Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025 while job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people
Private funding fell a further 55% last year, according to Epyllion's latest State of Video Gaming report
Meta's Reality Labs Q1: revenue up 30% YoY to $440M, vs. $512.5M est., a $3.85B operating loss, vs. $4.31B est.; Reality Labs has lost $45B+ since 2020's end
It's burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020. — https://www.cnbc.com/... #tech #meta #metaverse #vr X: Jason Kint / @jason_kint : So generous. This is very likely just more aggres...
Meta's Reality Labs reports Q3 revenue down 26% YoY to $210M, vs. $299.3M est., and operating loss up 2% YoY to $3.74B, vs. $3.9B est.
Quest 2 Sales Slump Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Meta's VR division lost $3.7 billion last quarter, bringing total losses to almost $40 billion since 2020 Tomislav Bezmalinovic / MIXED Reality News : Meta...
In a letter to artists, Apple says it pays a penny per stream, roughly double Spotify, which pays an average of about one-third to half a penny per stream
Double What Spotify Pays Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard : Apple Music Says Per-Stream Royalty Rate Is Double What Spotify Pays Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑DeWitt : Apple vs. Spotify: Who can foll...
Internal data shows only 11.3M US households regularly watch NBCU's Peacock; sources: NBCU has pitched ViacomCBS about bundling their streaming services
The Information : Tweets: @natjarv , @jstrauss , @ballmatthew , @edmundlee , @richlightshed , and @pkafka See also Mediagazer Tweets: Natalie Jarvey / @natjarv : Having only a third of your users reg...
Roblox files S-1 for its IPO, reports losses of $206M on $589M in revenue, 31.1M DAU, and 22.2B engaged hours, up 122% YoY, for the first nine months of 2020
here's what we learned from the most recent wave of IPO filings Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Roblox Files IPO Amid Surge in Videogame Spending Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch : What is Roblox ...
Netflix's content spend is not reckless; its strategy to capture paid users' leisure time gives it an edge over free content platforms like Facebook and YouTube
Matthew Ball / @MediaREDEF : Tweets: @sub8u Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : Very good read on understanding Netflix's content spend strategy by @ballmatthew ."The company doesn't want to be a lea...
Ev Williams: our goal is to launch Medium consumer subscription product this quarter
few publications will be able to outperform them (maybe 1-2% of pubs). http://twitter.com/... Daniel Jalkut / @danielpunkass : Billion dollar idea for @Medium: one of the premium features surreptitiou...