6 Ways to Play the Hottest Investment Sector of the Year - Seite 2

#2 Millennial Esports Corp. (GAME, MLLLF)

If you really want to get your game on in this segment, Millennial is the Ferrari of esports. One of the best ways to monetize this industry is to corner it from every angle imaginable - simultaneously. That's what GAME is doing.

It's securing multiple revenue streams, including everything from lucrative game development (think: Formula One) to one of the biggest missing links in the monetization puzzle: data collection. 

One of the biggest growth areas in esports is game development, and Millennial (GAME, MLLLF) is on the fast track in more ways than one. It's bringing the $700-billion auto industry into the digital arena with the Formula One racing game.

That makes GAME a leader in this space. But that space is now about to expand further with Millennial's acquisition of Eden, a video racing game developer linked to the Formula One brand.

Eden, just rolled out Gear Club Unlimited 2 in 2018, and more games are in the pipeline. And it also just secured exclusive partnerships with Porsche and Nintendo. 

In August, GAME bought a controlling 51% stake in the market-leading motorsport simulator manufacturer, Allinsports, which has a technical partnership with Ferrari in simulator development and founded by a Formula One engineer. And it's also developed the most iconic esports racing event on the planet: World's Fastest Gamer.

The first season was a global sensation, broadcast across 48 countries and reaching an estimated 400 million households. Now the second season is set to be bigger, with this year's prize valued at $1 million - the biggest prize in esports racing history.  All of this accounts to major exposure for Millennial Esports. And with that exposure, GAME is breaking into another huge segment of esports - data analytics. 

Millennial has just acquired Stream Hatchet, the first service dedicated to gathering user data on online gaming, data that it can deliver to Big Tech and media companies. The big data industry is worth nearly $200-billion already and will be the kingmaker of the esports fiefdom.

So, not only is Millennial (GAME, MLLLF) developing one of the hottest games in a sector with unlimited potential, it's also harnessing the endless upside of the data that it can collect from millions of players and viewers.

When it comes to a backdoor entrance into esports, there are few opportunities with so much blue-sky potential.

#3 Micron Technology (NYSE:MU)

The gaming industry is absolutely reliant on new innovations in the world of hardware, and Micron Technology is a force in this world.