Archive for the ‘Marketing Strategies’ Category

AppStoreHQ Lists App by Twitter Popularity

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iPhone users have gained yet another method to discover popular apps on the App Store. The website AppStoreHQ is now listing mobile games and apps based on their popularity on Twitter.

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Micropayments Connect Free and Top Grossing Charts

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Ngmoco has released its Eliminate Pro game on the App Store and as Jon Jordan noticed, it shows how success in the free games chart can translate in success for the top grossing chart as well.

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Playhaven Opens iPhone Communities

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Playhaven might become the next big player amongst social networks on the iPhone. The company has created thousands of mobile communities around iPhone games already and is now inviting game developers to take charge.

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iPhone Casual Games: Lessons for Success

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Stuart Dredge is presenting a session at the Casual Games Forum about the factors that made certain games perform successfully on Apple’s App Store. The slides have just been published.

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Ovi Re-Downloads Official

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Nokia's Ovi service is now officially supporting the re-download functionality we informed you about earlier. The functionality is however a bit further restricted then we thought at first.

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Agon Online Launches Games Portal

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The company behind AGON Online has launched a new games portal to promote games supporting the community engine. With the portal, the company hopes consumers will find it more easy to discover AGON titles.

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Digital Chocolate on App Store Discovery

October 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Digital Chocolate has generated 40 million downloads on the App Store and celebrated it with a blog post on how well their mobile games are discovered on Apple’s store.

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I-play to Release Hip Hop All Stars EP

October 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Earlier this week we mentioned that I-play was giving away a full length MP3 to anybody that retweeted about their newly released Hip Hop All Stars game on the App Store. Now, the company is about to release a full EP.

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Synapsy Launches 3App Stores

October 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

German based Synapsy has announced the launch of a new pre-installed App Store called 3Apps. The App Store will be launching on the SonyEricsson T715, Naite and Saito devices in the 3 Denmark and Sweden networks.

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Scoreloop Goes White Label and new Integration Features

October 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Scoreloop has launched two new services to satisfy their partners. One of them is called Core Social and allows developers direct access to the Scoreloop social network.