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Candy Crush Saga is headed to Wall Street with a public offering that could value the company at $10 billion or more, according to the filings. The company behind the game, King Digital Entertainment, announced its intentions to sell its stock, and released financial data that show its value skyrocketed last year during the Candy Crush rush. Here’s how:

Sports Illustrated is going all-out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its all-important Swimsuit issue. The issue, which hits newsstands today, features not one but thee cover models—Chrissy Teigen, Lily Aldridge and Nina Agdal—on its cover, and with a total of 260 editorial and ad pages, is SI’s biggest since its blockbuster 25th anniversary issue in 1989. The issue contains 112 ad pages, a 14 percent increase over last year’s 98, and a record number of advertisers and other sponsors. Overall ad revenue is up across every platform, including print, digital and TV.

In the longstanding fight to combat online piracy, there’s been growing pressure on the advertisers whose ads appear on sites that steal copyrighted material. The Obama administration has called for private-sector actions to reduce piracy.

Facebook fell out of favor with Hollywood more than a year ago, and a sampling of marketers for Academy Award-nominated movies suggests little has changed. Major paid pushes using the social giant were few and far between last year, per the studios contacted by Adweek. 12 Years a Slave, for instance, didn’t buy a single ad, a source close to its campaign said. Facebook declined to comment. “Facebook is like the old phone book—everyone’s in it, so you need a presence,” said Patrick Young, co-founder of Jetset Studios, a flicks-focused agency in Los Angeles.