Social Gaming, The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly.

Social Gaming: The Good, The Bad, And The Uğly 20% of the US population 68.7 million Americans has played a game on a will be playing social social network site. + games by 2012. Of these, 35% have never played any other kinds of video games. That's nearly the population of Iran. Top 10 Facebook Games Ordered by Millions of Monthly Active Users CityVille 90 One out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once. FarmVile 43 Texas HoldEm Poker 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are male. 35 Monster Galaxy | 14.6 FrontierVille |13.9 |13 Cafe World 29% 38% 56% 68% 41% 33% 11.9 play multiple times a day play with people they know play with RewardVie strangers 10.5 Bejeweled Bitz 10.5 78% of women earn virtual Empired & Allies 19.6 currency via promotions. N= game developed by Zynga DisNEp EA acquired Playdom for $763.2 million acquired Playfish for $400 million ELECTRONIC ARTS" US Social Gaming Revenues $74 90% of Zynga's revenue comes from virtual goods Millons of Dollars $792 average expenditure per user in North America over The Better Business Bureau has processed 436 complaints about Zynga in the last 36 months. $653 four months Zynga's perks rival Google's? $510 Zyoga tearned up with Lady Cagea on a series of promotions for her alburm Born This Way. $271 Employees singled out for quarterly awards get their choice between a "carload $248 $225 $260 $192 of vested stock" or a "weekend spin in a $200,000 Lamborghini." $120 Game engineers can send 2010 2011 2012 administrative assistants • Virtual Goods O Lead Generation Offers • Advertising to their homes to wait for visits from the handyman and company-paid acupuncture treatments. These included FarmVille, Words With Friends, andirewardVille. WORLD YOVille WARCRAFT Mafta Wars Pet adoptions in YoVille raised $90,000 for SF/SPCA during the spring of 2009. The Pandaren Monk pet in World of Warcraft generated $1.1 million in donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Teddy bear purchases Wars raised more than $100,000 for Coalition for the Cure in March 2010. Mafla When online, the average American spends more time on facebook than on Google, YAHOO!, You Tube, Microsoft, WIKIPÉDIA and amazon combined. 50% of facebook 1 in every 5 Facebook log-ins are purely to play games. users plays FarmVille. E FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the U.S. by a ratio of 80 to 1. Many real-life farmers actually play FarmVille themselves. Integraphik presented by SOURCES: http://larmville.wanderhowto.com/bloq/ahocking-tarmville-facts-0114622/ http://www.quadronetion.com/bleg/erchives/504 http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?metric select=mau http://socialmediaintluence.com/2010/08/24/more-are-playing-social- http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/ecial-aming-2011-study/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/social-gamesadvertising/ SingleGrain searche social http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/secial-gaming-survey htta://mashable.com/2010/O8/23/social-paming-stue/ Desiened by Samanthe Sanders Created by OBizMedia.com Social Gaming: The Good, The Bad, And The Uğly 20% of the US population 68.7 million Americans has played a game on a will be playing social social network site. + games by 2012. Of these, 35% have never played any other kinds of video games. That's nearly the population of Iran. Top 10 Facebook Games Ordered by Millions of Monthly Active Users CityVille 90 One out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once. FarmVile 43 Texas HoldEm Poker 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are male. 35 Monster Galaxy | 14.6 FrontierVille |13.9 |13 Cafe World 29% 38% 56% 68% 41% 33% 11.9 play multiple times a day play with people they know play with RewardVie strangers 10.5 Bejeweled Bitz 10.5 78% of women earn virtual Empired & Allies 19.6 currency via promotions. N= game developed by Zynga acquired Playdom for $763.2 million EA acquired Playfish for $400 million ELECTRONIC ARTS" US Social Gaming Revenues $74 90% of Zynga's revenue comes from virtual goods Millons of Dollars $792 average expenditure per user in North America over The Better Business Bureau has processed 436 complaints about Zynga in the last 36 months. $653 four months Zynga's perks rival Google's? $510 Zyoga tearned up with Lady Cagea on a series of promotions for her alburm Born This Way. $271 Employees singled out for quarterly awards get their choice between a "carload $248 $225 $260 $192 of vested stock" or a "weekend spin in a $200,000 Lamborghini." $120 Game engineers can send 2010 2011 2012 administrative assistants • Virtual Goods O Lead Generation Offers • Advertising to their homes to wait for visits from the handyman and company-paid acupuncture treatments. These included FarmVille, Words With Friends, andirewardVille. WORLD YOVille WARCRAFT Mafta Wars Pet adoptions in YoVille raised $90,000 for SF/SPCA during the spring of 2009. The Pandaren Monk pet in World of Warcraft generated $1.1 million in donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Teddy bear purchases Wars raised more than $100,000 for Coalition for the Cure in March 2010. Mafla When online, the average American spends more time on facebook than on Google, YAHOO!, You Tube, Microsoft, WIKIPÉDIA and amazon combined. 50% of facebook 1 in every 5 Facebook log-ins are purely to play games. users plays FarmVille. E FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the U.S. by a ratio of 80 to 1. Many real-life farmers actually play FarmVille themselves. Integraphik presented by SOURCES: http://larmville.wanderhowto.com/bloq/ahocking-tarmville-facts-0114622/ http://www.quadronetion.com/bleg/erchives/504 http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?metric select=mau http://socialmediaintluence.com/2010/08/24/more-are-playing-social- http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/ecial-aming-2011-study/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/social-gamesadvertising/ SingleGrain searche social http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/secial-gaming-survey htta://mashable.com/2010/O8/23/social-paming-stue/ Desiened by Samanthe Sanders Created by OBizMedia.com Social Gaming: The Good, The Bad, And The Uğly 20% of the US population 68.7 million Americans has played a game on a will be playing social social network site. + games by 2012. Of these, 35% have never played any other kinds of video games. That's nearly the population of Iran. Top 10 Facebook Games Ordered by Millions of Monthly Active Users CityVille 90 One out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once. FarmVile 43 Texas HoldEm Poker 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are male. 35 Monster Galaxy | 14.6 FrontierVille |13.9 |13 Cafe World 29% 38% 56% 68% 41% 33% 11.9 play multiple times a day play with people they know play with RewardVie strangers 10.5 Bejeweled Bitz 10.5 78% of women earn virtual Empired & Allies 19.6 currency via promotions. N= game developed by Zynga acquired Playdom for $763.2 million EA acquired Playfish for $400 million ELECTRONIC ARTS" US Social Gaming Revenues $74 90% of Zynga's revenue comes from virtual goods Millons of Dollars $792 average expenditure per user in North America over The Better Business Bureau has processed 436 complaints about Zynga in the last 36 months. $653 four months Zynga's perks rival Google's? $510 Zyoga tearned up with Lady Cagea on a series of promotions for her alburm Born This Way. $271 Employees singled out for quarterly awards get their choice between a "carload $248 $225 $260 $192 of vested stock" or a "weekend spin in a $200,000 Lamborghini." $120 Game engineers can send 2010 2011 2012 administrative assistants • Virtual Goods O Lead Generation Offers • Advertising to their homes to wait for visits from the handyman and company-paid acupuncture treatments. These included FarmVille, Words With Friends, andirewardVille. WORLD YOVille WARCRAFT Mafta Wars Pet adoptions in YoVille raised $90,000 for SF/SPCA during the spring of 2009. The Pandaren Monk pet in World of Warcraft generated $1.1 million in donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Teddy bear purchases Wars raised more than $100,000 for Coalition for the Cure in March 2010. Mafla When online, the average American spends more time on facebook than on Google, YAHOO!, You Tube, Microsoft, WIKIPÉDIA and amazon combined. 50% of facebook 1 in every 5 Facebook log-ins are purely to play games. users plays FarmVille. E FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the U.S. by a ratio of 80 to 1. Many real-life farmers actually play FarmVille themselves. Integraphik presented by SOURCES: http://larmville.wanderhowto.com/bloq/ahocking-tarmville-facts-0114622/ http://www.quadronetion.com/bleg/erchives/504 http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?metric select=mau http://socialmediaintluence.com/2010/08/24/more-are-playing-social- http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/ecial-aming-2011-study/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/social-gamesadvertising/ SingleGrain searche social http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/secial-gaming-survey htta://mashable.com/2010/O8/23/social-paming-stue/ Desiened by Samanthe Sanders Created by OBizMedia.com Social Gaming: The Good, The Bad, And The Uğly 20% of the US population 68.7 million Americans has played a game on a will be playing social social network site. + games by 2012. Of these, 35% have never played any other kinds of video games. That's nearly the population of Iran. Top 10 Facebook Games Ordered by Millions of Monthly Active Users CityVille 90 One out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once. FarmVile 43 Texas HoldEm Poker 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are male. 35 Monster Galaxy | 14.6 FrontierVille |13.9 |13 Cafe World 29% 38% 56% 68% 41% 33% 11.9 play multiple times a day play with people they know play with RewardVie strangers 10.5 Bejeweled Bitz 10.5 78% of women earn virtual Empired & Allies 19.6 currency via promotions. N= game developed by Zynga acquired Playdom for $763.2 million EA acquired Playfish for $400 million ELECTRONIC ARTS" US Social Gaming Revenues $74 90% of Zynga's revenue comes from virtual goods Millons of Dollars $792 average expenditure per user in North America over The Better Business Bureau has processed 436 complaints about Zynga in the last 36 months. $653 four months Zynga's perks rival Google's? $510 Zyoga tearned up with Lady Cagea on a series of promotions for her alburm Born This Way. $271 Employees singled out for quarterly awards get their choice between a "carload $248 $225 $260 $192 of vested stock" or a "weekend spin in a $200,000 Lamborghini." $120 Game engineers can send 2010 2011 2012 administrative assistants • Virtual Goods O Lead Generation Offers • Advertising to their homes to wait for visits from the handyman and company-paid acupuncture treatments. These included FarmVille, Words With Friends, andirewardVille. WORLD YOVille WARCRAFT Mafta Wars Pet adoptions in YoVille raised $90,000 for SF/SPCA during the spring of 2009. The Pandaren Monk pet in World of Warcraft generated $1.1 million in donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Teddy bear purchases Wars raised more than $100,000 for Coalition for the Cure in March 2010. Mafla When online, the average American spends more time on facebook than on Google, YAHOO!, You Tube, Microsoft, WIKIPÉDIA and amazon combined. 50% of facebook 1 in every 5 Facebook log-ins are purely to play games. users plays FarmVille. E FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the U.S. by a ratio of 80 to 1. Many real-life farmers actually play FarmVille themselves. Integraphik presented by SOURCES: http://larmville.wanderhowto.com/bloq/ahocking-tarmville-facts-0114622/ http://www.quadronetion.com/bleg/erchives/504 http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?metric select=mau http://socialmediaintluence.com/2010/08/24/more-are-playing-social- http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/ecial-aming-2011-study/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/social-gamesadvertising/ SingleGrain searche social http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/secial-gaming-survey htta://mashable.com/2010/O8/23/social-paming-stue/ Desiened by Samanthe Sanders Created by OBizMedia.com Social Gaming: The Good, The Bad, And The Uğly 20% of the US population 68.7 million Americans has played a game on a will be playing social social network site. + games by 2012. Of these, 35% have never played any other kinds of video games. That's nearly the population of Iran. Top 10 Facebook Games Ordered by Millions of Monthly Active Users CityVille 90 One out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once. FarmVile 43 Texas HoldEm Poker 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are male. 35 Monster Galaxy | 14.6 FrontierVille |13.9 |13 Cafe World 29% 38% 56% 68% 41% 33% 11.9 play multiple times a day play with people they know play with RewardVie strangers 10.5 Bejeweled Bitz 10.5 78% of women earn virtual Empired & Allies 19.6 currency via promotions. N= game developed by Zynga acquired Playdom for $763.2 million EA acquired Playfish for $400 million ELECTRONIC ARTS" US Social Gaming Revenues $74 90% of Zynga's revenue comes from virtual goods Millons of Dollars $792 average expenditure per user in North America over The Better Business Bureau has processed 436 complaints about Zynga in the last 36 months. $653 four months Zynga's perks rival Google's? $510 Zyoga tearned up with Lady Cagea on a series of promotions for her alburm Born This Way. $271 Employees singled out for quarterly awards get their choice between a "carload $248 $225 $260 $192 of vested stock" or a "weekend spin in a $200,000 Lamborghini." $120 Game engineers can send 2010 2011 2012 administrative assistants • Virtual Goods O Lead Generation Offers • Advertising to their homes to wait for visits from the handyman and company-paid acupuncture treatments. These included FarmVille, Words With Friends, andirewardVille. WORLD YOVille WARCRAFT Mafta Wars Pet adoptions in YoVille raised $90,000 for SF/SPCA during the spring of 2009. The Pandaren Monk pet in World of Warcraft generated $1.1 million in donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Teddy bear purchases Wars raised more than $100,000 for Coalition for the Cure in March 2010. Mafla When online, the average American spends more time on facebook than on Google, YAHOO!, You Tube, Microsoft, WIKIPÉDIA and amazon combined. 50% of facebook 1 in every 5 Facebook log-ins are purely to play games. users plays FarmVille. E FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the U.S. by a ratio of 80 to 1. Many real-life farmers actually play FarmVille themselves. Integraphik presented by SOURCES: http://larmville.wanderhowto.com/bloq/ahocking-tarmville-facts-0114622/ http://www.quadronetion.com/bleg/erchives/504 http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?metric select=mau http://socialmediaintluence.com/2010/08/24/more-are-playing-social- http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/ecial-aming-2011-study/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/social-gamesadvertising/ SingleGrain searche social http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/secial-gaming-survey htta://mashable.com/2010/O8/23/social-paming-stue/ Desiened by Samanthe Sanders Created by OBizMedia.com Social Gaming: The Good, The Bad, And The Uğly 20% of the US population 68.7 million Americans has played a game on a will be playing social social network site. + games by 2012. Of these, 35% have never played any other kinds of video games. That's nearly the population of Iran. Top 10 Facebook Games Ordered by Millions of Monthly Active Users CityVille 90 One out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once. FarmVile 43 Texas HoldEm Poker 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are male. 35 Monster Galaxy | 14.6 FrontierVille |13.9 |13 Cafe World 29% 38% 56% 68% 41% 33% 11.9 play multiple times a day play with people they know play with RewardVie strangers 10.5 Bejeweled Bitz 10.5 78% of women earn virtual Empired & Allies 19.6 currency via promotions. N= game developed by Zynga acquired Playdom for $763.2 million EA acquired Playfish for $400 million ELECTRONIC ARTS" US Social Gaming Revenues $74 90% of Zynga's revenue comes from virtual goods Millons of Dollars $792 average expenditure per user in North America over The Better Business Bureau has processed 436 complaints about Zynga in the last 36 months. $653 four months Zynga's perks rival Google's? $510 Zyoga tearned up with Lady Cagea on a series of promotions for her alburm Born This Way. $271 Employees singled out for quarterly awards get their choice between a "carload $248 $225 $260 $192 of vested stock" or a "weekend spin in a $200,000 Lamborghini." $120 Game engineers can send 2010 2011 2012 administrative assistants • Virtual Goods O Lead Generation Offers • Advertising to their homes to wait for visits from the handyman and company-paid acupuncture treatments. These included FarmVille, Words With Friends, andirewardVille. WORLD YOVille WARCRAFT Mafta Wars Pet adoptions in YoVille raised $90,000 for SF/SPCA during the spring of 2009. The Pandaren Monk pet in World of Warcraft generated $1.1 million in donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Teddy bear purchases Wars raised more than $100,000 for Coalition for the Cure in March 2010. Mafla When online, the average American spends more time on facebook than on Google, YAHOO!, You Tube, Microsoft, WIKIPÉDIA and amazon combined. 50% of facebook 1 in every 5 Facebook log-ins are purely to play games. users plays FarmVille. E FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the U.S. by a ratio of 80 to 1. Many real-life farmers actually play FarmVille themselves. Integraphik presented by SOURCES: http://larmville.wanderhowto.com/bloq/ahocking-tarmville-facts-0114622/ http://www.quadronetion.com/bleg/erchives/504 http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?metric select=mau http://socialmediaintluence.com/2010/08/24/more-are-playing-social- http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/ecial-aming-2011-study/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/social-gamesadvertising/ SingleGrain searche social http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/secial-gaming-survey htta://mashable.com/2010/O8/23/social-paming-stue/ Desiened by Samanthe Sanders Created by OBizMedia.com Social Gaming: The Good, The Bad, And The Uğly 20% of the US population 68.7 million Americans has played a game on a will be playing social social network site. + games by 2012. Of these, 35% have never played any other kinds of video games. That's nearly the population of Iran. Top 10 Facebook Games Ordered by Millions of Monthly Active Users CityVille 90 One out of every five Americans over the age of six has played an online social game at least once. FarmVile 43 Texas HoldEm Poker 55% of social gamers are female and 45% are male. 35 Monster Galaxy | 14.6 FrontierVille |13.9 |13 Cafe World 29% 38% 56% 68% 41% 33% 11.9 play multiple times a day play with people they know play with RewardVie strangers 10.5 Bejeweled Bitz 10.5 78% of women earn virtual Empired & Allies 19.6 currency via promotions. N= game developed by Zynga acquired Playdom for $763.2 million EA acquired Playfish for $400 million ELECTRONIC ARTS" US Social Gaming Revenues $74 90% of Zynga's revenue comes from virtual goods Millons of Dollars $792 average expenditure per user in North America over The Better Business Bureau has processed 436 complaints about Zynga in the last 36 months. $653 four months Zynga's perks rival Google's? $510 Zyoga tearned up with Lady Cagea on a series of promotions for her alburm Born This Way. $271 Employees singled out for quarterly awards get their choice between a "carload $248 $225 $260 $192 of vested stock" or a "weekend spin in a $200,000 Lamborghini." $120 Game engineers can send 2010 2011 2012 administrative assistants • Virtual Goods O Lead Generation Offers • Advertising to their homes to wait for visits from the handyman and company-paid acupuncture treatments. These included FarmVille, Words With Friends, andirewardVille. WORLD YOVille WARCRAFT Mafta Wars Pet adoptions in YoVille raised $90,000 for SF/SPCA during the spring of 2009. The Pandaren Monk pet in World of Warcraft generated $1.1 million in donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Teddy bear purchases Wars raised more than $100,000 for Coalition for the Cure in March 2010. Mafla When online, the average American spends more time on facebook than on Google, YAHOO!, You Tube, Microsoft, WIKIPÉDIA and amazon combined. 50% of facebook 1 in every 5 Facebook log-ins are purely to play games. users plays FarmVille. E FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the U.S. by a ratio of 80 to 1. Many real-life farmers actually play FarmVille themselves. Integraphik presented by SOURCES: http://larmville.wanderhowto.com/bloq/ahocking-tarmville-facts-0114622/ http://www.quadronetion.com/bleg/erchives/504 http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?metric select=mau http://socialmediaintluence.com/2010/08/24/more-are-playing-social- http://mashable.com/2011/01/12/ecial-aming-2011-study/ http://mashable.com/2010/12/05/social-gamesadvertising/ SingleGrain searche social http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/secial-gaming-survey htta://mashable.com/2010/O8/23/social-paming-stue/ Desiened by Samanthe Sanders Created by OBizMedia.com