Archive for the ‘Ad Funded Gaming’ Category

Valuewait Releases Free 1 Vs. 100 Wap Game

August 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: SMS, Platforms: Web Apps | No Comments »

For the Dutch Naional Lottery (who holds ownership over 1 vs. 100), a company called Valuewait has created a wap/sms version of the game that offers consumers a free chance at winning prizes.

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AdMob Allows Ad Aggregation (For Now)

August 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A few weeks back, AdMob announced that they planned to block access to their ad servers from remote ad aggregation services that are used by many (iPhone) developers. For now, those plans are on hold.

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HandyGames Does Red Bull – UPDATED

August 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Red Bull seems to have signed a new deal on one of their crazy sports events. HandyGames converted the 'Seifenkistenrennen' or 'Soapbox Race' event into a mobile game.

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Greystripe Does an Axe Game

July 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Though most of you consider Greystripe to be just an advertising network for your mobile games, the company has now shown capable of delivering a full branded game experience for the iPhone.

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DoubleFusion Creates Nissan Advert Game

July 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Following closely after Volkswagen and BMW, Nissan has now also launched a game to promote one of their new cars. The game has been created to promote the new Nissan Cube.

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Fishlabs Feels Used by Greystripe

July 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

The guys over at GoMoNews sat down with Michael Schade from Fishlabs to talk about his games and the mobile advertising space. During the interview, Michael expressed his negative feelings toward Greystripe.

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Fishlabs Lands Barclaycard Deal

July 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Following their Volkswagen advertgame, Fishlabs has landed yet another advertgaming contract. This time the developer will create a mobile game for the famous Barclaycard.

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AdMob’s May Metrics

June 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

For this months metrics report, AdMob has set it's focus on the distribution and usage of their iPhone portfolio. The company has been digging up many interesting facts.

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Great Works Launches Malibu Game

May 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Great Works has released a free mobile bowling game today. The game was created for the famous Malibu brand and is given away for free. What makes it special for us to report about it? The sweet commercials!

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InnerActive Brings Free Mobile Games to ICQ Community

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

Though we haven’t heard much from InnerActive when it comes to add funded gaming, the company seems to have closed a nice deal with ICQ to provide free mobile games to their entire community.