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Announcing the Launch of DTCDaily.com & DTC London
WireCorp currently operates three publications (ExchangeWire, RetailTechNews, and TheGamingEconomy), covering the digital advertising, retail technology, and gaming sectors. The stand-out trend of 2018 across all these news sites was the rise of the direct-to-consumer (challenger) brand. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) is the biggest [...]
Amazon Rumoured to Be Developing Game Streaming Service
Amazon may be joining Microsoft and Google in the race to establish a leading game streaming service. According to two insiders who spoke to The Information (as highlighted by GamesIndustry.biz), Amazon hopes to launch the unconfirmed service in 2020. Streaming games allows consumers [...]
Government Freeze on China's Games Market Continues to Thaw – But Is It Enough?
More games are to be released in China. Under normal circumstances, that statement would be far from newsworthy. But for nine months in 2018, the world's largest games market had been significantly stifled by new Government regulation. In March last year, [...]
GRIS' 'Sexually Suggestive' Facebook Ad Ruling 'Stupid', Says Publisher
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 [...]
App Store Customers Spend £1.7bn Over Festive Week; Apple Issues Profit Warning
Apple customers across the world collectively spent USD$1.22bn (£1.7bn) in the week that ran from Christmas Day 2018 to New Years Day 2019: the company's user spending record for the period. The festive week is famously a time for peaks in [...]
China's Government Ends 9-Month Freeze on New Game Approvals
China may be the world's biggest game market, with regard to user numbers and revenues, but for many months the nation's Government had declined to approve a single new game. That all changed in recent days. As reported by the South [...]
Discord's Gaming Store Bolstered by £118m Investment Round
The gaming-centric voice chat platform Discord has raised USD$150m (£118m) in a round of funding that may position it to rival Valve and Epic's efforts to dominate video game distribution platforms. The new round of funding, led by investment group Greenoaks [...]
Out of Step? The Dancers Suing Fortnite Creator Epic
Here at TheGamingEconomy, we're not usually inclined to cover the latest developments in choreography, and muse over the thorny issue of ownership of dance moves. But then with Fortnite's eccentric game universe continuing to dominate popular culture, anything is possible. And [...]
CrossInstall Debuts Download-Free Playable Game Demos on Google Play
Interactive mobile ads specialist CrossInstall has secured a deal with Google that will see its Instant Playables platform offer game demos within the Google Play store. Instant Playables lets developers offer interactive demos of their games without the end-user needing to [...]
ironSource Debuts New Platform for Monitoring Return on Advertising Spend
Mobile monetisation and marketing outfit ironSource has unveiled its new ROAS Optimizer platform, which offers users a means to monitor the return on advertising spend (ROAS). Only last week, we saw how advertising is increasingly valuable to casual mobile game revenues. But [...]
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