The information and analytical company Nielsen has signed a two-year cooperation with Riot Games. Nielsen’s work will allow advertisers to evaluate the effectiveness of investments in esports using the example of League of Legends.

GamesIndustry.biz cites the latest figures of the esports market collected by Newzoo and gaming companies.

49% owned by the Russian Post, the bank became interested in the gaming audience. The organization plans to attract 100,000 new customers within this niche by the end of 2019. To do this, she took up investments in domestic esports.

Round table about esports. The speakers discussed the role of esports in the gaming industry, the features and impact of esports activities on the developer and publisher.

In 2018, the esports market reached $926.3 million in revenue, and by 2023, industry revenues will grow to $2.17 billion, according to the analytical company Research and Markets.

The Finnish Critical Force has received $6.3 million in investments, which will be invested in the company’s flagship project — the Critical Ops mobile shooter with competitive gameplay. The developers call the development of the game as an esports discipline with official tournaments and competitions their priority.

The profitability of the esports industry is rapidly increasing. In 2017, the turnover of the international virtual competition market was estimated at $655 million. Compared to the previous year, the increase was 33%, according to a report by Newzoo.

The Indian mobile publishing house Nazara Technologies continues to buy up local companies. The next acquisition of Nazara was the esports company Nodwin Gaming.

MTS has acquired the Gambit Esports club, Vedomosti reports.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recognized competitive esports as a type of sports activity that “can provide a platform for interaction with the Olympic movement.”

The gaming division of the Mail company. Ru Group has prepared a study on the audience of esports tournaments in our country.

Laws against gambling activities of Japanese organized crime hinder the development of the esports competition industry in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Esports competitions have become the official discipline of the Asian Summer Games, which will be held in 2022 in the Chinese city of Guangzhou.

The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation has transferred esports to the second section of the All-Russian Register, which includes sports developed at the national level: football, hockey and others.

In 2016, the market volume of esports competitions in Sweden amounted to $40 million, while Russia earned $35.4 million.

In 2016, the volume of the esports market will amount to $892.8 million. In 2 years, this figure will reach $ 1.1 billion, – this estimate was shared by the analytical company SuperData Research.