Posts Tagged ‘OMGPOP’

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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Zynga Paid $180.000.000 for OMGPOP

March 25th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following the acquisition of OMGPOP, there has been a lot of speculation about the value of the deal. Analysts expected Zynga to pay between $150 and $250 million for the developer.

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Zynga Acquires OMGPOP

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It was only yesterday we popped up the rumour of Zynga being interested in acquiring OMGPOP and today… it happened! Zynga has pulled the DrawSomething developer on board.

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Zynga Interested in OMGPOP!?

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With OMGPOP’s DrawSomething attracting 30 million downloads in just five weeks, the company put itself in the spotlights to be acquired. One of the companies that is rumoured to be interested in OMGPOP is Zynga.

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Draw Something Tops 20 Million Downloads

March 14th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In just five weeks after it has been released, Draw Something from OMGPOP has managed to pull in 20 million downloads and attract media attention from all over the globe as the successor to Wordfeud.

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