The Fortnite World Cup attracted 19,000 enthusiasts at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.
In the global professional video games, victory is not everything. Fortnite’s phenomenon, Tyler “Ninja” Blanvins, won $ 17 million last year, sufficient for the first place in the opening classification of Forbes of the most productive players, however, the 28 -year -old PRO won less than $ 100,000 in competence. In fact, Ninja did not even describe for the first Fortnite World Cup, which was held at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York last July, or its great prize of 3 million dollars. (This cash won through Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, one year of 16 years of Pennsylvania).
This is because maximum payment players are more influential than elite athletes. They win their millions taking the merit of their following online about mentions, prices and sponsorships. Ninja has 2. 8 million fans in the mixer, the nascent Microsoft game platform, which, according to Forbes, will spend 30 million dollars for 3 years after having attracted it to the Twitch Riader in August of last August the Blue Hair Player has 22. 7 million more YouTube subscribers and 14. 9 million fans on Instagram. In total, the ten maximum paid players combined 270 million fans on YouTube, Twitch and Mix and won $ 121 million last year. None of them made the competition.
The next step? Cemeral celebrity. Ninja, who has been a professional player or some other since the beginning of Halo 3 in 2009, is in progress. His face adorned the carbonated drinks carnations thanks to an approval agreement with Red Bull. Adidas has a ninja shoe. During the year beyond the year, he gave the impression on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and played as a guest singer in Fox’s masked singer. Ninja products, of a graphic novel to his banner of Sign, you can buy in Walmart and Target.
And Ninja is just a lot of artists on the Internet who take the influence in the development of the transmission and culture of the game, which has brands such as Monster Energy, Postmates and State Farm Hambriente to succeed in the millennium’s elusive; EMARKETER estimates that sponsorships and advertising expenses in games will be successful for $ 3. 3 billion in 2019.
The largest source of income of the streamers through the collection directly of their subscribers, which can “tilt them” with direct invoices or pay a premium subscription that players divide with platforms such as Amazon Twitch and mixer. At its peak, Blanvins won more than $ 500,000 according to the month, dividing the prices of the premium prices of $ 4. 99 paid to Twitch.
Three months after the firm of Ninja with mixer, Michael “Shrouud” Grzesiek, an old setback: Global Offensive Pro that retired in 2018 at age 23 (No. 5, 12. 5 million dollars), followed. The two players packed Microsoft’s depression to give relevance to the mixer, which is lagging behind Facebook, YouTube and Twitch in the general game hours, according to Arsenal. GG founded on Palo Alto.
The professional game is west of the West. There is no government company that supervites decency in transmission and personalities that make the maximum noise sell the highest equipment.
Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg (No. 2, with $ 15 million) has lost associations due to anti -Semitic and racist videos. However, his audience remained with the Swedish player; It remains the maximum signed to the individual on YouTube. Blanvins himself was taken in controversy after pointing out in August 2018 that he would not transmit with women due to imaginable rumors of relationships that may arise.
In addition to controversies, it is time to collect. The announcement through the Ninja agreement mixer had the feeling of a loose press occasion in the primary league and caused a beloved talent prosecution. It is an intelligent resolution to jump. Blanvins had around 250,000 premium subscribers in March 2018 and a year later, it fell to about 20,000, according to Twitchtracker. Since then, platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Caffeine have signed more players with exclusive offers, in particular Jeremy “Toast disguised” Wang, Jack “Courage” Dunlop and Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter.
Forbes estimates that the mixer will pay $ 20 million in Grzesiek for 3 years, even if their 7 million Twitch fans have resulted in less than one million on the emerging platform. In addition to silver editors such as Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, he will pay Grzesiek to play his transmission games. Blanvins himself embarked on the payment action, a receiver of $ 1 million in February for a few hours through the game of the Fortnite competitor.
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The most productive player was in 2019, Red Bull Cans at Walmart Bedding Grocery Outlets to bring roles in NFL ads. While his audience fell, his influence was not, with the approvals of Adidas, Red Bull and the underwear PSD. Its exclusivity agreement with Microsoft helps to remodel the live landscape. And intelligent times seem to continue. This month, Fortnite Maker Epic Games launched an Avatar Ninja in the game that enthusiasts can play.
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The most productive YouTuber individual, Felix Kjellberg announced that he would take a break from the site after another tumultuous year. Last September, he promised $ 50,000 to the Anti -Diploma League to “overcome” his anti -Semitic controversies, he canceled the donation after a protest. Kjellberg remains as popular as ever, to attract amazing perspectives of 4,500 million in 2019.
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As a popular player and Vlogger Minecraft, Preston also supplies seven personalized versions of Minecraft with game expenses.
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He built a suite with fun and exaggerated reactions to horror video games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and published an original YouTube film to your adventure.
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Not being in a game made Michael Grzesiek a favorite of the main game editors such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard. The Old Pro also has a giant clothing line with the Jinx Game brand.
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Daniel Middleton is a global sensation due to his popular Minecraft videos, accumulating 22. 4 million subscribers. In 2019, he made an excursion for an interactive cinematographic delight called The Contest.
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Fung comedian games attracted 24. 9 million subscribers and had 1. 6 billion perspectives on YouTube in 2019. It has been observed for some time, with a monster hunter in the paranormal action team, a series of cartoons 2016 on the same platform.
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With 23. 2 million subscribers, McLoughlin is the maximum popular YouTuber in Ireland, downloading videos in a variety of games. At the end of 2018, he presented a clothing logo with the YouTube player, Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach.
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Timothy Betar Fortnite comedian flows, in humor, made him a favorite of the brands, from Reese to Bud Light. He also transmits and is a commentator of the NFL football matches Thursday night on Twitch. At the end of the year, he signed an exclusive transmission agreement with the platform.
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Nick Kolcheff called himself through the Fortnite game with a controller, which is considered more complicated than using a keyboard and a mouse. This helped the streamer observed maximum in 2019, according to Streamemets and Arsenal. gg. Twitch took note, the Signeur with an exclusivity agreement estimated in two years and $ 2 million.
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