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Kantian Ethics for Game Ads and Beyond Is Probably a Good Idea

academia invades, ads, industryBy pblackOctober 20, 2020Leave a comment

The ASA has banned misleading ads from Playrix’s Gardenscapes. Running the same creative in user acquisition hits diminishing returns fairly quickly as the creative “clears the market” for users attracted to that creative. To broaden appeal, why not simply advertise the game as existing in a entirely different genre? This opens up a whole new…

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adsBy pblackJuly 18, 2020Leave a comment

I apologize in advance.

Players Go to Their Highest Valued LTV: Ads Are Beautiful Pareto Exchanges

adsBy pblackJanuary 16, 2017Leave a comment

Previously, I wrote about ads as a way to monetize non-payers, but there’s more to the ad exchange and what I’ll coin as ‘portfolio pumping’. It’s like portfolio theory, but not really. These terms reference two growing phenomenon in F2P games. King is at the forefront of portfolio pumping, in which a given firm pushes…

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