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Choosing the Right Monetization Strategy: Ads or In-App Purchases?Game genre should defines your revenue preference, 313#

Anime + Gaming = Revenue Revolution?How Summoners War found a goldmine by collaborating with Demon Slayer, 311#

🔓 Unlock Insights on Genre/Sub-Genre Geo DemandEver wondered which game genres are sweeping up players' wallets around the world 309#

Can Candy Crush Solitaire Challenge Playtika’s $1B Empire? Isn’t Solitaire just a game for grandmas? 306#

Business of Games: Trending game review, Hexa SortIf you're building a Puzzle game, and want some takeaways from Hexa Sort… This post is for YOU. 251

Business of Games: Where do your installs come from?A deep dive into top drivers for your casual game installs, 256

Business of Games: 2025 predictionPredictions and trends to bet in 2025, 299#

🎯 Lily’s Garden’s Holiday Giveaway – A New Trend in Live-Ops?Game events and trends breakdown, 304#

RVs are more than revenue — they’re gameplay extensionAre your Rewarded Videos serving your players and your revenue goals? Business of Games, 294#

Is ASMR gaming back in trend🤔Top trends Nov24, Business of Games 297#

From Downloads to Dollars: Unlock Sustainable Success with Hybridcasual GamesKPI benchamark for hybridcasual, 291#

From bubble to bust: 93% of GameFi projects are dead ☠— A Hard look at Web3, GameFi in 2024, 293#

Business of games: Is indies in India leaving mobile games behind?At IGDC 2024, AAA titles for console and PC games are taking center stage. 287#

What the heck is Q5?Inspired by TWIG’s recent rant, 290#

Business of Games: Trending merge game review, Travel Town - Merge Adventuregame with a very strong Cumulative RpD, 278#

⏰ Wake-up Call: Blockchain Gaming Investments Down 31% YoY 📉Business of Games Is this a wake-up call for blockchain gaming to prioritize utility over hype? 281#

Business of games: Know When to Push the Right IAP According to the Game Stage!Which IAP to Offer, When at early, mid and late stage of the game. 273

Business of Games: Indian game market rev and players' forecast for 2024 & 2028, 276#

Business of Games: Copying events from other trending games? Check out this new feature "Choose Your Reward"Insights on how "choose your reward" is boosting engagement and revenue for leading games, 263

Business of Games: M3 game with cars/truck renovation meta 🚗 🛻🚛Games compared Chrome Valley Customers, Forza Customs - Restore Cars, and Truck Star, 270

Business of Games: The Best Theme for Your Hybrid-Casual Game(Pie-chart) % of Top 10 Hybrid-Casual Game Themes and Player Expectations, 246

Business of Games: Drama and Stats Behind Squad Busters🎮 Looking into the Download Decline and Revenue Drop. The decision for Squad Busters' global launch is an enigma? 😕 249

Business of Games: 4 tips and trends that's shaping the casual gaming industryA brief insights to benchmark and optimizing your strategies, #239

Business of Games: 🚀Crypto Gaming Trends - Telegram as the Key to Organic GrowthGames making waves in Telegram with insane DAUs, #242

Business of Games: Trending game review, Legend of SlimeIf you're building an idle RPG game, and want some takeaways from Legend of Slime… This post is for YOU. #234

Business of Games: Ad Networks vs. Socials: IPM Performance 🎮Discover your game genres IPM rates here, #237

Business of Games: Turbocharge your mobile game’s success this cricket season 🏏Discover how smart pre-season planning can lead to a 225% revenue spike and keep players engaged well beyond the final over. #229

Business of Games: Trending game review, Legend of MushroomIf you're building an idle RPG game, and want some take aways from Legend of Mushroom… This post is for YOU. #231

Business of Games: ad platform preference across different geos a brief insight on 2023 ad platform trends, #223

Business of games: IAP spender analysis A brief insights on demographics split, spender behavior insights and motivation factor #226

Business of Games: Copying events from other trending games? A breakdown of Royal Match's Dragon Nest eventIt’s inspired by Monopoly GO!’s “Partner Events”

Business of Games - retention benchmark by platformEnlisting the retention benchmark by the platform for the top2%, top 25%, and median of all games

Business of Games: Trending game review, Tile Family: Match Puzzle gameThe new entrant on top 100 grossing game, the core-game is interesting. #218

Business of Games: Server Calculator WIKI note, Ballpark server fees for different game genres

Business of Games: Match game genre, CPI per platformQ4 2022, benchmark

Business of Games: Metaverse here, metaverse theremetaverse vs virtual experiences

Business of Games: subgenre preference across age groupDetermine your subgenre game acceptance across different age groups in US, UK, and India (via data ai) #220

Business of Games: 💰Highest earning games and 🎯 most downloaded games of July 2024game performance stats, 259

Business of Games: Trending game review, Legend of MushroomIf you're building an idle RPG game, and want some take aways from Legend of Mushroom… This post is for YOU. #231

Business of Games: Meme of the weekEmbracer stories, 254

Business of Games: Why Hybrid-casual over hyper-casualVoodoo's Alex Shea: “Hypercasual is dead”

Business of Games - Successful game vs clones RpD statsSurvivor.io (S) vs Lone Survivor (LS) vs Heroes vs Hordes (HH)

Business of Games: Trending game takeaways, Yalla Ludo - ludo & Dominoa comparison with other ludo games

Business of Games: Ad Networks vs. Socials: IPM Performance 🎮Discover your game genres IPM rates here, #237

Business of Games: Trending game review, Legend of SlimeIf you're building an idle RPG game, and want some takeaways from Legend of Slime… This post is for YOU. #234

Business of Games: 4 tips and trends that's shaping the casual gaming industryA brief insights to benchmark and optimizing your strategies, #239

Business of Games - Homescapes playbook with new events Homescapes in-game event

Business of Games: Trending Meta1. Character collection and social clan 2. Mini-games

Business of Games: 💰Highest earning games and 🎯 most downloaded games of June 2024game performance stats, 248

Business of Games: Trending game review, Hexa SortIf you're building a Puzzle game, and want some takeaways from Hexa Sort… This post is for YOU. 251

Business of Games - Trending game takeaways, Marvel Snapgame trends and stats

Business of Games: Lotsa Slots game performance vs the recent monetization overhaul doubled the rewards and coins, increased the ad placements 🎰

Business of Games - best month to conduct soft launch Missed your game release on Dec 2022 🤔

Business of Games: Apple game recession impact - most successful vs declined genres in 2021 vs 2022wrt to rev and downloads

Business of Games - Trending game takeaways, expectation vs SSSnaker 🐍 a game from the publisher who did Survivor.io, Archero

Business of Games: Ad units preference vs genre with insights on RV ads integration 101 that can be used in any game

Business of Games: Consumer Spend stats LATAM (AR, BR and MX) Is LATAM can be a good target

GameDev musings - Match3 game trends & ASO tipsHey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗 Use storytelling creatives on your game page to connect with your audience and build a brand. ⚡ It helps you integrate emotional CTA Sneak peek 👀 into some of the decor M3 game store pages Cartic P, @iCartic

Business of Games: Indian Android market share OS version vs screen resolution Oct 2022, stats

Business of Games - Playtest framework collecting and sharing frameworks I <3

Business of Games: Trending game takeaways, Frozen CityFeb 2023 stats

Business of Games: new feature trends (match3 game💎)Lily's Garden 🧑🏾‍🌾🏡

Business of Games - Successful game takeaways, stats Golf ClashNov 2022 stats

Business of Games: Will Fortnite UGC and metaverse will lead the wayUnreal Editor For Fortnite (UEFN)

Business of Games - 1/5th of blockchain games are discontinued (more to follow) how to avoid the pitfall, a view from a game dev service provider

Business of Games - multiplayer features and its priorityDec 2022

Business of Games: popularity of mini-game mode in US top 200 grossing casual vs midcore games comparison

Business of Games - Cloud gaming never retires 🤺🪳Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗 Should I say that cloud gaming is done as Google's failed with StadiaORCloud gaming never retires with the following recent funds...Vodafone Idea partners with CareGame for India’s first cloud gaming service.The emergence of Graphics as a service, with Well-Link Technologies raises $40MCloud gaming demands new exclusive content for the adoption over better speed.Cartic P, @iCartic

Business of Games - create a forum for your game in 2 clicksHey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗Create a forum for your game on discord with 2 clicksEnable the community option in the server you want to create the forum channel, once it's enabled you can create the "forum channel"- Cartic P, @iCarticPS, check my previous post about discord vs forum 👇http://newsletter.icartic.com/issues/business-of-games-discord-vs-forum-1360975

Business of Games - gamedevs Amazon Publishing Service should be on your radar in 2023 Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗Amazon Publishing Service should be on your radar in 2023Why: 52% of teens cite Amazon as their No. 1 favorite e-comm site vs SHEIN, Nike, Lululemon, and PacsunPast Stats: In 2021, Amazon was responsible for ~14% of the overall US digital ad market, google had 26% and FB had 24%. You can use Amazon as a bidderLimitation: Amazon is currently running ONLY BANNER ads as inventory with APS. We need to wait for other creatives' support. Keep an eye out for Amaz…

Business of Games - Sneak peek at interesting top 200 grossing games in AppStore Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗Sneak peek at interesting top 200 grossing games in AppStore, Triple Match 3D. Game developed by Boombox Games Ltd., the game looks like the popular Match3D game. It's currently a new entrant in the top-grossing position of 150. >> Cartic P, @iCartic

Business of Games, Netflix games stats LT downloads, last 30 days downloads…Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗Netflix games breakdown, with stats like game LT downloads, last 30 days downloads, geo specs… Top 5 markets for Netflix games: US, Brazil, FR, UK, and Canada7 games had 1M+ LT downloads5 games had 100K+ downloads — in the last 30 daysStranger things IP games had 500K+ downloads1.7 million engaged users vs ~221 million Netflix subscribersCartic P, @iCartic

Business of Games - median CPI by ad spend Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗Enlisting the median CPI for the top 10 countries by ad spend in Q3 2022, Android vs iOS US = $0.56 (android) vs 0.71 (iOS)JP = $0.44 vs 0.66CA = $0.35 vs 0.44AU = ❓ vs 0.44UK = $0.29 vs 0.39KR = $0.27 vs 0.44DE = $0.22 vs 0.35FR = $0.16 vs 0.25BR = $0.06 vs $0.14IN = $0.02 vs NA :PCN = NA vs $0.21>> Cartic P, @iCartic

Business of Games - Successful game takeaways, stats Golf ClashNov 2022 stats

Business of Games: Trending game takeaways, Frozen CityFeb 2023 stats

Business of Games - Trending game takeaways, Marvel Snapgame trends and stats

Business of Games - median CPI by ad spend Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗Enlisting the median CPI for the top 10 countries by ad spend in Q3 2022, Android vs iOS US = $0.56 (android) vs 0.71 (iOS)JP = $0.44 vs 0.66CA = $0.35 vs 0.44AU = ❓ vs 0.44UK = $0.29 vs 0.39KR = $0.27 vs 0.44DE = $0.22 vs 0.35FR = $0.16 vs 0.25BR = $0.06 vs $0.14IN = $0.02 vs NA :PCN = NA vs $0.21>> Cartic P, @iCartic

Business of Games: Snapshot of Google Play's pre-launch tools against various stages of releaseGoogle Play's pre-launch tools tips

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