In this episode esport item of Chris Reed, of The Level Up Experience, with "Reed Thinks", Joakim Achren, of Elite Game Developers, with his highlights of gaming industry and two companies to watch. Niklas send me a deck of GameBuddy and Kim of Aftermath. And I found this via Borja; HYPE Virtual Accelerator Focused on Fundraising & COVID19 new gameplan. HYPE Sports Innovation has built the largest global ecosystem in sports innovation. With over 40,000 members, including retail brands,...

In Episode 17, 2 days later then normal, I am cleaning up my inbox. And I had two companies in mind to should be on your companies to watch list; Javier Rayón of Dream of Darkness and Yuval Koren of Pikoya. Furtheron, Cris Reed is talking about esports and his thoughts. It is a funny episode today but also an eye opener. And a shout out to Oscar Clark, congrats on the funding; Fundamentally Games raises seed round to help developers create live ops games. And as of this sunday Joakim of...

In this episode I get to talk to Oliver Kern of Target Gamers. We talk about user acquisition in general, but also about how to adjust your user acquisition in games during this Covid-19 period and after the virus. Can and will consumer, read gamers, still be able to spend as much as before. How can you predict LTV, lifetime value? What can we expect today and later this year from other metrixs like retention, cost per install, CPM/advertising for your game and in your game. I belief this is...

People that worked with me on this episode; Doki Tops of Utomik.com and Cris Reed of The Level Up Experience. Quick word; The games industry is doing realy well during this lockdown. All good, but lets make sure that we, as an industry, will also look after people that are being hurt, financially, physically and emotionally. It is our audience(s) that is under pressure by COVID-19, the corona virus. Let's make sure we also do our part to make the world healty and secure again! Interview...

In this episode I am asking a few questions besides my take on what might happen in the games industry! I am inviting you to come and brainstorm. Let other people know, that I am trying to get something going here, where we, as a gaming industry, compare notes/thoughts/ideas. What can we expect from ourselves, the consumer and more. Check the question below and give me your input in the comments. 1. Are we going to see more revenues in second part of 2020; 2. Or will this decline when...

A quick overview of the latest game-news. One interesting thing. Appsflyers is predicting increase for 2022 in user acquisition. My question is; In the light of the corona virus, can you seriously predict this? My usual sources are; https://www.pocketgamer.biz/, https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ and https://venturebeat.com/category/games/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gameconsultant/message

In this episode 12 I have Jacob Riis and Teddy Florea. Jacob is the organiser, CCO, and Host, Nordic Game Conference + Nordic Game Discovery Contest at Nordic Game Resources AB. Teddy is Director of Business Development at Nordic Game Resources AB. They explain me everything you need to know about Nordic Game. Fun interview it was. Finaly it is here! Cris Reed made his first esports item, which is a weekly item; Reed Thinks! Cris is a Esports Tech Startup Advisor, investor, Content Creator...

I did interview Oscar Clark, who didnt want to tell me his age! In a way he did. The whole interview you can listen here. It was a magical an hour. I just couldnt stop him and that is the format! Get industry people to talk, explain, share their vision, war stories, the do’s & don’t’s and more. So some topics that we touched; Who is Oscar and what is he doing? He is mentioning a new company, but cannot reveal yet the details, but something he is! Which events should we attend? Why...

Oscar Clark is consultant specializing in project-based Executive Production. A pioneer in social games services since 1998, he was Vision Lead for British Telecom's Wireplay, one of the first online games communities, Global Lead for Digital Games at Hutchison Whampoa (3UK) and Home Architect for PlayStation®Home. He has an obsession with understanding the juxtaposition of game design, monetisation and social engagement and how to apply that to give games projects the best chance in the...

Besides the news of https://www.pocketgamer.biz/, https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ and https://venturebeat.com/category/games/, also attention to "Xsolla Launches Game Developers Carnival, a Virtual Industry Event to Benefit GDC Postponement" of Justin Berenbaum.  Chris Reed will do an esports item every episode as per next week. He is doing a quick intro. First interview is with Professor Odile Limpach teaches economics and entrepreneurship at the Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln Technical...

An HONOR! Talking to Dean Takahashi of Gamesbeat. Some of my questions; Who is Dean Are you a gamer Why and how did you start writing about games What was your most read article How many years are you doing this and how many articles do you think you wrote How are you looking at the games space, what are you expectations for 2020 GDC no go, what do you think of online events? And secondly what will be a possible effect of these cancellations? What makes a good game...

I spoke with Michael Liebe, who is organizing GamesWeekBerlin. He reached out and we discussed the topic of game conferences these days and the corona virus. How is it to be in his position? How is the gaming industry responding? What are other options, online conferences, VR and much more. Who is Michael, introduce yourself You organize GamesWeekBerlin, tell something more about it Current status; Corona Corona, what is your take? What do you think of online conferences, they pop up a...

Game Consultant Podcast, Episode 8 with Corona hits gaming industry, LATAM and Gaming, Games For Change, Beat the Intro and more! In Episode 8 of Game Consultant some very interesting topics, besides the lastest game news. - Margaret of Games for Change Accelerator is explaining what this Accelerator is doing, what are they looking for and how they operate - Carlos did dive into Latin America for us. Which gaming companies, IP’s, demographics and much more - Start up in Games; Musicplode...

In Episode 8 of Game Consultant some very interesting topics, besides the lastest game news. Epic cancels Unreal Fest Europe Following its withdrawal from GDC 2020, engine provider scraps its own event due to "uncertainty around health concerns and travel" GamesFirst London 2020 and Google I/O cancelled Organizers pull plug on events citing novel coronavirus concerns Tilting Point buys Star Trek Timelines from Disruptor Beam Key team members will join Tilting Point to operate Timelines...

Episode 7 of PodCastGameConsultant.com is live! - From "Getting kicked out of your student appartment" to getting acquired by Ubisoft. Daniel Stammler tells about it. - Gaming in Israel is hot. A conference you should visit is GameISconf.com to get to know the gaming people of Israel. Guy Ben-Dov tells me all about it. - Meet&Greet Events online during (delayed) GDC; Dirk Schmitt, Fedor van Herpen and Jay Powell are organizing events. Reach out to them to find out more. - #IEM...

Gaming Companies are cancelling; https://www.game-consultant.com/game-news/2020/02/28/how-has-the-coronavirus-impacted-the-mobile-games-industry/  But there is an event that takes place; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gaming-san-francisco-tickets-82196789811 Bizztech Gaming San Francisco Date And Time Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 9:30 AM – Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 4:00 PM PDT --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gameconsultant/message

The latest Game News; Roblox funding, GDC Corona virus Gaming in Israel, Guy Ben-Dov is giving us an update Start up life in Gaming; Daniel Stammler, CEO of Kolibri Games, acquired by Ubisoft Game Consultant; Jay Powell of the Powell Group consulting Companies to Watch; Utomik, Anzu and GoodGameStudios Check out other episode; http://podcastgameconsultant.com  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gameconsultant/message

In this episode, besides the latest game news, and again the status of GDC versus Corona virus; - Michael is going to explain what  Deconstructor of Fun. I am always reading their linkedin update. Super interesting. - Marc of Game Recruiter is explaining the world of recruitment, How to get the best people for your studio. Gaming companies to Watch; Shaun of Hutch Pascal of Big Karma Dayanidhi of Ncore Games Check out my other episodes of Game Consultant on...

In episode 6 we have a diversity of people. Main topic is Recruitment and Games Michael is going to explain what  Deconstructor of Fun. I am always reading their linkedin update. Super interesting. Marc of Game Recruiter is explaining the world of recruitment, How to get the best people for your studio. Gaming companies to Watch; Shaun of Hutch Games Pascal of Big Karma Dayanidhi of Ncore Games Check out my other Game Consultant episodes on http://podcastgameconsultant.com.  --- Send...

30 minutes of gaming update. Hope you will enjoy it. I want to thank the following people for assisting with answers to my questions; - Joakim Achrén Of Elite Game Developers, his podcast; https://podkite.link/HSBOaX1 - Tom Buscaglia, The Game Attorney - Rene Otto; Van Iersel Luchtman Attorneys - Chris Reed; Esports Start Up Advisor - Joshua Swerdlow; Growth Consultant - Dirk Schmitt; Workshop 'How to prepare a Games Conference':...

I do hope you enjoyed episode 4 of Game Consultant. In episode 5 on Saturday the following items; - Start up in Games, Joakim Achrén founded NextGames and now has a new start up “Elite Game Developers”. - Legal and Games, how boring, do you say? But so important, is my response. With Tom Buscaglia, I would say “THE” Game Attorney and Rene Otto of Van Iersel Luchtman Attorneys. - Esports! Some insights from Chris Reed. - BizTech is organizing a workshop ‘How to prepare a gaming...

Read more about the episode here; https://www.game-consultant.com/game-news/2020/02/08/podcast-game-consultant-episode-4-gdc-and-corona-virus-mobile-revenues-funding-and-marketing/ 

This weekend a brand new episode of Game Consultant.  I am going to talk about the growing revenues of mobile gaming. 2019 was, yet, another stellar year for mobile gaming revenues. Sensor Tower estimates show that worldwide spending in games grew 12.8% across the App Store and Google Play, from $54.7 billion in 2018 to $61.7 billion in 2019. Hold on to that! So quickly discussing; - Kolibri Game got acquired by Ubisoft - Funding; how difficult is it today? - Marketing; is it getting too...

Changed the format a bit, not just one topic per episode, but address things that I feel that are relevant for & about the gaming industry.  GameBizCon with Dirk Schmitt had a conference this week, a jury selected a top 10. Realy nice talking to people via video calls, but also the panels were realy great. Of course my panel was awesome, jokie-joke, but seriously all panels had great gaming people involved and they shared their vision, epxerience and thoughts. And you know, it was great...

Game-Consultant.com Podcast time; Why da heck are you going to game conferences?  My personal view what should be crucial for the gaming space when it comes to gaming conferences. Also a bit about myself, improve the podcast.