⚡️ 15-19 April Mobile Gaming Data Digest
Industry Highlights
🕹️ IAB: Gaming is All About Joy
🥷🏿 Robin Guo: Billion-dollar Roguelike Game
🧙🏻 Turkish Studio Mage Games Secured 3.5M$
🤘🏻 Joao Batista: 10-Year Survive in Mobile Gaming
🇮🇹 Italy’s Digital Nomad Visa: €28K a year is Enough
⛑️ Shalom Michaeli: Challenges for Alternative App Stores
⚙️ Ken Rudin: ARIA Framework for Product Optimization
⭐️ Sergei Vasiuk: Live Service Games Are Industry-gold
❤️🩹 Tracy Kennedy: Post-Layoff by Riot & Blizzard Devs
👩🏻🎤 Mustafa Cetin: Difficult to Find Marketing Artists?
🇬🇧 UK Games Market Grew 4.4% to £7.8bn in 2023
🎮 Spencer Ma: African Gaming Market Emerged
💰 Kenyans’ Mobile Games Spend rises to 40M$
Mobile Marketing
✈️ Two & a half gamers: Travel Town scaled past $600K
🦄 Matej Lancaric: Sorry, but Supercell is Superdead
💥 Katkoff: Facebook CPMs skyrocket due to TEMU
🌝 IronSource: Social Ad Networks Are Not Enough
🐲 Plarium: How the Players Created a New RAID
📦 Slav Senkiv: Pricing Starterpacks – A/B Testing
💤 Yasin Hatiboglu: 250 Days for A/B Winner?
🧩 Rovio kills Moomin: Puzzle & Design Game
🎥 Rise & Fall of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
🔪 Anton Slashcev: Iterate, Pivot, or Kill?
💰 Crunchyroll: $2B+ User Spending Mark
🔖 Yang Liu: Mini game review: AFK Journey
♟️ Neha Joshi: Phases in the Lifecycle of a Game
🗽 Bram Hallen: Meta Introduces Ads in Insta Reels
👑 Claire Rozain: Secrets of Japan’s Royal Match Ads
🍄 Deconstruction of Legend of Mushroom
VC World
💰 Jordan Mazer: A16z Launches Second $600m Games Fund
🧟♂️ Seppo Helava: Gaming VC Funds – Dream or Nightmare?
⚡️ Raphael van Lierop: A16z’s New Games-centric Funds
🤞🏻 Burak Yilmaz: Updates from WePlay Ventures
💯 Sara El Bachri: 124 Gaming VC Deals in Q1
🇬🇧 Paul West: Fumb Games Took £150,000 Gov Investment
🫠 Dmitry Yaminsky: Mobile Gaming Investment Challenges
🇹🇷 Dive into Istanbul’s VC Scene with Görkem Türk
AI Corner
🫤 Investors Get Seriously Skeptical About AI
🔈 VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces
📣 Meta Unleashes Llama-3: Latest Open-Source LLM
