Blog: micropayments

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Live services: Is the success of the few clouding the strategic judgement of the many?

Perry Gresham

19 May 2023

live services

EA

microtransactions

EA are heavily committed to the live service model, with their earnings release for financial year ending March 2023 putting their share of games revenues from full game purchases at just 26%, meaning...

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Has Blizzard’s mobile gamble paid off?

Perry Gresham

11 Aug 2022

mobile games

diablo

microtransactions

Blizzard was once perhaps the most loved game developer – with a devoted fanbase built on the back of iconic titles like Diablo and World of Warcraft. However, over the past few years there has been...

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Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Blockchain

Innovation

Media

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human...

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Libra and the Media: What Does Facebook’s Move into Cryptocurrency Mean for Content Monetisation?

Zach Fuller

20 Jun 2019

Blockchain

content monetisation

ethereum

Zuckbucks have landed, albeit by a different name. The simply named Libra (MIDiA is still holding out for Jeff’s Pesos being Amazon’s official coin) is Facebook’s first venture into the world of...

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Can the NBA Capture the ‘Cord-Nevers’?

Alistair Taylor

8 Mar 2019

Audience engagement

cable providers

Clippers CourtVision

NBA commissioner Adam Silver, speaking at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference in Boston last week, explained his vision of the league’s games, which will look “dramatically different” in five...

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Quick Take: EyeO Acquires Flattr

Zach Fuller

5 Apr 2017

Adblock Plus

adblocking

advertising

In what could be a turning point in content monetisation, the creators of Adblock Plus have announced today that they will be acquiring the micropayments company Flattr. What began as a partnership several...

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