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CBSi acquires SC2 league advertising rights - Page 4

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brokenLoL
Profile Joined May 2012
United Kingdom419 Posts
May 31 2012 20:15 GMT
#61
On June 01 2012 05:12 Champloo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 01 2012 05:10 brokenLoL wrote:
So since they have ESL, and Blizz is working with ESL to do those shitty regional things, does that mean CBSi will do shit for Blizz as well?


Shitty? What is wrong with people these days? The regional championships is the best thing blizzard ever did for esports.


If Blizzard wants to help our ESPORTS, they'd buy out RIOT games.
Save me from myself
drumsetjunky
Profile Joined May 2011
United States136 Posts
May 31 2012 20:15 GMT
#62
Seems like some "fuzzy numbers" to me...that 96% seems really inflated. ^_^


oh well hopefully they do something with it.


Next thing people will be crying that they got into eSports for the money.


BAAAHAHAHAHAH....
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GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
May 31 2012 20:15 GMT
#63
they will be streaming this on their main website then? that would be pretty awesome :o
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Leeoku
Profile Joined May 2010
1617 Posts
May 31 2012 20:16 GMT
#64
talk about monopoly
Laneir
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1160 Posts
May 31 2012 20:17 GMT
#65
great to see this and that everybody doing great
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bmml
Profile Joined December 2009
United Kingdom962 Posts
May 31 2012 20:17 GMT
#66
In before bubble popping... again.
Cinim
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark866 Posts
May 31 2012 20:17 GMT
#67
This is actually really bad.

There is nothing worse for business, than when 1 company has monopol in the area...
Hell, it's about time
Innovation
Profile Joined February 2010
United States284 Posts
May 31 2012 20:17 GMT
#68
As the global analytics manager of an international advertising agency I feel like I can shed some light.

1.) This is a good thing. individual leagues don't have the sales staff and advertising knowledge to sell their own advertising inventory optimally. CBSi has a vast network of existing partnerships with agencies and major brands that it can leverage to get the most advertising revenue out of the inventory. (inventory = potential ad impressions) (Impressions = each time an ad is served to an individual computer)

2.) Most leagues focused on individual sponsorship's which are difficult to secure and often don't generate optimal revenue. Another challenge is that many sponsors prefer to have non-compete rights or the sole ability to display ads. Every sponsor has a target market so having one single advertiser limits revenue because inventory (impressions) will go unused.

For example. MLG is sponsored by Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group U.S. They are only targeting a US audience with their ads. In this scenario MLG does not get paid for any impression seen by a non-US person. The result is wasted inventory. CBSi can ensure that all available inventory is sold which means more revenue for everyone.

There are many more reasons but these two should suffice.
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MasterKang
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1373 Posts
May 31 2012 20:17 GMT
#69
i have a bad feeling about this
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Bojas
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands2397 Posts
May 31 2012 20:17 GMT
#70
Wow this is going to be very interesting. 96% of the live broadcast ads means they have quite the monopoly now right?
ELA
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark4608 Posts
May 31 2012 20:18 GMT
#71
On June 01 2012 05:08 Slasher wrote:
I have spoken to CBSi Games General Manager Simon Whitcombe and would like to clarify a few things.

- CBS Interactive has direct partnerships only with MLG, TwitchTV, and now NASL and Own3d. CBSi will sell advertising for those leagues worldwide. EVO, DreamHack, ESL, and IPL were named because of those leagues' broadcast deals with TwitchTV. CBSi does NOT have a direct partnership with any of those leagues at this time, but are included as all broadcasts are done via TwitchTV. Advertising will be sold for these leagues in the US.

- GSL was listed as per their previous streaming via Twitch and Own3d, but there is again no direct partnership with GomTV

- "96% of all the advertising inventory" refers to only to LIVE VIDEO, and does not count VOD's such as YouTube and Blip.tv.


LOL at bolded part

GOM has used Twitch what, 2 times in total? Out of their hundreds of broadcasts.. That can't even be considdered as an "unclear fact", it is straight up false
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TheAngelofDeath
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2033 Posts
May 31 2012 20:19 GMT
#72
This is crazy, hope it turns out well.
"Infestors are the suck" - LzGamer
Deleted User 124618
Profile Joined November 2010
1142 Posts
May 31 2012 20:20 GMT
#73
I think this means more money for the leagues, which is good for them. I hope CBSi understands the eSports enough to not mess it up.
DARKING
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Mexico674 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-31 20:22:04
May 31 2012 20:21 GMT
#74
I thought april's fools was in April. This sounds so much crazy to be real.
LiquipediaMexican Liquipedia staff and Terran player. I tweet things @DARKING665.
Moosy
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada396 Posts
May 31 2012 20:22 GMT
#75
cbsi offered alot of $$$ so we sold out!
Remaker12
Profile Joined June 2011
United States105 Posts
May 31 2012 20:23 GMT
#76
Thanks Slasher for clearing that up!
Gator
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States3432 Posts
May 31 2012 20:24 GMT
#77
not sure how i feel about this...
TSM
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
May 31 2012 20:25 GMT
#78
I newsed this briefly but it sounds like CBSi is misleading with their title and what actually happened here so it's de-newsed for now.
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
sVnteen
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany2238 Posts
May 31 2012 20:25 GMT
#79
no kespa?
how is it 96% then?

MY LIFE STARTS NOW ♥
jmbthirteen
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States10734 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-31 20:29:07
May 31 2012 20:26 GMT
#80
On June 01 2012 05:11 Ichabod wrote:
Pros: Advertising agency representation makes starcraft a more attractive (larger) advertising market (Instead of just MLG and a few million viewers, 96% of starcraft league viewers, more often than MLG events alone.)

Cons: Potentially limited advertisement competition (e.g., Coke and Pepsi probably won't both sponsor MLG, twitch, etc.), if they're advertised all together. This might be averted if CBSi represents the advertising for each entity individually (e.g., Coke can sponsor MLG, Pepsi can sponsor Twitch), we'll have to wait and see.

It seems good in the short run, while eSports is still growing, hopefully CBSi can keep up. The people running these leagues aren't idiots, they recognize the advertising benefit they can gain from this deal, so I hope they are getting good rates compared to having to shop around independently.

Side note: This may help with league cooperation regarding event scheduling, since that potentially wastes ad revenue for both parties, and CBSi can be a middle-man.

CBSi isn't selling sponsorships, they are selling advertising. So the conflicting thing wont matter. When I watch NFL games, I see Coke/Pepsi, Bud/Coors, McDonalds/BurgerKing ads all the time. Same will happen here.
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