Video: Panel on “Monetization and Business Models for Flash Games”

Flash Games Summit
Yesterday I attended the first ever Flash Games Summit which has a bunch of informative sessions and interesting people involved. Thanks to Mochi Media for inviting me!
Monetization panel
I moderated a panel called “Monetization and Business Models for Flash Games” with:
- Adam Caplan from Super Rewards
- Kate Connally, AddictingGames
- Jameson Hsu, Mochi Media
- Kenny Rosenblatt, Arkadium Games
This was a nice mix of people because it represented a virtual goods-focused payments platform (Super Rewards), an ad network (Mochi Media), a content portal (AddictingGames), and a developer (Arkadium), so there was a variety of interesting viewpoints.
Panel topics
We covered a variety of topics, including:
- How do the different players (ad network, portal, etc.) make money?
- What are the biggest factors in driving monetization?
- What are the differences in monetizing demographics and geographical areas?
- What kinds of games are more successful at monetization?
- How are social gaming folks different than flash gaming creators?
- What are the key metrics they look at?
- How has the recession changes their business, and how will it affect the industry overall?
- .. and many more!
Hope you enjoy watching the discussion.
Here’s the video – enjoy!
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raja
23 Mar 09 at 6:19 pm
lol. I should probably flag this as spam. Or at least disqus should build in a flag for “shill”
Andrew Chen
23 Mar 09 at 6:35 pm
Hey Andrew-
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By chance, do you know Craig Johansen from RevScience?
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esha
20 Apr 09 at 4:34 am
I enjoyd the video very well! I own a flashgame website,too and i'm also interested in making money with this. Maybe i'll find some other “models” but this gave me an idea of how things are going…
Thank you
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28 Aug 09 at 3:06 am
It looks like a very great event.. I would like to attend this kind of summit..
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12 Oct 09 at 6:53 am
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lysk
18 Dec 09 at 11:31 am
Great!
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18 Dec 09 at 11:42 am
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tarungupta
28 Jan 10 at 9:48 pm
Saltmarch Media is organizing India Game Developer Summit Event in Bangalore. This Summit will be a boost for the Game Developing Industries. It covers the topics like Online Gaming, Gaming Business, Gaming Career, Audio in Gaming, Mobile Gaming, Game Monetizing and Adobe Flash Platform and has 1 day workshop at the end as well. Any one attending this event?
Register at gamedevelopersummit dot com
tarungupta
29 Jan 10 at 4:48 am
I enjoyd the video very well! I own a flashgame website,too and i'm also interested in making money with this. Maybe i'll find some other “models” but this gave me an idea of how things are going…
Car Games
16 Jun 10 at 8:51 pm
I enjoyd the video very well! I own a flashgame website,too and i'm also interested in making money with this. Maybe i'll find some other “models” but this gave me an idea of how things are going…
Car Games
16 Jun 10 at 8:52 pm
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Girl Games
16 Jun 10 at 8:53 pm
I liked the topic “What are the differences in monetizing demographics and geographical areas?” because I think is very important to understand how these factors interfere and influence the whole perspective.
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msaiwn
6 Jul 10 at 9:46 am
You seem like you had some good time at the Flash Games Summit. What got my attention while looking over your material was the fifth topic, “How are social gaming folks different than flash gaming creators?”. Did you come up with an answer based on studies? Or do you just know a lot of people from the gaming industry, so you've just thought of them and come up with an explanation?
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