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  • Gaming Creators takes centre stage at landmark STAN Creator Fest

    Gaming Creators takes centre stage at landmark STAN Creator Fest

    Mumbai: Gaming startup STAN organised the first-of-its-kind mega event STAN Creator Fest to celebrate India’s Internet creators and the success of gaming creators in India. The event took place at Enigma The Experience, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad and more than 500+ creators – predominantly gaming and esports creators – from across the country will be present in person.

    Among some of the most popular and influential gaming and entertainment personalities who attended this year’s Creator Fest include – Lokesh Gamer (the biggest creator of Telangana), AS Gaming, Aditech, Telugu Gaming FF, Ishika Plays, Boss Official, Assasins Army, Black Flag Army, Rahul Gaming, Bakwas Talks, and among others there are few mystery creators also attended the event. Notably, these creators have a collective follower base of over 300 million across various social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube, etc.

    The gaming industry in India has been growing tremendously in recent years and is expected to be valued at $5 billion by 2025. On the other hand, as per a report by EY, India’s content industry is set to cross $30.6 billion in valuation by 2023, with a major chunk of digital content creation in our country today being dominated by gaming and esports creators. Offering the best of both worlds, STAN Creator Fest 2023 was aimed at uplifting and providing ample support and encouragement for India’s micro and budding creators. It fostered an environment conducive to networking, meet-and-greet, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing across the intersections of the gaming and content creation spaces. Additionally, Stan also introduced the Stan creator partner program and plans to onboard 500 creators.

    Speaking about the event, STAN co-founder & CEO Parth Chadha said, “STAN Creator Fest was not just an event; it was a testament to the power of gaming and eSports community creators. Our platform has provided a nurturing space for these talented individuals, allowing their voices to be heard and their creativity to shine. The overwhelming participation and enthusiasm we witnessed at this festival was a reaffirmation of the impact we’ve had on their lives. Together, we are shaping a brighter future for the aspiring -creators, and we’re excited to continue this incredible journey.”

    “In the dynamic world of content creation, partnerships and collaborations are the linchpins that shape a creator’s journey. STAN has always championed the idea that together we can achieve more, and our commitment to this ethos runs deep. We provide a platform where creators can not only connect with like-minded individuals but also monetize their unique talents effectively. Not only has the STAN Creator Fest 2023 been able to live upto this dedication, it has also served as a catalyst for the growth of these aspiring creators By bringing together influencers, brands, and creators, we’re creating an ecosystem where everyone benefits, fostering a thriving creator economy that opens new doors for innovation and success.” – STAN co-founder and COO Nauman Mulla

    Telugu Gaming FF, Gaming Creator said, “I’ve been on an incredible journey with STAN, from my YouTube channel having around 500k subscribers to now boasting a remarkable 2.2 million. STAN has been the rock-solid foundation that made this transformation possible. It was an incredible opportunity to learn from fellow creators, exchange insights, and gain a deeper understanding of the gaming content landscape. STAN has truly empowered us by fostering this sense of unity and collaboration, enabling us to navigate the ever-evolving world of gaming content creation with newfound wisdom and camaraderie.”

    STAN has been engaging with creators since its inception, helping them grow and monetize and thus actively contributing to the growth of the nation’s creators’ ecosystem. Over the past six months, STAN has enabled numerous creators associated with them in generating revenues of more than Rs three Crores through its platform and various brand integrations. Till date, they have successfully collaborated with and supported over 2000 creators pan-India, and going forward, aim to extend this support to an even larger number of creators in the near future with ongoing and upcoming initiatives such as the STAN Creator Program. Furthermore, STAN has plans to organise an array of similar mixer and networking events across various Indian cities in the months to come, aiming to foster connections, collaborations, and the establishment of a vibrant ecosystem for creators.

  • Creator Fest 2023: Premier gathering of internet creators by STAN

    Creator Fest 2023: Premier gathering of internet creators by STAN

    Mumbai: Esports engagement startup STAN has announced their upcoming flagship mega event for celebrating India’s Internet creators – the STAN Creator Fest 2023, scheduled to be held on Sunday, 5 November 2023, 1 PM onwards, at Enigma The Experience, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.  With this, STAN is all set to host India’s first-of-its-kind, most-anticipated creator networking and mixer event, where more than 150+ leading content creators – predominantly gaming and esports creators – from across the country will be present in-person.

    Among some of the most popular and influential gaming and entertainment personalities who shall attend this year’s Creator Fest include – Lokesh Gamer (the biggest creator of Telangana), AS Gaming, Aditech, Telugu Gaming FF, Ishika Plays, Boss Official, Assasins Army, Black Flag Army, Rahul Gaming, Bakwas Talks, and among others there are few mystery creators who will be attending the event. Notably, these creators have a collective follower base of over 300 Million across various social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube, etc.

    The gaming industry in India has been growing tremendously in recent years and is expected to be valued at $5 billion by 2025. On the other hand, as per a report by EY, India’s content industry is set to cross $30.6 billion in valuation by 2023, with a major chunk of digital content creation in our country today being dominated by gaming and esports creators. Offering the best of both worlds, STAN Creator Fest 2023 is aimed at uplifting and providing ample support and encouragement for India’s micro and budding creators, while fostering an environment conducive to networking, meet-and-greet, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing across the intersections of the gaming and content creation spaces.

    Speaking about the upcoming event, STAN co-founder & CEO  Parth Chadha said, “We at STAN are stoked and proud to present the Creator Fest, through which our primary intent is to create a super-engaging platform exclusively designed to unite creators, enthusiasts, industry experts, and other ecosystem stakeholders. What sets this event apart is its unique support for India’s micro-creators, providing a rare avenue for them to learn from and interact with the top industry creators, potentially paving the way for their future collaborations and growth. In the long run, we want to establish STAN as a pivotal player and thought leader within the ever-evolving gaming and content creation landscape. By facilitating a recurring event that becomes a landmark in the industry, we aim to solidify our position as an enabling force that continuously supports and nurtures the nation’s creators. The Creator Fest 2023 serves as an initial yet significant step towards shaping our broader vision, and we are now looking forward to experiencing it to the fullest.”

    STAN co-founder & COO Nauman Mulla added, “STAN Creator Fest has been designed by us as a groundbreaking, game-changing event, bringing together gamers, streamers, influencers and creators, innovators, brands, game studios, et al under one roof for an exciting and fun-filled day of networking, learning, and entertainment. We are thrilled to be able to feature some of the nation’s biggest names across the gaming and creator ecosystem at the Creator Fest in a bid to create an atmosphere of collaboration and collective growth. Of course, the underlying objective of this endeavor is fostering a vibrant community of creators in India, including both established and aspiring ones, and thus bolstering the creator ecosystem at large.”

    Telugu Gaming FF, Gaming Creator said, “Anything that STAN does is a boost to our community and therefore a must-engage for creators like me. So, I am super-excited to be a part of STAN’s upcoming Creator Fest, where I look forward to meeting and interacting with my favourite creators like Lokesh Gamer. I believe this event will offer a fantastic opportunity for creators like us to connect, learn, collaborate, and celebrate the craft.”

    STAN has been engaging with creators since its inception, helping them grow and monetize and thus actively contributing to the growth of the nation’s creators’ ecosystem. Over the past six months, STAN has enabled numerous creators associated with them in generating revenues of more than INR 3 Crores through its platform and various brand integrations. To date, they have successfully collaborated with and supported over 2000 creators pan-India, and going forward, aim to extend this support to an even larger number of creators shortly with ongoing and upcoming initiatives such as the STAN Creator Program. Furthermore, STAN has plans to organize an array of similar mixer and networking events across various Indian cities in the months to come, aiming to foster connections, collaborations, and the establishment of a vibrant ecosystem for creators.

    For an emerging gaming or content enthusiast, STAN Creator Fest 2023 has the following to offer:

    ●    Networking Opportunities: Meet like-minded enthusiasts, and network with a diverse group of gaming creators, industry experts, etc.

    ●    Access to Top Industry Personalities: Get up close and personal with renowned gamers and creators. Get autographs, take selfies, shoot content, connect, interact and chat with the stars.

    ●    Mixer Sessions: Take part in interactive mixer sessions to break the ice and foster collaborations.

    ●    Insightful Panel Discussions: Derive valuable insights from panel discussions focused on the latest trends and growth strategies for the creator economy, and the future of gaming and content creation.

    ●    Live DJ: Lastly for fun and atmosphere to relax, groove with the live DJ performance at the event.

    Interestingly, STAN has revealed a minimum requirement of having at least 3000 followers on any social media platform for a creator to be able to attend the event. This criterion has been set in order to curate a relevant and meaningful environment dedicated to individuals who are passionate about content creation, and ultimately ensure that the event objectives are met.

    To attend STAN Creator Fest 2023, get your event passes now from any of the booking partner platforms like MeraEvents, Paytm Insider,  Townscript, or 10Times. 

  • Free Fire’s creator Total Gaming inks exclusive NFT partnership with Stan

    Free Fire’s creator Total Gaming inks exclusive NFT partnership with Stan

    Mumbai: Bengaluru-headquartered blockchain-based esports fan engagement platform Stan has announced entering into a strategic non-fungible token (NFT) partnership with the world’s most-followed and popular Garena Free Fire creator and Asian gaming creator – Total Gaming aka Ajju Bhai. The idea and objective behind this collaboration is to create an ecosystem for Total Gaming fans to engage with them optimally through the use of NFTs and other perks. As a part of this collaboration, Stan has now secured the exclusive rights to create and sell NFTs of Total Gaming. Furthermore, the partnership enables Stan users to get access to multiple interactions with Total Gaming, mainly through Instagram Shout-outs and Play-a-Match services curated by Stan.

    Stan co-founder & COO Nauman Mulla said, “As a new-age fan engagement startup working with and for the gaming and esports community in India, Stan is committed to partner with the best talents in the industry, and also to empowering fans and bringing them closer to their favourite esports creators by using NFTs and the marvels of web3. And to that end, Total Gaming aka Ajju Bhai, being one of the most followed and popular esports creators in India and the world, was a must for us to tie-up with. We are delighted to announce that our engagement with Total Gaming going forward, shall enable Stan users over the short-term to get to interact and play with the creator, i.e., Total Gaming himself, whereas in the long run, we at Stan will be additionally hosting multiple mega fan fests and unlocking other valuable fan experiences for Total Gaming’s fans.”

    Creator Ajay (Total Gaming) said, “I am excited to be a part of Stan’s journey. That will enable my audience to engage with me on a whole new level. With this collaboration, we are aiming to reach unprecedented and seamless levels of new-age engagement with my fans and followers.”

    Notably, Total Gaming was started officially as a Youtube channel back in 2018 by Ajay (fondly known as Ajju Bhai), with the sole intent of entertaining and engaging with the gaming community on the Internet. Over the years, Total Gaming’s popularity and follower-base have skyrocketed exponentially, with its content entailing multiple games like Call of Duty Mobile, Minecraft, GTA5 and BGMI (formerly PUBG), apart from Free Fire content creation actively – which has been the major factor in driving the channel’s growth. As of date, Total Gaming has acquired over 42 million subscribers across multiple channels and has had over 6.5 billion collective views on Youtube, as well as over 3.4 million followers on Instagram.

    On the other hand, Stan is a platform that allows fans to get a chance to collect, play, and trade the collectibles and NFTs of their favourite esports players and content creators, via which they will win various perks and rewards. Besides leading Indian Free Fire creators like Total Gaming, Stan has also already inked NFT-related partnerships with multiple leading Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) creators in the country.

  • Esports team GodLike Esports collaborates with blockchain-based fan engagement startup Stan

    Esports team GodLike Esports collaborates with blockchain-based fan engagement startup Stan

    Mumbai:  Esports organisation GodLike Esports has entered into a strategic agreement with Bengaluru-headquartered esports fan engagement startup Stan. This will enable them to provide officially licensed non-NFT digital collectibles for GodLike BGMI team’s fans and followers, among other services and rewards. 

    The key objective of the partnership between Stan and GodLike, which was facilitated by Numen Esports and Gaming, is to build an ecosystem for fans in order to connect with them actively and unlock new experiences for the fan base. 

    Following this partnership, Stan shall be giving access to GodLike fans to chat, play and even meet GodLike team members; furthermore, Stan users will also have a chance to visit GodLike’s Bootcamp, India’s largest gaming/esports facility.

    Among the key players of Godlike Esports BGMI team with whom Stan has collaborated include: Chetan ‘Kronten’ Chandgude, Abhijit ‘Ghatak’ Andhare, Jonathan ‘Jonathan’ Amaral, Vivek ‘ClutchGod’ Abbas, Abhishek ‘ZGOD’ Choudhary and Suraj ‘Neyoo’ Mujumdar. 

    In addition, they have also collaborated with an influencer and an ex-professional player Kronten, GodLike owner, founder and director Abhijit ‘Ghatak’ Andhare (also an influencer and an ex-professional player).

    Speaking on the partnership with GodLike, Stan co-founder and COO Nauman Mulla said, “Entering into a strategic partnership with the biggest organisation in India, GodLike Esports, was a no brainer for us at Stan, as want to give access to all the GodLike superfans, all of that Stan is offering. We aim to work with all the major stakeholders in this esports ecosystem, which is why we are very excited about this partnership. We intend to empower fans and connect them with their favourite esports athletes and creators; and to that end, now Stan users will be able to play a game, chat, make a live call, and meet GodLike members. We are proud to announce that Stan is the only platform today giving access to GodLike fans to meet, chat, play and also visit their gaming facility, and no other application or company are offering these services.”

    Kronten said, “We are excited to partner with a brand as visionary and groundbreaking as Stan. Physical collectibles and memorabilia have been a part of sporting culture across the globe for so long and converting these to digital tokens using advanced technology will revolutionise fan engagement. All of us at GodLike are looking forward to engaging with our fans and community through Stan.”