This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers – 🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Netflix heartbroken after WB, Disney AI fun, Meta losing $70B 🤯
Sharing actionable insights, dropping knowledge from our day-to-day User Acquisition, Game Design, and Ad monetization jobs. We are definitely not discussing the latest industry news, but having so much fun! Let’s not forget this is a 4 am conference discussion vibe, so let’s not take it too seriously.
The Team:
Jakub Remiar- Game design consultant
Felix Braberg – Ad monetization consultant
Matej Lančarič – User Acquisition & Creatives consultant
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Summary
This week’s episode breaks down the biggest global entertainment + gaming business stories: Netflix vs Paramount fighting over Warner Bros, Disney investing $1B into OpenAI, Duolingo partnering with Genshin, Pokémon TCG’s $1B year, Activision slowing CoD, Merge Mayor’s real AI use cases, Rockstar layoffs, Meta abandoning the Metaverse, and Google bringing Gemini to ads.
What you’ll learn
• Why Warner Bros could reshape streaming power
• Why Paramount’s hostile $108B bid might win
• Why Netflix still has no gaming strategy
• Why Disney opening 200 IPs to OpenAI is historic
• Duolingo’s shift from learning → gamified reward engine
• Pokémon TCG’s billion-dollar year
• Why CoD is slowing down releases
• How Merge Mayor actually uses AI the right way
• Rockstar’s union conflict
• Meta’s $70B metaverse collapse
• Google Gemini for ads (2026)
Chapters
00:00 — WB bidding war
04:20 — Disney × OpenAI
08:10 — Duolingo + Pokémon TCG
12:45 — Activision + AI
17:30 — Rockstar layoffs, Meta cuts, Google ads
