{"id":570,"date":"2017-06-21T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2017-10-23T03:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T03:58:42","slug":"twitch-signs-exclusive-broadcasting-rights-for-blizzard-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/twitch-signs-exclusive-broadcasting-rights-for-blizzard-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch signs exclusive broadcasting rights for Blizzard esports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership-300x151.jpg.webp\" title=\"Twitch gets exclusive broadcast rights to Blizzard esports tournaments\" alt=\"Twitch and Blizzard esports\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-572 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership-300x151.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership-768x386.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership.jpg.webp 1012w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/151;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership-300x151.jpg\" title=\"Twitch gets exclusive broadcast rights to Blizzard esports tournaments\" alt=\"Twitch and Blizzard esports\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/twitch_blizzard_esports_partnership.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Twitch.tv has officially partnered up with Blizzard Entertainment for exclusive third-party live streaming video rights to Blizzard esports tournaments through 2018, which includes Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, StarCraft II and World of Warcraft. <\/p>\n<p>For the next two years, only Blizzard themselves and Twitch will broadcast Blizzard-sponsored esport content, which grants the popular video game streaming service a significant monopoly over some of the biggest and most watched esports competitions worldwide. Twitch has so far announced broadcasting rights for over 20 &#8220;major individual events&#8221;, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heroes of the Storm Global Championship (HGC)<\/li>\n<li>StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS Circuit)<\/li>\n<li>Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT)<\/li>\n<li>Hearthstone Global Games (HGG)<\/li>\n<li>World of Warcraft Arena Championship<\/li>\n<li>Overwatch APEX League<\/li>\n<li>Overwatch Premier Series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazon and Twitch Prime members also get additional bonuses as part of the deal, with Blizzard giving Prime members exclusive in-game content for its games. From June 20 to August 10, subscribers to either premium service will be awarded a golden loot box in Overwatch &#8211; guaranteeing at one legendary item. Considering the crazy efforts people tend to go to obtain such cosmetic items, it&#8217;s definitely an enticing incentive to jump on board and enjoy the new official home for Blizzard esports tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration between live stream video gaming services and goliath esports gaming company is not a new phenomenon. The Blizzard and Twitch team-up is just the latest in a series of high-profile broadcasting partnerships, with Riot Games pocketing $300 million per year from BAM Tech for granting exclusive broadcast distribution of League of Legend tournaments through 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Twitch or Blizzard have confirmed the financial extent of the monolith deal, but we&#8217;re fairly sure it&#8217;s a big one &#8211; but well worth the asking price, considering the upcoming debut of <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/overwatch-league\/\" title=\"Overwatch League esports\">Blizzard&#8217;s Overwatch League<\/a> and the continuing growth of the esports industry as a whole, projected to exceed $1 billion this year and over $1.23 billion in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch.tv has officially partnered up with Blizzard Entertainment for exclusive third-party live streaming video rights to Blizzard esports tournaments through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,4,42,43,24,31,44],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blizzard","tag-featured","tag-hearthstone","tag-heroes-of-the-storm","tag-league-of-legends","tag-overwatch","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}