This week’s guest on the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein is Bryce Blum, esports attorney/consultant, and all-around guru when it comes to the booming esports business. If you’re already in the business, you’ll learn more from Bryce here. If you’re not in the business yet, you’ll learn why you need to pay attention – $100 million valuations […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Jace Hall, the CEO of esports organization Echo Fox, works closely with NBA types. Former NBA player Rick Fox co-founded Echo Fox in 2015. Among the employees that Hall oversees is Jared Jeffries, a former NBA player and front office executive who is now Echo Fox’s team president. With the NBA set […]
Esports company ESL announced Monday it is partnering with Hulu to bring its content to a streaming video on-demand service for the first time. Four new esports series developed and produced by ESL — gamified debate show Player v. Player, docu-series Bootcamp that follows CS: GO team The Immortals, Defining Moments for esports history, and […]
Konami, the Japanese entertainment company, will now have their Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) League World Tour 2018, the e-sports world championship that will determine the No. 1 PES 2018 player, be the official UEFA Champions League e-sports competition. “We look forward to this season’s PES e-sports events and the opportunity it provides for gamers and […]
A report published Wednesday by Nielsen outlines a number of key facts and figures about the current esports audience in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany. One telling statistic is that Call of Duty is by far the most popular game for esports fans in America, with 61 percent of esports fans playing—even more so […]
