It’s no lie that TV viewership has gone down the last couple of years. With the term “cord-cutting” becoming more commonplace due to the rise of on-demand streaming, people are moving towards watching what they want when they want. However, sporting events are still the one spectacle on TV that viewers tune into to watch live.
Although live sporting events attract more audiences to the TV, dedicated sport networks like ESPN have felt the pressure to launch their own dedicated streaming service.
“The reason why audiences are switching to streaming services, especially Millennials, is because they want to feel in control of what they watch and for how long,” says Ken Hershman. “Twitch and FaceBook Live are examples of how younger audiences are changing the way we interact with what we watch. Audiences now have direct access to the streaming hosts. They feel directly involved with content they are watching.”
Signed on as an advisor to RankingBall, Ken Hershman was the President of HBO Sports for four years where he oversaw several award-winning show. He is currently the Executive Chairman and Commissioner of the World Esports Association (WESA), a group dedicated representing the players and to set rules and regulations for esports organizations.
“Esports have gained enormous popularity throughout the world and will eventually surpass traditional sports viewership,” Hershman said. “Even with all the success and viewership, esports leagues like the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) or ESL Pro League aren’t household names like the NFL or NBA. One of the problems esports faces right now is creating a business model that successfully monetizes on its high ratings.”
In 2015, Darren Kim (CEO of RankingBall), who had worked with South Korea’s biggest sports television networks, approached Ken Hershman with a solution that would be mutually beneficial for esports leagues, media, streamers and fans. RankingBall’s team had worked for four years to develop a platform that would directly involve the fans with the matches they watch. And it’s done by taking real-time data feeds from real esport matches and reflects it into a scoring system which they call spectator gaming. Users on RankingBall’s platform can utilize the blockchain to compete in contests and win prizes.
“What drew me to RankingBall is their experience with incorporating live sporting matches with direct fan interaction. It has always been challenging for sports networks to directly engage with the viewers. RankingBall offers a very intriguing way to narrow the gap between the league, broadcasters, and the television audience,” said Hershman. “In the era of streaming, having a unique layer of interactive gameplay on top of live match broadcasts fits perfectly with the rise of esports.”
#Rankingball is play-by-play sports/esports bingo game. As an innovative gaming platform for both sports and esports, RankingBall uses real-time data from live sports and esports events.
I am sure that this adviser will be of great benefit for the development of the project.
“Esports have gained enormous popularity throughout the world and will eventually surpass traditional sports viewership,” - it looks like this guy knows what he's talking about!
This project has gained enormous popularity. It's definitely a great project and am glad to be part of it.
RankingBall has successfully solved the aforementioned problems after years of trial and error, and we are already preparing our services for real-time interactive games, social games, esports and decentralized matching games with blockchain technology.
great post.
very nice project
Rankingball gained their soft cap quicker than I thought. It means RankingBall's popularity increased quickly. This project has the potential to be successful. Here is, Ken Hershman who is another experienced professional join rankingball advisory team.
Great news, Ken Hershman as a very famous person, I hope he will help the team go further
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Nice project.
this interesting project seems, and maybe also will many participants and investors who join this project, we see the development of his future hopefully can run smoothly and successfully.
I hope this project can succeed and could soon realized to be enjoyed by many people
I like RankingBall. It is interesting!
project about sports-themed games and esport, a project especially for sports fans I'm sure will be a great success.
A wonderful post, a good team! I think the project will be very successful!
Nice project
Beautiful project! Interesting idea!
An unusual idea is to combine games, sports, stakes and blockchain
Sport is everything!! The project is wonderful! Advise!
I wish good luck to this project
I hope this project can prove its advantage
you have a great team and advisers
a project that focuses on sports and e-sports is our future
Really sports events to this day the most spectacular, take only the football championship, now everyone is sitting by the television screens. And RankingBall is the best solution for the unification of live broadcasts of matches and their fans.