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August 05, 2026
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Sony Interactive Entertainment is assembling a global sales team to monetize Playstation through ads. This isn’t the first time Sony has tried to build an ads business around its video games division. It’s made three prior runs at monetizing PlayStation’s audience through advertising rather than hardware or subscriptions.

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Sony is scaling up its Playstation advertising ambitions

Sony Interactive Entertainment is assembling a global sales team to monetize Playstation through ads.

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