GameOn: Exploring the Fusion of Sports, Gaming & Web3 with NFTs and Digital Collectibles | Matt Bailey

In this episode, Siva Avvaru, yWhales Solutions Managing Director, and Abe Micael, yWhales Head of Ecosystem, speak with Matt Bailey, CEO of GameOn, to discuss the intersection of fantasy sports and gaming technology. The conversation delves into how GameOn got started and evolved its business model into a successful B2B enterprise. Matt shares how GameOn has pioneered the next generation of fantasy sports, offering a life fantasy game where users earn rewards when their digital fighters land a punch or a kick in the pit. Listen as Siva, Abe, and Matt discuss the importance of engaging Gen Z and millennials who consume sports differently, in bite-sized pieces, and how gaming technology can provide a unique and engaging experience for them. 

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Game On’s Social Links:

GameOn’s Website: https://gameon.app/

GameOn’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gameonfanapp/

GameOn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/gameonfanapp

GameOn’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gameonfanapp/

Guest Social Links:

Matt’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gameonmatt

Matt’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/gameonmatty

About Guest

Matt Bailey is an Australian entrepreneur in the U.S. After a career in sports business working for global brands like the Brooklyn Nets, Barclays Center, Cricket Australia, and CSM Sport & Entertainment, Matt Founded web3 games startup, GameOn Entertainment Technologies, now publicly-listed in Canada. Since 2018, GameOn has raised more than $10 million in funding, gone through the world-renowned Techstars accelerator, and partnered with Comcast, NBCUniversal, Polygon, Hedera, Karate Combat, the WNBA, and India's largest media conglomerate, Times Internet.

You’ll learn about:

• How Millennial sports consumption habits influenced GameOn
• GameOn: portability, interoperability, true ownership, utility & collectibility
• Utilizing athletes to leverage NFTs and bring awareness to the space

Timestamps

00:37 Siva’s intro 

01:18 Matt’s intro

3:44 How GameOn expands on the gaming experience

5:53 GameOn’s beginnings

9:43 Web3 and Playable NFTs

11:25 Digital collectibles & communities

13:22 Educating brands in Web3

15:45 Onboarding users

17:46 GameOn’s marketplace

20:20 The Karate Combat community

26:14 Hurdles to building GameOn

30:50 Benefits of Web3 and NFTs

38:00 Digital assets in sports

43:15 Product-first approach in sports

46:52 Athletes leveraging NFTs

49:09 How to get involved

    

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