00:00We see that IP and it stands out so much units but competition is really building how do you see that as a really helping you focus on the business scale the business but also to drive off those competitors.
00:14Sure I mean it's always great to have competition because it only fuels that drive to innovate and to you know exceed expectations for us we welcome all of it.
00:25I think Scopely in particular is always focused on a community first approach and so the games that we're building we think about how are we creating these highly social engaging experiences and I think that's what sets us apart ultimately because we always start from that core premise.
00:41And that highly social engagement drives revenue I'm assuming just talk us through the business model.
00:45Sure I mean it's pretty astounding last year we achieved over 10 billion dollars in lifetime revenue.
00:52We're really excited about that we have 500 million plus daily active users touching our games in the last 12 months.
01:00There's just amazing things happening and we're so excited about adding Pokemon Go to our stable amazing portfolio of games.
01:08They continue to grow and reach new players every day and so yeah it's pretty amazing.
01:13Eunice here at Bloomberg Screen Time there's been a lot of industry news I wondered if we could run through some of it.
01:18So like last night Netflix to me basically demoed a technology that costs a mobile game from your phone to your TV screen as a hardcore gamer in many different domains and formats wasn't blown away by that.
01:35What do you make of that concept and idea.
01:37I mean it's a mobile game costs to the television.
01:40I'm also a hardcore gamer so I feel you.
01:44I think at the end of the day we're trying to create again highly social engaging experiences and for our scopely it's about trying to be on the different mediums where our players want to be.
01:55And even bringing our community together in real life as we have with the Go Fest which is for Pokemon Go community.
02:02So I think for us we're just look we're going to always keep an eye on where people are playing how they want to engage with our content and try to serve that up to our community.
02:12The industry has seen seismic shifts in the last two years.
02:16I think that's a completely fair statement.
02:19You have some financial relationship with this with Saudi through various you know investments that they've made.
02:26The biggest most recent use is that the take private of electronic arts.
02:30My question is very simple.
02:33Have you had discussions about cooperating with EA.
02:37You know you are very strong in mobile gaming.
02:40EA is not so strong in mobile gaming.
02:43We are we have so much respect for what EA has been able to do and the amazing you know brands and IPs that they've built.
02:50So we have we come from that place first.
02:52Right now we're not in specific discussions but post deal if those opportunities arrive we're definitely open to discussions for sure.
03:00And we think about ultimately where you've come from the fact that you were busy over at Activision with Call of Duty.
03:06You are someone who calls yourself a hardcore gamer.
03:09Where do you think the balance shifts in terms of mobile versus console.
03:13How do you see that continuing to evolve.
03:15Honestly I think our community our players want to access our content in different ways.
03:21And it's not this huge battle so much.
03:23But again as I mentioned earlier it's about serving our community where they want to engage with our content where they want to play.
03:30And I think there's a place for all of it.
03:32We are also we have several things to can't talk about that in development that are cross platform in the cross platforms you may not expect from Scopely.
03:40OK keep us tuned on that respect.
03:42But you we can go global with you because you're a woman who is international very cool.
03:46You've been in London.
03:47You studied in Asia.
03:48And I'm thinking about how things change from global area to global area.
03:52Pokemon Go inherently for us a very Japanese bit of IP that has become a total global phenomenon.
03:57Yes absolutely.
03:58I mean for us again it's there's a whole wide world to appeal to and what the beauty of games is that it brings these folks together across the globe.
04:07It transcends geographies cultures and that's super exciting for us.
04:12And that's that social connection part that we want to continue to promote and continue to see.
04:17So we're talking about this thing right the mobile right and and gaming is one thing I can do on my mobile phone.
04:24Do you guys consider your rivals to be tick tock.
04:27Literally this is Bloomberg screen time.
04:29You know how do you assess a marketplace where the competition for eyeballs isn't necessarily in the time spent on gaming.
04:36Yeah I mean I think the gaming space itself is so fast moving and evolves very quickly.
04:44So wherever eyeballs intention is again wherever our players are fans because they're looking at IP through various mediums.
04:51So being conscious of that it's not just through the game there's different ways of the IP coming to life.
04:57So us staying on top of that is super important at Scopely.
05:00Again how do we connect with the community where they want to mobile is one of the you know most tactile and easiest ways to do so.
05:08But it's something that is always on our minds.
05:10Roblox CEO Damzuki told us very recently that sometimes on a Friday night their servers melt because of all the condensed activity.
05:17In the mobile gaming domain do you ever come across like flash moments like that where the world is just playing at the same time.
05:23I mean we have so many people engaging daily hourly with our products because of their deep love of these IPs.
05:32Star Trek Fleet Command is a great example.
05:34Yes.
05:3575% of our players of that game they are touching it every single day.
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