Champions Trophy 2025 Smashes Viewership Data, Surpasses 2023 World Cup By 23%, India vs New Zealand Last Peaks At 122 Million
The ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 has damaged main viewership data in India as its TV rankings surged to the best ever for a multi-nation cricket match, eclipsing the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 by a whopping 23 per cent, in response to a media launch from ICC.
The reside broadcast of the occasion acquired an astounding complete watch time of 137 billion minutes on Star Sports activities and 110 billion minutes on JioHotstar. The large numbers have been a results of a blockbuster last between India and New Zealand in Dubai on March 9 that touched a peak concurrency of 122 million reside viewers on TV and 61 million on JioHotstar, a document for Digital viewership in cricket.
The ultimate additionally turned the second-highest rated ODI in TV historical past (outdoors of ICC Cricket World Cup matches) with 230 million viewers tuning in for the reside broadcast with 53 billion minutes of watch-time throughout TV & Digital platforms.
ICC Chairman, Jay Shah stated, “The Champions Trophy made a tremendous return after eight years and the viewership numbers from India have been overwhelming, specifically the ultimate between India and New Zealand,” as quoted from a launch by ICC.
The @ICC #ChampionsTrophy viewership numbers from India launched at present by our nice companions @StarSportsIndia and @JioHotstar are wonderful, specifically for the Last between India and New Zealand which turned one of many highest rated ODIs in historical past with 230M viewers tuning in.… pic.twitter.com/kZlKIVnK1g
— Jay Shah (@JayShah) March 21, 2025
“The unbelievable viewership numbers spotlight the mass attraction that cricket has in India and the way taking ICC occasions to audiences in numerous languages can considerably increase fan engagement. The success of the Champions Trophy advertising technique is obvious, creating pleasure in present and new fanbases, complimented by extremely thrilling cricket all through the occasion,” he added.
CEO Sports activities, Jio Star, Sanjog Gupta, “This accomplishment is a results of the mixed power of the widest, most deeply penetrated multi-platform vacation spot for sports activities, the fan-focussed story-telling strategy of the JioStar ‘mega-casts’ and our superior technological capabilities,” as quoted from a launch by ICC.
“The curiosity within the match was fuelled by a one-of-a-kind cohort-based advertising effort which constructed numerous apertures for the match as a way to recruit at scale, differentiated viewers segments with distinct persuasions throughout gadgets. India’s unbeaten, title-winning marketing campaign, additional fuelled the fervour of the followers and drove the spike in viewership for the Last,” he added.
The high-profile league encounter between archrivals India and Pakistan turned one of the vital watched ODI matches ever in India, clocking over 26 billion minutes of watch-time on linear TV as per figures launched by the Broadcast Viewers Analysis Council.
The chartbuster achieved a powerful 10.8 % increased tv score than the India-Pakistan match within the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 performed in Ahmedabad that had registered 19.5 billion linear viewing minutes in comparison with 26.5 billion minutes within the Champions Trophy match.
The match, performed to a packed home in Dubai on 23 February, was witnessed by a document 206 million folks on linear TV as India continued their dominance over Pakistan in international ICC occasions with famous person Virat Kohli carving a memorable six-wicket win for the eventual champions.
The outstanding viewership numbers are largely as a result of rights holders JioStar had ensured huge protection with channels taking the motion reside to properties throughout the nation in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada on Star Sports activities and Sports activities 18 channels.
On digital channels, the match was streamed reside throughout a document 16 feeds together with 9 languages – English, Hindi, Marathi, Haryanvi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, 4 multi-cam feeds, Indian Signal Language feed and the Max View feed on JioHotstar. Followers and viewers have been deeply engaged with high-stakes match by means of charming programming within the lead-up and thru the match.
