Staying at home: the staggering worldwide impact on the digital games industry
Amid the Covid-19 crisis, spending on digital gaming has reached record highs of $10.8bn in March 2020 with mobile gaming contributing more than 50% of this total at $5.7bn. This comes as no surprise as many individuals are using gaming as a positive source of entertainment and keeping connected with each other while staying safe at home.
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March Developer Shoutout
Each month we want to give kudos to our developer community. Mobile games development is a fine balance between designing the best games, keeping players happy and paying the bills. We get it. These are the developers pioneering the use of immersive ads in their games...
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...
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...
