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• Building a UA Strategy Around 'Affinity'

  5 days ago News

  

  In this guest post by the CEO of the mobile game insights and market data specialist GameRefinery, Markus Ramark considers a new way to build your targeting, and looks at why understanding player ‘affinity’ with given games might unlock new levels of success.   At its heart, the mobile games industry is a multi-billion dollar battle to find the highest spending, frequently playing, most loyal new players. Top-performing games are supported with marketing spend in the tens of millions, and app stores [...]

• Astralis set for esports team IPO first; Investor concern over Half-Life Alyx and Cyberpunk 2077 release clash dismissed

  1 week ago News

  

  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Astralis set for esports team IPO first; Investor fears over Half-Life: Alyx and Cyberpunk 2077 clash dismissed by CD Projekt; Senior Ubisoft devs join Google’s in-house Stadia studio Astralis set for esports team IPO first Danish competetive gaming outfit Astralis is set to go public December 9th, making it the first esports team to pursue an IPO. Well sponsored and familiar with winning large prizes, Astralis is the world’s [...]

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• Interview: Fyber's Offer Yehudai Talks Programmatic, Subscriptions and Getting In-Game Ads Right

  2 months ago News

  

  Earlier this year mobile monetisation platform outfit Fyber launched a significantly reworked version of its Fyber FairBid technology, having celebrated 10 years in business in the previous months. But what have the team learned about the changing in-game advertising landscape over that decade? And what does it mean that Fyber FairBid offers a unified auction technology for app bidding ‘built from the ground up for the in-app programmatic era’? TheGamingEconomy caught up with Fyber president Offer Yehudai to learn more about the [...]

• Apple Arcade Detailed; Capcom Wins Patent Lawsuit; Disney Reported to be Looking to Sell FoxNet Studio

  3 months ago News

  

  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Apple confirms Apple arcade date and price; Capcom wins legal clash with Koei Tecmo; Disney reported to be selling FoxNet gaming business. Apple Arcade coming September 19th at £4.99 a month Apple has provided more details on the gaming subscription service it announced back in March. Apple Arcade offers a curated and expanding collection of games, and will debut on September 19th, having been priced at USD$4.99 (£4) per [...]

• DeltaDNA Launches AdVantage Ad Management and Analytics Service

  4 months ago News

  

  DeltaDNA is well known throughout the games industry. It’s core offering combines data, analytics and marketing technology to serve engagement and monetisation. But the company is equally famed for its oft-quoted reports and presentations, which commonly found or buoy up gaming headlines across the globe. And now deltaDNA has launched a new ad management service called AdVantage. The platform promises to grant access to user-level ad revenue, as well as real-time player ‘lifetime value’ (LTV) calculations that purport to be more [...]

• ironSource debuts new cross-platform mobile cross-promotion solution

  5 months ago News

  

  Mobile monetisation and marketing outfit ironSource has launched a new cross-platform solution that enables mobile developers to manage cross promotion campaigns while utilising a suite of ad network capabilities. Available to those that use the ironSource mediation platform – which TheGamingEconomy has previously covered – the new solution promises to maximise the value of all existing users by driving the adoption of games from across a given developer’s catalogue of titles. According to a statement to the press, the new ironSource technology [...]

• PepsiCo Planned Space-Based Orbiting Billboard for Gaming Ad Campaign

  8 months ago News

  

  U.S. soft drinks giant PepsiCo was, until recently, planning to launch a gaming-focused advertising campaign hosted on billboards suspended in space. If you’re not familiar with ‘stratosphere advertisements’ – also known as ‘orbital display ads’ – brace yourself. Russian tech outfit StartRocket plans to releases networks of tiny ‘cubesat’ satellites into space, which can be arranged into formations that project light back to Earth; perhaps assuming the form of a company logo or slogan. As such, the satellite arrays essentially offer orbiting [...]

• GDC Day Two Roundup: Google Enters Gaming Market with Stadia

  9 months ago News

  

  Google has made its move on gaming with the announcement of streaming platform Stadia.  The news came on the second day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco; and it surely stands as one of the most significant gaming reveals in the industry’s history. Such a major player moving in with such an ambitious platform could radically impact the broad ecosystem of the industry, the makeup of audiences playing games, and the way the medium is consumed and designed. However, Stadia’s [...]

• 'Non-Intrusive' Programmatic Advertising: The Future of AR & VR Monetisation?

  1 year ago News

  

  This week UK monetisation outfit Admix revealed that it had secured an impressive USD$2.1m (£1.63m) in funding to further develop its AR and VR advertising platform. As reported by Tech.EU, Admix was only founded in 2017, with a focus on allowing developers to place advertisements programatically that sit contextually inside content. A simple, hypothetical example would a be a VR game set in a sprawling city. Admix’s platform could allow a developer to assure that programmatic ads appeared only as billboards on [...]

• Programmatic Will Be the Standard for Mobile Gaming; Q&A with Pepe Agell, Chartboost

  2 years ago News

  

  While mobile web advertising has been around for a while, there are various challenges for advertisers that are now starting to be addressed with in-app advertising capabilities. And having the ability to access in-app audiences, especially in the mobile gaming industry, could be a game changer. Pepe Agell (pictured below), VP of corporate strategy, Chartboost, talks about the challenges advertisers face and the opportunities now available with programmatic access to mobile gaming inventory. ExchangeWire: Mobile gaming is a huge industry, [...]