Virtual Goods Forum Announces Additional Speakers

Osney Media, the leading UK company specialising in organising interactive, discussion-based events specifically aimed at high level strategists, today announced additional speakers for the Virtual Goods Forum, June 23-24, 2010. Sulake, WeeWorld, Social Gold, Playfish, kickflip, Scoreloop, Offerpal, Adknowledge and Viximo have all signed on to present at the Forum. Additionally, the Spanish Embassy Economic & Commercial Office (ICEX) will be bringing along a number of Spanish companies in the se...

Sponsorpay and CJ extend existing cooperation globally

Commission Junction and SponsorPay extend their cooperation on a broad international basis: The leading global affiliate network and the leading virtual currency platform in Europe from now on work together in more than 30 countries in the EU, North and South America. The extremely strong position of Commission Junction in the USA further strengthens the US position of SponsorPay. Commission Junction and SponsorPay focus on providing the highest payout for SponsorPay’s clients by combining t...

Interview with the CEO of Sponsorpay

The CEO @ Sponsorpay: Andreas Bodczek - Hi Andreas, Can you tell us something about the function you currently have at SponsorPay? What does your typical day at work look like? As SponsorPay's CEO I am in charge of the overall development of the company. I am also heading the account management team and keep an eye on our financials. On a typical day I get in early, work through my inbox and check the stats from the previous day. After that I will sit down with the product & accoun...

Play now, Pay later with Kwedit

Kwedit, a provider of alternative payment systems, recently announced the launch of Kwedit Direct and Kwedit Promise, two new services for the tens of millions of consumers who have been unable to purchase digital content or virtual goods because they lack credit or debit cards or would prefer to pay with cash. Kwedit Promise enables consumers to receive goods immediately in exchange for Promises to “Play Now. Pay Later.” Kwedit Promises can be paid off using any of the mechanisms provided b...

Inside Social Apps 2010 brings together today’s leading developers

On April 20th in San Francisco, Inside Social Apps is bringing together the world’s leading entrepreneurs all in one place to discuss the future of social applications and games monetizing through virtual goods. Justin Smith, founder and editor of the Inside Network, is hosting the event. Here's a list of confirmed speakers: * Atul Bagga, VP Equity Research, Games, ThinkEquity * Adam Caplan, VP Virtual Currency, Super Rewards / Adknowledge * Renata Dionello, Chief of Staff to ...

Offerpal partners with Amazon to Launch Offerpal Tasks

Today, Offerpal launches Offerpal Tasks, where social gamers can earn virtual currency without paying for it. Instead, they can choose from around 100,000 simple online tasks to complete via Amazon Mechanical Turk for virtual currencies in their favorite games. Indirect payments, such as Offerpal Tasks, are playing a larger role in the growth of virtual currency. It’s been estimated that between 30-50% of virtual currency payments in social gaming come from indirect methods. Sample tasks ...

SponsorPay Acquires GratisPay, becomes Europe’s biggest Virtual Currency Platform

SponsorPay, an European virtual currency monetization platform, has acquired its competitor GratisPay. Together the two platforms already serve the majority of Europe’s top 10 publishers of online games, such as Gameforge, Bigpoint and Frogster as well as publishers of Facebook apps and social games like Cafe.com, Feerik and Megazebra. SponsorPay is located in Berlin, Germany and offers fully localized monetization for more than 30 countries, reaching over 40 million active users in Europe a...

gWallet launches fund to invest up to 1M per Social Game Developer

We just received news that gWallet, a fairly new virtual currency provider launched late 2009, has started an early-stage fund to invest in Social Gaming Developers. According to the press release, gWallet will invest from $100,000 to $1 million per company in exchange for a minority stake in these companies. By doing this, gWallet hopes to attract the smaller players in the field, social game developers that "have not received the attention they deserve". According to CEO and founder of gWallet...

Sometrics adds Aeria Games, Challenge Games, and IMVU as clients; combined reach more than 50M users.

Virtual Currency Platform Sometrics today announced that they can count 3 new big clients to their portfolio: Aeria Games, Challenge Games, and IMVU. Combined this gives Sometrics the ability to help monetize over 50M users currently playing any of their games and virtual worlds. Previously know as just a Social Ad Analytics company, Sometrics moved on and launched their own virtual currency manager in 2009, providing Rich Media Offers, Distinctive Reporting and Cross Platform support to publish...

Interview with the Chief Product Officer at Trialpay

The Chief Product Officer @ Trialpay: Terry Angelos - Hi Terry, Can you tell us something about the function you currently have at TrialPay? What does your typical day at work look like? As the Chief Product Officer, I oversee TrialPay’s e-commerce platform including our social monetization platform and virtual currency solutions. Along with a fantastic product and engineering team, I help to develop our most innovative and disruptive ideas - many of them originating from our publisher and...