The Golden Age of E-gaming

A study by e-sports on "GlobalWebIndex" shows that their audience following e-sports has grown up to 50% in the past 12 months, and 22% of all internet users have been watching a video game tournament in the past months. The joint report of "We Are Social" and "Hootsuite" reveals that approximately 1 billion people around the world watch video game tournaments.

Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Serie A football league in Italy suspended all matches of the 2019/2020 season until April 3, 2020. The data reveal that the television value of these matches is roughly 316.5m euros. In particular, the TV rights value of 86 matches to be broadcast on Sky is measured as 252.2 million euros, and the value of 38 matches to be shown in Dazn is 64.3 million euros.

Of course, due to the danger of COVID-19 we are in, real-life matches are canceled, while organizers and e-sports officials either cancel or postpone a series of large-scale events and competitions. As regular matches or concerts, gaming tournaments are big events where many people will gather in a small space, so the organizers make this decision to prevent the spread of the virus. For example, the largest game fair in the world, E3, has announced that it has events on 9-11 June due to the coronavirus.

Game Agency and the M-Sport agency reported Turkish gaming market, according to prepared by the Turkey Game Industry reports in 2019 not only with foreign investors, but also export, e-sports, continues day by day growth through brand investment and game development.

According to this report, even the early elections in 2018 and the rapid increase in the dollar exchange rate did not exceed investments in the gaming industry. Both large and medium-sized organizations were held for e-sports. Exports doubled in the digital gaming industry in 2017-2018, and this figure was reported to be $ 1 billion 50 million in the first quarter of 2019.