The trial is an extension of one the social giant has been doing for the past few months on Zynga's casual games site. The original iteration of the Zynga test has involved Facebook display ad units including Sponsored Stories being served on Zynga...
Facebook display ad units including Sponsored Stories are now being served on Zynga.com, the casual games site from the company behind popular Facebook gaming apps like Farmville, Inside Facebook reported.
Blogger, Twitter, and YouTube also garner significant audiences, as do Bebo and more niche social networking sites such as Ibibo, which is designed around online games, music sharing, and self-promotion.
However, these social network/browser based games should be called out for what they are - casual games. Nothing wrong with making money or casual games, but there is something wrong with pretending to be something you're not.
There are a wide variety of these -- ranging from the casual to the serious and innocent to adult themed -- but the most popular are the ones centered around the vampire games. Within a 'massive multiplayer game' like Second Life we may not...
Both Zynga and Playfish have created very casual time killing games that you can buy credits for and get special items. Smaller games developers can get I on the game too. From games to finding your car in the parking lot.
Facebook recently limited the way that games on their platform were able to go viral through the community and this caused slowdown in the market in 2010. Unlike U.S.consumers who are willing to spend upto $60 for a computer game, companies in...
Bing Games' SERP includes around 100 free "casual" games as well as video games, plus the aggregated content, i.e.gaming reviews, cheats and walkthroughs. As you might expect, the one-stop hub aggregates TV shows, movies, games and music.
MySpace to Offer Casual Games, Monetized Through In-House Sales, ClickZ Unfortunately, it is not an uncommon lament that is heard in the SEO community. Most companies know they need to do search engine optimization (SEO), thus they task one of...
MySpace to Offer Casual Games, Monetized Through In-House Sales, ClickZ Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines...
