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Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile.
In case you missed the previous episode:
Mobile Publishing #1: Deconstructing Scopely's path to $1B with Scopely’s Javier Ferreira (Co-CEO)
Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest with President Samir El Agili
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Welcome to the second episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile.
If you missed our last episode with Scopley’s Co-CEO Javier Ferreira, I encourage you listen to it after this episode.
In this episode we had a pleasure to talk to Tilting Point’s President and CPO, Samir El Agili. We talked about the company’s unique progressive model to free-to-play games publishing, discussed how Tilting Point is organised, how Samir sees the future of mobile publishing and - shed some light on that massive $132M user acquisition war chest the company has been flashing around.
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Welcome to the first episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile.
In this episode Scopely's Co-CEO, Javier Ferreira, dives deep into the company's product strategy, organisation and team structure as well as talks about the company's technology platform. We also discuss Scopley's mindset to launching new games and their attitude towards both original and IP-games.
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This week "J Money" Kim, Eric Kress, and Jeff Cohen from Stephens break down the latest info from earnings calls from public companies EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, and Glu.
What happened? What did we learn? And what is the outlook for these companies?
You can also listen to Eric gloat about his call on Glu.
We'll be doing these podcasts quarterly after every earnings period.
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In this episode of This Week In Games we discuss:
#1 What Video Game Company Should Disney Buy (That Isn’t Activision Blizzard)?
#3 Facebook migrating Instant Games away from Messenger
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In this episode of This Week In Games we discuss:
#1 Ubisoft reveals over 100 games for its Uplay+ subscription gaming service for September
#2 How to spot an exploitative mobile game publishing deal -- fro a former publishing CEO
#3 Tinder is now bypassing the Play Store on Android to avoid Google’s 30 percent cut
#4 PUBG Officially Becomes The World’s Most Popular And Highest Grossing Mobile Game
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In this episode of This Week In Games we discuss:
#1 Subscriptions are the future of app monetization
#2 Mike Morhaime's highlights and lessons of nearly three decades at Blizzard
#3 Glu Mobile: Highly Likely To Beat Estimates For Q2 2019
#4 HQ Trivia Lays off ~20% as It Preps Subscriptions
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In the latest TWIG we discuss:
#1 Google Stadia’s only exclusive game, Gylt, is not so exclusive
#2 Chess Rush, Tencent's take on Auto Chess, launches tomorrow
#3 Pass Royale Season 1 | Clash Royale
#4 Tencent’s answer to Diablo Immortal bombed in China
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In the latest TWIG we discuss:
#1 N3twork announces a new game
#2 Apex Legends season 2 battle pass
#3 Call Of Duty: Mobile Has Launched in Australia
#4 Electronic Arts Needs Mobile Gaming Help
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Also, our projections on how Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will succeed In the latest TWIG we discuss: #1 Shady Numbers And Bad Business: Inside The Esports Bubble (Kotaku) #2 Teamfight Tactics Could Be Bigger Than League of Legends #3 Dr. Mario World hits Android and iOS in July, here’s how it plays #4 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite worldwide launch begins on June 21st Hit us up on Twitter (@m_katkoff, @jokim1. @adamwtelfer & @ekress) to let us know, which news topics you want us to talk about next or more in-depth. Or to just let us know how we can improve. Hit the subscribe button to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news in games
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