- IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: ReachGoal is launching in NYC
- Walmart enters the metaverse
- McDonald’s gets into adult toys
- Real Madrid, adidas get into anime
- Dove gets into gaming
- Google exits console gaming, lessons learned
- Netflix is serious about gaming
- NFT trading volume down 98%
- “Open metaverse” white paper
- Facebook debuts text-to-video AI
- Business Samurai #67: Sex ALWAYS sells [Coffee Distribution Arc #20]
- Become a “Chief Metaverse Officer”, make millions [Crate & Barrel, P&G]
- Nike: Success in the metaverse?
- YouTube v. TikTok
- A look at LINE WEBTOON
- China continues to fund Silicon Valley
- Work work work, non-stop! [Weekly Samurai]
- Dating.com enters the metaverse
- The Tonight Show + Samsung + Fortnite
- Spotify plays hip-hop in Roblox
- Genshin Impact expands into anime
- Influencers + e-sports + equity crowdfunding + e-learning
- Star Wars: Andor: Something new, something good?
- Warner Bros. for sale again?!
- Starbucks gets into NFTs
- Digital twins: The future of retail?
- PUMA gets into NFTs
- Nintendo defies recession expectations
- Ubisoft: IP Strategy
- Roblox gets into advertising, older audiences
- NBA gets into NFTs
- The Emmys are struggling
- Knives Out: Netflix’s new media franchise
- TikTok is changing
- Instagram/Facebook: Where to now?
- Business Samurai #66: Murder victims serving coffee [Coffee Distribution Arc #19]
- YouTube bigger than TikTok?
- More porn! (Weekly Samurai)
- Game combines NFTs+influencers
- DIY NFT fashion in the metaverse
- Tencent’s global strategy: a closer look
- Apple gets into ads, v. Facebook and Google?
- Snoop Dogg and Eminem get high in the metaverse
- Business Samurai hits 100 subscribers!!! (Weekly Samurai)
- Game of Thrones v. Lord of the Rings: Fantasy is officially “cool”
- Kanye West v. Adidas, GAP
- YouTube pivots on strategy
- Elden Ring cinematic universe?
- Disney finds more ways to monetize its IP
- Shueisha gets into user-generated IP
- Now, you can directly invest in K-Pop and K-Drama
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo: IP is officially becoming crucial in K-Drama
- Business Samurai #65: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA [Coffee Distribution Arc #18]
- BLOODBATH continues at DC/HBO/Warner
- Embracer’s transmedia strategy
- Strategy: Hasbro v. Mattel
- “Corporate espionage?!” (Weekly Samurai)
- Top Gun: Maverick makes a bajillion dollars
- SEGA is going to make more movies
- Fox invests massively into crypto instead of streaming
- IP becomes more important in mobile gaming: report
- New Zealand gets into gaming
- Dragon Ball tops the US box office
- Lord of the Rings IP bought by a gaming company; gunning for Disney?
- Is mobile gaming in decline?
- Final Fantasy is “struggling”
- Will The Sandman get another season on Netflix?
- “80% of NBA players are into anime”
- Tencent stops selling NFTs
- Business Samurai #64: Mistress of eavsdropping
- Disney+ amazingly raises prices
- Streaming looking more and more like cable TV
- “The goal of a business is to f*ck people over.” (Weekly Samurai)
- Magazines and newspapers get into gaming, Walmart considers streaming
- Netflix’s gaming biz: still a ways to go?
- Pac-Man: the LIVE-ACTION movie
- Comics and IP rights: US v. S. Korea
- Gucci brings Miley Cyrus to gaming
- Kadokawa is serious about making anime/manga global
- K-pop is serious about making K-pop global
- BLOODBATH at DC/HBO/Warner
- Is the entertainment industry recession-proof?
- “Everyone wants to be an influencer…” (Weekly Samurai)
- Gaming, and cooking, save The New York Times?
- Is Sony creating a US anime monopoly? + no more “erotic products”
- Blackpink gets into gaming
- RG app: Webcomic scrolling is up!
- Business Samurai #63: Claurette’s special makeup routine [Coffee Distribution Arc #16]
- The death of Marvel and pop stars?
- The terrible economics of being a pop star
- New buzzword! “Technotainment”
- “Work – probably bad for your health.” (Weekly Samurai)
- Is gaming really recession-proof?
- ANNOUNCEMENT: REACHGOAL APP SCREENSHOTS!
- Tesla enters gaming
- Why is everyone so into gaming?
- China beats Japan?! (Genshin Impact)
- “The pain of corporate life” (Weekly Samurai)
- Dubai enters the metaverse
- Most DAOs are owned by a few
- Minecraft says “no” to NFTs, Final Fantasy VII says “yes”
- Stranger Things x Dungeons & Dragons
- Marvel announces phase 5 AND 6 for the MCU
- Matchbox Cars: The Movie (I’m not kidding)
- The global toy market is doing well!
- BTS enters gaming
- Japan is now serious about cinematic universes!
- Business Samurai #62: But, what IS pain? [Coffee Distribution Arc #15]
- This chart blew my mind!
- Game developer’s surprise attack on NFT/crypto/metaverse
- Guy who coined “The Metaverse” starts a metaverse company
- Mobile games are working around app store fees
- Netflix leverages its IP to get into gaming
- Ubisoft gets into triple-A mobile gaming
- Gaming exec calls anti-microtransaction developers “f*cking idiots”
- Nintendo announces “Nintendo Pictures”
- BTS x Disney+
- Manga artist becomes politician
- Should Japanese content be censored?
- Thor hammers the box office, Marvel post-pandemic three-peat
- Social networks debut NFTs… too late?
- A Web3 console
- Mobile games: sales vs. downloads
- Nintendo debuts subscription service
- Highest US/Canada comic sales in history, driven by manga?
- Business Samurai #61: Hit by a bus [Coffee Distribution Arc #14
- Top Gun makes over a billion
- Will every company become a game company?
- Disney: The Premiumization of Theme Parks
- The rise of the Web3 phone?
- The DeLorean returns… with NFTs
- The Internet’s “creative middle class” revisited
- How many blockchains do we need?
- McKinsey goes all in on the metaverse
- Web5 by Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
- “Twinning” in the metaverse
- Axie Infinity (NFT gaming)
- Announcement: IP tracker
- The burgeoning world of adult toys (not those kinds)
- How to extend a franchise’s life: Final Fantasy VII
- Ben & Jerry’s values
- Bulgari creates its own metaverse
- Business Samurai Ep. 60: “Stupid ads” [Coffee Distribution Arc #13]
- Stranger Things x Kate Bush
- Joker sequel announced; the franchise expands
- Cryptography professor defends crypto
- Bill Gates disses crypto
- Sentient AI?!
- Another AI art creator, this time homemade
- The public is actually interested in the metaverse, per McKinsey
- Life Makeover: A HARDCORE fashion game
- Stranger Things’ non-obtrusive (?) product placement
- Ninja Turtles x Wu-Tang Clan x Faith No More
- The Squid Game universe expands
- Kanye West enters the metaverse
- B2B enters the metaverse?
- Top Gun: Lawsuit over IP
- Joker 2 is confirmed!
- It’s Morbin’ Time again!!!
- Crypto/Metaverse primer
- A new fund to invest in crypto/metaverse
- The British monarchy enters the metaverse
- Looney Tunes enters the metaverse
- The controversy around Roblox
- Netflix unleashes more IP: Ghostbusters, The Sandman, Cyberpunk, He-Man, Castlevania, Sonic, Tekken, etc. (IP Wars)
- Paramount unleashes Beavis and Butt-Head (IP Wars)
- Universal unleashes… The Munsters (IP Wars)
- Nintendo launches a movie studio? (IP Wars)
- South Park skewers the streaming wars (IP Wars)
- Barbie, He-Man, Hot Wheels theme park (IP Wars)
- Street Fighter enters the metaverse
- Diablo Immortal: Widespread backlash?
- Squid Game, All of us are dead second seasons
- Is Apple creating its own metaverse?
- Business Samurai Ep. 59: “Discount store versions” [Coffee Distribution Arc #12]
- IT’S MORBIN’ TIME!!!
- Is Top Gun: Maverick breaking records because of Tom Cruise or because of Top Gun?
- Joker director to advise on DC Universe?
- NFT/Metaverse primer
- Sheryl Sandberg leaves the metaverse
- The Financial Times’ report on the metaverse
- Gucci should make a video game about Gucci
- Dating apps get into gaming
- Microsoft and Sony get into in-game advertising
- “Older” people are now attractive
- Urusei Yatsura returns!
- Thinking about online fandoms
- Dr. Strange 2 outperforms The Batman
- Violent Winnie the Pooh
- Disney could lose the rights to Mickey Mouse
- Chris Pratt is playing Garfield
- TV industry emphasizing “content”
- A24: The Marvel of indie movies gets into animation
- Seth Green’s NFT was stolen
- Manga is Booming in North America!
- Sony: Playstation new shows, massive IP investment
- A new Speed Racer live-action TV is in the works
- EA: To be acquired by tech/media companies?
- Pokémon Go developer gets interested in crypto
- Tik Tok is getting into gaming
- Playboy gets into NFTs
- Fashion and the Metaverse
- Gucci gets into e-sports
- Business Samurai Ep. 58: “Scottish Fold” [Coffee Distribution Arc #11]
- Downton Abbey: Still around
- Dr. Strange 2: MCU still has legs to run?
- Master Chief is trans and Batman is bisexual?
- Crypto: An argument for LT positive view
- Andreesen Horowitz launches a game fund
- Final Fantasy: The $16,000 statue
- Saudi Arabia buys Nintendo
- Netflix: What’s going on behind the scenes?
- Spy x Family
- Apple’s potential subscription strategy?
- App updates
- Business Samurai Ep. 57: “The onus is on you [Coffee Distribution Arc #10]
Ramon Cuenca 