Video game holding company Activision Blizzard published its financial earnings for the fourth quarter and full-year 2020. The company generated quarterly net revenues of $2.41B USD, up 21.5% compared to $1.99B during the same period of 2019. For the full-year 2020, Activision Blizzard recorded net...
Call of Duty League team Minnesota RØKKR has hired Jenna Johnson as its new director of partnership strategy & activation. Prior to joining RØKKR, Johnson worked for NYC-based TLC Marketing Worldwide as its director of operation for a year. Before that, she spent more than...
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ONE Championship subsidiary ONE Esports has partnered with tournament operator PGL and the Singapore Tourism Board to bring a Dota 2 Major to Singapore at the end of March. The ONE Esports Dota 2 Singapore Major Presented by PGL will take March 27 – April...
The U.S. esports organization FlyQuest has secured the rights to broadcast the Spring 2021 season of the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) in Spanish from Riot Games. Through the deal, FlyQuest will not only stream its own matches, but all the matches of the...
Swedish esports tournament platform Epulze has announced a partnership with VPgame, a multi-purpose esports service platform, to organise a range of professional and grassroots competitions. According to the release, the aim of the partnership is to grow grassroots level esports in Asia by combining the functionality...
Riot Games has hired Ryan Crosby as its new head of marketing and consumer products. Prior to joining Riot, Crosby worked in various marketing and public relations roles at Netflix, Hulu, Activision, Microsoft’s Xbox division, and En Masse Entertainment. Crosby joins Shauna Spenley, another former...
As we began 2021 — a year we all hope can be better than the previous — there were, as ever, some key personnel changes in the esports industry. Each month Esports Insider reports on the industry’s key movers and shakers. Here we have compiled January’s...
The ownership group of North announced Friday that it will dissolve the Danish esports organization due to the global COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact. North was founded in January 2017 as a joint venture by the danish entertainment company Nordisk Film and Danish football club FC...
Riot Games has named esports organizer LVP as its official Spanish-language broadcast partner for the Valorant Champions Tour. LVP will host an alternate-language stream throughout the year for various levels of Valorant competition as part of the tour’s three-phase competition structure. The partnership will go...