Amid Esports Boom, Legacy Brands Like Unilever Enter the Games

The annual Intel Extreme Masters Counter-Strike 2 tournament in August drew a sold-out crowd of 13,000 people to the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, and broke its previous viewership record of 700,000 with more than 1 million people watching the games from home. Much like a conventional sporting event, the attentive audience was also exposed...