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Marketing Your Video Game Outside of Game Marketplaces & App Stores

FastSpring

Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players. As the former COO and Co-Founder of Hi-Rez Studios, he spent 15 years making games and marketing them to gamers — with the studio’s games reaching 150 million players. (At

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Deloitte: UGC and Gaming Offer Brands New Opportunities to Build Connections

Retail TouchPoints

According to the study, TV and movies no longer dominate the media landscape like they once did as consumers, especially younger ones, increasingly turn to new digital channels for more immersive entertainment experiences. However, this isn’t a case of purely replacing one medium for another.

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Amazon Anywhere Offers In-Game Shopping for Real-World Products

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon has debuted a new immersive shopping functionality called Amazon Anywhere that allows customers to discover and buy physical products from Amazon within virtual environments such as video games, augmented reality applications and mobile apps. Screenshot from Niantic’s new game, Peridot.

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Black Friday Football Post-Game Report: A Win for Amazon, but Room for Growth

Retail TouchPoints

This Black Friday the only rushes that were covered the following day were those that took place on the football field during the NFL’s first-ever Black Friday game. An NFL game on Black Friday would have once been considered anathema (and a recipe for historically low viewership). A Columbia shoppable ad during the game.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved.

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One Game To Rule Them All: Sports and Fandom in America

Forrester eCommerce

Lionel Messi put US Major League Soccer on the world map, and Apple brought the games into American living rooms. It’s not often that soccer and the United States are spoken of in the same breath. But a diminutive Argentinian possessing outsized wizardry changed all of that. On Saturday, December 9th, it all comes to […]

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How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores

FastSpring

If you’re not sure how to sell an app direct to consumer (D2C) outside the app stores — or if you’re looking for a new way to monetize your mobile app or game — you may be wondering what options you have. Various tools you can use to monetize apps and games outside app stores. Those fees also apply to in-game purchases as well.

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Industry Shake-Up: 2023 Commerce Trends To Rock Your World

Speaker: Ashlee Aldridge - Reach Partners LLC | Bill Mirabito - Chameleon Collective | Ronak Shah - PSA Retail & CPG, Amazon Web Services | Wayne Teigen - Pivotree

From social commerce to BOPIS, the name of the game is to meet and sell to customers wherever they are, through multiple channels. In this webinar, four commerce retail experts will discuss: What consumers want to experience more of in 2023. The cool new innovations shaping the commerce industry.