{"id":987021,"date":"2026-01-22T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987021"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:44:56","slug":"indian-esports-players-increasingly-see-it-as-viable-career-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/indian-esports-players-increasingly-see-it-as-viable-career-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian esports players increasingly see it as viable career option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Esports are increasingly emerging as a financially viable career option, with some of the country\u2019s top players such as Tanmay Singh (Scout) and Jonathan Amaral earning around Rs 1 crore annually, according to industry executives. <\/p>\n<p>A survey conducted by research firm YouGov found that 83% of daily Indian esports players consider the nascent field a financially viable career, with 49% describing it as very viable. The survey covered more than 1,500 daily esports players in the 18-44 years age group across tier-1 and tier-2 cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Esports are increasingly emerging as a financially viable career option, with some of the country\u2019s top players such as Tanmay Singh (Scout) and Jonathan Amaral earning around Rs 1 crore annually, according to industry executives. A survey conducted by research firm YouGov found that 83% of daily Indian esports players consider the nascent field a financially viable career, with 49% describing it as very viable. The survey covered more than 1,500 daily esports players in the 18-44 years age group across tier-1 and tier-2 cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}