Thursday, July 19, 2007
Google Plans "AdSense For Games"
We've had AdSense for websites for a while now. But with the explosion in the casual / downloadable / web-games space over the last couple of years, good ol' Google is soon launching it's advertising technology for games.
This could be an interesting source of revenue for game developers specializing in free web-games, like Flash games.
This could also usher in an era of games choked with advertising and commercials. Right now, we don't know.
But here's the story so far:
Google Takes Its Ad System to the Video Game Market
Hat tip to A Shareware Life for the link!
Labels: Biz, casual games
- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 8:17 AM (Permalink)
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This should be on point then. Also, this is intersting, if somewhat laughable.
In somewhat unreleated news, EA's profit margin last year was 2.5%
In somewhat unreleated news, EA's profit margin last year was 2.5%
What was the first link supposed to be? Looks like you grabbed the wrong URL.
The second one is VERY interesting - it reminds me of 1994 all over again. Lotsa big players in other spaces all throwing lots of money around to bet on their horses. I guess that's a sign that the end is near for the casual games biz as we know it.
The second one is VERY interesting - it reminds me of 1994 all over again. Lotsa big players in other spaces all throwing lots of money around to bet on their horses. I guess that's a sign that the end is near for the casual games biz as we know it.
You should really make a forum topic out of posts like these, coyote. You don't see the discussion potential?
Anyways, personally I think it's just great if google's going to suddenly let starving developers put actual ads on their ingame billboards instead of adds for "Fizz soda" or whatever (I remember the two big billboards in Duke Nukem 3D that said just "Innocent?" and "Guilty!", not to mention plenty of locations ripe for placing more), or at least put banners on their web pages (far more realistic; much sense as the billboards make, that's far less likely to ever happen).
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Anyways, personally I think it's just great if google's going to suddenly let starving developers put actual ads on their ingame billboards instead of adds for "Fizz soda" or whatever (I remember the two big billboards in Duke Nukem 3D that said just "Innocent?" and "Guilty!", not to mention plenty of locations ripe for placing more), or at least put banners on their web pages (far more realistic; much sense as the billboards make, that's far less likely to ever happen).
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