccanChargers.com - 8500 registered fans
While MumbaiIndians, RajasthanRoyals and KingsXIPunjab have no statistics given on their website on the number of registered users/community members.
While ChennaiSuperKings is now contemplating to have a fan community option on their websites and they plan to give different priviledges to different members. According to India Cements marketing head Rakesh Singh “We will have three kinds of memberships to the Chennai Superkings Fan Club that will be there on the website. There will be special enclosures for members at the home ground, apart from preferential ticket rates. We want to develop a fan base that will be the Barmy Army of Chennai Superkings.”
Besides for their official websites what needs to be considered is the communities on third party platforms like Orkut, Facebook which are two of the most popular social networks in India (Check india alexa rank here).
Here are the stats for the above teams on orkut and facebook:
Statistics on Orkut
Kolkata Knight Riders
communities - 1000+
highest - 53,096 members
users - 1000+
topics - 1000+
Mumbai Indians-
communities - 773
highest - 25,245 members
users - 1000+
topics - 1000+
Bangalore Royal Challengers-
communities - 155
highest - 5,498 members
users - 228
topics - 1000+
Chennai SuperKings-IPL-
communities - 119
highest - 3,187 members
users - 256
topics - 636
Delhi Daredevils-
communities - 40
highest - 27,065 members
users - 524
topics - 503
Rajasthan Royals Jaipur-IPL-
communities - 21
highest - 29,205 members
users - 21
topics - 368
King’s XI - Punjab IPL-
communities - 46
highest - 43,107 members
users - 35
topics - 1000+
Deccan Chargers-
communities - 327
highest - 21,437 members
users - 930
topics - 1000+
IPL -
communities - 1000+
highest - 78,532 members
users - 1000+
topics - 1000+
On Facebook
Kolkata Knight Riders
groups - 79
highest - 1,672 members
Mumbai Indians
groups - 59
highest - 790 members
Bangalore Royal Challengers
groups - 30
highest - 1,008 members
Chennai Super Kings
groups - 37
highest - 774 members
Delhi Daredevils
groups - 41
highest - 2,331 members
Rajasthan Royals
groups - 18
highest - 465 members
Kings XI Punjab
groups - 27
highest - 1355 members
Deccan Chargers
groups - 29
highest - 1526 members
Indian Premier League
groups - 155
highest - 3135 members
It seems there was barcamp for delhi daredevils fans too
http://ipldelhi.pbwiki.com/Delhi+IPL+Camp