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Are we starting to see a shift to commercial player transfers in esports?

Players transfers between esports teams have been happening for a long time. Most top teams now include buy-out clauses in the contracts with their players as a natural part of this. In the context of this article “commercial” is related to the business value derived from a transfer and transaction. Looking at other sports and the media reports on jersey sales and merchandise we can see that the commercial value of transfers is a valid consideration.

Reports of a new team of […]

Philip Wride2020-01-26T05:19:32+00:00January 14th, 2020|Esports|

Esports Marketing: 10 Useful Tools & Platforms

Working in esports marketing you could be involved in many different types of project. Maybe you work for a brand and have responsibility for creating esports campaigns. Or for an esports team and have responsibility for creating assets and stories for brand partners and sponsors. Perhaps you have responsibility for streamers at your organisation.

This article provides a summary of 10 tools and platforms we’ve used or seen. Some of them we’ve used in projects while others we’ve had demos of from […]

Philip Wride2020-01-07T07:18:23+00:00January 7th, 2020|Digital Marketing|

2020 Content Changes

With the start of 2020 we welcome a new year and a new decade. Like most businesses we have been reviewing activities in 2019 and planning for 2020. This planning has lead to a few changes in our content and engagement strategy.

Arabic Streaming Summaries

Last year we started a series of snapshot summaries of the latest streaming stats from Youtube and Twitch. These summaries had a core focus on Arabic language streamers or those in the Middle East region. As we continued […]

Philip Wride2020-01-05T11:03:25+00:00January 5th, 2020|Uncategorized|

Middle East Year In Review – 2019

2019 has been a big year for esports in the Middle East. We’ve seen local servers, more publishers and larger events come to the region and give players a reason to keep playing. In this article we take a snapshot look at some of the key things that happened in 2019.

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Philip Wride2019-12-18T12:33:37+00:00December 18th, 2019|Esports|

Arabic Streaming Summary – 9th December 2019

The past weekend saw 3 major events taking place in the region with the BLAST Pro Series Global Finals in Bahrain, the PUBG Mobile Star Challenge World Cup 2019 in Riyadh and the Girl Gamer Festival in Dubai. The BLAST event in Bahrain had 2 Fortnite influencers in attendance with Haman391 (who we’ve mentioned a lot) and DvLZStation playing against the public and taking selfies. This made it difficult for them to create content during the weekend and may have impacted […]

Philip Wride2019-12-16T10:54:01+00:00December 16th, 2019|Arabic Streaming|