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  Content Creation vs Esports The two largest platforms for gaming content creation are YouTube and Twitch Popular content creators make around $3-5,000 a month, while the biggest can make tens and hundreds of thousands a month The top 100 esports players have all earned over $1 million in prize money Earnings by game League of Legends: Average pro player salary is $410,000, the 2020 world championship has a $5 million prize pool Dota: The maximum player salary is $420,000, but Dota has prize pools of tens of millions, which is most of players' earnings Counterstrike: Similar to Dota, player salaries are lower (around $60,000), but prize pools earn players tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands more if they perform well.

  Who is Ninja? Tyler Blevins, better known by his gaming alias "Ninja", was born June 5th, 1991 (currently 29 years old) in Detroit. A long-time competitive gamer (mostly playing the shooter Halo), Ninja became famous from the popular battle-royale style game Fortnite. He also gained more mainstream popularity playing Fortnite on the streaming platform Twitch with celebrities like rappers Drake and Travis Scott, as well as NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster. The #1 Gamer More than 16 million followers on Twitch, nearly double that of second biggest streamer 6.5 million Twitter followers 14.6 million Instagram followers 24 million YouTube subscribers Net worth estimated at $25 million What he's doing with his success Since his rise to fame, Ninja has done a lot more than continue to play videogames. He has designed and released custom shoes in partnership with Adidas, made his own clothing line and even written a book for less experienced gamers. Ninja has more recently resig...

  What is Esports? Esports is competitive gaming. What used to be a couple small-time tournaments with a few dozen participants has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Growth and Viewership The esports industry has grown from $750 million in 2018 to $950 million today Esports is expected to break $1 billion in 2021 and $1.6 billion by 2023 (statista.com) According to InfluencerMarketingHub, esports viewership has grown between 10-15% each year for the last 4 years 2019 saw nearly half a billion in audience size The most watched esports event so far had 63 million viewers, which is only 30 million behind the Super Bowl Esports is just now beginning to hit its stride