What’s happening in esports: Drivers, trends, and opportunities

Gaming as a talent and audience opportunity: Collaborations with gaming influencers and streamers, Investments in esports leagues and brands, Label imprints and management arms focused on gaming and esports,

Gaming is expanding its reach into every part of our lives (education, medicine, music) and is becoming the foremost battleground for the future of big tech. This strikes me as analogous to the Facebook story from above. The market clearly believes video games represent a valuable opportunity, but may be underrating the scale by orders of magnitude... See more

This trend is driven in part by the rise in technical sophistication for more complex game ecosystems, which are expanding and becoming democratized through game engines like Unity and Unreal.

From what we have seen thus far during the recent weeks and months, gaming is not only enormous, but it is currently exploding in the COVID-19 era of social distancing.