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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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How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores

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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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Retailers Look to AI as They Grapple with ‘Pricing Game of Chicken’

Retail TouchPoints

Can Retailers Win a Pricing ‘Game of Chicken’? “We Retailers have been caught in a pricing ‘game of chicken’ that will almost certainly continue throughout the year ahead,” wrote the report’s authors. 5 Steps for Optimizing AI Adoption Tiernan also identified five key steps organizations should take to maximize the benefits of AI: 1.

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Retailers Get Real with AI: Four AI-Powered Apps We’ll See this Year

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But while AI is already delivering big changes to retailers’ bottom lines, it hasn’t yet truly transformed the way consumers shop. They don’t want to wait a few years; they want to deploy game-changing AI frameworks today. And since synthetic data is anonymized, they could do this without compromising consumer privacy.

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Sephora’s Delicate Dance: Offering Prestige Beauty to Value-Conscious Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How is Sephora dealing with shifts in shopper behavior over the past few years, particularly as consumers’ budgets have come under increased pressure? . Shoppers can interact in real time with a live beauty adviser — someone you can talk with and have that one-on-one experience.

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Reaching Gen Z and Millennials: What Brands Need to Know About Creator Guided Shopping

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retail social commerce projected to reach $80 billion by 2025, according to Insider Intelligence , more consumers, especially Gen Z and millennial shoppers, are turning to creators to help with their purchase decisions. And we’ll continue to see a sizable and growing number of consumers shop in-store from creator recommendations.

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The Power of Play: Using Gamification to Elevate Retail Apps

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Globally, consumers are downloading more apps than ever before, yet retention of those new app customers is an ongoing issue. In fact, most consumers use an app only once or twice before deciding to delete it or not. This behavior aligns extraordinarily well with the immediacy of excitement, challenge and rewards associated with games.

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