Today’s theme: E sports

E sports is expected to become a $1 billion advertising industry by 2021. This is going to be primarily driven by video with video - along with influencer marketing and sponsorship. Since the turn of the millennium, Esports has gone well and truly global. In 2000, the World Cyber Games and the Electronic Sports World Cup were both launched and these are major international annual tournaments still held today. It was in the 2000s that we really started to see a rise in big money prizes for competitors and teams and the growth of televised tournaments making it much closer to the industry we now know.

>>>The Conversationalist with

(left) Brendan Valdes, from the United States, who appears regularly on SPOTV. He’s a caster for Starcraft 2 and also for LCK.

(right) Christopher Smith, from Australia, who works with OGN affiliated with CJ E&M. He’s a caster for League of Legends Championships Korea.

“What is it like to cast for an important match, in a stadium packed with hundreds of audience, compared to when you’re casting in your own room with a webcam?

Why do you think the act of watching other people play games can be entertaining, even to non-players?”

>>>A Few Minutes with Amos

Ever since I was younger and I first started buying DVDs I loved commentary tracks.

You learn a lot about how they made the movie.

The Simpsons DVD releases actually had a commentary for every single episode.

But then in 2015 they stopped at season 17. And now they only release them digitally. With the rise of streaming there are less and less DVDs or blurays with commentary tracks.

>>>Next week: Farming (in time for Chuseok)