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Global Esports Market - Forecast up to 2025

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[75 Report Pages] Esports is a potential market for the global gaming industry and it is experiencing a steady growth that is mainly driven by cloud gaming and mobile gaming. With the proliferation of smartphones with more and more processing power coupled with 5G network gaining popularity, Esports is expected to grow with a CAGR of ~20% in the years between 2019–2025. In the same period, the gaming industry is expected to be more interactive and streaming based. The countries that generate a major portion of the revenue in gaming industry include China, Japan, US, Germany, South Korea, France, Canada, and UK.

Global Esports market is expected to cross $3 billion by the end of 2025 due to growing popularity of Esports worldwide and the growing support of game publishers for Esports.

Esports is a form of videogame competition event which is organized online or offline. Esports is gaining huge attention with many gaming events being telecasted on social media and streaming sites including YouTube and Twitch. Esports market is expected to cross $3 billion by the end of 2025 with major competitions occurring in games like Dota 2, Fortnite, and League of Legend. Real Time Strategy (RTS), Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA), and First-Person Shooter (FPS) are the most common type of game genres witnessed in most of the Esports events.

The popularity of Esports have increased since 2010 with a greater number of revenue streams arriving in the form of merchandising and corporate sponsorships apart from traditional revenue streams like broadcasting rights of the event and tickets to the event. As of 2019, game streaming platform -Twitch is one of the major broadcasting mediums for Esports. Esports events including E LEAGUE Major, Genesis, Evo Japan, and WESG which generates more viewers for video game streaming platforms. Also, Esports events are providing more prize money for winners due to growing revenue streams.

Based on the geography, the Esports market is split into North America, Europe, APAC, and RoW. RoW includes Middle East, South America, and Africa. North America is the leading revenue generator in the global Esports market with a major share of the market contributed by the US. North American market for Esports is mainly driven by growing number of audiences for Esports and APAC is one of the fastest growing market in the global Esports market with major growth being witnessed in China, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.

Based on revenue model, the global Esports market is segmented into advertisement, sponsorship, media rights, and others. Others include game publisher fees and revenue generated from the sales of ticket and merchandise. Advertisement and sponsorship accounted for the major part of the revenue generated by the Esports market in 2018.

Based on audience, the global Esports market is segmented into regular viewers and occasional viewers. Regular viewers include fans and hardcore game enthusiasts who watch Esports regularly. As of 2019, regular viewers accounted for a major share in the market.

Based on gender, the global Esports market is segmented into male viewers and female viewers. As of 2019, male viewers especially those within the age group of 20–35 accounted for a major part of the market share.

Esports market is primarily dominated by major companies which organize Esports events and game publishers. Some of the major vendors in the market are Cloud9, Team SoloMid, Team Liquid, Epic Games, Valve Corporation, Activision Blizzard, and Echo Fox. Other prominent vendors in the market include Fnatic, Gen.G Esports (formerly KSV Esports), 100 Thieves, G2 Esports, Immortals, Envy Gaming, Counter Logic Gaming, Nintendo, Tencent, Hi-Rez Studios, and EA Sports. The market is expected to witness an increase in the number of audience and tournaments in the forecast period which may lead to a greater number of vendors (including game publishers and gaming organizations) entering in the market.

According to Infoholic Research, global Esports market will grow at a CAGR of nearly 20% during the forecast period 2019–2025. The aim of this report is to define, analyze, and forecast the Esports market based on segments, which includes revenue model, gender, audience, and region. In addition, live game streaming market report helps venture capitalists in understanding the companies better and make well-informed decisions and is primarily designed to provide the company’s executives with strategically substantial competitor information, data analysis, and insights about the market, development, and implementation of an effective marketing plan.


  • The report comprises an analysis of vendor profile, which includes financial status, business units, key business priorities, SWOT, business strategies, and views.

  • The report covers the competitive landscape, which includes M&A, joint ventures & collaborations, and competitor comparison analysis.

  • In the vendor profile section, for companies that are privately held, the financial information and revenue of segments will be limited.



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1                 Executive Summary

2                 Industry Outlook

2.1             Industry Snapshot

2.1.1         Industry Trends

3                 Market Snapshot

3.1             Total Addressable Market

3.2             Segmented Addressable Market

3.2.1         PEST Analysis

3.2.2         Porter’s Five Force Analysis

3.3             Related Markets

4                 Market Characteristics

4.1             Market Ecosystem

4.2             Market Segmentation

4.3             Market Dynamics

4.3.1         Drivers

4.3.1.1      Growth in the number of revenue streams for Esports vendors

4.3.1.2      XXXX

4.3.2         Restraints

4.3.2.1      XXXX

4.3.2.2      Underage Esports gambling leading to stringent government regulations

4.3.3         Opportunities

4.3.3.1      Growth of 5G network and increasing investment in live game streaming services

4.3.3.2      XXXX

4.3.4         DRO – Impact Analysis

5                 Global Esports Market, By Revenue Model

5.1             Overview

5.2             Advertisement

5.3             Sponsorship

5.4             Media Rights

5.5             Others

6                 Global Esports Market, By Audience

6.1             Overview

6.2             Regular Viewers

6.3             Occasional Viewers

7                 Global Esports Viewers, By Gender

7.1             Overview

7.2             Male

7.3             Female

8                 Global Esports Market, By Region

8.1             Overview

8.2             APAC

8.2.1         China

8.2.2         Japan

8.2.3         South Korea

8.2.4         Rest of APAC

8.3             North America

8.3.1         USA

8.3.2         Canada

8.3.3         Mexico

8.4             Europe

8.4.1         Germany

8.4.2         UK

8.4.3         France

8.4.4         Rest of Europe

8.5             RoW

8.4.1         South America

8.4.2         Middle East and Africa

9                 Competitive Landscape

9.1             Competitor Analysis

9.2             Product/Offerings

9.3             Market Developments

9.3.1         Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

9.3.2         Expansions

9.3.3         Business Restructuring

10              Vendor Profiles

10.1           Cloud9

10.1.1       Analyst Opinion

10.1.2       Business Analysis

10.2           Team SoloMid

10.2.1       Analyst Opinion

10.2.2       Business Analysis

10.3           Team Liquid

10.3.1       Analyst Opinion

10.3.2       Business Analysis

10.4           Epic Games

10.4.1       Analyst Opinion

10.4.2       Business Analysis

10.5           Valve Corporation

10.5.1       Analyst Opinion

10.5.2       Business Analysis

10.6           Activision Blizzard

10.6.1       Analyst Opinion

10.6.2       Business Analysis

10.7           Echo Fox

10.7.1       Analyst Opinion

10.7.2       Business Analysis

10.8           Tencent

10.8.1       Analyst Opinion

10.8.2       Business Analysis

10.9           Fnatic

10.9.1       Analyst Opinion

10.9.2       Business Analysis

10.10        Gen.G Esports

10.10.1     Analyst Opinion

10.10.2     Business Analysis

10.11        100 Thieves

10.12        G2 Esports

10.13        Immortals

10.14        Envy Gaming

10.15        Counter Logic Gaming

10.16        Nintendo

10.17        Hi-Rez Studios

10.18        EA Sports

11              Annexure

11.1           Report Scope

11.2           Market Definition

11.3           Research Methodology

11.3.1       Data Collation & In-house Estimation

11.3.2       Market Triangulation

11.3.3       Forecasting

11.4           Study Declarations

11.5           Report Assumptions

11.6           Stakeholders

11.7           Abbreviations

TABLE 1    KEY FACTS ABOUT GAMING INDUSTRY 2018    
TABLE 2    GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET 2018–2025 ($MILLION)    
TABLE 3    GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET, BY REVENUE MODEL, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)    
TABLE 4    GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET, BY AUDIENCE, 2018–2025    
TABLE 5    GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET, BY GENDER, 2018–2025    
TABLE 6    GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY 2018–2025 ($MILLION)    
TABLE 7    MAJOR COMPANIES AND THEIR OPERATIONS    
TABLE 8    PRODUCT/OFFERINGS: GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET    
TABLE 9    MERGER & ACQUISITION, 2016–2019
TABLE 10    EXPANSIONS, 2016–2019    
TABLE 11    BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING, 2016–2019    
TABLE 12    CLOUD9: OVERVIEW    
TABLE 13    CLOUD9: STRATEGIC SNAPSHOT    
TABLE 14    CLOUD9: PRODUCT/SERVICE PORTFOLIO    
TABLE XX    XX: XXX    
TABLE XX    XX: XXX    
TABLE XX    XX: XXX        
TABLE XX    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET: DATA COLLATION    
TABLE XX    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET: TRIANGULATION
TABLE XX    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF GLOBAL ESPORTS MARKET: FORECASTING    

Research Framework

Infoholic Research works on a holistic 360° approach in order to deliver high quality, validated and reliable information in our market reports. The Market estimation and forecasting involves following steps:

  • Data Collation (Primary & Secondary)
  • In-house Estimation (Based on proprietary data bases and Models)
  • Market Triangulation
  • Forecasting
Methodology

Market related information is congregated from both primary and secondary sources.

Primary sources

Involved participants from all global stakeholders such as Solution providers, service providers, Industry associations, thought leaders etc. across levels such as CXOs, VPs and managers. Plus, our in-house industry experts having decades of industry experience contribute their consulting and advisory services.

Secondary sources

Include public sources such as regulatory frameworks, government IT spending, government demographic indicators, industry association statistics, and company publications along with paid sources such as Factiva, OneSource, Bloomberg among others.

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