United States32267 Posts
“BJ” (streamer) and “star balloon” (the internal donation currency).
Digtal Daily: Chae Jung Won (yes, the “Mr. Chae” of the GSL), head of Esports and Gaming content at AfreecaTV, said “We’ve offered global service for a while, but Korea still makes up over 95% of our regional viewers” and “We still have a low share (of the market) overseas, but we’ve brought in a lot of overseas viewers recently through Valorant and other esports events.” He also said “In particular, the recent global Valorant tournament AVL (AfreecaTV Valorant League) recorded 120,000 simultaneous overseas viewers during the finals” and “For AfreecaTV, it was the first broadcast that got over 100,000 simultaneous views from overseas users, not Korean users, and we saw the potential in that. We’ll try harder to make competitive content in global esports.
France3058 Posts
Btw anybody knows how easily afreeca integrates with like SplitOBS and the like? Does it need a special afreeca dedicated program?
United States257 Posts
+1 on the question of renaming ASL
Canada1787 Posts
but Korea still makes up over 95% of our regional viewers
That’s because your website blows ass to watch on outside of Korea with the constant buffering and lag zzzzzz Hopefully they actually attempt to solve for that somehow.
United States32267 Posts
That’s because your website blows ass to watch on outside of Korea with the constant buffering and lag zzzzzz Hopefully they actually attempt to solve for that somehow.
AVL went over pretty well; the comparative lack of complaining from Valorant makes me wonder if the SC2 community misses out on some tailwind from Afreeca/SOOP’s esports investment because they incessantly whine about the platform and make it the entire discourse on every internet thread.
Canada1787 Posts
but Korea still makes up over 95% of our regional viewers
That’s because your website blows ass to watch on outside of Korea with the constant buffering and lag zzzzzz Hopefully they actually attempt to solve for that somehow.
AVL went over pretty well; the comparative lack of complaining makes me wonder if the SC2 community misses out on some tailwind because they’re incessant whiners 
I’ve got 3gb/s FTTB at home, and I still struggle to watch afreeca live streams (for ASL) while something like CHZZK is perfectly fine 
United States32267 Posts
Did they say the reason behind the rebrand? Is it mainly to make more internationally friendly names/terms?
+1 on the question of renaming ASL
From reading articles, I think the general assumption is that it’s to be more global friendly + distance from some bad domestic reputation associated with the AfreecaTV brand. Outside of gaming, it has the rep of being the platform where people will do anything for attention/money/donations, whether that’s risque content or just generally saying/doing intentionally provocative things.
Poland3570 Posts
Did they say the reason behind the rebrand? Is it mainly to make more internationally friendly names/terms?
+1 on the question of renaming ASL
From reading articles, I think the general assumption is that it’s to be more global friendly + distance from some bad domestic reputation associated with the AfreecaTV brand. Outside of gaming, it has the rep of being the platform where people will do anything for attention/money/donations, whether that’s risque content or just generally saying/doing intentionally provocative things.
How will renaming the platform change that exactly? Everyone will still know it’s “AfreecaTV” just renamed to “SOOP”. Will terms of use change along with the name, so people can’t seek for attention by doing weird/creepy/risque stuff anymore?
Because if not, then that’s a pretty bizarre reason for such a big move, tbh.
Poland3570 Posts
Whatever. I guess we’re getting a 3rd major BW league with “SSL” abbreviation then, lol :3
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