Social gaming pioneer Blake Commagere has created MediaSpike to enable large-scale product placement in social games. That could generate an alternative source of revenue at a time when social gaming growth is flattening.
Flurry generated more than 100 million video views in August for its video ad network service. And those ads are proving to be effective at getting users to install new apps.
Amazon has a new game platform in the Kindle Fire and it is getting an endorsement today from the biggest game publisher, Activision Blizzard. Skylanders Cloud Patrol will be on the new tablet.
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