TGE Index Investment Report - Q4 & Year-End 2020
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 [...]
Nvidia Acquires Arm for USD$40bn; Twitch Adverts Now Available Programmatically
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Nvidia acquires Arm for USD$40bn (£31bn); Twitch adverts now available programmatically; and Anubis Gaming raises USD$300,000 (£234,000). Nvidia acquires Arm for USD$40bn (£31bn) Nvidia has announced that it [...]
Admix Secures USD$7m Series A Funding; DMarket raises USD$6.5m (£5.2m)
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Admix secures USD$7m (£5.6m) Series A funding; DMarket raises USD$6.5m (£5.2m); and Machinations closes €580,000 (£520,000) seed round. Admix secures USD$7m (£5.6m) Series A funding In-game and XR [...]
The Evaluation of Self-Service Mobile DSPs
In this exclusive article for TheGamingEconomy, Mathias Würdemann (pictured below), Senior Online Marketing Manager at InnoGames, details the criteria and selection process the studio uses when selecting a self-service demand-side platform (DSP) to run its mobile campaigns. Programmatic advertising has been [...]
CD Projekt Now Most Valuable European Game Company; Amplifier Acquires DESTINYbit
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: CD Projekt now most valuable European game company; Amplifier Game Invest acquires DESTINYbit; and AdInMo raises USD$500,000 (£408,000). CD Projekt now most valuable European game company Warsaw-based CD [...]
CWA Launches Campaign for Video Game Unionisation; Square Enix Focusing on Cloud Gaming
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: CWA launches campaign for video game unionisation; Square Enix focusing on cloud gaming; and Anzu.io partners with Vivid Games. CWA launches campaign for video game unionisation The Communications [...]
Building a UA Strategy Around 'Affinity'
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 [...]
Interview: AppLovin's Carl Livie on Making In-App Bidding Mainstream
Late last year mobile marketing platform AppLovin acquired in-app bidding start-up MAX. The AppLovin team has since built out the MAX platform, and integrated the real-time mobile header bidding solution into its wider ecosystem. Now MAX has had a little time [...]
Improbable Partners with Tencent Cloud; Unity Acquires Obvioos
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Improbable partners with Tencent Cloud; Unity acquires Obvioos; Anzu.io enters Xbox Tools and Middleware Program. Improbable partners with Tencent Cloud London-based simulation software distributor Improbable has announced a [...]
How Advertising Shortcomings Shaved 17% Off Twitter's Share Price
Twitter isn't a gaming platform. The social network may have seen a major uptake in gaming engagement in recent months, but while the likes of Facebook, WeChat and Kakao Talk have become homes for hyper casual, the micro-blogging platform has not. Still, [...]
Interview: Fyber's Offer Yehudai Talks Programmatic, Subscriptions and Getting In-Game Ads Right
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 [...]
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