esports

“I think we're in this hockey stick right now with eSports. Like video games, it's just gonna be obvious that like, it's gonna seem, I mean, I think it's always great that people play physical sports, I'm not anti, but you know, it'll be like horseback riding, …”

“This year, global revenue will surpass one billion dollars, having been less than half a billion a mere three years ago.”

“On average, the top four North American sports leagues drove in 54 dollars of revenue per each individual fan in 2017. Esports today is about seven percent of that, or four dollars in revenue per fan.”

“If you compare each league's audience size with esports, esport leagues had a larger audience base than both Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League in 2017.”

“Gaming and eSports has like such a huge advantage over traditional sports, right? Like the idea of like the version you hear of this in the kind of traditional sports media ecosystem is like, oh, we're going to let gambling happen, right? And it's like, that's…”

“In 2017, there were three hundred thirty five million known viewers of esports content around the world. One year later, that number grew 18% to just shy of four hundred million views, and in 2019, the global esports audience base grew another 15% and surpasse…”

“E-sports and gaming just has such a huge advantage because they're coming from a blank slate, right? And they're coming from an audience that, that they can define how that consumption happens.”

“A lot of the talent is sort of moving from traditional sports into eSports in order to sort of supercharge the IQ, you know, within all of this, which is super fascinating.”

“Gaming and I guess eSports, but probably like gaming more specifically, is it's now entering that like pantheon of cultural like areas. That are now going to exist like generation over generation over generation.”

“Assuming a 14% annual growth rate beginning in 2017, which is conservative, by the way, we can expect around six hundred fifty million global esports viewers by 2022.”

“Ultimately the economics of e-sports is different because it's not an aggregation of teams that make the league. It's the league that owns the teams. Completely different. And in this case, the league is Activision, Electronic Arts, Riot, Take Two, Bethesda, a…”