Posts Tagged ‘Angry Birds’

Rovio Reports €75.4m Revenues over 2011

May 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

With hundreds of millions of downloads, business has no doubt been going very well for the Finnish mobile studio Rovio. Yesterday, the studio has shown the success it had in pure cash as it reported €75.5 million in revenues over 2011.

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What Made Draw Something Succeed, Besides The Obvious?

April 13th, 2012 by Dawn Siris Posted in Companies & M&A, Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Did you ever hear about Alfred Russel Wallace? Most chances are you didn’t, but you surely know Charles Darwin I trust. In a nutshell, Wallace was the first to come up with the natural selection theory of evolution, but Darwin marketed it better. Let’s take a look at Draw Something Free on that regard.

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20 Million Downloads for Angry Birds Space

March 31st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Angry Birds Space has managed to shift past 20 million downloads in the first week online. Of those 20 million, half of the downloads took place in the first three days it was available.

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Angry Birds Space Outsells The New iPad

March 26th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A title like that isn’t hard to make of course, given the number of devices the newest title from Rovio can be bought upon, but selling 10 million downloads of a single game in three days remains impressive.

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The Angry Birds Turn Two

December 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Rovio’s Angry Birds have a reason to celebrate this weekend as the franchise has turned two this weekend. To celebrate, Rovio and Chillingo have updated the Angry Birds and Angry Birds HD games on iOS with 15 new levels and a brand new orange bird to throw around.

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Microsoft Plans Big Windows Phone Update

April 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Somewhere along autumn, Microsoft is planning a big update for Windows Phone 7. This update is called Mango and will bring developers a lot of new abilities.

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Rovio to Sync Angry Birds Scores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Sync. With the new cloud service, consumers can keep track of progress no matter on what hardware they are playing one of the Angry Birds games.

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Angry Birds Breaches Through 100.000.000 Downloads

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has done it. In October, the company announced their plans to reach a hundred million downloads for the Angry Birds brand. Now, in March the company announced that milestone has been reached.

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Angry Birds to hit Facebook

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

While Angry Birds just passed 30 million downloads on Android, Rovio has announced the game will make it’s way onto Facebook. This will be the first real ‘social’ move for the franchise.

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Rovio and 20th Century Fox Team up For Angry Birds Rio

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming | No Comments »

While a big part of the fans is eagerly awaiting the valentine edition of Angry Birds, the studio is already preparing a new iteration of the Angry Birds series called Angry Birds Rio.

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