Zynga execs (left to right): Frank Gibeau, Matt
Zynga execs (left to right): Frank Gibeau, Matt Bromberg, Ger Griffin, and Bernard Kim.
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Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau interview — Bouncing back to fast growth

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau has been doing some victory laps in recent quarterly earnings calls. The maker of social mobile games like FarmVille, Merge Dragons, and Empires & Puzzles is back to strong growth.

For the third quarter ended September 30, Zynga reported its highest quarterly revenue and bookings in history ($345 million and $395 million, respectively), with mobile revenue up 54% from a year ago and mobile bookings up 64%. Profits took a small dip, but that was because Zynga had to pay out bigger bonuses to its acquired companies — Small Giant Games and Gram Games — because they hit their incentive targets for growth.

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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.