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Dreamhack, 3 million unique views

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Jiddra
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden2685 Posts
July 08 2011 08:50 GMT
#1
After the whole pessimistic bloggers debacle etc. it is nice to read some real figures about where esports and SC2 is going.

This is from a media and marketing expert in Sweden, blogging about his expirence from Dreamhack Summer 2011.

The big thing is though the live-streaming of the even worldwide that made it to an enormous success! From the data I’ve seen and from good sources we are talking about over 3 Million unique viewers!

Yes, it’s unique viewers – duplications are gone and the data here is correct data and not some beefed up TV-stats. This is correct data provided by services like Justin.TV and OWN3D.


And that is only the streaming, when we go to social media as a whole..

Some key social media stats from DreamHack:

-711 Unique blog posts were written about DreamHak during the event and the day after.

-Over 28 0000 unique posts where DreamHack was mentioned in social media we monitored during DHS 2011.

-Druing the StarCraft2 final the amount of posts about HuK and Moon was 2240 posts/hour.

During monday when the StarCraft2 final was played the amount of buzz was so much that the winner, HuK, became a Trending Topic on Twitter – worldwide.

This during middle of the day in US – which is the hardest time to get a topic trending on Twitter.

Today there is no eSport event outside South Korea that are in the same league as DreamHack. The only one close is Major League Gaming in US, but they still have a few games and the live streaming numbers are not on par with DreamHack yet – the Swedish Pride is still dominating.

DreamHack is something so unique as a Swedish pride. It’s something unique that the whole world looks at – it’s might even a national symbol that Sweden should be proud about.

A big thank you to DreamHack – I’ll definitely come back this to DreamHack Winter!


Read the blog here:
http://latenightmarketing.com/dreamhack-swedish-pride/
I am not young enough to know everything.
cENTRYZ
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway832 Posts
July 08 2011 08:53 GMT
#2
Thats amazing. I'm happy to see those huge numbers.
Moli
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands78 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 08:55:32
July 08 2011 08:55 GMT
#3
wait what...3 million UNIQUE??!?!?!? wow, thats insane
Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6105 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 09:16:17
July 08 2011 08:55 GMT
#4
Awesome!

Would like to see the Sc2 vs LoL breakdowns.
#1 Terran hater
Demonzii
Profile Joined May 2010
Netherlands180 Posts
July 08 2011 08:55 GMT
#5
Wow. this is pretty big! so many viewers o_O
Elem
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden4717 Posts
July 08 2011 08:57 GMT
#6
On July 08 2011 17:55 Highways wrote:
Awesome!

Would lie to see the Sc2 vs LoL breakdowns.
Please not again...
#freeshauni
zul
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany5427 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 09:03:46
July 08 2011 08:57 GMT
#7
credit where credit is due. DreamHack has a long history (for a gaming event) and they made A LOT of things right, so I`m happy for their succes.
keep it deep! @zulison
Combine
Profile Joined July 2010
United States812 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 09:00:54
July 08 2011 08:58 GMT
#8
On July 08 2011 17:55 Highways wrote:
Awesome!

Would lie to see the Sc2 vs LoL breakdowns.

Yeah, me too. I think it was said that LoL had 1.7 million unique, so maybe you can break it up from there. Sc2 was probably around ~1.2mill

Huge numbers, love to see so many people watching.
(ಥ_ಥ)
zaii
Profile Joined October 2010
Guam2611 Posts
July 08 2011 08:58 GMT
#9
On July 08 2011 17:57 Elem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 08 2011 17:55 Highways wrote:
Awesome!

Would lie to see the Sc2 vs LoL breakdowns.
Please not again...


it's pretty obvious alot of those numbers are thanks to LoL.
Irave
Profile Joined October 2010
United States9965 Posts
July 08 2011 08:59 GMT
#10
On July 08 2011 17:55 Highways wrote:
Awesome!

Would lie to see the Sc2 vs LoL breakdowns.

Why would you even try and encourage that meaningless debate again.
BobMcJohnson
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
France2916 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 08:59:31
July 08 2011 08:59 GMT
#11
The 3 millions is all games included right? so it counts the 200k viewers LoL stream, or is it just sc2 viewers?

Edit : Still this is awesome
Romanes eunt domus
FinnGamer
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany2426 Posts
July 08 2011 08:59 GMT
#12
3 Mill over all the streams? Or SC2? Anyway HUGE Numbers for ESPORTS and for Dreamhack in general. Congratulations DH
"hopefully swing the favor in your advantage." - Day[9]
Deckkie
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands1595 Posts
July 08 2011 08:59 GMT
#13
wow thats just insane.
If this doesnt attract "main stream" sponsors I dont know what would.
Always look on the bright side of life
hmunkey
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom1973 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 09:00:17
July 08 2011 09:00 GMT
#14
Is there any way to see how many people consistently watched versus people who just clicked it out of curiosity?

I wouldn't be surprised at all if random Redditors clicked the frontpage links on r/all to see what it was and left immediately. The same applies for people who logged into LoL that weekend. Uniques are great, don't get me wrong, but if there's a way to find true viewer counts that would be amazing.

During monday when the StarCraft2 final was played the amount of buzz was so much that the winner, HuK, became a Trending Topic on Twitter – worldwide.

^This is pretty awesome though and is no small feat.
Jiddra
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden2685 Posts
July 08 2011 09:01 GMT
#15
On July 08 2011 17:59 Deckkie wrote:
wow thats just insane.
If this doesnt attract "main stream" sponsors I dont know what would.


Well, Coca Cola was all over Day9s stream
I am not young enough to know everything.
Elefanto
Profile Joined May 2010
Switzerland3584 Posts
July 08 2011 09:02 GMT
#16
huge numbers, i'm really impressed o.o
wat
Pochtli
Profile Joined February 2011
Finland690 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 09:02:49
July 08 2011 09:02 GMT
#17
Wow! That's more viewers than US viewers watched the pilot episode of Game of Thrones (which was 2,22m according to wikipedia), although DH statistics are worldwide and it was for the whole event it's pretty impressive that the amount of viewers is in the same league!
ㅈㅈ
Perseverance
Profile Joined February 2010
Japan2800 Posts
July 08 2011 09:04 GMT
#18
Very nice! I love the direction esports is going!!!
<3 Moonbattles
knL
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Germany400 Posts
July 08 2011 09:05 GMT
#19
Iam very happy for Dreamhack. It was always - the - Lan/Esport event. Really glad to see their sucess.
StyLeD
Profile Joined January 2011
United States2965 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-08 09:07:25
July 08 2011 09:07 GMT
#20
Go esports~ When I'm 60 esports will be the sport to watch :D


then I'll be too old >:
"Even gophers love Starcraft" - Tasteless. || Davichi | IU <3
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