Ninja Metrics uses analytics to boost Springboard’s retail and ecommerce revenues

Ninja Metrics refined its ability to predict who would spend money in free-to-play games. And now it is turning that technology loose on a much bigger challenge: boosting the revenues of retailer and ecommerce vendors by properly analyzing the social value of shoppers.

Now that it has proven the predictive analytics in gaming, the Los Angeles company is rolling that technology out in a much bigger market in partnership with Springboard Retail, a cloud point-of-sale and retail management company that processes $200 million in sales in the U.S. That’s an important partnership because it could help Ninja Metrics’ technology spread far and wide among retailers, who stand to gain a lot of revenue from the technology.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.