Popdog is unveiling the beta launch of its online destination to aggregate game livestreams and other gaming content from around the globe.
As an agnostic partner, Popdog will take content from all streaming services and platforms, beginning with Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube. It will feature livestreaming from today’s most popular streamers, professional gamers, and esports leagues, so users can find who is live in real-time and what gaming content is trending globally.
As more professional gamers, competitors, and content creators are livestreaming to audiences at home, Popdog hopes to serve as the ultimate guide for audiences who want to find and discover live gaming content in real-time and across platforms.
Above: Popdog is aggregating gaming livestreams and other game content.
The portal is powered by a deep analytics backend, which processes tens of millions of data points from esports and platform APIs each day. This allows the platform to offer users deeper, algorithm-based discovery recommendations. The first of these is the “Trending” section, which highlights channels that are outperforming their usual viewership, but more options will appear over time as Popdog refines and polishes the algorithms.
Now live in beta, Popdog will continue to update the service with new features and functionality based on viewer, publisher, platform, and industry feedback, which is being collected in the first phase of development.
Popdog’s aggregation product extends the company’s original vision to provide innovative solutions to optimize gaming and esports entertainment around the globe.
Popdog is a technology and services company developing products designed to help optimize esports and gaming live streaming for brands, publishers, talent, teams, tournaments, and other stakeholders. Popdog was founded by esports pioneer Alexander Garfield, best known for his work in building Evil Geniuses and Alliance, before selling the teams’ parent company GoodGame to Twitch in 2014.
He subsequently left Twitch in 2016 to found Popdog, which in addition to its technology side has a renowned talent management arm under the name of Loaded. Popdog’s Co-Founders each have headline resumes in their own regards. Fellow esports legend Andreas Thorstensson, Popdog’s chief technology officer and chief product officer, is a former Counter-Strike world champion who cofounded SK Gaming, the most successful esports organization and social platform of its era, and SoGamed, the storied online gaming community.
Author: Dean Takahashi.
Source: Venturebeat
