Selecta Paul

🙆🏽‍♂️Never seen a studio fumble a Billion Dollar Brand like Nickelodean continues to fumble Avatar The Last Airbender 🤦🏽‍♂️

（´-`）.｡oO (I want to play SAROS…)

YouTube just crossed $60B in revenue for 2025. $40B from ads. $20B from subscriptions. Both numbers are growing double digits. The math here tells you everything about how Google actually views its users. 2.7 billion people use YouTube every month. 125 million pay for Premium. That’s 4.6% of the user base generating a third of total revenue. Google’s own executives said on their Q4 earnings call that a Premium subscriber generates “meaningfully higher gross profit” than an ad-supported user. So YouTube’s real optimization function is straightforward: make the ad experience painful enough that the 4.6% who can afford $14/month convert to Premium, while keeping it tolerable enough that the other 95.4% still watch long enough for advertisers to extract value. This is a toll booth that charges both directions. Advertisers pay to get in front of you. You pay to make them go away. And YouTube takes a cut of both transactions on the same piece of content, from the same viewer session, off the same infrastructure. The subscription business alone is now generating ~$20B annually across Premium, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV. That’s bigger than Spotify’s entire revenue. And it grew 25% year over year, adding roughly 2 million new paying subscribers per month through 2024. The advertisers aren’t getting scammed either. YouTube controls 12.4% of total TV viewing time in the US. Shorts pulls 70 billion daily views. The ad side grew 9% to $40B. Both sides of the market are expanding because YouTube is the only platform where the product being sold to advertisers (your attention) is the same product being sold back to you (your attention, uninterrupted). That’s a $60B business built on one insight: attention is the only asset you can sell twice.

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the over five million players who braved the horrors of Resident Evil Requiem. Thank you for 30 years of support. ❤️

@OGNexzen Look at Capcom's releases for the past 12 years. Almost all single player games. Look up their financials, that's a record 12 consecutive years of increased profits. From what exactly? Just making single player games that people want to play! What a novel concept right?

@selecta_paul look at ps top 10 charts every week, it's all live service games.

Hermen Hulst has to go. They're giving us Horizon Hunters Gathering and 3 other Horizon games (half of them flopped) but closing down Bluepoint Games? It's clear corporare bias and mismanagement.

While this industry chases this live service trend… Capcom is finding success just making games people want to play… Such a wild concept.

Imagine you are Herman Hulst. You close a studio that produces this level of quality, with under 100 employees. Bluepoint Games metacritic scores: - Demon Souls Remake (PS5) = 92 - ICO & Shadow Collection (PS3) = 92 - Shadow of the Colossus Remake (PS4) = 91 - God of War Collection (PS3) = 91 - MGS HD Collection (PS3) = 89 - Uncharted Collection (PS4) = 86 - Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4) = 80 🙄🙄🙄 But please Herman, keep funding more Live-Service slop... Bozo RIP @bluepointgames

As a Sony fan - This is an Asinine level of Incompetence

Fire this man Bluepoint games deserve to stay open

Me looking at Hermen Hulst.

Herman Hulst running PlayStation Studios

Hermen Hulst saw THIS game, said he was "Stoked". A game STEVIE WONDER COULD SEE WAS GOING TO FLOP... then closed the studio 2 years later. Wth is Hermen even doing over there?

Literally Hermen Hulst rn:

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RIP to the King of FPS. We loss a legend.

The Prince of Egypt (1998) is a masterpiece that still doesn’t get its due. DreamWorks pushed hand-drawn animation to its limit, over 900 artists across 34 departments built those sweeping, painterly visuals. A genuine animated epic hiding in plain sight.

Akira (1988) is cyberpunk cinema carved in neon. Katsuhiro Otomo pushed animation to the brink, over 160,000 hand-drawn cels and unusually detailed mouth movements timed before the voice recording, a rarity in anime. Every frame hums with dystopian energy.

Congratulations to Barbados, MY HOME, on our 59th year of Independence and our 4th year as a Republic! Today also marks the installation of our 2nd President, His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel The Most Honorable Jeffrey Bostic, who alongside our Honorable Prime Minister Mia Mottley will continue to lead Barbados with excellence!! Barbados I L🇧🇧VE YOU!!!! #Bajan2DeBone

.@SelectaCharts partners with @BarbadosToday and the @stluciatimes to announce the Caribbean Top 10. A Weekly Music Chart dedicated to the music of the Caribbean, on a bigger-than-ever scale. Coming soon!