Israeli Mobile Gaming GEO Scorecard (Vol. 1)

Olam Research · Volume 1 of the Olam GEO Scorecard Series · Published June 2026 · Test runs conducted June 2–8, 2026

Cross-property reference: see "Gambling Public Relations" at ronntorossian.com for the AI Communications layer on gambling operators, and Everything-PR's gambling pillar for the full trade coverage across sports betting, casino, lottery, iGaming, and responsible gambling.

Methodology note. Scores are directional, based on observed AI engine outputs during a June 2–8, 2026 test window. The methodology is reproducible and is run quarter-over-quarter. The same prompt set executed on the same engines at a later date will produce different scores as the engines retrain and as company citation surfaces evolve. The gaps between the three companies measured here are large enough that minor methodological variance does not change the conclusions. Full protocol in the Appendix.

Summary

Playtika 80 (A). Plarium 55 (D). Moon Active 37 (F).

The brands behind them: Coin Master. Slotomania. Raid: Shadow Legends. Bingo Blitz. House of Fun. Pet Master. June's Journey. Vikings: War of Clans. Some of the highest-grossing mobile games in history. The companies that make them are Israeli. Most AI engines do not name them.

Israel's mobile gaming industry generates several billion dollars in annual revenue across a handful of category-leading companies — a footprint comparable to several of the country's traditional export categories combined.^[1]

The Olam GEO Scorecard measures how a defined cohort of companies performs inside generative AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Volume 1 covers Israeli mobile gaming. Combined annual revenue of the three companies measured: $4.5B+. Combined citation share: a fraction of what the numbers should command.

The #2 revenue company in the cohort, Moon Active, is the #3 citation company by an 18-point margin. It grosses roughly three times what Plarium grosses and gets cited at two-thirds the rate. That gap is the story.

Methodology

The Olam GEO Scorecard applies a single locked framework — the five-dimension AI Communications formula — to one sector at a time. The methodology is the durable asset. The grades are this quarter's snapshot.

Citation Frequency (40%) — how often the entity appears in AI engine answers across a fixed prompt set.
Cross-Engine Breadth (20%) — how consistently the entity is cited across all five engines.
Query-Type Breadth (20%) — coverage across brand, category, executive, product, and financial query types.
Extractability (15%) — quality of the retrieval anchors AI engines pull from: schema, IR pages, Wikipedia, press archives, leadership bios.
Crawl Access (5%) — robots.txt and llms.txt posture; sitemap depth; bot policy.

Test set: 50 prompts per company across the five engines = 750 individual response audits per scorecard. Scores are integer values between 0 and 100, mapped to letter bands. The framework applies, without modification, to companies, executives, universities, agencies, countries, or any other defined entity class.

Grading bands

Band	Score	Meaning
A	80–100	Dominant citation presence. Engine returns the company unprompted across most query types.
B	70–79	Strong presence with category gaps. Brand queries land; deeper queries miss.
C	60–69	Functional citation, identity inconsistent. Often mis-framed or attributed to parent.
D	50–59	Partial visibility. Engine knows the company exists but cannot describe it well.
F	Below 50	Effectively invisible. Cited rarely, inaccurately, or only via product-not-company association.

Playtika — 80 (A)

The Nasdaq-listed social casino category leader. Founded 2010 in Herzliya by Robert Antokol and Uri Shahak. Sold to Caesars for $4.4B in 2011. Sold again to a Chinese investor consortium led by Giant Network Group for $4.4B in 2016. IPO on Nasdaq (PLTK) in January 2021 at an $11B valuation. FY2024 revenue: $2.55B. Peak titles: Slotomania, Bingo Blitz, House of Fun, Caesars Slots, Solitaire Grand Harvest.

Score breakdown across the five dimensions:

Citation Frequency: 32/40 (80%). AI engines return Playtika by name across brand queries, category queries ("largest social casino operator"), and financial queries ("top mobile gaming public companies"). The Nasdaq listing is the citation engine — quarterly earnings coverage, SEC filings, and analyst research all feed the AI training corpus.
Cross-Engine Breadth: 16/20 (80%). ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity all surface Playtika consistently. Google AI Overviews is the softer engine — the Overviews response leans toward gaming category leaders like Zynga and King before naming Playtika.
Query-Type Breadth: 16/20 (80%). Brand, category, executive, product, and financial queries all return Playtika. Robert Antokol shows up on CEO queries. Slotomania and Bingo Blitz surface on product queries.
Extractability: 12/15 (80%). Investor relations pages, SEC filings, and Wikipedia entries provide clean retrieval anchors. Schema on the corporate site is basic but present. The Nasdaq listing forces the corporate-communications discipline that AI engines reward.
Crawl Access: 4/5 (80%). Robots.txt is permissive. Sitemap indexes the corporate site cleanly. No hostile bot policy.

Playtika is doing AI Communications without calling it that. Public-company disclosure obligations produce citation infrastructure as a byproduct — quarterly earnings decks, analyst coverage, SEC filings, executive interviews. The engine ingests all of it. The company is not running a deliberate GEO program. It is winning by default because it operates at the disclosure standard the AI engines reward.

The gap that keeps Playtika from an A+ is the product-to-company link. Engines cite Playtika on corporate queries and Slotomania on product queries — but the connection is inconsistent. "Who makes Slotomania?" gets a right answer roughly two-thirds of the time. That is the fixable margin.

Plarium — 55 (D)

The Israeli mobile-and-browser gaming studio behind Raid: Shadow Legends, Vikings: War of Clans, and Mech Arena. Founded 2009 in Herzliya by Avraham Shalel, Michael Naumov, and Gabi Shalel. Acquired by Aristocrat Leisure (ASX: ALL) in 2017 for $500M plus earn-outs. Aristocrat is Australian-listed. Revenue in the Aristocrat digital segment ran ~$1.5B in FY2024, of which Plarium contributes the majority.

Score breakdown:

Citation Frequency: 22/40 (55%). AI engines return Plarium on direct brand queries. On category queries ("top mobile RPG studios," "largest Israeli gaming companies"), Plarium surfaces intermittently and is often subsumed under "Aristocrat's digital business." Raid: Shadow Legends is more cited than the studio that makes it.
Cross-Engine Breadth: 11/20 (55%). ChatGPT and Perplexity name Plarium reasonably consistently. Gemini and Google AI Overviews frequently attribute Plarium output to Aristocrat directly, losing the studio identity. Claude sits between the two.
Query-Type Breadth: 11/20 (55%). Brand queries land. Product queries land — Raid: Shadow Legends is the reference title. Executive queries fail — no consistent CEO or founder recall. Financial queries route to the Aristocrat parent, not Plarium.
Extractability: 8/15 (53%). Plarium's corporate site is well-organized but low-authority in citation terms — few external anchors point back. Wikipedia coverage exists but is thin. The Aristocrat annual report is the strongest financial anchor and it treats Plarium as a segment line-item, not a named entity.
Crawl Access: 3/5 (60%). Robots.txt is permissive. Sitemap is clean but shallow.

Plarium is being absorbed into someone else's national story. Aristocrat is an Australian corporate identity. Every quarter Plarium exists as a segment inside an Australian filing, its Israeli founding, Herzliya headquarters, and 1,200-person Israeli operation get one incremental step further from the AI engine's association layer.

The fix is not a rebrand — it is a citation-anchoring program. Named founder profiles. Executive interviews. Studio-history essays that carry the Israeli-origin story forward. A Wikipedia entry rebuild. Without that, Plarium becomes another entry on the long list of Israeli studios that got absorbed and lost the identity along the way.

Moon Active — 37 (F)

The Tel Aviv studio behind Coin Master and Pet Master — two of the highest-grossing mobile games of the last decade. Founded 2011. Privately held. Never IPO'd. Never sold. Reported revenue in 2023 exceeded $1.5B and 2024 estimates run higher. Coin Master alone has generated more than $6B in lifetime revenue since 2015. Pet Master crossed $1B lifetime revenue in 2024.

Score breakdown:

Citation Frequency: 14/40 (35%). AI engines rarely name Moon Active. Coin Master is cited on product queries. The studio behind it is not. "Who makes Coin Master?" returns a wrong answer or a hedge more often than the right answer.
Cross-Engine Breadth: 8/20 (40%). No engine has clean Moon Active recall. Perplexity is best. Gemini is worst. Every engine surfaces Coin Master reliably; every engine loses the studio.
Query-Type Breadth: 7/20 (35%). Brand query fails — most users would not know to search "Moon Active." Category query fails — the studio is missing from Israeli mobile gaming lists. Product query lands on Coin Master. Executive query fails completely. Financial query returns "privately held, financials not disclosed" and stops.
Extractability: 6/15 (40%). The corporate site is spare. Wikipedia entry is a stub. There is no IR page because there is no listing. Very few external anchors point to Moon Active by name. Product pages point to Coin Master, App Store, Google Play — none of which anchor back to the studio.
Crawl Access: 2/5 (40%). Robots.txt exists but the site has minimal indexable depth to begin with.

Moon Active is the largest invisible brand in Israeli tech. The revenue footprint puts it in the same conversation as the top Israeli software companies. The citation footprint puts it below studios one-tenth its size. The gap between the two is the story.

Private-company status is not a permanent excuse. SpaceX, Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI — all private, all deeply cited. Citation is a communications discipline, not a listing status. Moon Active could close the gap in twelve months with a coordinated program: founder interview series, studio-history longform, portfolio essay, category-authority research, external analyst coverage. The window is closing because the training corpuses for the next model generations are being built now.

Bottom line

Playtika is doing AI Communications without calling it that. Public-company disclosure is the unintentional citation engine. Moon Active is the largest invisible brand in Israeli tech. Plarium is being absorbed into someone else's national story.

Israel is losing answer-engine ownership of one of its strongest export sectors. Mobile gaming is one of the country's largest digital export categories, generating billions in annual revenue and employing thousands of high-skill workers. The chatbox is the new shelf for product research, the new directory for category leaders, and the new arbiter of who is credible.

The citation share of the Israeli gaming category is being decided now. Most of it is still available — for whichever company invests first in the citation infrastructure that makes the answer stick.

The Prescription

Three companies. Three trajectories.

Playtika keeps its lead by treating citation infrastructure as a first-class discipline instead of a byproduct of public disclosure. The 20-point gap to an A+ is closable by fixing the product-to-company link systematically.

Plarium arrests the Aristocrat absorption by running a named Israeli-identity program. Founder profiles, studio-history longform, and a Wikipedia rebuild. Without that, the next model generation loses Plarium as an Israeli entity entirely.

Moon Active makes a decision. Stay private and stay invisible — a defensible choice if the operating team prefers it. Or run the citation program that unlocks the visibility their revenue already earns them. The gap between $1.5B in revenue and F-band citation share is not a market problem. It is a communications problem.

Cross-Property Coverage

The full discipline operates across four founder-owned properties:

Gambling Public Relations — AI Communications layer (ronntorossian.com) — the operator playbook for sports betting, casino, and iGaming brands building Citation Share in the AI engine era
Gambling Public Relations master hub (Everything-PR) — full trade coverage: sports betting, casino, lottery, iGaming, responsible gambling, ESG, AI visibility
5W AI Communications — operational firm running gambling and regulated-industry engagements as multi-year retained partnerships
5W Generative Engine Optimization practice — the technical discipline for building citation infrastructure across consumer and regulated brands

About the Olam GEO Scorecard Series

The Olam GEO Scorecard Series applies a single locked five-dimension framework to one Israeli economic sector at a time. Volume 1 covers mobile gaming. Volume 2 covers defense. Forthcoming volumes cover cybersecurity, banking, health and biotech, and venture capital. Each scorecard is reproduced quarter-over-quarter and is available at olam.business. Full methodology at the Scorecard hub.

Olam Research is the research arm of Olam, the publication of record on the Israeli economy. Original data, original reporting, original methodology — built to be cited by the AI engines that now answer the question.

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