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Introducing The Hitbox Indie Show!

To celebrate the beauty of indie games, we are happy to announce our new Hitbox Indie Show!

The Hitbox Indie Show will put indie games in the limelight. The first show will happen at hitbox.tv/hitboxlive, this Friday – September 30th, and will revolve around the co-op games Monsters and Monocles as well as Rogue Stormers. Continue reading Introducing The Hitbox Indie Show!

Hitbox signs esports broadcast deals with ESL, DreamHack, and Wargaming

The Twitch competitor has seen growth in Russia and Brazil.

Streaming service Hitbox has signed a two-year deal with ESL for all of the tournament organizer’s esports content and exclusive Portuguese and Russian broadcast rights for DreamHack.

The Twitch competitor, which is growing in popularity in Russia and Brazil, also secured the rights to provide streaming for English, Russian, and Polish coverage of the World of Tanks grand final next weekend. Continue reading Hitbox signs esports broadcast deals with ESL, DreamHack, and Wargaming

The Hitbox Community Team: Emosbloodshot

A veteran in the gaming community, Aykan aka Emosbloodshot aka Emo is our ambassador for Germany/Austria/Switzerland.

As the Ambassador for the German speaking countries, Aykan helps the Hitbox community whenever they have a question. With several years of experience working with the gaming community, he knows how to help and handle every problem.

In May 2014, he was introduced to Hitbox for the first time through our partner Jimpanse and Emo decided to give Hitbox a chance. In September 2014, he joined our family as an ambassador for Germany/Austria/Switzerland, managing the German speaking Social Media channels like @hitboxliveDE on Twitter and our German Facebook posts and is also lending a helping hand to the German support for our platform.

Aykan can usually be found hanging out in one of our German speaking community members stream, making sure everyone has a great time while watching their favorite broadcaster on Hitbox. Of course he also streams himself, playing games like CS:GO and Battlefield Hardline.

I never thought I could be part of this awesome family and community. Meeting new people every single day, enjoying the streams together with them or having awesome streams with the community by myself. There’s one thing that connects us all: The passion for gaming! It feels great being part of the family and this is what Hitbox is. More than a community, a family!

Facebook: facebook.com/Emosbloodshot
Twitter: twitter.com/htbxEmo
hitbox: hitbox.tv/Emosbloodshot

Hitbox is growing and welcomes Wargaming on board

Let us reveal great news today: We raised our next growth round to keep the Hitbox upward trend on a steep ascent. Let’s all welcome Wargaming on board!

Today we are elated to announce the successful closing of a $4 million growth round to expand our North American operations and worldwide reach, as well as explore additional software innovations to expand our technological lead. The round was led by Vienna-based VC-firm Speedinvest and also includes leading free-to-play MMO developer and publisher, Wargaming; North Base Media; as well as angel investors. This investment follows a seed round of $1 million from angel investors, which closed in 2014.

“Supporting live streaming for our games and fans has always been a key pillar in our strategy for growing our online presence,”

said Sean Lee, Chief Strategy Officer at Wargaming, who will join our board of directors.

“Hitbox allows us to truly make live streaming an extension of Wargaming and our titles through the ability to integrate game data into the broadcast. Gamers will be able to share their experiences easier than ever before and our channels will have the robust infrastructure AAA gaming demands.”

We will reveal more about what cool things we have planned for you guys with this partnership in the near future.

Martin Klimscha, CEO and co-founder of Hitbox adds:

“We are huge fans of Wargaming, and we welcome them as an investor and partner who share our vision of taking video game livestreaming to the next level. Speedinvest has been an extraordinary partner since our initial seed round and this investment strengthens our relationship as we prepare to expand our operations and visibility.”

Oliver Holle, CEO Speedinvest adds:

“Esports is an exploding market and Hitbox is the top contender to win market share from previous monopolist Twitch and others. With Hitbox’s laser focus on the gaming community and its superior technology, we see nothing but growth.”

With this new round of funding, we are focusing on continuing to deliver innovation in both technology and community-building efforts. Watch this space and follow us on Twitter for upcoming announcements.

Originally posted on hitbox

The Hitbox Community Team: Kiubee

Suit up! It is time to introduce the next member of our global Community Team to you guys. Curtain up for: Tom aka Kiubee, our French Community Ambassador.

Tom aka Kiubee has started to work in the esports business at the early age of 17. He managed multiple challenger players and teams in the growing League of Legends scene, like Sparta and Punchline. During those days, his players and teams managed to secure multiple wins on French LAN events.

Kiubee is a true globetrotter, traveling to a multitude of events each year, expanding his network within the gaming and esports world.

During the Riot All Stars event, he learned about Hitbox for the first time and as he himself puts it: “I immediately fell in love with the platform!”
Once he got to meet our crew at some of the events he attended, this passion grew to include not just the platform, but the team behind it as well. This very passion and his extensive background within the scene made our choice to make him part of Hitbox an easy one.

In February of 2015 he joined our family and has ever since been an existential part in supporting our community, specifically the French part of it. One thing can’t be denied, he loves suits.

“I hope that the French community will play a major role in the future of Hitbox!” – kiubee