{"id":624842,"date":"2026-07-06T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=828672"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:30:45","slug":"esports-revenue-climbs-toward-5-1-billion-as-global-audience-tops-640-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/esports-revenue-climbs-toward-5-1-billion-as-global-audience-tops-640-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports Revenue Climbs Toward $5.1 Billion as Global Audience Tops 640 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/esports-revenue-climbs-toward-5-1-billion-as-global-audience-tops-640-million-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Esports player playing in the World Cup (EWC).\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Esports has grown into a global audience business of 640.8 million people, and the industry\u2019s biggest event of 2026 is about to test how far that audience can carry the sport\u2019s business model. The Esports World Cup lands in Paris from July 6 through Aug. 23, with more than 2,000 players and 200 clubs from [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esports has grown into a global audience business of 640.8 million people, and the industry\u2019s biggest event of 2026 is about to test how far that audience can carry the sport\u2019s business model. The Esports World Cup lands in Paris from July 6 through Aug. 23, with more than 2,000 players and 200 clubs from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-624842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}