The evolving relationship between game publishers and brand advertisers.
Our Publishing Director, Lewis Horgan was at the inaugural Gamesforum Cyprus last week and shares his takeaways from this vibrant games community. Cyprus has it all. Sun, sea, mountains. It has also firmly established itself as a hub for mobile game development and publishing, with a vibrant and...
Introducing Immersive In-Game Audio Ads
In the fast-evolving landscape of digital advertising, innovative and non-intrusive formats are becoming increasingly sought after by both brands and developers. InGamePlay audio ads are available as an exciting new feature of our latest SDK release. In this video our Product Director, Adam...
A better way to game
The call to arms of NSPCC’s inaugural Game Safe Festival was ‘to help build a safer online world for young people’. Our COO Joanne Lacey participated in a roundtable of publishers & developers, platforms, industry bodies, eSports teams and influencers to play and act for a better way to game....
Rewarding players and privacy is rewarding
From non-intrusive in-game brand ad formats to rewarded play discussion led by Felix Braberg Co-founder, two & a half gamers explored the latest thinking in the rewarded space to better understand the innovations and requirements for monetization & retention. Here’s a few highlights from...
In-game advertising addressability: Curled up on the sofa? Waiting for the train? 5 mins or 5 hours? YES.
Who can advertisers reach with in-game advertising? AdInMo Advisor Meraj Kunarajah has been working with our data science team to lift the hood on different Player Personas. With Google’s cookie deprecation finally rolling out, it’s fair to assume that device ID and MAIDs (mobile advertising ID)...
Just how accurate are annual predictions? Our CEO Kristan Rivers scores pretty well
The last few years have involved plenty of change and uncertainty for both the games and adtech industries, and I’m sure 2024 will be no different. Before we look ahead, let's look at how my 2023 predictions turned out. Mobile gaming audiences will continue to diversify: A This was a bit of a...
Team AdInMo’s Top 10 Favourite Mobile Games in 2023
This year, Team AdInMo’s annual debate about our favourite mobile games was more heated than ever! 2023 saw plenty of hot new titles being released including Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge but were they good enough to replace our classic heroes? ...
Developer Shout Out: Nextwave Multimedia
Advertising and live sports events go hand-in-hand with pitch-side billboards surrounding real-world stadiums. This makes in-game advertising a natural fit for any sports mobile games and this month has been all about the Cricket World Cup 2023 reaching its climax this weekend in India. Award...
Optimizing for revenue not joy: Gamesforum London and the mobile gaming monetization predicament
Has the mobile games industry's relentless pursuit of revenue optimized the joy out of the player experience? I’ve just returned home from a two week business trip involving a lot of trains across Europe, with the last stop including London and the always-educational Gamesforum event, at which I...
Hardcore or Casual? Both. Neither. That’s not the point!
AdInMo’s Senior Partnership Manager for LATAM, Manuela Magalhaes was recently at Maximidia in Brazil and here shares her takeaways from the show. Despite LATAM being big adopters of in-game advertising, it’s clear the potential of immersive formats is much greater in the region and a call to...
InSideInGameInSights with Emma Raz, Director of Commercial at NumberEight
In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, questions about identity and data have taken center stage. With the upheaval caused by the deprecation of third party cookies, the scarcity of first party data, and the challenges posed by iOS14.5's removal of IDFAs, marketers find themselves...
Game Spotlight: Super Mart from Arcadian Lab
Indie developers, Arcadian Lab, specialize in creating free-to-play idle-arcade mobile games with several sucessful titles in their portfolio. Earlier this year the studio decided to add intrinsic in-game advertising as part of their monetization mix, and after testing other in-game monetization...
Why is everyone still eating at McDonalds?
At DMEXCO 2023, IAB Europe previewed the results of its Attitudes To Programmatic Advertising Survey. Here we lift the hood on one of its key findings: the pivotal shift back to the use of third-party data. DMEXCO is always a great barometer for digital advertising trends, and without a shadow of...
InSideInGameInSights with Valerio Sudrio, Director of Product Management at Usercentrics
GDPR has been around for a while now, but often remains the domain of DPOs, lawyers and marketing types. However, understanding data protection regulatory frameworks and managing user consent is also a crucial aspect of app monetization. Episode 5 of InSideInGameInSights explores the importance...
Gamescom 2023: Not the year of anything?
Another year, another hot Gamescom 2023 in Cologne. Everyone has their personal event-tips and mine is ‘you must ALWAYS click the “air conditioning” checkbox when booking your Gamescom room’, as like my home of Texas there is no alternative in Cologne in August. If I’m honest I’ve struggled with...
