■ SE:A, streaming broadcast debut! Live broadcast officially launched in August
■ Expect more broadcasting activities with the Sandbox Network!
[2020-0730] Smilegate Entertainment (CEO Jang In-ah) announced that Korea's first virtual YouTuber'SE:A' has signed an exclusive contract with Sandbox Network, a leading digital entertainment company in the MCN industry, for full-fledged broadcasting activities. It was revealed on the 30th (Thu).
SE:A is the first virtual YouTuber in Korea to promote the popular mobile turn-based RPG 'Epic Seven' in service at Smilegate Megaport in 2018. Since then, it has operated a YouTube channel called 'SE:A Story' and has about 60,000 subscribers.
In order to expand SE:A's activities, Smilegate renamed it'Season 2'from the 7th and changed the way of broadcasting with live streaming. The live broadcast will be beta tested by the end of July, and the official broadcast will continue from August. In addition, the broadcast theme will also be presented with contents that can show off SE:A's various charms beyond Epic Seven.
To this end, Smilegate signed an exclusive contract with Sandbox, and plans to plan and operate SE:A Story together in the future. With this contract, SE:A is expected not to stop as a successful virtual YouTuber, but as a creator who directly communicates with fans in line with the rapidly changing digital media market trends.
The fans' reaction to the SE:A story changed to live streaming is good. Over the past month, it recorded an average of about 13,500 views over 17 episodes, leaving a lot of messages of support in anticipation for Season 2 and a new challenge to live streaming.
Smilegate plans to donate all the profits from SE:A's live streaming to Smilegate Hope Studio in the future. SE:A is planning to gradually expand SE:A's'good influence' as SE:A started public interest activities to cultivate younger YouTubers last year.
Smilegate Entertainment's PL (Project Leader) Choi Won-Seok said, “The internal judgment that it was good to cooperate with the sandbox while seeing fans who like SE:A’s changed appearance.” We will make it possible to communicate through fun and diverse activities.”
