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Curry, the star point guard of the NBA Golden State Warriors, reposted the cooperation video between the world-renowned e-sports team TSM and FTX on Twitter on June 5, and wrote that he has long been quite optimistic about TSM.
Curry (Stephen Curry) is a player at the historical level of the NBA. He has led the team to win three NBA championships, won the MVP of the year twice, and is the first MVP player to win unanimous votes. As early as 2018, Curry was quite optimistic about TSM, and participated in TSM's A round of financing with Warriors teammate Andra Iguodala at the time.
In fact, TSM's Series A funding can be described as star-studded. In addition to Curry and Iguodala, there are investors such as Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Indiana Pacers owner's son Steve Simon, NFL Hall of Fame star Steve Young, and Twitter strategist Collins Carrier.
Curry tweeted:
Always knew that TSM would one day go to the sky (to the moon)!
To watch the sponsored video of the e-sports team "TSM FTX", please click:https://weibo.com/7120011948/KiNlPiaCTfrom=page_1006067120011948_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=like
The film itself is quite interesting as well, telling the story of the collaboration between TSM and FTX.
In the film, TSM founder Andy Dinh and FTX founder SBF met through online games. Dean first showed off that in addition to being good at playing games, he also has the best e-sports team, while SBF showed off that he is a successful business person and has a podcast channel, but this could not impress Dean.
Then SBF invited Dean to listen to podcasts on a private jet, but Dean was still unmoved, and then SBF revealed that it has an encrypted exchange:
Dean: Cool, cryptocurrencies look like the future.
SBF: E-sports is also a future trend, or we can join hands to create a trend together?
Although the authenticity of the film is not great, according to the previous report of DongZone, the two founders do believe that their core ideas are very similar. TSM uses games to bring together fans from all over the world, while FTX uses its influence in the crypto market to contribute to the world. The joint name of the two will be able to combine the industries of the two "virtual worlds" to a greater extent.
The e-sports industry will grow at an annual rate of 18% in the future
Game market research agency NEWZOO released "2021 Global Esports and Live Streaming Market Report》。
The report pointed out that the global e-sports market revenue increased from US$940 million last year to US$1.084 billion, while revenue from copyright and sponsorship reached US$833 million. Affected by the epidemic, online live broadcast platforms have also shown amazing growth. It pointed out that the number of global game live broadcast viewers will reach 720 million in 2021, and it is estimated that this number will increase to 920 million in 2024.
On the other hand, the total number of viewers of e-sports games last year was as high as 460 million, fully double the 230 million viewers of NBA professional basketball. It is estimated that the number of viewers will further increase to 650 million in 2023. At present, the average contribution value of each viewer is only 5.5 US dollars, which is lower than the 4.2 billion US dollars of the NBA. However, "crowd is money", in the case of a huge increase in audience, game points, treasure sales, peripheral products, and sponsors are all huge. source of profit.
Some people predict that the e-sports industry will grow at an annual rate of 18% in the future. It is no wonder that SBF has to plan ahead.
Not only won the exclusive title of TSM, but also the title sponsorship of FTX and the NBA Heat team was approved at the end of March, and yesterday, the Heat team's venue was officially renamed "FTX Arena".
