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Zynga CEO: ‘The most vibrant, largest, most social audiences on mobile are in messaging apps’

Zynga reported one of its strongest revenue quarters in years today as it hit $207 million in bookings, up 14 percent form a year ago. The drivers were growth in mobile games, improved live operations for existing games, and better operating expense efficiency. Earnings weren’t quite as good, but they beat Zynga’s own expectations, and the stock price is up in after-hours trading.

I talked with Frank Gibeau, CEO of Zynga, in an interview today about how things are going. The company has been through a lot of ups and downs, and its mobile revenue and user growth is finally starting to compensate for its continuous decline of Facebook desktop games.

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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.