It's hard to know what people would do in the future because you could argue that what they're doing currently is an indication of what will drive adoption, but maybe they'll do something that you just haven't thought of yet because what people are doing now, according to KPMG, the number one activity folks were getting up to last year in the metaverse was playing games, 48%, meeting with friends, 45, buying
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Splitting into six companies makes each business unit more competitive while reducing regulatory oversight, which could help increase profits.
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Beast's sort of young gamer audience, that's a type of message that is authentic and resonates. And I think that can strike a chord with the audience. And add a little bit of fun and authenticity that gets people excited about his products. Sara Lebow:. Okay. So Blake's official take is that 25 year old YouTuber, Mr. Beast is punk rock. Blake Droesch:.
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C) Entertainment (e.g., books, video games). D) Tech and electronics (e.g., iPad, smartwatch). 60% of Gen Alpha parents will purchase clothing/shoes/accessories as gifts this year, followed by 42% of parents who will buy toys, 37% who will buy tech and electronics, and 33% who will purchase entertainment items, according to CivicScience. November 27, 2024. Happy Black Friday eve eve!
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And one of the chief uses for them, outside of Xbox and gaming, is exercise. People use them for... And with augmented reality, you can see your pace, how fast you're going, your respiratory rate and so on. Your heart rate. And people are just so into self-quantification now. Marcus Johnson:. So it could be a killer application in the wellness space, potentially. Lisa Phillips:. Yeah, to start.
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We always talk social media, video, even gaming, but audio and even on when we think about different devices, I mean you can listen to audio on the CTV and there's more of that. Even social is shifting to CTV as well and in other connected places like the connected cars and things like this, so it'll continue to grow I believe so. Marcus Johnson:. What's the total amount of time per day?
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So, I mean, you mentioned gaming, Suzy, and the gamers may be helping to lead this charge. Nearly 90% of VR content spending last year, 90%, basically all of it, was on games, according to Omdia. So that would make sense to start with that group. Is there a market for this? I mean, perhaps.
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The fact is, in the US there are about 1000 casinos operating, according to the American Gaming Association, as of 2021. Today's real topic, what Disney is focusing on. In today's episode, first [inaudible], we'll cover what Disney is focusing on. Then for In Other News, we'll check in on how the writers' strike negotiations are going and why The Roku Channel is a true streaming player.
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Okay, so first of all, Nvidia is usually associated with gaming. They make GPUs. To some extent, they've done chips for robotics and they're really known for graphics chips. But more surprisingly, they've been able to use those chips to sort of be the backbone of the AI revolution that we're seeing.
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For all the news junkies, culture makers, politicos he alienates, Musk might be gaining more diehard users, including Tesla enthusiasts, coders, crypto traders and gamers, Miss Ghaffary of Vox was noting. "In essence," she writes, "Musk is jeopardizing the strength of Twitter's brand, but he's also building a new one in the process. So is Twitter dying? The answer is, the old Twitter is already dead.
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It was a video game over a decade ago Slack was called Glitch. Glitch shut down in 2012 and rebranded to Slack, which focused more on glitches chat feature than on having weird little avatars going on quests. I think that when I am on Slack, I feel like a weird little avatar going on a quest, but that's not what it is anymore. Carina Perkins:. I wish I had an avatar now. Sara Lebow:. I know.
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If you want the full report, this was an excerpt from Paola's report, but the full report is called Gen Z Technology and Media Preferences: Streaming, Social Media, and Gaming Are More Than Just Daily Habits. You can click the link in the show notes or head to Insider Intelligence to find that story too. Elon Musk recently admitted that US ad revenue was down 60%.
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The characters were there singing and dancing and playing games with kids and it was just a great way to spend a couple of hours. It was like a very Disney-light type of experience where you don't have to take a whole trip to Florida or California to experience that kind of delight for kids.
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When I start thinking about gaming and other things that people at 12 year old are doing on their phones, I think it will also be increasingly important for financial institutions to start thinking about how they interact with consumers outside of the walls of the digital assets that they own. So there's always been lots of dialogue about the metaverse and other things.
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We are looking at perhaps the other games from Tencent as well that are becoming popular, especially the gaming apps, that are becoming popular around the world. So there's huge ramification in this. Bill Fisher:. Really interesting stuff.
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The key news here is that on March 6th, Apple revoked Epic Games' developer license. Epic complained. The European Commission investigated, had a quiet word with Apple. Then on March 8th, Epic's CEO, Tim Sweeney, announced on X that Apple had backtracked and restored Epic's access. He cited the DMA specifically as the big winner, a V for the EC.
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