Events
Hi-media Payments Sponsors the “Mondial du Jeu Video” in France
Jul 1st
Hi-media Payments, and Allopass, the group’s micropayments service, are sponsors of the “Mondial du Jeu Video” (formerly called World Gaming) on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July 2010 in Disneyland Paris, in France.
This international and annual event has between 50,000 and 80,000 visitors and allows people to discover the latest innovations in video games and multimedia.
Besides this event, the 7th edition of the ESWC will take place. The ESWC (Electronic Sports World Cup) is one of the major video game competitions with qualifying tournaments all over the world and a grand final gathering all national champions.
Hi-media Payments will be at the Social Gaming Summit in SF (May 6-7)
Apr 30th
Hi-media Payments US team will attend this year’s Social Gaming Summit, a one and a half day event focused on the intersection of games and the social web.
The event will focus on helping social games developers build, monetize, and grow their social games.
On May 6th, the Social Gaming University offers a half-day seminar that will provide insights into how social games work and what it takes to successfully build, promote and monetize a social game.
On May 7th, panels will bring together the leaders in free-to-play games, social networking, and payments infrastructure for a full day of panels and talks. Executives from Zynga, Playdom, Crowdstar, EA / Playfish, RockYou, Meteor Games, Tall Tree Games, myYearbook, PopCap, Slide, Playfirst, Challenge Games, ngmoco, and Kongregate already confirmed their presence.
The Summit will be held at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco (55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103).
For more details on the Social Gaming agenda please visit: http://www.mediabistro.com/socialgamingsummit/program/
If you are a game developer or publisher looking at effective ways to promote and monetize your games globally, we would be happy to meet you. With our turnkey micropayments solution Allopass, we process over 8 million transactions a month and help game developers and publishers monetize their audience in more than 60 countries with subscriptions, virtual goods, virtual economies, VIP services and more.
We take the complexity out of international payments by providing you a fast-to-integrate, comprehensive and relevant set of payment options in a clean, integrated user interface.
And we remit funds faster than any other provider in the space (within 7-10 days of the transaction)!
Drop us an email to learn more: Chris Simamora (csimamora@allopass.us)
Hi-media USA CEO Pooj Preena heads to LA for Digital Hollywood – Wed, May 5th
Apr 28th
Pooj Preena will join a panel of his peers to discuss trends shaping digital content monetization and distribution.
From music, video and streaming media (including the ever more popular user generated content) to games, photos and research / legal documents – experts are coming together to discuss how they monetize – or help other companies to monetize – digital content today.
In a panel session titled “Models for Change: Experimenting with Subscriptions, Pay Walls, Display and Search Advertising, Syndication, Live Events and the Brand Extension Opportunities”, the group will also explore the newest and most effective syndication and monetization models for delivering content over the Web and onto the hottest new devices.
On the distribution side, panelists will look at opportunities and innovations in digital delivery channels for selling and monetizing digital content – including social media, social networking sites and new devices like the iPad and over-the-top video devices. Panelists will examine how consumers are finding and purchasing content – citing examples like YouTube, iTunes/App Store and Netflix, which have demonstrated that breadth of selection improves the customer experience and generates demand for content – and discuss which players across the value chain will come together to improve this experience and how.
On the marketing and merchandising side, panelists will review opportunities to improve monetization potential and increase user engagement. From display advertising, which has seen the introduction of new ad sizes, richer media, and more intrusive delivery types – to alternative payment types that reach a global audience – panelists will divulge their views on what will help brands and content publishers move “beyond the banner” and into the next realm of digital media marketing.
We hope you can join us in what is sure to be a highly energized and informative discussion – Wednesday, May 5th from 3:50-5:00pm at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, CA.
Follow this link to the panel description and speaker bios:
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/10DHSpring/DH10Sp-Wed21.html
Hi-media Payments sponsors the Web Game Conference (Paris, April 29)
Apr 28th
Hi-media Payments, and Allopass, the group’s micropayments service, are sponsors of the first Web Game Conference, on 29 April at the Léonard de Vinci University Cluster in Paris, France.
At the initiative of Owlient, one of the leading European browser game companies with a 10M+ player worldwide community on its games Howrse and Babydow and in partnership with Hi-Media Payments, the De Vinci University International Multimedia Institute and the Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo (French national video game federation), the Web Game Conference is aimed at leaders and innovators of the Web Game Industry.
This annual conference brings together European industry leaders to discuss, collaborate, and share advancements about design, business, community and legal areas of social and browser based game development.
Join us and over 30 international industry speakers and 220 trade visitors to enhance your knowledge of the social and browser games European market and attend web game development lectures, roundtables and meetings centered around two main themes:
- designing and developing a web game
- monetizing and marketing a web game
Take a look at the conference agenda here: http://www.webgameconf.eu/agenda
To follow the event on Twitter: webgameconf
We look forward to meeting you there!
Pooj Preena to speak at NY Media Summit
Mar 8th
Pooj Preena, CEO of Hi-media USA, will speak at the New York Media Summit this week, being held at the McGraw-Hill Building in New York City.
The NY Media Summit brings together global leaders from the worlds of Media, Advertising, Television, Social Media, Mobile, Cable & Satellite, Publishing, News Media, Motion Pictures, Marketing and more.
Preena is speaking on a panel titled “Digital Money: Virtual Currencies: Experimenting and Developing a Micropayment Economy”, being held on Wednesday, March 10th from 3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
In this session, panelists representing payment and offer platforms, content owners and analysts will look at how the micropayments industry has evolved over the past several years, and how publishers, banks, PayPal and others are creating new micropayment-based product offerings.
Hi-media is the only company that offers both advertising AND payments under one roof, giving us tremendous insight into how publishers, merchants and online game developers can generate additional revenue and monetize their content.
The panel will include:
- Karl Mehta, Co-Founder & CEO, PLAYSPAN, Inc.
- Scott Kessler, Senior Director, Information Technology, Internet Software & Services and Internet Retail, Standard & Poor’s Equity Research
- Kris Soumas, Head of Games, A&E Television Networks
- Pooj Preena, CEO, Groupe Hi-Media USA
- Renata Dionello, Chief of Staff to CEO, ebay (PayPal)
- Mihir Shah, Chief Revenue Officer, Offerpal Media
- Robert Abbott, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners, Moderator
We hope to see you at the McGraw Hill Building, 1221 Avenue of the Americas (49th St. & 6th Ave). More info on The Media Summit website can be found here: http://www.digitalhollywood.com/MediaSummit.html
Learn more about Hi-media Payments and Allopass at GDC next week!
Mar 5th
Allopass US team will attend the Game Developer Conference next week in San Francisco (Moscone Center – March 9-13).
GDC is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event, attracting over 17,000 attendees. Presented every spring in San Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and online games.
If you are a game publisher or developer looking for a global payments provider that covers 60 countries, offers multiple payments methods (typically a selection of the 4-6 most relevant methods for each country), faster remittance, as well as global advertising and traffic acquisition opportunities, Allopass // Hi-media might have exactly what you need, all under one roof.
To learn more about Allopass or schedule a meeting at GDC, feel free to drop an email to Chris Simamora, our US Business Development Manager at csimamora(at)allopass(dot)us
We look forward to meeting you there!
Engage Expo: Online Games – Virtual Worlds Track & Virtual Goods Conference
Feb 4th
Allopass’s US team will be at Engage Expo in two weeks on Feb 16-17, in NYC! We would love to meet with you so feel free to contact Chris Simamora at csimamora@allopass.us to schedule a meeting.
The Online Games & Virtual Worlds track will be dedicated to user acquisition, engagement and retention, as well as monetization strategies for all types of online games and virtual worlds. Check out the “Monetization Strategies: What’s Working Today” session to learn more about successful engagement and monetization models. Subscriptions, virtual goods, premium services, advertising, and microtransactions will be discussed.
For those who want to focus on virtual goods and virtual economies, the Virtual Goods Conference will host discussions around how to best implement and manage a virtual economy, in both online and mobile platforms.
We look forward to hearing from you and sharing experiences, best practices and what to avoid regarding monetizing games, social networks and virtual worlds. To continue the discussion, please check out the upcoming case studies section of this blog to see how some of our customers have already successfully monetized their online property.
More details about Engage Expo on the Engage Website
Allopass is a Silver Sponsor at Casual Connect Europe – Feb 10-12
Jan 25th
Allopass’s European team will be sponsoring and attending the upcoming Casual Connect Europe event in Hamburg, on February 10-12, 2010. Feel free to contact Gilles Tannugi, at gilles@allopass.com to schedule a meeting prior to the event.
Casual Connect is the educational component of the Casual Games Association, the international trade association for casual games professionals. Casual Connect encompasses online news, a regular magazine and yearly conference series in Europe and the US (Seattle).
Casual Connect is one of the leading conferences for the casual games industry with over 3,500 professionals attending Casual Connect Events each year.
The sessions will include panels and discussions around designing, developing, promoting and monetizing games through advertising and micropayments. A special section will be dedicated to mobile platforms.
We look forward to meeting with you there and sharing experiences around designing engaging micropayment experiences, implementing successful virtual economies and promoting your casual games on a global basis!
Join us at Mobile Monday on Jan 11!
Jan 7th
Hi-media USA is sponsoring the next Mobile Monday, on January 11 at the super cool W Hotel in San Francisco!
Register for free and join us to discuss Virtual Goods & Micropayments on Mobile and Beyond. Panelists, including executives from mobile payment platforms, game publishers and application developers, will discuss how they have successfully generated revenue with virtual goods, challenges presented by this new model for monetization, and their views on how the market will evolve in 2010.
Panel
Lex Bayer – General Manager Payments Business, Playspan
Doug Bewsher – CMO, Mig33
Mark Curtis – CEO, Flirtomatic
Steven Lurie – General Manager Mobile, Zynga
Pooj Preena – CEO, Hi-media USA
Justin Smith – Founder, Inside Network (moderator)
Roger Wood – CEO, Orca
Logistics
Location: W Hotel San Francisco
Date: January 11th at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm
Cost: Free – but registration is required to attend
Cocktails: provided (and you get free drinks!)
More details here : http://www.mobilemonday.us/?p=300
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Pooj Preena speaking at CES 2010
Jan 5th
If you are attending CES 2010 in Las Vegas, you can see Hi-media USA CEO Pooj Preena speaking on the Mobile Commerce and Content panel! Details below:
Date: Thursday January 7th
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall, 2nd Floor.
Please stop by and say hello!
