Microsoft Buys Activision for $69 BILLION and Saying Goodbye to YouTube Originals

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Marques Brownlee

News, Hobbies, Technology, Tech News, Leisure

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Marques and Andrew talk for a bit about what's happening with the Ford F-150 Lightning and car dealerships before getting into the big news of the week. They go deep on Microsoft buying Activision for $69 Billion and what that could mean for all of the games that Activision makes. After that, they talk about the news that YouTube is cutting back on a lot of its YouTube Originals. Links: Ford F-150 news: https://bit.ly/3qKbxHp Sonos article: https://reut.rs/3AkDZCN Marques survives Mad Max: https://bit.ly/3KxeVNs Twitters: https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli https://twitter.com/AdamLukas17 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ Shop the merch: shop.mkbhd.com Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.0	All right, welcome back to another episode of the Waveform podcast.
1:23.0	We're your hosts. I'm Mark Hez.
1:24.0	And I'm Andrew.
1:25.0	And today we've got a couple things we're going to talk about probably the biggest deal in not just gaming, but like the biggest acquisition I've ever seen in the tech world.
1:34.0	$69 billion. We'll talk about that.
1:36.0	Nice. We'll also talk about maybe Google potentially being banned from shipping pixels in the US.
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