How Dream11 Won During The IPL 2019

The Client

Dream11 is India’s Biggest Sports Gaming platform, with 4 crore+ users playing Fantasy Cricket, Football, Kabaddi and NBA. It is a Game of Skill that offers Indian sports fans a platform to showcase their sports knowledge.

Technical SEO is where Infidigit excels. What I liked the most about Infidigit team is the sense of clarity and eagerness to explore different solutions. We saw this first hand when they proceeded to address the challenges we faced with utmost clarity and precision. Now, with a clear roadmap in mind and data-driven SEO strategies, Infidigit continues to hit the bull’s eye in target achievement. This raises our hopes to achieve much bigger targets with them in the future.

Rituj Kate

Sr. Manager – Product at Dream11

The Objective

Dream 11 was looking to make the most out of its partnership with one of the biggest sports leagues in India- The Indian Premier League (IPL). Keeping that in mind, the following objectives were laid out:

  1. Optimise user acquisition cost by 50%
  2. Increase Fantasy click share by 20%
  3. Increase click share for IPL terms by 10 times

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The Challenge

Dream11 was struggling to rank for fantasy cricket related keywords along with IPL team searches and players pages. But, since they were the Sponsors of the IPL, they wanted to capitalize on the opportunity.

The Solution

The biggest sporting event in India, IPL, was about to start. Infidigit saw this as an opportunity worth leveraging and created new pages catering the growing demand for IPL insights. In the process, we identified relevant keywords that could be linked to the newly created pages. This strategy helped us to improve their ROI via organic channels. Along with this, we offered solutions, such as:

  • Creating New Pages
  • Syndicating Content
  • Forming Contextual Links

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The Result

Having successfully implemented our devices strategy, we were able to achieve the following results:

  1. We optimised the organic user acquisition cost by 84%, which improved their ROI via organic channels drastically.
  2. Our efforts led to an increase in the Fantasy click share by 22%
  3. The campaign led to an increase in the IPL click share by 22 times.
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84%

Optimized Organic User Acquisition Cost

22%

Click share increase in Fantasy League category

22 times

Increase in the IPL Click Share

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