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Super League Gaming loses $14.5 million on $1 million in revenue in 2019, but metrics improve

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Super League Gaming, an esports company that holds events for amateurs, reported that it had a net loss of $30.6 million in 2019, on revenues of $1 million. This illustrates the reality of how it isn’t easy to make money in the fledgling esports market, at least for some companies.

But the company noted that the net loss includes non-cash expenses, and that it’s operating loss was $14.5 million.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.