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澳大利亚人报:社交游戏将成为广告主未来广告展示载体

发布时间:2010-07-05 01:09:38 Tags:,,,

在近日的戛纳国际广告节上,社交游戏在全球用户覆盖面和用户关注度方面展示出了未来作为广告主广告展示的主要载体的实力来。

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Foursquare(和手机社交游戏应用mytown是一样的,因此在分析的时候一般会被当成超大型的手机社交游戏)首席执行官Naveen Selvadurai和facebook首席执行官Mark Zuckerberg在出席戛纳广告节时表示基于社交网络的相关公司将成为未来广告业务的新增长点。

就如Naveen Selvadurai所说的他们的网站和产品对于用户来讲是相当有趣的,并且有足够的实力吸引用户再度回到使用该产品的领域来。

据知名会计事务所PricewaterhouseCoopers普华永道的预测,在线游戏未来五年每年都将有21%的收益增长空间,而手机游戏则相应地也有12%的年增长速度。

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THE rise of social gaming emerged as a significant theme in advertising at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.

As social network companies continue to chase revenue streams, Naveen Selvadurai, the chief of Foursquare, and Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, were in Cannes and said that technology which could create new ties with advertisers would be the next big thing.

According to Selvadurai, who addressed the Ted@Cannes conference, establishing competitive activities on Foursquare’s social network, like going to the gym or calorie-counting between friends, can help modify human behaviour.

“At its core, Foursquare is a social utility, but the idea of the gameplay has been introduced on top of that,” Selvadurai says.

“It makes it fun, which keeps you coming back.

“We’re also trying to get you to do things that you wouldn’t do otherwise.”

The company, which at just 18 months has already begun to do advertising deals with big brands including Microsoft, CNN and Starbucks, is becoming more popular.

Its raison d’etre is based on people reporting their location to friends on their mobile phone.

Foursquare’s social gaming service has users amass points by going often to a particular location and, when advertisers are involved, they may qualify for discounted products or special offers.

“We have gym badges,” Selvadurai says. “It was really surprising — people found that motivated them to go to the gym more. We never expected that response to it.”

He says the fledgling service already has a couple of hundred thousand users in Australia and its first major advertiser is Microsoft, all without an official presence, although “Australia is not yet an early adopting market”.

That could change following the company’s recent move toput together its first marketing team, helping to expand the company from six staff in January to about 25.

Internally developed games and applications are also on Facebook’s horizon, according to co-founder Zuckerberg, who predicts an increase in social gaming on the website.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is predicting online gaming will grow at about 21 per cent each year for the next five years, with wireless gaming set to rise 12 per cent a year and console games by about 6 per cent.

Microsoft also announced a major advertising partnership between Kinect, Microsoft’s body-activated gaming system formerly known as Project Natal, and car brand Chevrolet.

Microsoft was demonstrating its Kinect technology at the festival in a bid to attract more advertisers wanting to reach young women, to whom Kinect is expected to appeal more than traditional controller-based gaming.

Unilever chief marketing officer Keith Weed says body-operated gaming will be revolutionary.

“That is game-changing technology,” says Weed, who also told the festival that Unilever planned to double its spend in the digital space this year.

“We’re having discussions with all the key partners (about advertising on Kinect),” he says.

One obstacle to the growth of online gaming has been a lack of independent reach data that allows it to be compared with other media.

A Microsoft spokesman says the company has recently done a deal with comScore designed to address that issue.


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