YouTube expected to bid for IPL 2023-2027 Media Rights
June 10, 2022 | SportsGuff Team 670 ReadsYouTube is expected to bid on the media rights for IPL 2023-2027 cycle which is going to be e-auctioned on June 12, 2022 including some other big names too.
Start Sports had bought the broadcasting right of IPL for 2018-2022 cycle for a whopping amount of INR 16,347 crore (USD 2.55 billion) which has now come to end after the completion of IPL 2022.
The auction is going to be held on 12th June and BCCI has invited interested bidders. Big names including Amazon (owned by Jeff Bezos) and Jio (owned by Mukesh Ambani) have shown interest in the auction.
Sony and Star Sports are more likely to bag the deal yet again despite a number of big houses showing their interests.
We have listed out some of the interested bidders :
- Star Sports
- Sony
- Jio
- Amazon Prime Video
- YouTube
- Netflix, Apple, Facebook
- Fancode, MX Player