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Evans: Gaming stream viewership is larger than Netflix, HBO, or ESPN
“Watching people play games is now bigger than Netflix, or bigger than HBO, or bigger than ESPN.”
ESPN rejected Tilt's pitch for a Magic Johnson-led LeBron dunk campaign
“We mocked something up overnight, and sent it to Ryan. I was like, we need to do this to where Magic Johnson is hosting a crowdfunding campaign, branded ESPN for LeBron, to the, to do the dunk contest. I thought it was, ah, slam dunk. Actually, that was no pun…”
ESPN deployed a GPT-3 database query system in production in September 2021
“We deployed this In production at ESPN in September, 21.”
Jeff Jordan: ESPN and Sports Illustrated are in steep decline
“The iconic Sports media properties, ESPN and Sports Illustrated are both in decline. Sports Illustrated, they're, like, trying to give it away. I mean, it's now down to, like, a dozen issues a year, and, you know, literally they're trying to sell it, and they'…”
Hammond: Drone racing will be broadcast on ESPN by 2018
“I think we're only a year or two out before this is broadcast on ESPN, because just, it's some of the most exciting things to watch.”
Jordan: Cord-cutting is eroding ESPN's subscriber base
“There's enormous disruption in, ah, in the TV business, and the cutting of the cord, the unplugging of the bundles, ESPN's subscribers have started to go down, but people are still consuming sports, so they're consuming them different ways”
Requiring Facebook logins elevates online comment and engagement quality for ESPN
“And simple things like using Facebook as a qualifier for conversation. It lifts the quality of engagement.”
Native Twitter video playback is ESPN's fastest-growing video segment
“Fastest growing part of our video business is, you know, again, frictionless, one click video play within the Twitter feed.”
ESPN SportsCenter app logged-in user rate grew from 0% to 70%
“Over the last year, you know, we put a gate up in front of our largest Mobile apps, SportsCenter and in a year went from zero percent of people logged in because they were customizing to the device as opposed to the user name, and it's now, you know, around 70…”
ESPN signed multiple startup deals from one a16z executive briefing day
“And in six hours probably met 15 companies. This was one of them. And we walked out of there actually with a couple deals, a couple interesting partnerships.”
ESPN expects to reach 15 million fantasy sports players this year
“We'll have, I think across all of our fantasy games this year, fifteen million players.”
ESPN's Tilt integration achieved record feature adoption for the sports network
“I think the CTO was on y'all's side was telling us that it's one of the highest maybe highest uptick in a brand new feature that they've seen.”