Jam-packed stadiums are now empty and high-profile sports tournaments stand canceled. With more people staying indoors, sports fanatics across the globe have taken to video gaming in the age of the pandemic. Just like how COVID-19 affected the video streaming scenario, the virus outbreak has had a monumental impact on the video gaming industry. …
Twitch, the live streaming platform owned by Amazon, buys Bebo in an effort to build out its base in the eSports industry. According to the sources, the deal values a total of $25 million for acquiring Bebo’s employees and intellectual stakes. Don’t be confused with the drowning social networking site, Twitch didn’t buy that, rather …
Riot Games, the American video game development company, announces a dedicated subscription-based streaming service for League of Legends Pro View. The service is supposed to be available on both North American League of Legends Championship Series and League of Legends European Championship. e-Sports fans can stream the league matches on their preferred device for free. …
DreamHack, the Swedish eSports production company, partners with Caffeine for livestreaming of its gaming events including Global Offensive, Counter-Strike, and Dota 2 tournaments for the rest of 2019. As per the reports, Caffeine is supposed to livestream a total of 10 DreamHack tournaments that will mainly include events from Rio, Spain, Sevilla, Sweden, Jonkoping, Texas, …
Remember the last time we talked about eSports, the time-travel was good, isn’t it! And while being on the journey, we promised to let you know the ‘Why and How’ to start your own game streaming channel. Well, better late than never. As promised, we came back with this new article where you will be …
ESPN+, the sports streaming service owned by Disney, is expecting to attract 8 to 12 million subscribers by the end of 2024. Although, ESPN+ is supposed to incur US $650 million annual losses for the current financial year 2019-2020, the leading eSports platform would reach profitability by 2023. According to Morgan Stanley’s Predictions, ESPN+ will …
If we talk about the most unique part of the Video streaming industry, it is definitely eSports. And as you have shown your interest to this post, let me first take you to a backward-trail of about 50 years when the journey of today’s most trending and in-vogue industry, eSports, started – 1972… Stanford University …
Australia’s media landscape is swiftly migrating to online platforms. Recent research shows the migrational shift to digital media is driven due to vast sports & eSports audiences across the country. Though Live TV remains the primary video channel in Australia, still more than half of audience access sports contents online. A survey charted a rapid …
Social media giant, Facebook unveiled its newly-developed suite of charitable live streaming tools. With the tools, creators can run fundraisers, set and change donation goals, show their viewers a donation progress bar, and overlay donation alerts in their live streams and chats. The features are currently available to a select group of U.S.-based gamers and …
According to a Juniper Research study, the increasing consumption of eSports and live streaming games will lead to $3.5 billion (€3.29bn) revenues by 2021, up from $1.8 billion in 2017. The research reported that through subscription services will attract more viewers, advertising will generate more revenues for esports. The research also stated that after advertising, …