Image credit: 1win This weekend, esports bookmaker 1win’s $1m (~£785,000) Dota 2 tournament, the 1win Dota 2 Series, will kick off. The first matches start on March 16th and run through to March 19th, with several notable teams are scheduled to take part. Keep Reading Tournament spotlight: Where to...

Astralis’ Counter-Strike team. Image credit: Astralis via X Danish esports company Astralis has shared its audited financial results for 2023, a year in which the company delisted from NASDAQ and sold its LEC franchise slot. Astralis recorded an overall positive EBITDA of DKK 146.7m (~£16.8m) and a...

Image credit: Heroic Krystian Jaroszynski has joined Scandinavian esports organisation HEROIC as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). The esports veteran previously worked at Tencent-owned game publisher Level Infinite as its Senior Esports Manager for the MENA Publishing division. Keep Reading ...

Each month, Esports Insider recaps the biggest esports sponsorships, partnerships and brand activations from the month prior. Below is our list of the biggest sponsorship and partnership news stories from January 2024. January saw a relative slowdown but some strong and important deals come through...

VCT Americas Kickoff 2024. Image credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games VALORANT’s inaugural VCT Kickoff events for the 2024 season concluded over the weekend, with VCT Americas’s Kickoff being the ninth-highest-viewed event in the game’s history. VCT 2024 Americas Kickoff saw more than 820,000 viewe...

Image credit: McLaren Shadow via X Formula 1 team McLaren Racing has expanded its partnership with TUMI to include the McLaren Shadow esports team. As a result of the deal, which also involves McLaren’s Extreme E team, TUMI will create an expanded product range with the sim racing team. Keep Readin...

Esports Around The World is a series of profiles outlining the esports ecosystem in various countries globally. The series ties into ESI’s international esports business events, which take place around the world. The Esports Around The World series profiles major & minor esports nations across the ...

2024 started relatively slowly for the esports betting industry, but this also means that not a lot of negative news were announced early in the year. The main trend for January was that of an increasing number of partnerships. To keep you updated with the scene, Esports Insider has created a list ...

Image credit: ESL FACEIT Group Global esports tournament organiser ESL FACEIT Group has teamed up with Swedish streaming technology company Znipe Esports to create FACEIT Watch, a new esports-focused streaming platform. The platform will allow viewers to watch esports matches directly through FACEI...

Image credit: FATE Esports Jordanian esports organisation FATE Esports has secured a sponsorship deal with internet solutions provider Aqaba Digital Hub (ADH). Looking to elevate player performance, ADH will deliver connectivity services to FATE’s facility in Amman, Jordan. Keep Reading How Moonton...

Image Credit: McDonald’s/Gen.G South Korean esports organisation Gen.G has expanded its US-focused collaboration with fast food chain McDonald’s through the programme ‘Gaming Leaders of Tomorrow’. The new programme aims to help students host esports events in the Eastern Shore region of the United ...

Image credit: GRID Game data platform GRID has extended its partnership with esports data provider DATA.BET.  The extension will see DATA.BET continue to utilise GRID’s platform to deliver real-time data feeds for esports titles such as Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, League of Legends and more.  Keep Re...