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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. However, because of ongoing court cases and the development of new laws and regulations, the mobile landscape is changing.

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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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Walmart Releases Software Development Kit to Simplify In-Game Commerce Integrations

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart has teamed up with gaming development platform Unity to offer its developers the ability to integrate Walmart commerce functionality into the games and apps they build. We’re excited to be able to give Unity developers the option of another new revenue stream while keeping players within their games and experiences.”

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

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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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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

FastSpring

As mobile game and app developers gasp for air under a player-gouging 30% duopoly-tax on nearly all mobile game revenue worldwide, Epic Games has emerged as the de facto leader of the gaming community in the fight for open computing on mobile. But the world has changed. But the world has changed.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Consumer behaviors today are more nuanced than that, with younger generations especially engaging with a “blended and inter-dependent tapestry of entertainment” that includes streaming video, social media, music and gaming as well as traditional television and movies.

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Office Depot Improves In-Store Task Completion Rate by 42% with Cloud Technology

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Office Depot ’s task completion rate has reached 90% across its network of 1,500 stores and 13,000 associates since implementing Zebra’s Workcloud software and mobile computing solutions. Overall, store managers have been able to save 6% on payroll annually and reduce time spent scheduling from approximately three hours to 30 minutes a week.