{"id":16177,"date":"2015-08-17T03:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=16177"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:35:33","slug":"let-the-egames-begin-by-barney-thompson-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/let-the-egames-begin-by-barney-thompson-financial-times","title":{"rendered":"Let the egames begin \u2014 By Barney Thompson | Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/e50f4fe4-414f-11e5-b98b-87c7270955cf.img_.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectronic sports (esports), or competitive computer gaming, is an industry on the move. Depending on who you ask, there are somewhere between 90 million to 135 million esports enthusiasts \u2014 defined as those who watch gaming regularly, online or off \u2014 and more than double that number of occasional viewers. According to a recent SuperData report, the esports sector will this year generate an estimated revenue of $621m worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/64bfe382-412f-11e5-9abe-5b335da3a90e.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cElectronic sports (esports), or competitive computer gaming, is an industry on the move. Depending on who you ask, there are somewhere between 90 million to 135 million esports enthusiasts \u2014 defined as those who watch gaming regularly, online or off \u2014 and more than double that number of occasional viewers. According to a recent SuperData [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1509,42],"tags":[2063],"class_list":["post-16177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-media-arts","tag-e-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51465,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177\/revisions\/51465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}