{"id":6345,"date":"2018-12-06T05:13:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2018-12-06T05:13:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:13:20","slug":"uk-study-finds-young-girls-flocking-to-esports-in-increasing-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/uk-study-finds-young-girls-flocking-to-esports-in-increasing-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK study finds young girls flocking to esports in increasing numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COULD the future of eSports be female?<\/p>\n<p>A United Kingdom market intelligence organisation named Kids Insight released an interesting report this week, showing that girls are flocking to the sport in ever-increasing numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The research suggests that esports and video games is more common among girls aged 13-15 than boys in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting development is the popularity of console game over the PC alternative in that age group.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no question that the eSports industry has a tremendous and exciting future, but the news of growing <a title=\"Study finds more interest from girls in esports\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/more-women-interested-in-esports-than-perceived-study-finds\/\">interest in young girls<\/a> will comes as a surprise and positive news to the male-dominated sport.<\/p>\n<p>The Kids Insight report also identified the most popular playing titles and it was multiplayer shooter Overwatch which won out, followed closely by Fifa and Call of Duty.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a title=\"Women in esports\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/women-in-esports\/\">Are women prevalent in eSports? Read our guide for answers.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some key findings from the Kids Insight report include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15% of all UK girls now watch esports<\/li>\n<li>More 13-15-year-old UK girls take part in esports than 13-15 boys<\/li>\n<li>More 13-to-15 UK girls watch esports live than 13-15 boys<\/li>\n<li>84% of UK teen girls are now spending some of their time gaming compared to 75% during the same period last year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, while these newest UK numbers for young female participation are exciting, the challenge for the industry and one of its true hurdles in becoming a global powerhouse is in retaining their interest into adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>By the age of 16-18 only 10% of girls watch eSports. While there is also a significant drop in traditional sports for young females, it is not this pronounced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Kingdom market intelligence organisation named Kids Insight released an interesting report this week, showing that girls are flocking to the sport in ever-increasing numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,525,77],"class_list":["post-6345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-kids-insight","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}