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Cricket Viewership Shapes How Consumers Look for Auto Content Across the Web in India: CarToq Survey

by businesswireindia.com

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  • Consumption of auto content by 22 million digital audience increased by 15% between February to June 2018 
  • Maruti Swift and Tata Nexon emerge as the most searched for four wheeler brands
CarToq, India’s fastest growing automobile platform, with its current reach of over 22 million unique audiences every month across its web and social media properties today announced the findings of its first ever market mapping on the impact of cricket viewership on consumption of online auto content in India. The survey analysed the online search patterns of the digital audience between February to June 2018 on the CarToq platform to understand what consumers looked for during the airtime of both domestic and international matches during the peak cricket season. CarToq survey derived insights based on consumer segments comprising of 85% males and 15% females, with 48% of the audiences belonging to a high online spending age bracket of 25–34 years, followed by 23% aged between 18-24 years.
 
The peak cricket season witnessed ODIs and T20 matches played across Ireland, England, West Indies, Afghanistan, Scotland and India between teams from these nations, in addition to national teams from Bangladesh, Australia and Sri Lanka.
 
CarToq’s data insights revealed that consumption of auto content shot up by 15% on an average with audience from Bengaluru leading the race with an increase of 22%, followed by Mumbai and Delhi, which witnessed an increase in online searches by 14.68% and 8.47% respectively.
 
“There is a rising number of discerning bike and car enthusiasts and potential buyers in not only metropolitan cities (45%) but also smaller towns and cities in the country. This audience is extremely receptive to advertisements aired during cricket matches proven by the fact that their time spent on consuming auto content online increased by 13% during the peak cricket season between February to June 2018. We observed that consumers on an average spent almost 110 seconds looking at car and bike from an otherwise timespan of almost 65 seconds before the peak cricket season”, said Nitin Srivastava, CEO, CarToq.
 
CarToq’s report further highlights that at 27%, Maruti Swift was the most popular and searched-for car followed by Tata Nexon and Hyundai Creta which were looked by 19% and 17% of the audience respectively. Within the car categories, 35% of the audience looked for SUVs, as compared to sedans (17%) and hatchbacks (15%).
 
Therefore expectedly, majority of the digital audience (47%), searched for advices related to buying and selling of cars. As a precursor to that, 27% potential customers were also observed browsing through content and videos focusing on comparisons and reviews, while 16% of the audience searched for information related to car maintenance.
 
Nitin further stated, “We will continue to strengthen our proposition as the leading engagement platform in auto. Leveraging this position, we are rolling out innovative audience engagement advertising solutions via digital and social media for automotive brands in India as brands are beginning to see CarToq as one of the most effective Top-of-the-Funnel media solutions to tap the growing audience base of existing and potential buyers.” 

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Cricket viewership shapes how consumers look for auto content across the web in India: CarToq survey Source: Businesswire
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