PR has evolved, and it’s time for a new PR plan for games, apps, startups and product launches! The ubiquity of social media and 24-hour access to journalists, bloggers, publications and blogs by practically anyone, combined with an increase in mobile games, apps, startups and new products launching every day, the PR game has changed…
It’s time to promote your mobile app game to get users – players – downloads – sales! Here are five tips for using social media marketing to raise awareness of and interest in your app and help you sell more. If you need more help with video game trailer concepts, production, marketing or advice, Contact…
Video game trailers and promoted social videos are basically ads – wonderful, glamorous, action-packed, over-inflated, self-congratulatory ads. And that’s OK, because just like movie trailers and social vids, we all love them! They’re windows into the soul of the game. They grab a viewer’s attention, show them what the game is all about, call them…
Ever wonder what people are plucking away at on their smartphones and mobile devices at dinner, at work, crossing the street… omg driving? Well in China, in 2015, consumers report that they’re spending a full 51% of their smartphone time playing games, which is great news if you’re developing, publishing or marketing mobile video games!…
In the new age of: “I wish I could be as cool as my teenage son” and: “Why does my grandma have a Facebook?” social media has become an influential, passive aggressive, self-comparison interaction tool. Social media not only represents self-identity, but an engagement of others in community, lifestyle, business, and entertainment. It is a…
I’m ashamed of myself. I was swept up in my quest to market a new video game and did the unthinkable. I broke the first rule of online video advertising. “Don’t turn women into hamburgers and eat them just for a laugh” Oh sure, it seems innocent enough at first glance… the idea of a…
I don’t care of your game involves stacking cherries on top of ice cream before it melts or shooting hookers in the street. Own it.
What’s the best way to market your mobile app or game? I reached out to a variety of experts including app developers, game studios, app summit organizers and extreme gaming machine builders to get their thoughts. Here’s the advice that made the most cents, along with my two pennies’ worth, of course. Charlyn Keating @CharlynKeating…
As you select which digital marketing approaches and tactics you’ll be including in your 2013 video game marketing campaigns, keep in mind that it’s not always which tactics you fit into your budget or the budget you spend, but how smart you are about how those budgets and tactics are used. A huge part of…
Written by Andrew Shahmirian So you’ve got a big budget title in the pipeline that has an equally big marketing budget. It’s part of a developing franchise and the higher ups have decided that this is the one that’s going to be big. So naturally, you want to position your game as a blockbuster hit and…
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