Casual Games Alawar Audience Summer School July 2011 Natalia Postnikova
Casual Games - Alawar 2
Alawar Entertainment April 8, employees 6 internal studios 200+ projects 600+ downloadable games 30+ languages 60+ countries users / monthly (PC) 3
Where can you find them? 4 PC games -Alawar.*, 20+ web-resources (.ru/.com/.de/.fr/.it /.pl/.cn/.jp/…) -Alawar Partners, 80+ (BigFishGames, Real, Yahoo!Games, Exent, iWin, WildTangent…) -CD-retail, 20+ countries -AGSN, partners worldwide
Where can you find them? 5 Mobile games -Apple AppStore (iOS), Google Android Market, OVI Store, BlackBerry AppWorld, Windows Marketplace… -Appia, Mixer, Amazon Appstore, AppsLib, GetJar… -Vodafone, Verizon, Telefonica, Orange, AT&T… -Motorola (shop4apps), Dell mobile apps store, Samsung Apps, HTC Apps, LG App Store, HP Download Store, Intel AppUp…
Where can you find them? 6 Social games – Facebook, Vkontakte, HI5, Friendster, Netlog… Games for consoles -Online (PlayStation Network, WiiWare) -Offline retail (CD, cartridges)
Monetization 7 Shareware (Try before Buy) Freeware (Ads, OEM) In-game currency Subscription (membership) Game-on-demand …
Where the money is? 8 Video games Worldwide: $ 60 billion Russia: $ 700 million Casual games Worldwide: $ 7 billion Russia: $ 30 million (Social games: $ 100 million)
Alawar Internet Marketing 9 Alawar Internet marketing – usability, banners, skins, context ads, wrapper, player, newsletters, promotions, pricing, support, business models, payment methods, additional monetization, AGSN, bundles, traffic acquisition, SEO, affiliate management, researches, surveys, competitors monitoring … new ideas!
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Additional monetization - Alawar Wrapper 12 Ads is shown in the Game Wrapper: banners, video Place for Ads
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Casual Games Alawar Entertainment Questions… … Thank you! Natalia Postnikova company.alawar.com 26