Viewership of esports may be booming right now, but the drastically slowed ad market has made capitalizing on that audience difficult. Twitch racked up 1.1 billion hours watched last month, the largest amount of views in the gaming platform’s nine-year history. Even esports upstarts have enjoyed bumper audiences in the absence of live sports.

  Online Games and Esports Are Thriving In The Global Lockdown Environment   ESPL today announces a new strategic partnership with Paytm First Games, which is India’s fastest growing gaming destination that have more than half a million daily active gamers on the platform. Paytm First Games has witnessed 200 percent growth in the last month,

With the advancement of technology today, the esports sector entered year 2020 with many good aspirations and trajectory for the year ahead. But everything has changed since the COVID-19 outbreak.   Event disruption With more and more countries affected by the global COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic daily, numerous esports events and tournaments have been postponed or canceled

Esports is hot. Revenues, viewership, and investor interest is growing, according to a survey of more than 200 esports executives by law firm Foley & Lardner LLP and The Esports Observer. A surge in esports investment is expected to come primarily from private equity and venture capital firms and from traditional professional sports teams and leagues, athletes, and

Esports Pro League (ESPL), the recently launched global esports tournament with emphasis on amateur gamer community, today announces that it is partnering eGG Network (“eGG”), Southeast Asia’s largest eSports TV channel, for its soon-to-be-launched esports tournament. eGG is owned by Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (“Astro”) and broadcasts to eight countries in Southeast Asia and Australia

Expect more esports action with the latest partnership between eGG Network, Axis Esports and Esports Pro League (ESPL), a new esports tournament that focuses on amateur gamers aspiring to go pro. eGG Network will be ESPL’s media partner, while esports organiser Axis Esports will be the tournament’s first-ever country franchisee. “ESPL is the first esports

The eSports Pro League (ESPL) is announcing today that it will create a global esports tournament and media network, starting with national esports competitions in Asia, starting in 2020. The Singpore-based company announced it is targeting amateur gamers with a path to becoming professionals. It announced the plans at the Esports Bar Miami event that I am attending