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Planet Money just did a special on cable channel bundling, focusing on ESPN's early days and rise to prominence, and it really made me think we're about to witn
by percentcer 13y ago
Planet Money just did a special on cable channel bundling, focusing on ESPN's early days and rise to prominence, and it really made me think we're about to witness that same path with twitch. It's perfectly positioned to be the ESPN for the internet generation.
- TillE 13y agoThe audience and money involved with e-sports is a microscopic fraction of any major professional sport. This is an interesting nerd culture thing, but if you want a serious example of sports adapting to the internet generation, look at what NBC is doing with the English Premier League. I don't have the numbers, but I'd bet that the audience for football (soccer) is growing faster in America over the past few years than the whole of e-sports.
- hayksaakian 13y agoit's still unclear where the audience will capp off as far as esports goes. soccer has been around for most living people's entire lives, whereas esports only spans 1-2 generations at most. The growth in soccer audience could be largely attributed to tech making it more accessible, whereas with esports people are completely new to the notion of competitive video games.
- cdash 13y agoAre you using a percentage growth as your measurement or an absolute value because I can guarantee you that if you are using a percentage value this is not true.
- baldfat 13y agoYeah a HUGE world wide sport that has been around for decades and has one of the largest sporting events in the world has more viewers then my nerd watch habit??? GO figure???? Millions upon millions of dollars are being made so sure eSports is a big deal.