With 2020 now behind us we’ve been able to access the data for December and with that comes our new Q4 2020 Summary Report into game streaming and viewership for the MENA region. This report differs from previous ones with some top level data on NonoLive, a streaming platform that has started to heavily impact Twitch and YouTube viewership.
Over the past few months NonoLive […]
Following on from our Q1 and Q2 reports charting the impact of COVID-19 we’re pleased to release our Q3 report. This report continues to look at game preferences for the top YouTube streamers across the region. It also provides a comparison between Twitch and YouTube viewership as well as streamer preference of game and consumer preference of game for key markets including KSA, UAE, Egypt and Iraq. For the direct country comparisons on YouTube we’ve added Kuwait due to a sustained […]
A few weeks ago EsportsInsider hosted virtual conference ESI Digital. Each day focused on a different region and Day 2 was dedicated to the Middle East. We were involved in the panel about Esports Events in the region and the challenges/opportunities. Other sessions included a case study looking at how Orange (telecoms company) are working with FATE Esports in Jordan.
The recordings from all days of the conference are now […]
Over the past month we’ve seen the good and the bad of messaging when it comes to esports partnerships.
NEOM, one of the Giga projects from Saudi Arabia partnered with both LEC and BLAST. LEC is the top tier European franchised league for League of Legends (from Riot) while BLAST has mainly focused on CS:GO tournaments.
The BLAST announcement focused on working with NEOM to build out the vision for esports academies and how forward looking NEOM is as the “city of the […]
Monday 6th July, 2020, Dubai: Intigral, a leading provider of digital entertainment and sports in MENA, is pleased to announce further expansion into the gaming and esports space through a partnership agreement with Cheesecake Digital, the leading esports and gaming agency in the Gulf.
Intigral recently introduced gaming content to the DawriPlus platform, in an expansion which will see Arabic-speaking broadcasts of local, regional and international esports and gaming tournaments transmitted […]