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Zynga

How Google’s Investment In Zynga Helps

July 13, 2010

Share This post is written by Guest Author Byrne Hobart, a marketing consultant at NYC-based Blue Fountain Media. Blue Fountain Media helps clients with website design & development, online marketing, graphic & logo design and more. A few months ago, it would have been fair to treat Zynga as a partially-owned subsidiary of Facebook. The [...]

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Social Gaming Plunge Levels Off In june

June 28, 2010

Share The negative impact on social gaming providers from Faceboo’s changes in notifications and requests imposed in March finally seemed to have slowed in June, with total monthly active users (MAUs) of the top 10 game developers dropping by a little over 1% from May levels to 415mm in June month-to-date, after falling 9% in [...]

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David Kirkpatrick Video Interview – Author of “The Facebook Effect”

June 2, 2010

Share We had the opportunity to sit down with David Kirkpatrick, the author of “The Facebook Effect” for a 35 minute interview a few weeks ago.  The book’s subtitle, “The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World,” is about Facebook’ss history and massive global impact. David’s been writing about technology and the [...]

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Facebook Stops Updating Application Stats

May 24, 2010

Share For some unknown reason, Facebook has stopped updating application statistics, which means we can’t give or weekly Facebook/Zynga update regarding what games and developers are gaining or losing Monthly Active Users.  While this is problematic for SecondShares, it must be more more of an issue for the game developers that depend on Facebook to [...]

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The Most Popular People On Facebook Are….

May 21, 2010

Share Yet anther great new site recently launched recently called FanPagelist.com that highlights all the top Fan Pages in total, and by category (e.g. Actors, Athletes, Musicians…).  It’s great reviewing who’s Facebook  Fan Pages are hot ( Vin Diesel is the top actor, Lady Gaga is the top living musician, Michael Jackson the top Musician [...]

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Zynga and Facebook Announce Five Year Partnership

May 18, 2010

Share Zynga and Facebook announced a new five year agreement that will keep Zynga on the Facebook platform for the foreseeable future.  The deal comes on the heels of rampant speculation about Zynga abandoning the Facebook platform to avoid the 30% fees charged by Facebook when game players buy virtual goods with Facebook payments.  While [...]

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Zynga’s Losing Streak Continues

May 17, 2010

Share Zynga’s total Monthly Active Users (MAUs) declined last week for a third straight week, and the pace of MAU decline continued to accelerate, with a total decline of 5.9 million MAUs, or 2.4% of Zynga’s massive total user base, which now stands at 238 million.  The MAU loss grew from the previous week’s drop [...]

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User Loss Accelerates For Zynga

May 10, 2010

Share After losing 3.1mm Monthly Active Users (MAUs) across its vast Facebook gaming empire two week ago, Zynga’s MAU decline accelerated last week with the loss of 4.2mm more MAUs. While Treasure Isle continued its growth, the growth curve flattened significantly, adding 1.6mm MAUs last week after gaining an average of 6.6mm the previous three [...]

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Zynga and Facebook At War?

May 7, 2010

Share While Facebook and Zynga should be the best of friends, as their relationship has been massively mutually beneficial, business relationships are like marriages, unless each party is willing to give 70%, they don’t always work out.  In this case, Facebook has ratcheted down the different channels Zynga historically used to advertise freely to the [...]

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Tough Week For Zynga Could Get Worse

May 3, 2010

Share While Zynga’s Treasure Isle continued its ascent last week, adding over 4.2mm Monthly Active Users (MAUs)  to pass 25mm total, and become the 4th biggest game on the Facebook platform (passing Mafia Wars and Petville) every other major Zynga title lost MAUs for the week. Farmville had it largest weekly MAU decline, dropping 2.3mm [...]

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