Gaming's role in the marketing mix
Matt Willifer
nDreams
In-game branding offers immersive consumer engagement with viral and community-building opportunities, but there are few hard metrics or case studies to back your judgement
Gaming is increasingly mass-market, increasingly diverse, increasingly fascinating. There are different gaming types (casual games, apps, social games, virtual worlds, alternate reality), business models (free, freemium, paid, subscription, virtual objects), and platforms (console, PC, phone, handheld, real world). There are also a number of ways that a brand might be involved with games (over and above web advertising around a game.) The two key areas are in-game...