It’s here again: the AppLift newsreel, summarizing the last two weeks in AppLift and mobile games industry news. This time we have five highlights in the form of a video, our new infographic, a recent announcement from Google and one of the unmissable upcoming industry events, gamescom!
In October 2013 we published our first Global Mobile Games Landscape infographic, sharing data on the state of the mobile industry from global game market research company Newzoo. Now, almost one year on, we are coming out with The Global Mobile Games Landscape Reloaded, the revised version with the most up-to-date industry data.
Once again, it’s time for the latest mobile news, including this week’s exciting announcement from AppLift and a video of our CRO Jean-Philippe being interviewed by PocketGamer at PG Connects Helsinki.
Yesterday PubNative, the first API-based publisher platform 100% focused on native ads, announced that it had raised a 7-digit seed-funding figure from AppLift. We would like to take this opportunity to explain the reasons behind this investment, as well as how it is going to benefit AppLift’s existing clients and partners.
Welcome to our second episode in our Asian Beat series!
South Korea is a mammoth opportunity for mobile game publishers. As we mentioned in the first episode of Asian Beat, South Korea’s domestic mobile gaming market reached $754 million in 2012. Smartphone penetration stood at 73 percent (of the total population of 50 million South Koreans) last August, which is significantly higher than the US (56.4 percent), and second only to the not so far ahead United Arab Emirates (73.8 percent). With 61 percent of said smartphone users playing mobile games, and the total South Korean game market being worth $9.16 billion as of October last year (Japan’s figure stood at just over half of that at $4.6 billion), this can only mean good things for mobile games advertisers in terms of new user acquisition, as well as high retention rates and revenue –if campaigns are run effectively, with consideration paid to our best practices as set out below.