How to keep up with esports business news and analysis

Last updated 8/24/2016

The quantity and quality of esports business news and analysis has skyrocketed over the past twelve months. This is great if you know what to read and who to follow. Here’s my reading/follow list. I’d love to update this based on your feedback, reply here or hit me up on Twitter. Note: This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list.

Newsletters

• Daily: The Next Level- Huge props to Manny Anekal, as you can imagine, it is incredibly difficult to provide good analysis every weekday, subscribe here.
• Weekly: 1) Cynopsis eSports & Gaming- Written by Chris Pursell, this newsletter has the highest quality/frequency ratio out there and is more media-focused than other publications, subscribe here. 2) The Esports Observer, this is a scrappy publication that has broken some large news, interesting to see how they will adapt to ESPN and Yahoo, subscribe here.
• Monthly: Esports Market Watch- by BRaVe Ventures, I help write this and our goal is to focus on the one or two macro trends/events happening each month, subscribe here.

Podcasts

• SiriusXM Bleacher Report Radio Channel 83, M-F 7pm, hosted by Kevin Knocke. As far as I could tell, this is the only major esports podcast out there, follow Kevin here.

Market Ecosystem Maps

• The Esports Landscape by Blake Robbins. Last updated in July and basically the most comprehensive and timely map out there.
• The Nexus Esports Market Ecosystem Map. I used to publish one every month and stopped in March. We’re working on a new one at BRaVe (soon™).

People to Follow

• Overall Esports: Manny Anekal covers overall esports news or analysis, follow him here. Richard Lewis has been breaking a myriad of conflicts of interests within the world of esports, follow him here.
• Longform: Hands down, Bloomberg (Joshua Brustein and Eben Novy-Williams) has had the best longform pieces on esports business topics.
• League of Legends: 1) Travis Gafford of Yahoo, has done a lot of reporting on the game side historically but now he covers business stuff too (I recommend his “Owning Esports” series), follow him here. 2) Jacob Wolf of ESPN, 90% of any breaking business-related news in LoL comes from him, follow him here.
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: Duncan “Thorin” Shields, self-proclaimed “esports historian” and “#1 CS:GO expert.” Covers other games too, basically a good guy to follow for espors trends/business, follow him here.
• Dota 2: I am not a big Dota 2 guy. Who do you recommend?
• Overwatch: Monte has some good thoughts on Overwatch, but since he covers a bunch of other esports topics, are there any Overwatch-only people I should follow?
• FGC: Brad Carr recommends Steve Jurek, follow him here.
• Rocket League: I follow Justin Dellario as he runs the RLCS, who else should I follow?
• Team Owners: Andy Dinh of Team SoloMid, follow him here. Steve Arhancet of Team Liquid, follow him here.
• Gambling: Chris Grove basically has this topic covered from A-Z, follow him here.
• Any other games?