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“Gaming has become the largest entertainment medium in the world. Like, everyone under the age of 40 has played video games or plays video games. So, it's speaking to three billion regular video gamers in the world. And the esports World Cup is the largest competition because what it does, it unites all the different ga...”
“So, so you look at esports, it's not media rights driven. It's uh born out of the internet where content is free as a start of where it's accessible everywhere. That's part of the success why so many people watch it. Um it's not behind a pay wall. It's really supporting the growth of the games in the industry. Um which...”
“Esports hat immer noch ein Monetarisierungsproblem. Sponsorship läuft glaube ich gut, bis sehr gut sogar. Media Rights sehr schlecht. Das wird aber ein Problem von Sport werden, einfach weil mit wie dies ja Content entwickelt, werden nur die allerwenigsten weiterhin das monetarisieren können Medienrechte, weil die Welt...”
“Saudi hat eine Games und Esports Strategie. Das Land hat eine Vision 2030. Teil dieser Vision 2030 ist Games und Esports. Und in diesem Sommer 21, als wir in diesen Verkaufsprozess gegangen sind, wurde diese Savvy Games Group gegründet, als positioniert war von dem PIF, also von Staatsfond als ihr Vehikel, internationa...”
“das erste Land was ein 38-Jährigen Premierminister hat der selber Gamer ist dem ich nicht erklären muss was wie warum und ich glaube an ganz vielen Stellen in unserem verklärten weltblick wo wir uns eigentlich als die fortschrittlichen sehen das die Zukunft dass Gaming brutal staatlich supported wird we das kulturguld...”
“die Sache die ich am meisten bereue ist ganz sicher dass wir es nicht geschafft haben die ISL play Plattform also das die Online Community da die richtigge Ressourcen drauf zetzen das richtig zu priorisieren da auch den richtigen Entwicklungsprozess drauf zusetzen rein rein technisch und das zu dem zu machen was was es...”
“Esports, it has grown very bottom-up, very grassroots, so to speak. It has built its own culture, it's built its own built its own industry. It's a $2 billion industry. Um but if you look at traditional sports, it's kind of all government-funded, right? It's all uh there's nothing where where this is not involved on at...”
“And therefore the traditional media model and monetization is very different. It's not functioning like that. If you look into the next years, the cycles of some of the traditional sports stuff, it's hard to see that the cycle of media rights and linear going up is continuing, right? There has been the French league th...”
“With the Esports World Cup we can bring all 3.4 billion Gamers together. We're not going to do this year one, don't get me wrong, I don't want to oversell this, but we have that unique opportunity to really unite all of this different communities from a game perspective.”
“The $20 million we put in as prizes for clubs only is a first of its kind. It's enormously big and the 7 million dollar first prize will be life-changing for that club who wins it.”
“ESL and ESL Facebook group is still way too low to you know even even remotely have the power in the market because if you look at ponopolis you need to look at who has the power right and it's it's always about the views of power that's the problem with monopolies. And if you look at it the players have all the power...”
“I think there is a bunch of things we heard on a panel yesterday here about the Microsoft Activision merger and the impact on the games industry in the games industry is so incredibly decentralized right there is different platforms mobile PC switch Playstation Xbox it's already five and none of them have like a dramat...”
“was er ja KI macht ist am Endeffekt die Content kreationskosten auf Null zu bringen aber zahlen ne ist immer Distributionskosten hat das Internet auf quasi nur gebracht und jetzt bringt content creation Kost zu null”
“ich glaube da sind so geschriebenes Wort Bilder und so wird's immer geben aber der Wettbewerb wird brutal viel stärker im nächsten Schritt dann Videofilm gerade so tiktor Kurzfilme ist auch so eine so letzte steps ist so ein Theorie Konstrukt das halt sagt okay jetzt hat gerade Kardashian content also den Influenza Con...”
“wir haben das nie gemacht um erfolgreich zu sein sondern um den Sport erfolgreich zu machen”
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