AUSTIN, TEXAS – Traditional sports franchises that ignore esports are failing to see the bigger picture and risk being left behind, a consultant for esports’ Team Liquid, partially owned by Peter Gruber and Ted Leonsis, warned last week at South by Southwest. Nicola Piggott, cofounder of esports communication and consultant agency The Story Mob, said […]
Skillz, the mobile esports platform, announced on Wednesday it had raised $25 million in Series C funding, with the round led by media and telecommunications companies Telstra and Liberty Global and participants including Sacramento Kings co-owner Andy Miller. Miller is the chairman and co-founder of the NRG Esports organization. The round comes after Series B […]
Following the introduction of the world’s first esports ticker technology, Skillz continues to innovate. The company introduced a cross-platform, cross-app chat system on Tuesday that will enable iOS and Android users alike to communicate on some of the roughly 2,500 Skillz-integrated games. “Esports competitions connect players and fans around the world in an intrinsically social experience,” […]
Forty-three million unique viewers were reached during the 2016 League of Legends World Championship. Thirty-one million watched game seven of the 2016 NBA Finals — arguably one of the greatest games in league history. There’s no debate over the popularity of esports broadcasts. Just as networks like ESPN have made improvements to broadcasts, it’s important […]
Esports’ meteoric rise over the last five years has been astounding. Leading the charge is Skillz, a mobile esports platform with over 12 million active gamers. Inc. Magazine recently released its annual Inc. 5000 list, ranking the top privately held U.S. companies by overall revenue growth over a three-year period, and Skillz was at the […]
