Mumbai : Star Sports, the official broadcaster of VIVO IPL 2019 recently introduced ‘Voting on Google Search’, an exclusive voting partnership with Google that integrated technology into the cricketing experience for fans. This partnership gave millions of fans across the country a platform to voice their opinion on their favorite cricketer and show support for their favorite team. With the increasing popularity of this newly-launched platform, more than 1.5 millionfans have already cast their vote for their favourite players – teams.
Fans can simply show support for their favorite team and vote for their favorite cricketer using a Google Assistant-enabled device by saying, ‘Ok Google, talk to VIVO IPL and vote’ orbysearching for ‘VIVO IPL Vote’ on Google search bar. The platform was launched with preseason voting where people chose their favorite between M.S. Dhoni and Virat Kohli. After the season started on 23rd March, daily voting was conducted for teams and players, and will continue until the end of VIVO IPL 2019.
How it works: Google Vote for VIVO IPL has a new question every day for the fans to cast their vote which is based on the day’s match.
The VIVO IPL is being broadcast on the following channels everyday:
English – StarSports1 + StarSports1 HD (StarSports2 + StarSports2 HD till 31st March 2019)
Hindi – StarSports1 Hindi + StarSports1 Hindi HD
Dugout – StarSports Select 1 + StarSports Select 1 HD
Tamil – StarSports1 Tamil
Telugu – StarSports1 Telugu + Maa Movies SD + HD
Kannada- StarSports1 Kannada
Bangla – StarSports1 Bangla + Jalsha Movies SD+HD
Additionally, on Sundays:
Hindi – Star Gold SD + HD
Tamil – Vijay Super SD
Kannada – Star Suvarna SD + HD
Marathi – Star Pravah SD + HD
Malayalam – Asianet Plus SD