Tag Archive | "virtual goods"
Target Stores First to Sell Facebook Credits Gift Cards
Beginning this Sunday, Target (a TriplePoint client) will be the first retailer to carry Facebook Credits gift cards in stores nationwide. This is great news for social gamers who can’t (or prefer not to) use a credit card to make online purchases, but still want to use premium virtual currency in Facebook games and apps. [...]
Continue reading...Sunday Soapbox: Pop-Up Edition
Sunday, August 15, 2010
How many pop-ups is too many pop-ups? Shouldn’t there be a more reasonable cap on pop-up notifications, so players can get busy playing (and spending money, for that matter)? Log-in interruptions are particularly bothersome in my opinion, but some games are offering smoother entry these days, so I’ll just assume that’s been noted and move [...]
Continue reading...Rixty Offering Free Facebook Credits Promotion at Coinstar
Monday, August 9, 2010
Here’s a back-to-school deal to get your virtual good on – free Facebook Credits anyone? Today (August 9) through September 7, TriplePoint client Rixty is teaming up with Coinstar to give 10 free Facebook Credits to new users who convert their coins into Rixty credits, redeemable in a variety of online games and apps. Rixty [...]
Continue reading...Rixty Coin Redemption Goes Beyond Games with Embee Mobile Credits
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Rixty (a TriplePoint client) today announced a partnership with Embee Mobile to expand its redemption options to include mobile top up credits. Rixty already allows users to exchange their spare change at over 20,000 locations nationwide (including over 10,000 Coinstar kiosks) for pre-paid Rixty cards or RixtyCode, and use the credit online for virtual purchases [...]
Continue reading...Free Facebook Credits from PayNearMe: Buy Virtual Goods with Cash
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
PayNearMe is the newest kid on the block in virtual payments, and making friends fast by offering free Facebook credits for a limited time. From the makers of Kwedit (another alternate virtual payment provider), PayNearMe lets you buy things online and pay with cash (at your neighborhood 7-Eleven store). To celebrate the new service (and [...]
Continue reading...What Zynga’s Game Closures Say about the Social Gaming Market
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The recent hard times for the social gaming market have been harder on some games than others, as reported by Games.com. Last week, social-gaming mega-publisher Zynga decided to shut down two well-established parts of its catalog. First, the servers for Roller Coaster Kingdom (RCK) were shut off, then Ponzi Inc., a promising game Zynga got [...]
Continue reading...Social Game Currency Crowdsources Payments: Real Work, Fake Money
Monday, June 21, 2010
Social game players are used to doing virtual work (i.e. harvesting fake crops) for virtual money (i.e. Farmville cash). But that concept has taken a strange twist recently: players exchanging real work for virtual cash. The fake-money-for-real-work idea is becoming increasingly popular, according to a recent San Francisco Chronicle profile on crowdsourcing company Crowdflower. The [...]
Continue reading...Virtual Goods Sales Trend Continues Upward Slope
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Virtual goods sales are continuing to rise steadily, if a recent research firm report is to be believed. First reported by CNet, the data by research firm Magid and Associates show the following: 13 percent of consumers that have Internet access have purchased virtual goods in the past 12 months, and 21 percent of these [...]
Continue reading...Zynga Games Charity Donations Reach $3 Million
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Three months ago, players of Zynga’s social games raised $1.5 million for Haiti aid. Now, over the course of two five day events, Mafia Wars and Fishville players have raised $130,000 for Water.org and the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA). As reported by Mashable, Fishville players bought 70,000 limited edition virtual fish for the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday Soapbox: Hungry for More Challenge and Chance in Social Games
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Now that I’ve rambled off a lengthy list of reasons why people play social games, I think its fair to say that Facebook game developers are doing a lot of things right. Now can they change their click-only interfaces to feed players who are hungry for more? People will click as many times as they [...]
Continue reading...Social Gold Announces Partnership With Lolapps
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
TriplePoint client Social Gold, a leader in the world of virtual goods monetization, expanded its reach today by announcing a partnership with social game developer Lolapps. Lolapps has a massive community of over 40 million monthly active players, spread across an equally impressive list of games, like Diva Life and Band of Heroes. “Social Gold [...]
Continue reading...Frisky FarmVille Photo Grab Contest: Enter to Win Free Farm Cash!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Hiya farmers. Ready to win some free Farm Cash? Thought so! Here’s how: Send us your FarmVille photos (or post them to our Facebook wall) to enter your farm in the Frisky Photo Grab Contest. You have until 12 midnight PDT this Thursday (4/1) to submit your FarmVille photos by one of the following methods: [...]
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