5 Ideas You Can Steal From Marketing Strategies Of The IPL Sponsor Brands [Updated 2022]

The Indian Premier League is one of the most viewed, loved and followed sports event in India since more than a decade now and has a viewership of millions across the globe exceeding the viewership of America’s most famous annual championship game of the National Football League “The Super Bowl”. The IPL franchise has stunned the world and is the most successful franchise model out there.

We have handpicked 5 Online Marketing Strategies of IPL and its sponsor brands which has made IPL the most sought-after event in the world and a huge game-changer for the sponsoring brands.

The Franchise Model

Over more than 80 brands have bid heavily to be a part of 12th edition of THE IPL which has now become a marketing fiesta. Duff & Phelps’ annual study of the IPL suggests an increase in the overall value of the IPL ecosystem from US$ 5.3 billion in 2017 to US$ 6.3 billion in 2018, supported by the broadcasting rights fee surging at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.9%.

With a staggering bid of Rs 2199 crores, Star Sports became the official streaming partner of IPL for 2018-22

IPL Sponsors 2022

Here is the IPL sponsor list with the following details of title sponsor, official partners, Official digital streaming partners, official broadcasters, strategic time out partners, umpire partners.

IPL Series Sponsorship	Brand
Title Sponsor	TATA
Official Partners	CRED
Official Partners	RuPay
Official Partners	TATA Safari
Official Partners	Dream11
Official Partners	Upstox
Official Partners	Unacademy
Official Broadcasters	Star Sports
Official Digital Streaming Partners	Disney+Hotstar
Umpire Partners	PayTM
Official Strategic Timeout Partner	CEAT

IPL Updated Star Sports Sponsors 2022

Sponsors	Brands
Co-Presenting Sponsor	Dream 11
Co-Presenting Sponsor	TATA
Co-Presenting Sponsor	BYJU’S
Associate Sponsors	Cred
Associate Sponsors	Spotify
Associate Sponsors	Meesho
Associate Sponsors	Asian Paints
Associate Sponsors	Swiggy Instamart
Associate Sponsors	Pepsi
Associate Sponsors	Kamla Pasand

IPL Updated Disney+Hotstar Sponsors 2022

Disney+Hotstar has onboarded a total of 13 sponsors for the 15th addition of the TATA IPL 2022. The detailed list is as follows:

Sponsors	Brands
Co-presenting	Dream 11
Co-powered by	TATA
Co-powered by	CRED
Associate Sponsor	Swiggy
Associate Sponsor	Pristyn Care
Associate Sponsor	Zepto
Associate Sponsor	Ather Energy
Associate Sponsor	Niyo
Associate Sponsor	Parle Agro
Associate Sponsor	Spotify
Associate Sponsor	YourSpace
Associate Sponsor	Loreal
Associate Sponsor	Spinny

Updated Star Sports – Media Rights 2022

Star Sports being the highest bidder of broadcast, digital rights with a bid of 16,347.5 crores (Approximately 2.1billion USD) has put them in an advantageous situation for 4 years (2018-2022), Sony Pictures with the second highest bid of Rs 11,050 would have retained the television rights and other bids by other 11 big players including names like Facebook, Reliance Jio, Airtel.

Star managed to get the Media rights because that time composite bid was allowed. Further E-auction is conducted on 12 June 2022 and winner will be going to declared at the same day.

In 2022, Plenty of companies like Dream 11, Unacademy, Rupay, CRED, etc. becoming a part of IPL Sponsors, getting different benefits to increase sales, reputation, brand value due to massive viewership of 400+ Million.

TATA – The Name Game for IPL 2022

And as a result, the tata has increased the brand visibility, promoting Tata Neu making it the most visible and engaged of IPL 2022.

At the Early success, Tata neu hits 2.1 million app download just with in a week. Day by Day as the TATA IPL 2020 draws closer to playoffs, it became more interesting and viewers as the part of marketing.

The Above results shows that how big brands successfully utilize digital marketing to maximize with best ROI during the IPL Season 2022. But There is always give and take, for any partnership that wish to Grow.

The TATA has replaced the Chinese company vivo and became the IPL Title sponsor for the year 2022 and 2023.

CEAT – Strategic Timeout Partner 2022

CEAT became a strategic timeout partner by paying a whopping 31 crores in a contract signed for 3 year, it has become a household name due to its unique CEAT strategic timeout strategy and is being one of the most recalled names in India as reported by YouGov

To engage audience, CEAT started various trivia contests on twitter roping in Rohit Sharma for the same.

With IPL viewership surpassing that the marketers are taking huge amount of bid in IPL, TATA has replaced the Chinese Mobile company VIVO from Title sponsor for the next two-year 2022- 2023 with an amount of 670 Crores according to Statista.

Take up the #CEATBatFlipChallenge and stand a chance to meet the one and only – @ImRo45. Come on, get going! Don’t forget to nominate your gully cricket boys! Upload the video, tag the #CEAT handle and use the hashtag #CEATBatFlipChallenge. #ContestAlert pic.twitter.com/AJCfYQ1hdX

— CEAT TYRES (@CEATtyres) April 24, 2019

Tata Punch Kaziranga – #Loveatfirstdrive 2022

The company announced that the Tata Punch Kaziranga Edition auctioned at The IPL 2022. A Pune resident Ameer khan, a big IPL fan was announced as the winner with highest bid. Recently at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai the key handover ceremony took place with offering 2 Tickets for IPL finales to the winner.

The Punch kaziranga is named on the behalf of kaziranga national park, so with a commitment towards wildlife conservation, the Bid amount is donated to the national park.

Overview for IPL 2022

IPL sponsorship is a big strategic marketing where companies like CRED, Rupay, Dream11, Upstox, Disnet+Hotstar, Paytm are the official partners and sponsors of IPL 2022.

List of Sponsor on Television 2021

• Phone Pe
• Coke
• Asian Paints
• Maruti Suzuki
• Dream 11
• Make My Trip
• Swiggy
• Voltas
• MRF
• Big Bazar
• Samsung QLED
• Polycab
• Oppo
• Vivo
• Byju’s
• Mondelez
• Mobile Premier League
• Vimal

List of sponsors for Hotstar

• Amazon Pay
• Dream 11
• Coca-Cola
• Flipkart
• Madhura Garments
• Maruti Suzuki

START SPORTS, VIVO, DREAM 11, PAYTM AND SWIGGY, CEAT AND TATA Motors being one of the most recalled brands of the 12th Edition as reported by YouGov.

Star Sports – Media Rights 2021

Star Sports being the highest bidder of broadcast, digital rights with a bid of 16,347 crores has put them in an advantageous situation for 4 years (2018-2022),  Sony Pictures with the second highest bid of  Rs 11,050 and other bids by other 11 big players including names like Facebook, Reliance Jio, Airtel.

Rs 3,000 crore earned by Star India group from the T20 tournament in 2018, Rs 1,800 crore being from television and digital advertising.

Not only the cash flows but due to the increase in viewership 21% over the comparative data for the IPL 2018 (As stated by star sports), which means more expensive advertisements and more companies taking part in it.

In 2019, overall 80 companies became a part of becoming sponsors different benefits such as an increase in sales, reputation, brand value due to the massive viewership of 300+ million.

Vivo – The Name Game 2021

With the IPL’s viewership surpassing that of, the marketers are taking a huge bid in The IPL, VIVO the title Sponsor for IPL 2018-22 has bid 2199 crores, with a 554% increase over the previous contrast of 1000 crores, Vivo paid a sum of about 4,480 million Indian rupees as title sponsorship fee between 2017 to 2022, according to Statista.

And as a result, the hashtag has increased the brand’s visibility making it the most visible brand and engaged of this year’s IPL.

Vivo also reported its best-ever performance in India in its 1st quarter with shipping of over 4.5 crore units, tripling their sales in the period.

Tata Motors – #Loveatfirstdrive 2021

With an amazing brand positioning, Tata Motors has promoted its newest product Tata Harrier as a lead brand of the Vivo IPL 12th edition.

Harrier has also relaunched it’s famous Fan Catch contest, where fans get a reward of Rs 1 lakh for taking a single-handed catch of a six, this campaigns also creates excitement element in the crowd and as a reward one lucky fan who wins the most popular Harrier Fan Catch of the season will get the Tata Harrier doing this, through this indirectly the promotion which they get to do, will create a higher impact then a normal advertisement also the winner will also generate sales through word-of-mouth and sharing his experience with people he interacts with.

Along with this, they made a T.V commercial series with hashtag #loveatfirstddrive

It also made a 360-degree campaign led by television

The engagement activities of awarding the premiere Suv and the storytelling playlist of the hashtag #loveatfirstddrive drove its revenues and its sales inquire, they announced that the Harrier SUV has crossed the 10,000 units booking a milestone in the country.

Dream 11 – ‘Ye Game Hai Mahaan’ 

60 million+ users, with a fantasy league saga Dream 11 is taking true cricketing fans by storm, the Mumbai-based firm is now truly India’s biggest fantasy sports gaming platform. And its journey to the top is very impressive. Dream11 has also received investments from Chinese online gaming giant Tencent and other summing it up to over 100 million dollars.

When asked about which brands people recall the most as advertisers/sponsors in IPL, Dream 11 emerged on the top. While Vivo had a high recall throughout, Dream 11 enhanced its recall in the consumers’ minds.

Dream11 has created a campaign with the tagline ‘Ye Game Hai Mahaan’, and have launched Six films, and they also put the spotlight on the fans and makes them feel special, which in turn is beneficial for them to pull the crowd.

Summarizing our observation:

1. A great Franchise model creating a win-win situation for all.
2. A solid viewership and fan base being a Hive of attracting bees (the sponsors and investors) has led IPL to get a bid of 16347 crores for it’s media rights.
3. The name says it all, the IPL coined as THE Vivo IPL for 4 years from (2018-22) increases the brand awareness so much that the company becomes a household name and is recognized by everyone.
4. The Strategic Timeout is a well strategy by IPL, to commercially run ads and to generate revenue it is a perfect model and in every match, within theses 2.5 minutes they generate 34.5 crore rupees considering 10 lakh rupees as a rate of ad for 10 seconds.
5. There is some catch, in the catch! The Iconic Fan catch contest by Tata says it all, that how launching contest like this and awarding it’s premium car, can create a buzz in the town and increase it’s sales.
6.  An Impressive product with an Impressive brand Ambassador can do wonders, Dream11 a fantasy cricket league game which is one of it’s kind has captured 50 million customers until now and its user base is increasing day by day and has attracted lot of investors too.