Showing posts with label virtual goods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual goods. Show all posts
Monday, 13 September 2021

101 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs sold for $24m

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  "The popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection made a splash in the art world this month with its own Sotheby’s auction for a lot o...
Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Pokémon GO has generated an estimated $1.8bn in payments from players in 2 years

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"Released two years ago today, Niantic’s Pokémon GO became an overnight sensation. While the fervor has subsided in the 24 months since...
Tuesday, 5 December 2017

People have spent $1.3m buying virtual cats in the CryptoKitties game

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"Launched a few days ago, CryptoKitties is essentially like an digital version of Pokemon cards but based on the Ethereum blockchain. A...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Games account for an estimated 80% of the $10 billion app market value

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"Apps are big business, and the biggest app business is games.  In 2012, Flurry estimates revenue earned from apps will approach $10 bi...
Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Americans spent $2.3bn on virtual goods in 2011

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"Paying for all those virtual tractors and fences on "FarmVille" adds up. Spending on virtual goods in the U.S. rose 28% to $...
Friday, 25 November 2011

Online game Bigpoint generated revenues of over €2m in 4 days on sales of just one virtual item

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"German online games publisher and developer Bigpoint made over 2 million euros of revenue this month on a single in-game item purchase...
Wednesday, 26 January 2011

The Asia Pacific region account for 70% of the world's virtual goods sales, down from 81% in 2007

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"In 2007, the Asia/Pacific region accounted for more than 81% of the total worldwide virtual goods revenue. In 2010, North and South Am...
Monday, 22 November 2010

In 2009 more virtual roses were sold in the UK by Flirtomatic than real roses by Interflora

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"The currency has quickly found favour among the growing and increasingly engaged online gaming community – and not just inside Faceboo...
Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Snoop Dogg has earned over $200,000 from selling branded virtual goods in social networks

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"A case study that is part of a new report on the growth of virtual good sales estimates that Snoop Dogg has sold more than $200,000 of...
Friday, 23 July 2010

75% of American gamers have paid real-world money for virtual goods

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"July's report reveals that 75 percent of the respondents (a sample size of 2,221 respondents was polled) have used real-world mone...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010

World of Warcraft generated $2m in 4 hours from the sale of Celestial Steed 'pets' to players

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"If you haven’t been surfing through Bilzzard’s pet store in the past two days, you might have missed one of the new pets for WoW: Cele...
Friday, 4 June 2010

13% of American internet users bought virtual goods in the last 12 months

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"Research and consultancy firm, Frank N. Magid Associates, and PlaySpan, the global leader in monetization solutions for online games, ...
Thursday, 13 May 2010

Chinese internet and mobile company QQ saw total revenues increase by 68% Y-o-Y in Q1 2010

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"Highlights of the first quarter of 2010: - Total revenues were RMB4,226.1 million (USD619.1 million1), an increase of 14.6% over the f...
Monday, 29 March 2010

Approximately 60% of gamers say they have bought some sort of virtual good within a game

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"Free-to-play games, where you can play a game for free but are then encouraged to buy virtual goods such as weapons, have taken off. E...
Tuesday, 2 March 2010

FarmVille players exchanged 690m virtual Valentines gifts in February 2010

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"Game players can also exchange special virtual presents for the holiday -- in essence, small pictures of flowers or heart-shaped boxes...
Friday, 19 February 2010

Farmville sells 800,000 virtual tractors every day

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"FarmVille has nearly 81 million monthly uniques on Facebook, and [Gerd] Leonhard pointed to sales of 800,000 virtual tractors daily. ...
Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Farmville players exchanged 220m virtual Valentine's Day gifts in the first 18 hours of release

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"Valentine’s day is still a few days away, and Zynga and the rest of the Social Games developers will surely be announcing the massive ...
Monday, 15 February 2010

Zynga games make up 5 of the 10 most popular Facebook applications

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"Zynga games make up 5 of the ten most popular Facebook applications – Farmville has 79m monthly active users, Café World 30m, Texas Ho...
Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Players of Zynga's social games on Facebook have donated more than $1.5m to Haiti disaster relief in 5 days

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"Zynga’s gamers have donated more than $1.5 million in the past five days for Haitian earthquake relief. They did so by making donation...
Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Online game Moshi Monsters has 10 million registered users

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"The free-to-play online children's game Moshi Monsters from UK-based developer Mind Candy has notched up more than ten million reg...