Posts tagged Game Publishers
Hi-media Payments, Gold Sponsor at Web Game Conference
May 16th
The Web Game Conference is the conference for leaders and innovators of the web game industry, organized by the SNJV, the French Videogame Association. This annual conference hosted at the Pole Leonard de Vinci in Paris – La Defense, 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.
The Web Game Conference features one day of web game development lectures, roundtables, renowned local and international industry speakers and meetings. It is the sole place to enhance your knowledge of the social and browser games european market.
If social, mobile and browser games matter to your business, the Web Game Conference is the conference to attend. We look forward to seeing you there!
The Web Game Conference will be moderated by Roxanne Varza from Techcrunch France !
Hi-media Payments is Gold Sponsor at this event on May 19th. For this occasion, Hi-media CEO, Cyril Zimmermann, will be participate to 10am roundtable on Customer Acquisition.
Check the Web Game Conference Agenda
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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)
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!
Hi-media’s Allopass Payment Service Further Expands in the US
Feb 4th
We’re excited to announce that we’ve established a San Francisco office to bring our Allopass micropayments platform to the North American market. The micropayments space is certainly crowded, but we’ve got more opportunities for merchants than ever before!
- We offer a platform that can not only bill to a mobile phone but credit cards, ISPs, home phones, prepaid cards and more.
- We’ve also got nearly ten years behind us in the space, currently processing more than 8 million transactions a month globally.
- We’re the only payments provider that offers merchant payments within 7-10 days of a transaction.
- We are the only company that can provide online advertising reach and mobile payments under one roof – through synergistic opportunities with other Hi-media businesses.
Some of our initial US customers that we announced today include: Artix Entertainment, Boomerang Networks, Gambit, gWallet, Merscom Games, OLX, Peanut Labs, Quepasa, Sometrics, Sonico, TheBroth, Viwawa, Viximo, and Wadja. Check out our blog for many more partners to be announced soon!
You can read the full release here and be sure to check the News coverage of our US launch as well!
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!
$1.38 Billion Invested in Virtual Goods-Related Companies Worldwide in 2009
Jan 21st
The 2009 Virtual Goods Investment Report has just been released by Engage Digital Media. The report, compiled by www.VirtualGoodsNews.com details the investments made in virtual goods related companies in 2009.
Interesting facts and figures include:
- Above $1.38 billion has been invested in 87 companies last year, which is more than three times the amount invested in 2008 ($408 million) for twice as many companies (34 in 2008).
- Acquisitions represent $398.3 million out of the $1.38 billion invested.
- The largest acquisitions were Electronic Arts’ acquisition of Playfish for $300 million and China-based KongZhong’s $80 million acquisition of China-based Dacheng.
- Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies was by far the largest investor in the space in 2009 with its investments in Zynga and Facebook.
The complete report can be found on the Engage Digital Media Website, and a comprehensive list of the individual companies, invested amounts, investors, and market segment is also available.
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!
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