{"id":151122,"date":"2018-12-18T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/?p=151122"},"modified":"2018-12-19T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:32:20","slug":"svg-summit-esports-veteran-mike-sepso-sheds-light-on-latest-industry-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/2018\/12\/18\/svg-summit-esports-veteran-mike-sepso-sheds-light-on-latest-industry-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"SVG Summit: Esports Veteran Mike Sepso Sheds Light on Latest Industry Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the important trends in esports? What are the parallels to traditional sports? What\u2019s the potential growth in 2019?<\/p>\n<p>Electronic Sports Group Chairman <strong>Mike Sepso<\/strong>, a co-founder of Major League Gaming (MLG) in 2002 and former SVP of Activision Blizzard, shares his thoughts on the future of esports and the developing business opportunities in this featured interview from the stage of the 2018 SVG Summit.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation was moderated by SVG Director of Digital <strong>Brandon Costa<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SVG Summit: Esports Market Insights with Mike Sepso\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_1789uLyu0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-3-4\">\n<article id=\"post-151098\">\n<div class=\"col-3-4\">\n<article id=\"post-151052\">\n<div class=\"col-3-4\">\n<article id=\"post-150852\"><em>For more one-on-one interviews, highlights from conference sessions, and full keynote conversations and panel discussions, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/on-demand\/video\/\">SVG On Demand<\/a>.<\/em><\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the important trends in esports? What are the parallels to traditional sports? What\u2019s the potential growth in 2019? Electronic Sports Group Chairman Mike Sepso, a co-founder of Major [&hellip;]\n&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/2018\/12\/18\/svg-summit-esports-veteran-mike-sepso-sheds-light-on-latest-industry-trends\/\" class=\"more\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":151129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8899,9248],"tags":[15642,9015,7615],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151329,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151122\/revisions\/151329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}