An AAU game last month involving LaMelo and LaVar Ball, broadcasted on Facebook live by Ballislife, hit 1.3 million total views, including 800,000 that tuned in live and 620,000 uniques. Ballislife, a digital content platform that specializes in amateur basketball, normally distributes its content on YouTube, and had done content on Facebook before in the […]
Esports has become such big business that mobile platform Skillz is the country’s No. 1 private company for growth by one recent estimate and the Paris 2024 Olympics organizers are considering its inclusion as a medal event. Those are just a pair of sample headlines from this month, so it’s little wonder that Nielsen, the […]
One of the biggest trash talkers in UFC history, Conor McGregor, has just released an app which sees him doing the smack talking on behalf of fans. The “MacTalk” app, available on Android and iOS, is a soundboard of 27 of McGregor’s most famous sayings from his fight career and costs $0.99 to download. Instead […]
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 […]
A swimsuit called the “Sponge Suit” — which absorbs hazardous, oil-based debris from the water as the user swims through, cleaning the water in the process — is featured in the Philadelphia Eagles’ Swimsuit Calendar, which was released last week. This technology was created using a hydrophobic, carbon based sponge-like material that is fitted by […]
