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The Curious Case of Playable Ads and Traditional Marketing Strategies

Deconstructor of Fun

Digital advertising has come a long way since the first banner ads of the 90s. It’s likely you’ve seen these playable ads on social media or mobile news feeds - they often resemble mini-games or animations that users can play around with or view. One style of interactive ad that has emerged recently is the “playable ad.”

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2021 Predictions #1 Puzzle Games Becomes the Top Grossing Genre on Mobile

Deconstructor of Fun

Mat Baker has been making mobile games for 15 years. Laura Taranto has 12 years experience in casual games and is a product advisor and puzzle game aficionado. 2020 was a very good year for mobile games. Puzzle Games in 2020 Puzzle, out of all of the genres and mobile, is the largest one when looking at IAPs only.

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together. This has led to some wildly unusual combinations.

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B Noticeably, Tencent’s PUBG Mobile and Garena’s Free Fire were both down 37%.

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What are AAA Games and Mobile Games?

iXie gaming

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. As a result, mobile gaming is pushed aside in favor of AAA titles, which have their own position in the market. Games with expensive advertising campaigns. But now, we have more complex 3D mobile games like PUB-G.

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Solo dev Diego Ras of Raccoo Venture “Everything starts with paper and pencil”

PreMortem.Games

He started his career in advertising, but the world of video games always held his real interest. Many years passed and, after graduating, I started working in the advertising field. However, the studio still focused on the advertising area and my interests were increasingly focused on the games.

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In a Privacy-Centric World, Creative is More Important Than Ever

Deconstructor of Fun

With privacy becoming more important to mobile players and the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in app advertising inventories, the quality of your creatives has never been more important to the success of your games. In most app advertising inventories, you do not have many levers to pull.

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