On Tuesday, Kerala Blasters FC announced data and analytics partnership with DataPOWA. Kerala Blasters FC is the first sports club in India to partner with DataPOWA, the UK headquartered technology company offering specialist data and marketing services to the sports market.
DataPOWA’s clients include blue-chip brands (sports sponsors), gaming companies, and sports rights holders. DataPOWA uses AI & machine learning to analyze the exposure and prominence of brand logos across linear broadcast TV, video, and image assets on social media to calculate the media value. In 2019 it launched the AI software POWA index, a measurement of power, AI valuation, prediction, and ranking system, there are now over 2,500 teams, leagues, and events ranked.
DataPOWA offers excellent opportunities to Kerala Blasters FC which include access to data-driven, real-time sports sponsorship valuation engine POWA index, a platform that will incorporate data from social and digital platforms, and fan interactions across football and the wider sports marketplace.
DataPOWA’s Chief Executive, Michael Flynn, said, “It is with great pleasure that we welcome Kerala Blasters FC to DataPOWA. The information, data, and analysis out there to the Tuskers via the POWA index platform, our media valuation technology, and therefore the DataPOWA vault can ensure, they determine opportunities for business development and build additional informed data-led decisions.”
“I am elated and proud to announce that we are the first sports club in India to partner with DataPOWA. KBFC has grown substantially on the digital front over the past years. With our new partners, we hope to not only leverage our assets and perceive better media valuations for all key stakeholders of the club but also, benchmark ourselves against other significant players in the space,” said Nikhil Bhardwaj, Director, Kerala Blasters FC.
