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

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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. It exists and it can help you, so it’s hard to align to a policy that bars it altogether.”

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News: Potential Apple App Store Policy Changes Due to EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)

FastSpring

App developers and game developers may be interested in the latest news about Apple gearing up to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act. With the European Union’s Digital Markets Act continuing to ramp up, Apple may be making changes to its App Store policies to comply with the new act.

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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. There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game.

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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. Companies must expand on the trends that exploded during the pandemic if they want to see continued growth in their businesses while facing a recessionary economy.

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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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Degree Requirements Are Poisoning Your Cybersecurity Talent Pool

Forrester eCommerce

Some of these obstacles are imposed by human resources policies and the software used to automatically scan through resumes in a game of electronic buzzword bingo. There’s no shortage of obstacles holding back folks from finding meaningful employment in the cybersecurity sector.