More Hyper than Casual: The Changing Face of Hyper Casual Games
Featured Images, Left to Right: Fat 2 Fit! (VOODOO, 2021), Count Masters (Freeplay, 2021), and Run of Life (VOODOO, 2021) If you’re involved in the mobile games industry, then you won’t have been able to escape the influence of hyper casual games in recent times. Despite this, it’s still...
Player Insights 2021
What do players really think about ads in mobile games? In conjunction with Pocketgamer.com we decided to find out! Whilst advertising is accepted by consumers if they want to play the games they want for free, the number of ads and different ad formats can have a detrimental effect on the player...
Developers want ads that don’t piss players off!
Our CTO Chris Wright recently took part in a fireside chat at Pocket Gamer Connects to discuss the potential of InGamePlay brand advertising. He was joined by Hannes Hultgren, CSO at Impact Unified and the discussion was moderated by Dave Bradley from Steel Media. Part of Pocket Gamer's Growth...
Mobile Games in a Data Democracy
As technology advances, the role that data plays in game development, particularly for mobile games, has grown to the point where it cannot be ignored; It’s as integral to success in the current climate as any other aspect of development. It’s unsurprising, then, that at the recent GDC Showcase...
Playing cards? Drinks cans? Balls? Where will your in-game ad go?
Interview with Chris Wright, CTO at AdInMo When thinking about contextual mobile game ads, developers have to answer one fundamental question: where should the ads go? There are some obvious answers. If it's a racing game, create some trackside banners and put them there. The problem is, not every...
InMobi – the time is right for ‘mobile product placement’
Interview with David DiAngelo, VP of marketplace development at InMobi Anyone who has seen the movie Castaway will know what product placement is. Tom Hanks stars as a FedEx employee. He flies on a FedEx plane. He opens a lot of FedEx packages. This is a particularly flagrant example, but the...
TinyBit Studios – Annoying ads ‘bite the hand that feeds you’
Interview with Mark Currie, Development Operations Director at TinyBit Studios In a consumer survey by Google, 69 percent of people surveyed said they were motivated to install ad blockers by annoying or intrusive ads. This was quite a shocking thing to publish – from a company that makes around...
Mobile games trends 2021: key takeaways from MEF’s webinar
AdInMo’s CEO Kristan Rivers recently participated in a industry discussion hosted by MEF and moderated by Omdia’s Senior Games Analyst George Jijiashvili, discussing key trends in mobile games. He was joined by Jonathan Stringfield, VP Global Business Marketing, Measurement & Insights,...
YT Branding Group – Ad measurement was great; now it’s a curse
Interview with Yvonne Tocquigny, partner at TY Branding Group “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half”. This sentence, attributed to department store owner John Wanamaker, has become a legendary comment on the fundamental problem of advertising....
“Gamers are not who brands think they are”
On 18th February our CEO Kristan Rivers will participate in an industry panel hosted by the Mobile Ecosystem Forum looking at the top trends for mobile games in 2021. One of his fellow panellists will be Jonathan Stringfield, Global Business Marketing from Activision Blizzard Media who recently...
IAB UK Guide to Gaming
An introduction to the world of gaming by IAB UK's Gaming Group We are delighted to be part of IAB UK's Gaming Group who has just launched its Guide to Gaming to help advertisers better understand the vast opportunities gaming offers. It's packed with insights from the working group on different...
AdInMo CEO joins mobile industry discussion with Activision & Omdia
We're excited to join a fantastic line-up of speakers on 18th February where our very own CEO Kristan Rivers will be chatting about InGamePlay brand advertising as one of the key mobile gaming trends of 2021. The mobile games market like many digital channels thrived in the pandemic and is...
Visible but not annoying. The new rules of in-game advertising
We recently held a virtual roundtable. Our CEO Kristan Rivers joined Niki Chana Publisher Partnerships at Verizon Media, Nathaniel Barker Director of Business Development at Kolibri Games, Julien Bourhis VP of Operations at Homa Games in a lively session moderated by the editor of Pocketgamer.biz...
Why mobile will be the key to unlock in-game advertising in 2021
With ad budgets under increased scrutiny in this tumultuous year, mobile advertising has fared well, with a 71% increase in global ad spend year-on-year reported in Q2 2020 - and it’s mobile gaming apps attracting the lion’s share of that spend. A third of the world’s population (2.5 billion)...
Team AdInMo’s predictions for 2021
It’s that time of year when it’s normal to reflect, wrap-up the year and make the odd prediction (read: wild stab in the dark) for the next year. 2020 has of course been an exceptional year globally. We all need something to look forward to so we’ve skipped the wrap up and instead give you Team...
