The 1 Reason You Need To Become A Pro-Gamer NOW!
By the end of 2021 eSports and the video game streaming industry will be worth $2.1 BILLION, and it’s expected to grow rapidly. According to Juniper Research the industry will be worth $3.5 BILLION by 2025! That’s nearly a 70% growth in the industry over the next 4 years! Of course this means tournaments featuring the best of the best, playing in stadiums with live audiences, and streaming on exclusive channels. However, this also includes streamers (casuals and try-hards alike) that broadcast to the community they’ve built over Twitch or YouTube.
The increase in the value of the industry comes from ad revenue over streams due to increasing viewers as well as subscription fees paid per channel/gamer. The study also forecasts viewership being north of 1 billion by the end of 2025. That means that 1 out of every 8 people will watch some sort of professional gaming that year. The Asian Pacific region is expected to be heavily engaged in the viewing of professional gaming, accounting for about half of the overall viewers.
The increase in viewership will cause tighter competition between content streaming platforms. In order to capture as many viewers as possible, the streaming platforms will have to promote to new audiences by aligning with other industries, like professional traditional sports like Formula One and the NFL.
So what does this mean to you? Now is the time to start streaming. It’s not exactly the ground floor, but the opportunity for growth right now is so tremendous that it might as well be. The sooner you start streaming your gameplay, the sooner you will build your community, and the more pull you’ll have as the masses come to your platform looking for someone to whom they can relate. The more viewership, the faster you’ll be monetized, and then you’re doing what you love as a career. You can either start today or a year from now you’ll wish you had.
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