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stake in content creator-focused entertainment company Faze Media. Bengtson initially was behind esports outfit Faze Clan, which he co-founded back in 2010. Richard 'Faze Banks' Bengtson has acquired a 25.5% Bengtson, also its CEO, now owns 31% of the firm.
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Guild Esports has announced that it has signed a subscription agreement to raise up to £1 million. The investment was from an international esports, content creation, and media brand.
In the past decade, esports has evolved into a billion-dollar industry, with dozens of leagues, thousands of athletes, teams, franchises, and rising fan culture. Moving from there to building a whole AI-driven data infrastructure and generative AI storytelling solution for the esports industry felt pretty natural.
One of the prime examples to showcase this culture is eSports. Born out of the inherently competitive nature of video games, eSports today is competitive video gaming that rivals any other form of sports. The origins of eSports can be traced back to the 1980s. The origins of eSports can be traced back to the 1980s.
So far she has facilitated the awards of esports athletes between the ages of 8 and 18 with rewards such as dedicated gaming laptops and Amazon vouchers. She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today. Now there are hundreds of millions.
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eSports I think there’s a few of them. That’s eSports. I’ve watched how they’ve grown up around all of media and their connections with brands and game brands. And then you have the audiences for the superstar streamers like Ninja and others like PewDiePie that post a lot of content on YouTube. So eSports is a big deal.
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