In just four months, mobile social platform KTplay has proven its worth in China. The company is announcing today that it has enabled 60 million mobile game installations in four months, driving significant increases in revenue and user activity in more than 50 Chinese mobile games.
Spencer Liu of KTplay
Spencer Liu, chief product officer at KTplay, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the new social network is geared to the needs of game publishers, helping them engage their users and turning them into ambassadors for games. Besides creating a social network that works across a bunch of games, KTplay also provides a game publisher with an instant in-game community and a platform for live operations.
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