Discord Gaming Chat Platform Is Bigger Than Slack (video)

Discord - The Gaming Chat Platform That's Bigger Than Slack

Discord, a free chat app designed for gamers, has been rapidly growing since it launched in 2015,  with upwards of 250 million user accounts today, about the same as Fortnite, plus 14 million daily active users, which is more than business chat-app Slack. It allows users to chat privately in groups that cannot be discovered through searches. The company markets itself explicitly to gamers, but it has servers devoted to everything from stock trading to meme sharing and fantasy football. CNBC.com video above published Apr 11, 2019.

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Fortnite Twitch Streams Outdraw Some Of Cable's Biggest Shows (video)

Fortnite Twitch Streams Outdraw Some Of Cable's Biggest Shows

CNBC.com video above published Jun 18, 2018: Fortnite is one of the biggest video games on the market. The live streams are pulling in numbers that are more than some cable television shows. Since it launched the Battle Royale game mode, Fortnite has come to dominate Twitch.

Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games (epicgames.com) and People Can Fly (peoplecanfly.com) and published by Epic Games.

Twitch is a live streaming video platform owned by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. Introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform, Justin.tv, the site primarily focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of eSports competitions, in addition to creative content, "in real life" streams, and recently, music broadcasts. Content on the site can either be viewed live or via video on demand.

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The Business of eSports, Podcast & Infographic

Arlington, Texas may already be the home of the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers but its mayor Jeff Williams told Keeping Score host Rick Horrow about the city’s plans to become middle America’s esports mecca. Release date: 10 June 2018

source: Infographic: The Business of eSports | VisualCapitalist.com.

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eSports Growth Expected to Draw One Billion Dollars in Revenue (video)

E-Sports Growth Expected to Draw $1B in Revenue:

Videogaming as a spectator sport is drawing the attention of mainstream advertisers as they try to capitalize on the spending power of millions of gamers worldwide. Published May 24, 2016, by WSJ.com.

eSports (also known as electronic sports, esports, e-sports, competitive (video) gaming, professional (video) gaming, or pro-gaming) is a form of sports where the primary aspects of the sport are facilitated by electronic systems; the input of players and teams as well as the output of the eSports system are mediated by human-computer interfaces. Most commonly eSports take the form of organized multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players. The most common video game genres associated with eSports are real-time strategy, fighting, first-person shooter (FPS), and multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). Tournaments such as The International, the League of Legends World Championship, the Battle.net World Championship Series, the Evolution Championship Series, and the Intel Extreme Masters, provide both live broadcasts of the competition, and prize money and salaries to competitors.(Wikipedia)

More information:

• Amazon's Twitch: twitch.tv
• http://www.esportsearnings.com/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/esports/
• Largest Fantasy eSports Website Raises $12 Million | Forbes.com: "... it only took the company Vulcun.com a total of eleven weeks of existence to secure the $12 million raise, which was assisted by Vulcun’s new partnership with venture capital firm Sequoia Capital (sequoiacap.com). The raise by fantasy eSports website Vulcun is one of the largest to date in the eSports industry, which is quickly becoming a real area of focus for venture capitalists ..."

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