Growth despite corona: billions

Unusually strong, the gaming and escort industry has focused on public and economy over the past few days. Only the acquisition of Activision Blizzard made by Microsoft for headlines and rising stock prices at numerous studios.

Then, at the beginning of the week with the ESL and Affect, two of the world's largest tournament organizers in the ESPORT for accumulated around 1.5 billion US dollars were adopted by the Saudi Savvy Gaming Group.

The fact that such investments can be more economically worthwhile show various market analyzes. Despite the Covid pandemic, the industry is still on the course of growth. The Analysts of Newton populate the revenues in the ESPORT for the year 2021 in their annual Global Esports & Live Streaming Market Report to just under $1.1 billion.

This means growth of around 15 percent compared to the previous year (about $950 million) and almost reflects the pre-COVID level from 2019. The ESPORT has thus been commercially available after a smaller slump in 2020 over the past few months reliability.

According to Corona burglary 2020, the ESPORT returned 2021. New zoo

1.6 billion up to 2024 forecast

Central growth drivers according to the analysts the sponsoring area. With more than $600 million, this accounted for more than half of the total turnover and thus compensated the pandemics lowered revenues in ticketing and transmission rights.

All the more remarkable is this value, as it corresponds to an increase of almost 50 percent compared to 2019. With the end of the pandemic and the return last paralyzing business fields, a further growth of total revenue is expected.

It is the big reach of the ESPORT: last year, more than 720 million people were achieved with the various live-streaming offers, which corresponds to an increase of about 10 percent compared to 2020.

Accordingly optimistic, the analysts were already in the past for the coming years. By 2024, sales will climb to about 1.6 billion US dollars, so the assessment of New zoo - a timely end of the pandemic provided.

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