Posts tagged Online games
43% of US teens using social sites have spent money within a social network
Jul 15th
Online gaming site Roiworld surveyed 600 teens ages 13 to 17 in late April and found that 43% Social Net Teens have spent money on/in a social network.
This study reveals that Games garner most of the Social Net Spending among teens. In fact, they have purchased items such as currency for virtual items in a game (35%) followed by music (33%), avatar accessories in a game (30%) and points to level up in a game (23%).
For some key highlights, please click here: Hi-media Blog Roiworld study April 2010
For more on how teens are spending their time and money online, check out a portion of The Teens and Social Networks study embedded below: www.scribd.com/doc/33751159/Teens-Study-June-2010
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 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!
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!
