>>As NFL ratings drop, a new internet study says young men like watching eSports more than traditional sports
>The NFL's ratings took a hit in its season-opening week, and a new study about the online viewing habits of young men seems to portend a growing gap in the audience for traditional sports. The survey, conducted by Limelight Networks, shows that men ages 18 to 25 prefer watching eSports to traditional sports or TV shows. eSports — basically video-game competitions — came in second only to movie watching among the demographic's most popular modes of online video consumption. It beat TV shows, news, and traditional sports. Men of all other age groups surveyed preferred watching traditional sports to eSports. It's worth noting that the survey only considered online viewing, but with the viewing of video increasingly shifting there, it suggests a bright future for eSports. >The survey comes at a precarious time for NFL TV ratings. In week one of the NFL season last weekend, the league's ratings dropped 13% from 2016's week one in live and same-day average viewers, according to UBS. Though UBS partly attributes the ratings drop to the effects of Hurricane Irma, which sent millions of viewers to cable news network coverage of the storm over the weekend, the NFL has nonetheless been facing questions about weak viewership. Last season, NFL ratings were down 9% in the regular season and 6% in the playoffs. At the time, experts speculated that the drop could have been due to the ratings prominence of the November 2016 presidential election, but that was contradicted by the fact that ratings were still down 5% after the election. In August, UBS predicted that NFL regular season ratings would rebound in 2017, citing a slight uptick in preseason viewership. But after a dismal week one, questions about the future remain.
hardly anyone cares about football as an adult that didn't play it in high school middle class soccer moms were starting to pull their kids off of football teams in the early 2000s when I was in high school, so I wonder how bad it is now watching a game stream online with interactive banter and shitposting is much more enjoyable that watching some shit sports broadcast
Easton Morris
>watching a game stream online with interactive banter and shitposting is much more enjoyable that watching some shit sports broadcast Yes watching keyboard athletes clicking buttons and cheering at them while spamming memes with strangers on twitch chat must be so enjoyable.
Ayden Flores
>millenials and Zoomers don't watch TV >get their media from internet > NFL has made it completely impossible to watch games without a cable tv and premium subscription fuck the NFL they are dinosaurs only true boomers give them shekels
Ayden Scott
all nfl streams are fucking terrible and unreliable prove me wrong
Easton Barnes
More interactive than watching 90 minutes of ads interrupted by 90 seconds of football.
Robert Bailey
it is compare to a NFL broadcast that is nothing but virtue signaling then there's the fact that you can interact with a streamer and then go try out their play style/strategy, while the NFL players are celebrities with their own bodyguards and many NFL players make it obvious that they hate NFL fans is3.Jow Forums.org/wsg/1530220688576.webm
David Davis
So watch illegal streams, it's not difficult and the quality is mostly good. You can always invite friends over and interact with them, which also way more fun than twitch chat.
Oh wow, someone performs some pixel action and the crowd goes insane over that. How pathetic....
As for the interaction: Why do you have to interact with the players to try out their whatever they do? Besides, the NFL only cares about your money. If you want to talk to players go to your local team, their deeper roots with the community makes them happier to interact with fans.
Josiah Kelly
And instead they gain interest in watching basedboys playing video games.
SAD!
Daniel Anderson
You realize you can watch football OTA, right?
>compare to a NFL broadcast that is nothing but virtue signaling The fuck are you even talking about.
Say what you will but the Friday Fornite competition series hosted by KEEMSTAR is one of the most compelling spectator sports events I've come across in years.
Noah Adams
Same as real sports there isn't really a point. It's just fun entertainment, but made for and by basedboys who try to convince themselves into being real athletes.
It's real people performing actions and not pixel figures. And less onions.
Aiden Scott
I think I might like Esports if the commentators weren't so awful. They completely take the fun out of the games by making it about...well sports and numbers. Really fags up the fun. Actually fuck Esports.
Isaiah Cruz
>find a better waste of your free time Like playing video games? And then becoming too weak to do anything physical because you are sitting too much in your room? Well guess for which demographics that's true the most. Hint: It's it not niggers obviously.
