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Marketing and Sponsorship of Esports Without Getting Ganked: Understanding Past Research and Future Challenges

Marketing and Sponsorship of Esports Without Getting Ganked: Understanding Past Research and Future Challenges

Albérico Travassos Rosário, Ricardo Gomes Raimundo
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781799873006|ISBN10: 1799873005|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799873013|EISBN13: 9781799873020
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7300-6.ch015
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Rosário, Albérico Travassos, and Ricardo Gomes Raimundo. "Marketing and Sponsorship of Esports Without Getting Ganked: Understanding Past Research and Future Challenges." Handbook of Research on Pathways and Opportunities Into the Business of Esports, edited by Sharon Andrews and Caroline M. Crawford, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 321-347. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7300-6.ch015

APA

Rosário, A. T. & Raimundo, R. G. (2021). Marketing and Sponsorship of Esports Without Getting Ganked: Understanding Past Research and Future Challenges. In S. Andrews & C. Crawford (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Pathways and Opportunities Into the Business of Esports (pp. 321-347). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7300-6.ch015

Chicago

Rosário, Albérico Travassos, and Ricardo Gomes Raimundo. "Marketing and Sponsorship of Esports Without Getting Ganked: Understanding Past Research and Future Challenges." In Handbook of Research on Pathways and Opportunities Into the Business of Esports, edited by Sharon Andrews and Caroline M. Crawford, 321-347. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7300-6.ch015

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Abstract

Sports sponsorship is an area of marketing responsible for raising financial resources. This is a similar understanding within the realm of Esports as the fastest growing sport in decades. Recognizing the clear parallel between sports and Esports within the marketing realm, as ways through which to raise financial resources through sponsorship opportunities, there are also significant differences that apply, partially due to the digital comfortability of gamers as a novel and as yet unexperienced curiosity, as well as the native community competitive nature of the Esports realm that highlights parallels with many other sports. As such, sponsorship of Esports events has become a marketing communication tool as it is able to significantly impact the target audience, similar in nature to other sports while still introducing new marketing communications tools. The interaction between sponsor and sponsored has become a mutual benefit; it augments the brand awareness in the market while facilitating the communication with the target audience, and it supports sports events.

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