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Kolkata Knight Riders are Biggest IPL Spender in 2020

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Source: Statista

In the 2020 season of The Indian Premier League the Mumbai Indians emerged victorious once again. While there are many aspects that can influence a team’s performance up until the finals, how much money is spent on players is a factor considered crucial for success.

But this is not always true: As far as spending on new players goes, the Kolkata Knight Riders spent most in the 2020 auction, followed by Kings XI Punjab, last year’s biggest spenders. The teams spent $3.7 million and $3.5 million on new players at the end of 2019, according to website CricTracker. The Mumbai Indians spent “only” $1.5 million and still emerged as the most successful team.

YouTube is King of Sports Highlights

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Sports have been largely successful in their restart from COVID-19 lockdowns in the U.S. Baseball and football have only had a few instances of positive cases associated with their restarts, while the NBA season officially ended with zero positive cases occurring in their socially distanced DisneyWorld bubble. With sports almost feeling like normal, data shows which social media outlet people are going to for their favorite highlights.

According to survey data collected by Ring Digital, YouTube remains the go-to social media platform for sports fans to watch highlights. With 53 percent of fans saying they visit YouTube for their highlights, that beats out other popular platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat with 45 percent, 30 percent and 16 percent, respectively. Other places fans watch their sports highlights are on TikTok, Twitter and Reddit.

Most social media platforms rose substantially in viewership since the last survey in 2017, with YouTube rising 10 percentage points and Instagram rising 13 percentage points. The only platform to fall was Facebook with a dismal 18 percentage point drop in sports fans viewing highlights on the platform.