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🧩 Zero Logic, 2.5M DAU: Brain Puzzle 2 Makes $83K/Day With the Dumbest Ad Setup We’ve Ever Seen

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🧙 Solo Dev Journey #2: Am I Making ANY Money?

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⏳ Torture Sort is REAL: Jam Bus SandFall makes $80K/Day and is slow as hell!

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🚨📢BREAKING NEWS: New Adnetwork AdSURGE is here, Supercell Kills Squad Busters, Ubisoft Quits Mobile

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🎯 20 years' experience: Luis de la Camara on WHY the networks know your users better than YOU!

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🧠 How Deepstash gets 50% of subscribers from Web2App & 3,000 creatives a month

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💍 Rotate Rings was a FAKE ad for a YEAR. Now it's a GAME With 1M DAU in 2 Weeks

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💰 You Hit $1,000/Day in Ad Revenue. Now Here Are the 5 Tricks Ad Networks hope you NEVER Learn

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🐿️ FunPlus Made a Genshin-Pokémon-Palworld Game and Forgot the Gacha

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🐌 Voodoo's mid-core ERA: Draft Showdown is Battle Legion with the friction removed

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🥟 Mystery Dumpling Unbox ASMR: The Game that isn't a GAME (It's an Ad Simulator)

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Istanbul Is the University of Puzzles: Dream, Grand, Loom & the Founder Factory

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🕳️ Suck It Up: Tactile's new hole game just ate Lily's Garden

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🧠 Everything Is AI Now: Mel Gibson From Wish Is Selling You a 4X Game

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: AppLovin Just Cut Off Everyone's Data: The MeowDoku Studio Got Sued & more

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🦉Making $70 Mil. a month ? How Duolingo is plundering all the game mechanics 👀

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🐱 A Cat Shooting Trees: Idle Cat Gunner & the best creatives of the Year

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🧠 New CREATIVE Trend Everybody will COPY in 3..2..1

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🪦 Are Banners Dead? Zedge Removed Them, Cut 38% of Impressions, and Made MORE Money

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🎮 Playables Are Now 40-60% of Creative Spend: Here's what's working ńow

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🧙 Solo Dev Journey #1: How to start with UA? From a store link to a LIVE UA Campaigns

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🚂 Full Steam Ahead Q2: 12 Steam Hits & which ones work on Mobile?

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🐱 Find the Cat 2: The Sequel to a Monster Hit. Built to show MORE Ads

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🚨📢BREAKING NEWS: Mobile Gaming Hits $121B + Makers Fund's $250M + AppsFlyer's $400M Loan

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🗯️ "Playable Anime" With No Anime: How OOC Makes $100K/Day on Pure AI Text

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🎒 Overgeared Hero Breakdown: An Asian RPG That Actually Cracked the US market

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📡 Century's Hidden "Innovation" Account & What's Brewing in Soft Launch

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💳 A Credit Card that resets your LIMIT when Your ROAS is good: PVX's UA financing card is here!

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⚔️ 47 Rewarded Ad Placements and a "No Ads" Lie: Inside XP Hero's $400K/Day Idle RPG

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💀Review Radar #12: Which games survived & which are actually DEAD (Poke It With a Stick!!)

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🎯 The 2026 D2C Survey: Why 41% of studios still DON'T have a web store (and why they're wrong)

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🚌 Marble Sort Meets Traffic Jam: Bus Traffic Fever Review!

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Rotate Labs Raise + Rival App Store Returns + Gaming Revenue Drops 4.5%?!

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⛏️ One Guy, No Ads, No Tutorial, $100K/Day: The Idle Obelisk Miner Story

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🎮 9 Playables, 9 Lessons: What's working in playable ads right now

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💣​ How Smash Fest created a NEW Puzzle category overnight

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Tripledot Buys Supersonic for $40M + EA is Private for $55B + Netflix drama

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🧠 The "Fat Guy Getting Slapped" Concept Took Over: AI Creatives Breakdown

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🎯 How to Do a UA Review Properly by Matej Lancaric

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🐜​ Colony Flow Breakdown: The Ant Puzzler getting sued & already taken DOWN from Android!

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Google's Antitrust Blow, AppLovin's Hidden Strength & Smash Fest's Copycat Army

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🧊 Cube Land: How RotateLab went from idea to $300K/Day in Just 6 Months

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🧠 The Creative Trends Nobody Wants to Admit

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: GTA 6 Pre-Orders Hit $260M + Tencent & Superplay for $1.5B + PubMatic-Zynga Deal

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🎮 Which Playable Performs Best" Why There's No Single Answer (Playable Trends June 2026)

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➡️​HexaAway Breakdown - The 6th-Biggest sort puzzler you've NEVER heard of

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🐱 Meowdoku case study: Minesweeper + Cats + Sudoku. Take a 40-Year-Old Game, Add Cats, Make Millions

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Pokémon Go Made MORE Money by Going Free + Xbox Cuts 3,200 + AppLovin Opens Axon

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💀 Pokémon Champions is already DEAD: here's what went wrong

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🟥🟩🟨🟦Did Block Blast finally peaked? And why they added 7 more minigames??? 👀

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🏨 My Perfect Hotel Meets Merge: Decoding Hotel Legacy by Century Games

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🎮 Path of Kings review: Voodoo's midcore pivot is real

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🎯 Offerwalls Explained: When to Add, How to Segment & the $800-$2,000 eCPM Secret by Felix Braberg

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🎮 Clash of Critters: Pokémon from Wish! Coin Looter + Pachinko + Idle RPG

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Stillfront's CEO Steps Down + AdColony Sold for Under $5M + Meowdoku Hits 1.7M DAU

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🎮 Full Steam Ahead: The Q1 Steam games that should hit mobile

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🎮 Live Review Tetris Block Party: Block + Coin Looter into one liveops machine

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🧠 Copy vs Execute: the creative trend everyone's chasing

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💰 The $45M/Month Football Game Nobody Talks About: eFootball, EA FC & Dream League Breakdown

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How Audiomack Boosted Revenue by 30% with Google’s New Next-Gen SDK

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🎮 The 3-Minute playable that pre-qualifies your WHALES!

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🧠 What You Send Is What You Get: Signal Engineering and the Future of Attribution with Core Plan

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💀 Mo.co DEAD on arrival. Is it time for Supercell tokill Mo.co?

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🎯 The DEFINITIVE Guide to D2C in 2026: Real Numbers from 8 Studios

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: The Surprise World Cup Winner, Block Blast's $120K/Day Bleed, Supercell's US news

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🧠 Playrix just went All-In on AI Creatives: 100+ AI Ads Reviewed

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🎮 The 3 Rewarded UA Personas: Reward Hunter, Casual, Gambler. How TyrAds Segments for Profit

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💰 Block Out by Grand Games: $300K/Day on iOS Alone & It's About to Overtake Magic Sort

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: $3.83B Liftoff, 20% Minigames, $28M UA Financing and Supercell!

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🎮 Inside the Mistplay × MyChips Deal: The Rewarded UA consolidation has started! (MAU VEGAS 26)

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🎯 How to scale influencer marketing to 8 figures systems across 15 Studios by Marion Balinoff

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💰Marble Sort Review: SORT FTW! Voodoo is suddenly doing $1M/day in IAP revenue

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🚨📢BREAKING NEWS: Block Blast blasted off the Android store, Steam deck price goes to the moon

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💰 Geometry Dash Has 97% Profit Margins: The $30M/Year One-Man show

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🎤 MAU Vegas 2026 Recap: Why is MAU a must attend conference?

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🎯 Creative Trends April 2026: Volume + 80/20 Creative Strategy FTW!

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🚨📢BREAKING NEWS: AppLovin Fingerprinting Exposed, Sensor Tower's M&A, Embracer's $192M Write-Down

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🌸 The Pikmin Bloom Anomaly: How a 5-Year-Old game just hit 5x downloads without UA

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🎮 Playable Trends April 2026: Puzzle Format, Long Sessions, Recognizable Mechanics

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🧠 CloudX just hit 10-20% Revenue Lifts in 90 Days: The First AI-Native Ad stack for publishers

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Royal Kingdom Adds Ads, Playtika Exits Social Casino, Mistplay Buys Mychips

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The Mistplay Audience Network: Smartest UA Expansion of 2026! 3X reach, same quality

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🧠 MVP UA template AXON: How to set up your Applovin for Success by Matej Lancaric

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🌺​Cozy Florist Deep Dive: 4,000 AI-Generated creatives in 30 Days

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The Attention Budget Rule: why tutorials should teach maximum 3 things at a time

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Soft Launch Sonar: 15 New Games, 14 Are Iterations, 1 Is Probably Doomed?!

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🎲​ Will Coin Master Board Adventure eat Monopoly Go? (Our year-end predictions)

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Record Revenue, Record Layoffs, Why Only 2 Genres Are Actually Winning in 2026

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💀​ Review Radar #11: 80% of the games we covered are already dead!

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💡 How to create new mobile games 101, 2026 edition 😎

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💰🚜 How Playrix turned a 17-Year-Old Tycoon into a $45M/Month UA & Match-3 engine

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🎲 Dicero: Habby’s biggest bet (And biggest risk?)

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🕹️​ Playable ads are the most underused growth lever right now

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🤖​ AI creatives are evolving faster than anyone expected (March 2026 trends)

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Chinese domination, M&A boom, Freecash controversy

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👾 Creative Trends March 2026: AI hooks, fake ads, and the infinite iteration machine

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How to maximize ad revenue in Tier 4 geos (+Japan bonus) by Felix Braberg

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📰​ NYT Games Wordle & Crossword: The most PREMIUM audience in gaming

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🚨📢 BREAKING NEWS: Unity kills ironSource, Meta lawsuits, AppLovin moves

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Butcher Hero Review: The Next Alien Invasion? Not quite yet!