{"id":5717,"date":"2017-05-18T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2017-05-18T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T16:14:55","slug":"esl-reveal-wide-ranging-plans-live-event-streaming-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2017\/05\/esl-reveal-wide-ranging-plans-live-event-streaming-facebook","title":{"rendered":"ESL reveal wide-ranging plans for live event streaming on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Many dubbed 2017 as the year\u00a0that esports broadcasting rights would be propelled to the forefront of people’s minds. <strong>ESL<\/strong> has already made moves in that regard, with ESL Pro League moving to YouTube Gaming exclusively as competition continues to mount on Twitch. Now the tournament organiser has revealed it will be significantly upping the content it pushes through the world’s largest community network, <strong>Facebook.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5085\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5085 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.eslgaming.com\/news\/worlds-first-247-esports-tv-channel-here-2816\" width=\"1410\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header.jpg 1410w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header-1024x447.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header-696x304.jpg 696w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header-1068x467.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ESL-MTG-esportsTV-Header-961x420.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1410px) 100vw, 1410px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">In a release published on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eslgaming.com\/article\/esl-and-esea-expand-esports-experience-facebook-3532\">website<\/a>, ESL reveals that all IEM and ESL One events will be broadcast in up to six different languages on ESL Facebook pages as well as multiple National Championships and online leagues. It also reveals that exclusive backstage content from ESL’s stadium events will go on Facebook Live where fans have the chance to interact directly with their favourite players and casters through AMAs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Additionally, there will be a completely new and exclusive weekly stream focused on ESEA Rank S, in which viewers can follow the highest level of EU and NA ladder play in a show that mixes commentary with team audio.\u00a0In addition to the 30 hours of weekly Rank S streaming, there will be a weekly half an hour show hosted by Mark \u201cBoq\u201d Wilson focused on Rank S and current occurrences in ESEA and CS:GO in general.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Johannes Schiefer, VP of Social Media at ESL commented<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em>This is a huge step toward expanding the reach of esports among mainstream audiences. Last year, ESL content generated over 2 billion impressions and reached over 200 million users on Facebook globally. Now, with the addition of live streaming for all major ESL events, as well as exclusive content around CS:GO and ESEA, we are excited to expand our reach to more audiences and build strong local communities by providing them with content they care about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">P<strong>atrick Chapman, Gaming and Esports Partnerships at Facebook<\/strong>,\u00a0added:\u00a0\u201cRank S is defined by the world\u2019s best CS:GO gameplay and it\u2019s fueled by a knowledgeable, passionate fan base that craves great live matches, news and analysis. Delivering original video content to this audience ties directly to Facebook\u2019s commitment to build the world\u2019s community for people to play, watch and share games they love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Esports Insider says: ESL content on Emirates Airlines, Twitch, YouTube, Twitter and now Facebook. This is an exciting partnership and should help ESL’s reach grow even further.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many dubbed 2017 as the year\u00a0that esports broadcasting rights would be propelled to the forefront of people’s minds. ESL has already made moves in that regard, with ESL Pro League moving to YouTube Gaming exclusively as competition continues to mount on Twitch. Now the tournament organiser has revealed it will be significantly upping the content … <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2017\/05\/esl-reveal-wide-ranging-plans-live-event-streaming-facebook\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","esi_template":"default","excluded":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,55,106],"tags":[105,876],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","category-esports-titles","category-latest-news","tag-esl","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ESL reveal wide-ranging plans for live event 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