Marketing video games requires appealing to two entirely different types of audiences: the new players and the hardcore veterans. Video game designers are already familiar with the difficulty of designing for a wide variety of knowledge and interest. Too easy, and the game isn’t interesting to the veteran players. Too hard, and the newcomers won’t…
Marketing apps can be tricky business. There’s a lot of competition in just about every category, so once you develop an app that satisfies a need, tag it with a catchy name and get it approved for launch, the next step is to get it out to everyone. In addition to a well thought out…
In order to better sell games and apps, the masses have to know of your product first. So raising awareness and getting noticed is in order. Start by identifying your product’s key functions. What makes your product so much better than your competitors? What can audiences get from your game/app that they can’t from others?…
Video game trailers – the requisite 1-4 minute videos made to excite and entice fans and non-fans alike. You know the type – usually involves stunning graphics, driving music, minimal to no gameplay and, above all else, slow-motion. It’s pretty routine at this point. Launch a trailer six months to a year from the game’s…
Face it, the old ways of marketing are dead and that means you need to be executing expansive online marketing campaigns. With over 1 billion active users on Facebook and Twitter alone, it’s obvious that social media is the new crux of your video game marketing campaigns. To be successful, there are 8 things you…
Online video and social media marketing seem to be obvious choices for those tasked with marketing new video game titles, but I’m consistently surprised at how those strategies are misused, underused or used not at all. Following are ways that video game marketing directors, brand managers and social media managers can help launch titles using…
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