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Live Game Streaming Market – Global Forecast up to 2025

June 2019 | 75 pages | ID: L923CF1C570EN
Infoholic Research

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Global Live Game Streaming Market – Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities, Trends, and Forecast up to 2025

Global gaming industry is experiencing a steady growth and is mainly driven by cloud gaming and mobile gaming. With smartphones getting more processing power and 5G network gaining popularity, games are expected to be more interactive and streaming based. Countries which generated a major part of the revenue in gaming industry include China, Japan, US, Germany, South Korea, France, Canada, and UK. Also, Esports is gaining huge attention with the events being telecasted on social media and streaming sites including YouTube and Twitch.

Live Game Streaming market involves streaming video game contents via internet that includes live game play or pre-recorded game plays. Websites that provide live game streaming such as YouTube Gaming and Twitch are called game streaming platforms that provide free view content and paid subscriptions to view premium content. Game streaming platform generates revenue primarily through merchandising, advertisements, and premium account subscriptions.

This report includes revenue generated from “game” streaming platforms and services only and excludes the revenue generated by companies from any other entertainment media content streaming including TV series, movies, vlogs, reviews, and other related videos.

Live game streaming market will exhibit strong growth during the forecast period mainly due to increasing number of revenue streams and growing popularity of Esports and broadcasting of Esports events. Esports market is expected to cross $1 billion by the end of 2019 with major competitions occurring in games like Dota 2, Fortnite, and League of Legend.

Live game streaming vendors are expanding their revenue generating streams from traditional sources such as advertisement, subscriptions, sales of badges, and contributions to innovative and unexplored territories including betting that can help the vendors to gain more margin in the gaming market.

Based on the geography, the market is split into North America, Europe, APAC, and RoW. RoW includes Middle East, South America, and Africa. North America is the leading revenue generator in the live game streaming market with a major share of the market contributed by the US. A major player in the market, Twitch quotes that “More than 20% of Twitch’s total traffic is generated from US”. APAC is one of the fastest growing market in the live game streaming market with major growth being witnessed in China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.

Based on offering, global live game streaming market is segmented into game streaming platform, hardware, and game streaming services. Game streaming platform comprises of revenue generated primarily from advertisements and premium account subscriptions. Services market is mostly constituted by revenue generated through subscriptions and game purchases. Since live game streaming services is in its early stages, the share of game streaming platform is higher than game streaming services.

Based on solutions, live game streaming market is segmented into web-based and app-based solutions. The revenue generated from web-based was higher in 2019 and is mainly due to many streaming providers focusing on streaming via web browsers. However, with more mobile games gaining popularity in the streaming, app-based streaming is expected to gain more market share in the forecast period.

Based on revenue model the market is segmented into subscription-supported game streaming and ad-supported game streaming. Subscription game streaming is expected to account for a major share of the market in 2019.

Live game streaming market is primarily dominated by major tech companies including Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Sony, and Nvidia. However, there are some domestic players especially in APAC which offer live game streaming platforms and have gained a huge number of streamers and subscribers in short span of time.

Major vendors in the market include Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Sony, Nvidia, Facebook, Tencent, Smashcast, AfreecaTV, Bigo Technology, Parsec Cloud, Vortex Cloud Gaming, Shadow, Douyu, Huya, Major League Gaming (MLG), Dlive, and GosuGamers.

According to Infoholic Research, global live game streaming will grow at a CAGR of over 19% during the forecast period 2019–2025. The aim of this report is to define, analyze, and forecast the live game streaming market on the basis of segments, which includes offering,solutions, revenue model and region. In addition, live game streaming market report helps venture capitalists in understanding the companies better and make well-informed decisions and is primarily designed to provide the company’s executives with strategically substantial competitor information, data analysis, and insights about the market, development, and implementation of an effective marketing plan.

Global live game streaming market is categorized based on four segments – Offering, Solutions, Revenue model, and Regions as shown below:
    • Offering include Platform, Hardware, and Services
    • Solutions include app-based and web-based
    • Revenue model include subscription-supported and ad-supported
    • Regions include North America, Europe, APAC, and RoW (RoW includes South America, Middle East and Africa)
  • The report comprises an analysis of vendor profile, which includes financial status, business units, key business priorities, SWOT, business strategies, and views.
  • The report covers the competitive landscape, which includes M&A, joint ventures & collaborations, and competitor comparison analysis.
  • In the vendor profile section, for companies that are privately held, the financial information and revenue of segments will be limited.
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2 INDUSTRY OUTLOOK

2.1 Industry Snapshot
  2.1.1 Industry Trends

3 MARKET SNAPSHOT

3.1 Segmented Addressable Market
  3.1.1 PEST Analysis
  3.1.2 Porter’s Five Force Analysis
3.2 Related Markets

4 MARKET CHARACTERISTICS

4.1 Market Ecosystem
4.2 Market Segmentation
4.3 Market Dynamics
  4.3.1 Drivers
    4.3.1.1 Growth in gamer viewership attributing to broadcasting Esports
    4.3.1.2 XXXX
  4.3.2 Restraints
    4.3.2.1 XXXX
    4.3.2.2 Need for streamlined financial model in game streaming industry
  4.3.3 Opportunities
    4.3.3.1 Evolution of blockchain based streaming platform
    4.3.3.2 XXXX
  4.3.4 DRO – Impact Analysis

5 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET, BY OFFERING

5.1 Overview
5.2 Platform
5.3 Services
5.4 Hardware

6 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET, BY SOLUTIONS

6.1 Overview
6.2 App-based
6.3 Web-based

7 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET, BY REVENUE MODEL

7.1 Overview
7.2 Subscription-supported
7.3 Ad-supported

8 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET, BY REGION

8.1 Overview
8.2 APAC
  8.2.1 China
  8.2.2 Japan
  8.2.3 South Korea
8.3 North America
  8.3.1 USA
  8.3.2 Canada
  8.3.3 Mexico
8.4 Europe
  8.4.1 Germany
  8.4.2 UK
  8.4.3 France
8.5 RoW

9 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

9.1 Competitor Analysis
9.2 Product/Offerings
9.3 Market Developments
  9.3.1 Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  9.3.2 Expansions
  9.3.3 Business Restructuring

10 VENDOR PROFILES

10.1 Amazon
  10.1.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.1.2 Business Analysis
10.2 Microsoft
  10.2.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.2.2 Business Analysis
10.3 Alphabet
  10.3.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.3.2 Business Analysis
10.4 Apple
  10.4.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.4.2 Business Analysis
10.5 Sony
  10.5.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.5.2 Business Analysis
10.6 Nvidia
  10.6.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.6.2 Business Analysis
10.7 Facebook
  10.7.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.7.2 Business Analysis
10.8 Tencent
  10.8.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.8.2 Business Analysis
10.9 Smashcast
  10.9.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.9.2 Business Analysis
10.10 AfreecaTV
  10.10.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.10.2 Business Analysis
10.11 Bigo Technology
  10.11.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.11.2 Business Analysis
10.12 Parsec Cloud
  10.12.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.12.2 Business Analysis
10.13 Vortex Cloud Gaming
  10.13.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.13.2 Business Analysis
10.14 Shadow
  10.14.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.14.2 Business Analysis
10.15 Douyu
  10.15.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.15.2 Business Analysis
10.16 Huya
  10.16.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.16.2 Business Analysis
10.17 Major League Gaming (MLG)
  10.17.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.17.2 Business Analysis
10.18 Dlive
  10.18.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.18.2 Business Analysis
10.19 GosuGamers
  10.19.1 Analyst Opinion
  10.19.2 Business Analysis

11 ANNEXURE

11.1 Report Scope
11.2 Market Definition
11.3 Research Methodology
  11.3.1 Data Collation & In-house Estimation
  11.3.2 Market Triangulation
  11.3.3 Forecasting
11.4 Study Declarations
11.5 Report Assumptions
11.6 Stakeholders
11.7 Abbreviations

12 EXPERT’S VIEWS



LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1 KEY FACTS ABOUT GAMING INDUSTRY 2018
TABLE 2 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING VALUE, BY VERTICAL, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
TABLE 3 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING BY PLATFORM, BY GEOGRAPHY, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
TABLE 4 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING SOFTWARE BY SERVICES, BY GEOGRAPHY, 2018–2025
($MILLION)
TABLE 5 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING SOFTWARE BY APP-BASED, BY GEOGRAPHY, 2018–2025
($MILLION)
TABLE 6 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET VALUE, BY WEB-BASED, BY GEOGRAPHY 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
TABLE 7 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET VALUE, BY GEOGRAPHY, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
TABLE 8 MAJOR COMPANIES AND THEIR OPERATIONS
TABLE 9 PRODUCT/OFFERINGS: GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING SOFTWARE MARKET
TABLE 10 MERGER & ACQUISITION, 2013–2017
TABLE 11 EXPANSIONS, 2013–2017
TABLE 12 BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING, 2013–2017
TABLE 13 AMAZON: OVERVIEW
TABLE 14 AMAZON: STRATEGIC SNAPSHOT
TABLE 15 AMAZON: PRODUCT/SERVICE PORTFOLIO
TABLE XX XX: XXX
TABLE XX XX: XXX
TABLE XX XX: XXX
TABLE 16 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING SOFTWARE MARKET: DATA COLLATION
TABLE 17 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING SOFTWARE MARKET: TRIANGULATION
TABLE 18 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING SOFTWARE MARKET: FORECASTING


LIST OF FIGURES

CHART 1 LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET
CHART 2 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING SOFTWARE MARKET REVENUE, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
CHART 5 PEST ANALYSIS: GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET
CHART 6 PORTER’S 5 FORCE ANALYSIS: GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET
CHART 7 LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET ECOSYSTEM
CHART 8 SEGMENTATION: GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET
CHART 9 MARKET DYNAMICS – DRIVERS, RESTRAINTS & OPPORTUNITIES
CHART 10 DRO – IMPACT ANALYSIS: GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET
CHART 11 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET, BY OFFERING, 2018
CHART 18 GLOBAL LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET VALUE, BY GEOGRAPHY, 2018
CHART 19 LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET IN APAC, MARKET VALUE, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
CHART 20 LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET IN NORTH AMERICA, MARKET VALUE, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
CHART 21 LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET IN EUROPE, MARKET VALUE, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
CHART 22 LIVE GAME STREAMING MARKET IN ROW, MARKET VALUE, 2018–2025 ($MILLION)
CHART 23 MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS IN THE MARKET


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