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Games - Day 2: Beyond gaming to cross-entertainment partnerships

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Dara Jegede
Building on the discussions from Day 1, Day 2 looks at opportunities in cross-entertainment partnerships and in-game spending. In-game spending increased in 2020 as gaming’s cultural importance grew to become an ideal destination for young consumers to define and express their digital personas during a time of limited social interaction, highlighting the commercial opportunity for games companies to serve the image and sense of belonging needs of consumers via virtual goods and services in games environments and beyond.
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Altered Carbon: Tracking Fandom into the Future

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Hanna Kahlert
In the digital era, anything can generate metrics – to the point where no matter how good the numbers look, actual success can sometimes be unconnected. Logged ‘views’ of an advertisement don’t hold up to scrutiny when 29% of consumers “normally stop paying attention” when ads come on during a TV show, 31% “usually skip video ads online” and 11% block online ads on their desktop and/or laptop (source: MIDiA Research Main Consumer Survey Q1 2019).
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