Kayla Lopez
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738 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
Kayla Lopez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Four percent.
So that's ninety-six percent of gamblers lost money in their sports bets.
And according to the American Gaming Association, sports betting revenue rose to nearly 17 billion dollars in twenty twenty five, up twenty-three percent versus the year prior.
Right.
This is a super lucrative business and the revenue is not coming from nowhere.
I am not.
I mean, I definitely have my own vices, but mobile games are not one of them.
And so what what's interesting to me though is that uh so many of these people that are playing Candy Crush don't actually identify as quote gamers.
They are uh picking up the app in the flexible moments of their day when they have a few minutes or they're on a commute um or they just need to kind of check out for a little bit and they're not necessarily viewing it as like a call of duty afternoon, evening.
Spend time with friends.
But I was curious, because I don't play mobile games, is this a real business besides just Candy Crush, the obviously the big winner here?
And it is.
Uh, there's an expected $133 billion in revenue in mobile games annually.
And mobile games actually make up about half of all gaming revenue.
So, like Candy Crush, which allows for in-app purchasing, many of these apps are free to download, but then require in-app purchases to play the game to its full potential.
Uh, for Candy Crush, this is uh it's my the most surprising fact that I heard about this is.
Only about four percent of users of Candy Crush are actually spending anything and they're still making over eight hundred million dollars in revenue.
Yeah.
If you find yourself craving a Big Mac, McDonald's may be expecting you.
At least that's what Wired reporter Reese Rogers found when he requested a copy of his McDonald's loyalty program data and found a document over 500 pages long detailing his history with the fast food behemoth.
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