Selecta Paul

@SelectaCharts CEO & Founder
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[SelectaCharts.com 🎵 @SelectaCharts]

UpClose with Lastacia - Active | Most Trending Artist In Barbados Full Steam Ahead On Global Takeover

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[Rockstar Games @RockstarGames]

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 on digital storefronts and at other select retailers.

Check out the official cover art, also available as downloadable artwork at https://t.co/XPwC8URCQ4

[🍁💫 @howdbwoysound]

Would you please? It'd make my day and put food on my table.

Stream Island Sadé by Cardah on @SelectaCharts https://t.co/YBLDwAFuPG

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

State of Play returns on June 2.

The over hour-long show includes an extended look at Marvel’s Wolverine, plus news and updates on upcoming PS5 games: https://t.co/u88KNkpTla

[Victor Baez | Club Ambition @itsavibe]

iShowSpeed now passes 1.5 Million livestream viewers in DR 😳

joined by Alofoke biggest Dominican streamer ever, Speed keeps getting emotional in disbelief 🇩🇴

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Never skip iShowSpeed stream for 10 seconds😭

[Island Melanin🇹🇹 @MsChryssieE]

The man put out the rules for the Bajans😭🤣

[Selecta Paul @selecta_paul]

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

[Anime Tokki @AnimeTokki]

Nickelodeon has been HACKED and the hacker released the Entire NEW Avatar Movie "The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender"

The Movie's Release Date was set for October 2026.

[Shuhei Yoshida @yosp]

（´-`）.｡oO (I want to play SAROS…)

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[Resident Evil @RE_Games]

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. ❤️

[Selecta Paul @selecta_paul]

@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 @selecta_paul]

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.

[Shinobi602 @shinobi602]

Bluepoint Games is getting closed down, per Bloomberg

➡️ https://t.co/tOQLmvllKb

Sony acquired the studio just 5 years ago

[Joseph Moran @MrBadBit]

While this industry chases this live service trend…

Capcom is finding success just making games people want to play…

Such a wild concept.

[Pigeon @PigeonGoGaming]

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

[Selecta Paul @selecta_paul]

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

[Kotaku @Kotaku]

PlayStation has acquired 10 studios since 2019.

Three of them are now closed.
Half of them have yet to or never got a chance to ship a game
Many have been hit with layoffs.

https://t.co/mhFpqTexuf

[kjngamer @kjngamer]

Fire this man

Bluepoint games deserve to stay open

[Colin Moriarty @longislandviper]

Me looking at Hermen Hulst.

[medster101 @medster101]

Herman Hulst running PlayStation Studios

[Selecta Paul @selecta_paul]

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?

[Hermen Hulst @hermenhulst]

Stoked for @LondonStudioHQ's new project, set in a modern fantasy London