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• Short-Form Game Video Service Medal Secures £2.7m in Funding

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  New game ‘clipping’ service Medal has raised USD$3.5m (£2.7m) in investment. The success of the funding round appears to demonstrate that Medal’s short-form video clips platform has potential and appeal. Certainly, tech-savvy investors are apparently convinced. Medal lets users record the previous 15 seconds of their gameplay with a single click, bringing the approximate function of the ‘share’ buttons seen on console to the perennially booming PC market. Clips can then be shared as a generated link, or via the Medal [...]

• Facebook Sees More Q4 Mobile App Downloads than Any Other Publisher Globally

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  Social Networking giant Facebook saw its mobile app downloaded more times than those of any other publisher globally in the closing months of 2018, according to a new report. The Facebook app was downloaded 800 million times through October to December last year, putting it a significant way ahead of the next best performing publisher, Google, which counted over 650 million downloads through the period. The numbers come from insights by enterprise-level data outfit Sensor Tower, which looked at downloads across both [...]

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• Analysis: Launching Apex Legends. Fortnite's greatest contender yet?

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  A lot of businesses in the global game industry would like a slice of the ‘battle royale’ pie. And it’s no surprise. Fortnite is a battle royale game – sometimes called a ‘BR’ title – and we all know how well it has done. The shooter hit 200 million players in November last year. According to a source speaking to Tech Crunch, its creator Epic banked USD$3bn (£2.3bn) in revenue through 2018. But, more than all of that, the free-to-play competitive online [...]

• Basketball, Multiple Screens & Post Malone: Peripherals Outfit Debuts New Ad Campaign

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  eSports-orientated gaming hardware outfit HyperX has launched a new ad campaign running across TV, digital, and social under the ‘We’re All Gamers’ banner. In doing so, the established specialist in high-end gaming keyboards, mice, headphones, and more, has demonstrated that for all the technological advances in securing inventory, reaching audiences, and delivering ads in-game, many of the old conventions of successful video commercials still apply. HyperX has partnered with numerous stars, is targeting high-profile televised slots like those amidst mainstream sports [...]

• GRIS' 'Sexually Suggestive' Facebook Ad Ruling 'Stupid', Says Publisher

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  Facebook’s advertising methodology is under the game industry spotlight again, after the social networking giant deemed the trailer for a celebrated indie title too ‘sexually suggestive’ for distribution. In a tweet, Devolver Digital, the publisher of GRIS, claimed that Nomada Studio’s game had its game trailer rejected by Facebook for including an animated scene where a towering sculpture crumbles as birds pass in front of a looming moon. The news left many games industry observers scratching their heads. Kotaku, which spoke with [...]

• Data Democracy & the Support of Meritocratic Online Conversation: Q&A with Tim Wilson, CEO, Qutee

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  The gaming community is vast, dynamic, and incredibly engaged. However, in many environments, the popular misperceptions of what a gamer is reign. Tim Wilson (pictured below), CEO, Qutee, is passionate about changing this and is an ardent advocate of data democracy and recognising the value the gamers bring to the gaming industry. Speaking exclusively with TheGamingEconomy, Wilson explains that there is a goldmine of quantitive and qualitative data and insight on the gaming industry to be found within these online [...]

• Now & Next: Mobile Gaming

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  Think you might be obsessed with gaming on your mobile? You’re not alone. – In 2016, 53% of South Korean mobile gamers spent between 30 and 120 minutes playing mobile games every day – By 2020, it is predicted that 77% of the American mobile population will be mobile gamers – This year, in India, 43% of smartphone users will download a new game on a weekly basis, with 16% downloading one daily. Whether it’s Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, or Candy Crush, mobile [...]

• Indian Gamer Behaviour Must Be Played Up to Better Target Ads

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  Users’ behaviour and gameplay must be considered so that ads do not get pushed to the wrong group of gamers, leading to bad user experience and a waste of inventory. In a Q&A with ExchangeWire, Nazara Games CEO, Manish Agarwal, discusses the challenges he faces in supporting the Indian ad market and stresses the need for brands to produce creatives that do not interfere with gameplay experience. And he should know, considering Nazara has more than six million monthly active [...]

• The Elusive Art of Gaming Monetisation

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  Gaming monetisation is considered by some as a dirty practice; but, with the gaming category accounting for the highest share (23%) of the billions of downloaded apps, the fact can’t be ignored that gaming is a powerful business, with extremely rich sets of data. Noelia Amoedo, CEO, Mediasmart and Grant Gudgel, COO, SMRTR.MEDIA (both pictured), share their expertise with ExchangeWire on how game developers can leverage data to optimise monetisation, whilst highlighting the challenges faced. Grant Gudgel, COO, SMRTR.MEDIA: Best practice gaming [...]

• Korean Mobile Developers Aim For Global Ad Markets as Local Competition Intensifies

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  Amid increasing competition in their local market, Korean mobile and games developers are looking towards global markets to better generate better ad revenue. To do this successfully, these developers must create products for a global audience and find marketing and ad agencies that can serve as a distribution gateway, says Sagi Niri, COO of Matomy, which recently opened an office in Seoul, South Korea. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Niri further explains why Korean developers are struggling to expand globally and [...]