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Monetization Aug 01, 2013
Maximizing Monetization — Casual Connect SF 2013

This morning Emily Greer (our COO) gave a presentation at Casual Connect San Francisco diving deep both into the economics that drive virtual goods purchases in games and advice on how to get monetization right. The talk builds on previous talks with new data, case studies, and analysis. Check it out below: Maximizing Monetization - Casual Connect SF 2013 [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/maximizing-monetization-casual-connect-sf-2013] from emily_greer [https://www.slideshare.net/emily_greer]

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Kongregate News Jun 27, 2013
Kongregate's July F2P Webinar

On Thursday, July 11th at 11am Pacific time, Emily Greer and Anthony Pecorella (Kongregate's COO and Director of Virtual Goods Production, respectively) will present a live webinar on free-to-play games. This webinar will be based on your questions about F2P, so feel free to submit what's on your mind to our handy online form [https://docs.google.com/a/kongregate.com/forms/d/1N7WxArmIvBnl8yivV2C7dy05gRm237uR-YKT8urVTig/viewform] . Please get your questions in by July 5th to give us enough time

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Talks Jun 14, 2013
Comparative Stats for Asian and Western Games

A few weeks ago David Chiu (our Director of Developer Relations & Business Development) gave a presentation at Casual Connect Asia breaking down key elements of F2P retention and monetization in Eastern versus Western games. The results are quite striking and the presentation – utilizing some info you may already be familiar with from another presentation COO Emily Greer gave – is worth digging into. The ARPU and ARPPU distinctions are quite striking and you might be able to learn a thing or tw

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Game Development Apr 03, 2013
Building Games for the Long Term

We believe games can live forever. While people throw around near-sighted terms like DAU and ARPDAU, we think developers should be planning in terms of years and not days. Last week at GDC, Emily delivered a well-received talk titled "Building Games for the Long Term: Maximizing Monetization and Player Satisfaction". Pulling data from over 300 virtual goods games, she broke down real evidence showing how real success comes from building and maintaining a playerbase that sticks around. Below y

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Talks Mar 22, 2013
GDC, FGS, and the Kongregate Blog

Hi Developers, We’re about to pull back the curtain on our brand new Kongregate blog. This is the evolution of our basic news updates, where we create a space to share advice, statistics, tools, and information to help you make the best possible versions of your games. We’ll share extended versions of our conference talks and insight from different Kongregate departments including virtual goods, design, mobile and more. It’s also a forum for you to ask us questions. It’s a chance for you to di

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Talks Feb 13, 2013
4 Years, 300 Games - Casual Connect Europe 2013 Talk

Kongregate's Emily Greer presented a talk at Casual Connect Europe looking at the history of virtual goods on Kongregate, what we got right and what we got wrong in our early assumptions. Includes investigation of synchronous vs asynchronous multiplayer, PVP vs PVE, best and worst genres, and payment methods. 4 Years 300 Games - What We've Learned About Free-to-Play [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/4-years-300-games-what-weve-learned-about-freetoplay] from emily_greer [https://www.slideshare

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Kongregate News Feb 04, 2013
The $10 Million Mobile Games Fund

We are announcing a $10 Million Fund for developing and publishing mobile games, where Kongregate will offer distribution, financial assistance, consulting services and marketing support to help developers be successful in the highly competitive mobile arena. Read the press release and find out more about accessing Kongregate's mobile network. Kongregate Announces $10 Million Development Fund for New Mobile Gaming Initiative Game developers to receive financial assistance, consulting services a

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Monetization Oct 24, 2012
Maximizing Monetization - GDC Online 2012 Talk

Kongregate's Emily Greer presented a talk at GDC Online 2012 delving into the underlying economics of virtual goods and how developers should think about item pricing and promotions. You can find the full talk in the GDC vault, the slides are available below. Maximizing Monetization in Free to Play Games [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer/gdc-online-2012-annotated] from emily_greer [//www.slideshare.net/emily_greer]

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Monetization Sep 05, 2012
Newbie to Big Spender: Understanding the Player Lifecycle

Watch Kongregate's Emily Greer well-received talk at Casual Connect "Newbie to Big Spender: Understanding the Player Lifecycle." You can download the slides and find more great content from all the speakers at Casual Connect's website [http://seattle.casualconnect.org/content.html].

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