Picklive Limited, operators and suppliers of next-generation fantasy sports and social gaming is delighted to announce that it has entered into an investment deal and joint venture with Indian based lottery distributor and operator, the Sugal & Damani Group (“SND”), to launch daily fantasy cricket games for real money prizes in the lucrative Indian market. . The joint venture will …
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Entertainment publishers Endemol have announced a stage investment in London social gaming start-up Plumbee. Endemol have invested a sum of $13m in the latest round ofstage funding for the social casino gaming digital start-up. Existing venture capitalist investors – Paris based Idinvest Partners have also participated in this round, Plumbee is now valued at $40m. The investment set by Endemol, will see …
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Plumbee, has today announced that Mirrorball Slots has reached 1 million likes on Facebook. Treasure Island, Big Bad Wolf and Goldilocks are just some of the games within the Mirrorball Slots portfolio that are engaging more than 1 million monthly active users across all platforms and just last month, Plumbee launched its latest game, Firestorm – the 11th game to …
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Looking ahead to ICE 2014, SBC looks to put the leading topics at the front of this years ICE 2014 conference. The SBC Team caught up with Tatem Games CEO Igor Karev to discuss social games monetization. Igor will be discussing strategies for social gaming and how to detect and understand player behavior with regard to social games and gambling. …
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Innovative fantasy sports pools betting product wins second pitch event in less than a month TotelFootball has won a second pitch competition in just four weeks after beating a number of other contenders during a Dragons Den-style event at the Social Gambling Conference held in London late last week. Following its victory in the inaugural edition of The Pitch at …
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The SGC conference gets a Dragons Den makeover as a select group of new businesses pitch their business ideas to a panel of experienced new tech investors. The panel will also showcase new business strategies, showcase further business cases of successful investments and additionally give insights into what drives new venture funding for social gaming verticals. Session Dragons Andrew Reader …
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SGC Panel session hosted by Gambling Consultant Aideen Shortt, looks to explore the cross over between social and real money gamers. The panel looks to debate the efficiency of conversion between social gamblers and igaming products. The panel consisting of Raf Keustermans CEO and Co-founder of Plumbee, Mick Robins CEO of MR Games Ltd, debate strategies, product innovations and processes …
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Day 2 of the SGC kicks off with sessions on market potential and growth forecasts. Morgan Stanley Analyst – Vaughan Lewis, the author of the most important financial study and research undertaken on social gambling – ‘Social Gambling Click Here To Play’, sheds insight on projected growth for the social gambling market. Vaughan gives the SGC audience up to date market …
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Another expert panel hosted by IGB’s Micheal Caselli, panelists Alfonso Villar CEO of PlaySpace, Christ Wirght, Founder of GameAnalytics and Diego Millar Co-founder of Jampp shed insight into player lifetime values, acquisition costs and defining player performance metrics for social gambling products. The panel gives insight into performance and analysis of player value in social gaming regions of North America, …
Read More »There can be little doubt that social casinos and social poker rooms have become hugely popular. While the debate of whether the traffic on these verticals can be turned into higher grossing ‘Real Money Gaming’ players still rages, Sean Ryan from Facebook recently said that the lifetime value of a social casino player was around US$500. It cannot be denied …
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