{"id":2753,"date":"2017-07-27T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/?p=2753\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:15:41","slug":"g-ashton-teo-wants-to-be-the-wall-street-journal-of-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/2017\/07\/27\/g-ashton-teo-wants-to-be-the-wall-street-journal-of-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"G. Ashton : &#8220;TEO wants to be the Wall Street Journal of esports&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Esports Observer<\/a> is a website that covers the business side of esports. It was founded in 2015. Besides a section dedicated to specialized articles, TEO has two verticals : a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.influencer.gg\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">platform<\/a> that compiles data related to major streamers and a portal that lists <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/careers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">career opportunities<\/a> in the esports domain. Since 2016, the site is managed by Berlin startup Esports Business Solutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Urban_Shepherd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graham Ashton<\/a> is a journalist at The Esports Observer. During <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/2017\/05\/15\/dojo-esport-international-business-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dojo Esport<\/a>, he hosted the conference on the theme of Soft Power. We were able to ask him a few questions about Yahoo closing down their esports section, the journalist status and the perspectives for the esports press in the future.<\/p>\n<h3>Interview<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0rYhRczWx6k?feature=oembed&#038;showinfo=0&#038;rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Esports Observer is a website that covers the business side of esports. It was founded in 2015. Besides a section dedicated to specialized articles, TEO has two verticals : a platform that compiles data related to major streamers and a portal that lists career opportunities in the esports domain. Since 2016, the site is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,729,728],"tags":[915,73,74,1024,1016,1019,1021,417,1020,1017,1018,1023,1022],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcast.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}