TGE Index Investment Report - Q4 & Year-End 2020
2020 highlights - Total investment and M&A activity across the video games industry tracked by the TGE Index through April-December 2020 reached USD$37.890bn from 406 disclosed transactions (501 total). Adding averaged publicly-available data for Q1 gives a full-year approximation of USD$40.572bn [...]
In-Game Ads in 2019: Inside deltaDNA's Ad Survey Results Report
It's easy to feel instinctively optimistic about in-game advertising. In recent years there's been a powerful sense that in-game ads aren't simply an increasingly valuable means of income for developers and publishers; perhaps they're now understood and embraced by more consumers [...]
Games grew 4% in 2019 to USD$120.1bn (£91.8bn); Razer applies for Digital Full Bank License
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Games grew 4% in 2019 to USD$120.1bn (£91.8bn); Razer applies for Digital Full Bank License in Singapore; and Xiaomi set to invest CNY¥50bn (£5.5bn) in AI, [...]
Team17 Acquires Yippee Entertainment; Worldwide Christmas App Spend Tops USD$277m (£209.6m); Nexon Sell off Gloops For JPN¥1 (£0.007)
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Team17 picks up Yippee Entertainment; Worldwide Christmas spend on apps tops USD$277m (£209.6m); and Nexon sells off mobile development subsidiary for JPN¥1 (£0.007). Team17 picks up Yippee [...]
Typhoon Studios Joins Google's Stadia Games and Entertainment; Tencent-Backed Global Esports Federation Founded
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Typhoon Studios joins Google's Stadia Games and Entertainment; Tencent-backed Global Esports Federation founded; and Twitch Fortnite viewership dips 28% in 2019. Typhoon Studios joins Google's Stadia Games [...]
Facebook Acquires Cloud Gaming Outfit PlayGiga; Bidstack Secures £10m Agency Trade Deal
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Facebook acquires cloud gaming outfit PlayGiga; Bidstack secures £10m Agency Trade Deal; and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare clears USD$1bn (£776.4m) in sales Facebook acquires cloud gaming [...]
Predictions 2020: In-Game Advertising
As the decade draws to a close, ExchangeWire and TheGamingEconomy invited thought leaders from across the industry to share their predictions and insight into what 2020 will hold for the ad tech and martech industries. Under the spotlight today is [...]
Predictions 2020: In-Game Advertising
As the decade draws to a close, ExchangeWire has invited thought leaders from across the industry to share their predictions and insight into what 2020 will hold for the ad tech and martech industries. Under the spotlight today is in-game [...]
Amazon Web Services' Eric Morales on Enabling Creativity Through the Cloud
In recent years Amazon has continued to expand its Game Tech offering, providing numerous tools and services from within the cloud, covering back-end services, analytics, monetisation and game development itself. And according to Eric Morales, Games Industry Segment Leader, EMEA for [...]
Embracing the Female Gaming Revolution
In our latest guest post Vanessa Goff-Yu, marketing director at in-game advertising platform Bidstack, takes an optimistic look at the sizeable female gamer demographics, the rise of the strong female game character, and the role brands can play in aiding [...]
Qualcomm and Niantic Collaborating on New AR Glasses; Wildlife Studios Raises USD$60m (£45.7m)
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR glasses; Wildlife Studios raises USD$60m (£45.7m) for mobile portfolio; Gameloft closes UK studio. Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR [...]
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