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The Most Successful Celebrity Ad Campaign in Mobile Gaming
Between April and August 2025, Royal Kingdom launched 20 ads featuring 14 different celebrities. The campaign draws from some of the most recognizable names in television, comedy, music, and sports from the late ’90s and early 2000s, tapping into...
How To Design Machines Without Reels
In Heart of Vegas’ Ball Drop Rock, players spin to drop 20 balls onto a Plinko-style board with prize buckets. To ensure gameplay feels familiar, the machine adapts traditional slots bonuses to the Plinko format, such as having buckets award prize...
How To Design Successful Sweepstakes
In Two Dots’ Paradise Prize Pot, players engage in four anniversary events to earn entries for a sweepstakes that awards an $11,000 cash prize, premium currency, and branded merchandise. The anniversary events encourage players to engage and spend...
How Bingo Voyage’s Economy Drives Players To Bet More
Bingo Voyage’s rounds have a -4.7% ROI and encourage players to spend faster by offering more types of rewards for higher bets. Rounds can always award tickets, chests, and coins (premium currency), but players must bet multiples to earn event...
Creating Streamlined Alternatives to Base Gameplay
Clash Royale’s Merge Tactics adds a full-scale auto-chess mode using cards from the app’s base game, complete with a league progression and IAPs. This mode simplifies several aspects of auto-chess gameplay, like in-match leveling and round formats,...
How To Cash in on Social Casino With Sweepstakes Promotion Apps (While Navigating Legal Challenges)
By classifying themselves as “sweepstakes,” social casino sweepstakes apps can incorporate extensive real-world reward systems. The core gameplay of social casino sweepstakes apps is nearly identical to that of traditional social casino apps:...
Brawl Stars Unveils a Brand New Type of Battle Pass
Brawl Stars' Pro Pass is the first battle pass we’ve seen that focuses on ranked PvP. The four-month $24.99 battle pass is specifically for ranked PvP competition. Because Brawl Stars has relatively high engagement requirements for ranked PvP,...
Monetization Panel on Apple’s New Rules & Top D2C Tactics
[PAST EVENT] This event has already ended, but the recording will be available to everyone on our YouTube channel soon. Subscribing members can also find the recording on our Impact Portal now. ———————————————— Join us for a Monetization Panel...
Built-In Competitions With High Stakes
In Bingo Frenzy’s Bingo Magic room, two players compete to fill a meter by daubing spaces and completing bingos. Only the winner earns tokens to advance the room’s main progression, which makes each round consequential. To heighten players’ sense...