Esports engagement startup STAN on Friday announced their upcoming flagship mega event for celebrating India’s Internet creators – the STAN Creator Fest 2023, scheduled to be held here on Sunday. 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, said STAN, a Bangalore-headquartered blockchain-based fan engagement startup, in a release here. Among some of the most popular and influential gaming and entertainment personalities who would 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 and Bakwas Talks. Notably, these creators have a collective follower base of over 300 Million across various social media platforms like Instagram, Youtube. 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, Parth Chadha, Co-Founder & CEO, STAN said, “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. 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.” Nauman Mulla, Co-Founder & COO, STAN said , “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.” Telugu Gaming FF, Gaming Creator said, “ I believe this event will offer a fantastic opportunity for creators like us to connect, learn, collaborate and celebrate the craft.” 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. 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 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. 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.