Posts Tagged ‘Promotion’

Palm Extends Half Price Promotions

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has decided it will extend the half-price sale it started on Friday 20th of June for another two weeks. The half-price promotion should have ended by now.

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Apple Promotes The Best Games You’ve Never Played

June 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has started a new promotion in iTunes called ‘The Best Games You’ve Never Played’ This promotion might be the result of the new editorial team, but does it live up to its name?

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FreeAppADay Boosts 5 Games into US Free Top 10

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Over the past weekend, FreeAppADay managed to boost five games into the US top 10 of free iPhone games. With this promotion, the company shows it has a dominant position in the discovery business.

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Got 5K Downloads? Get a Free Nexus One With it!

March 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

It seems Google is increasing their pr for Android and their Nexus One. After giving away hundreds of phones at the MWC, the company will now also give one to developers that trigger 5K downloads on Android Market.

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Hudson Starts Weekly Sales

February 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Hudson Entertainment, the US branch of Hudson Soft, has announced a weekly app sale. Every Thursday, a new game will be discounted or go for free for exactly one week.

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Minis Go on Discount

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Sony is discounting the PSP/PS3 Minis the coming two weeks. Through the discount, the company hopes to attract more consumers to the offering. The offer will run from today till February 18th.

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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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I-Play Launches Viral Twitter/MP3 Campaign

October 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In an effort to promote their new Hip-Hop All Stars game on the iPhone, I-Play has setup a new viral campaign based on Twitter that will allow consumers to score a free MP3 file.

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NimbleBit Launches App Classics

October 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

It seems app discovery on iTunes is getting another push from Indie games developer NimbleBit. The games studio launched App Classics, a portal that tracks app popularity and interprets it in it's own way.

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Android Market Improvements Coming

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Discovery of games has always been the number one issue Android developers complaint about. With the release of Anroid 1.6, the team will also update Android Market to allow better marketing of the titles on it.