eSports will be bigger than traditional sports
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Claims that eSports already rival traditional sports rest on concrete numbers and business moves: Twitch draws 50 million daily viewers versus 7 million Thursday-night NFL viewers for a single game, reported per-user monetization sits at $2–$4 per monthly viewer versus NFL’s much higher CPMs, and publishers are franchising leagues (Riot’s LCS now has 10 franchised LCS teams) so teams capture league-level revenue. Teams sell multi-million-dollar sponsorships, platforms optimize around hours-watched, and the ecosystem layers creators, leagues and game developers into monetizable channels.
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