ESPN Fantasy is the No. 1 provider in fantasy sports with a comprehensive portfolio of award-winning games and content, serving 20 million fantasy players across platforms – on the web, mobile, audio, linear TV, and streaming video. Drawing on resources from nearly every aspect of the company, ESPN Fantasy continues to innovate, expand and reach new and younger audiences with every initiative. The total number of unique fans playing ESPN Fantasy games has nearly doubled over the last four years, with more than half of that growth occurring in 2017. On NFL Sundays, ESPN Fantasy accounts for more than half of all minutes consumed across ESPN Digital platforms. ESPN Fantasy Football has more players than any other fantasy football game and ESPN’s Tournament Challenge is by far the most popular NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket contest, while the ESPN Fantasy App attracts more fans than any other fantasy sports app by wide margins. In 2017, all 15 of ESPN Fantasy’s primary games enjoyed significant increases in number of players, with 14 of the 15 setting all-time records. Providing fans with unmatched fantasy news, analysis and other content, ESPN Fantasy’s award-winning team of fantasy analysts includes Fantasy Sports Trade Association hall-of-famers Matthew Berry, Tristan H. Cockcroft, Eric Karabell and Stephania Bell, with additional insights from ESPN’s many experts and analysts across platforms. The award-winning Fantasy Focus Football podcast is ESPN’s top-rated podcast every year and was the first ESPN digital audio product to be filmed for digital video distribution on a daily basis. ESPN Fantasy analysts appear regularly on SportsCenter, NFL Live, Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown, and ESPN’s annual coverage of the NFL Draft, in addition to the Emmy Award-winning Fantasy Football Now and The Fantasy Show with Matthew Berry, ESPN’s first daily show devoted to fantasy sports. According to the 2017 ESPN Sports Poll, fans who play fantasy sports are more likely to attend games, read sports news, watch sports highlights and spend money on sports compared to fans who aren’t fantasy players. Simply put, there are no more engaged and avid sports fans than those who play fantasy.
