Gaming and eSports performance brand, Fnatic, has appointed IMG, the sports marketing agency, as its exclusive commercial agency to accelerate the eSports organisation’s growth worldwide. Under the agreement, IMG will provide new sponsorship opportunities for Fnatic across its performance team’s jersey, talent, and digital assets. This includes branded content opportunities for Fnatic’s global network of […]
Stream Hatchet, a streaming analytics and business intelligence platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of GameSquare Holdings, has published its 2024 second quarter Live-Streaming Trends Report. “Through the first half of 2024, Live-streaming has grown past the prior peak viewership experienced during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Live-streaming’s resurgence has been fueled over the past six months by […]
Vertically-integrated, digital media, entertainment and technology company GameSquare Holdings, in conjunction with its wholly-owned analytics and business intelligence platform Stream Hatchet, has published its annual gaming and esports Trends Report “Live streaming is a powerful driving force in the evolution of the creator economy,” says Justin Kenna, CEO of GameSquare. “Our 2024 trends report validates […]
Appear, the global player in media processing and delivery technology, has announced their technology will support Riot Games and its series of live global esports remote broadcasts. Riot’s esports broadcast productions across League of Legends Esports (LoL Esports) and the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) are consumed by millions each year both physically and virtually, bringing […]
Indian eSports startup FanClash, has raised $40 million (€38.1m) Series B funding to fuel its mission to build a global eSports fantasy, data and fan engagement platform. This succeeds a Series A round of $10 million from Sequoia Capital India, Falcon Edge (Alpha Wave Ventures) and Info Edge India in August 2021. Existing investors along […]
Consumers average more than 90 minutes of smartphone gaming and approximately 7 separate gaming sessions per day, according to Global Wireless Solutions’ (GWS) State of Mobile Gaming in 2021. But heavy gaming app usage across all ages and genders isn’t translating to a significant financial investment, as more than half (55 per cent) of mobile […]
Netflix’s Arcane leads the Whip Watch Report of streaming originals among French viewers for the week of November 15-21. The Whip Watch Report ranks the most viewed series originating from SVoD platforms in the past week. Arcane, the animated series based on the popular League of Legends video game, continues to climb the charts taking […]
Netflix’s Lucifer leads the Whip Watch Report of streaming originals among German viewers for the week of November 8th – 14th. The Whip Watch Report ranks the most viewed series originating from SVoD platforms in the past week. Second on the list is You, followed by the third and final season of Narcos: Mexico which […]
Riot Games has announced the launch of a global campaign to promote the upcoming League of Legends on-screen series, Arcane. Together with London based experiential agency We Are Collider, the fully integrated campaign will feature a blend of experiential, digital, social and out-of-home activations in cities worldwide coinciding with the release dates of each episode […]
The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has published its Game Mode report for the first quarter of 2021, ranking Saudi Arabia’s telecom service providers based on their video game performance. This quarter’s Game Mode report reveals that Zain, a local telecom operator, has the best video game quarterly performance. Zain outperformed Mobily, Saudi Telecom […]