Games, Consumers and Errr....Brands

Games, Consumers & Errrr… Brands Alok Kejriwal CEO and Co-Founder Games2win.com

Once upon a time, this was a game

And a game that had a Brand Sponsor!

This was the perfect ‘Adver-Game’

Games became friendlier, multiplayer…

Games developed manners and rules!

The ‘Social’ Context remained strong in all these games..

Then Games on the Internet arrived

And the audience exploded Global Internet Audience: 1.4 billion Source – comScore

Brands tried inserting themselves into games

And got lucky with 1 trick chickens..

Brand Games never made it to the list of top games… (as ranked by Venturebeat.com)

Why? Because Brands thought of GAMES as Ads They wanted Brand LOGOs to be big and shiny They wanted Games to be Brand messages They thought consumers were dumb “bots”

While this was happening, social online games exploded

The new gen of game creators boycotted Brands

And began behaving like Brands!

Games became a Business Zynga’s turnover (Rs. 6,000 crores) is higher than: Rs. 2,394 cr Rs. 4,514 cr Rs. 4,213 cr

Now, that’s dangerous, ‘coz Gaming is the new Entertainment 168,363 Number of Game Apps Out of 500,000+ total Apps on iTunes Store

Why Brands should pay attention Gaming is what young people do Gaming is the new connect Gaming is the new currency of engagement

Ask themselves: Do we play games? Do we understand what makes great games? What do we want to do with Games?

I believe: If you are a brand that sells soap, colas, cars, life insurance policies or chewing gum, then it’s not your job to know games.

Games WON’T Get your brand “recognition” or “recall” or any of those silly words they teach you. Create engagement (whatever that means in the context of brands and games)

Games WILL Make you reach a set of consumers quickly. Faster than any media available Help you UNDERSTAND what these consumers like and want, so that you, as a Brand owner can give them those things.

Use Games to reach, learn and talk with potential consumers instead of trying to sell them your plasticky brand message.

Now, if you are thinking, “Who is this guy? Why is he pretending to be Mr. Know All?”

Well… This is the guy who has spent 12 years building games. This is the guy who is always creating ‘coexistent peace treaties’ between games and brands.

Step 1 Flirt with media buys “around” games

Understand if there is affinity between your brand and the gaming audience

Step 2 Insert your Brand CLEVERLY into FUN GAMES Your brand

Step 3 Use Fun Games to sell your Brand

PLEASE Don’t try MAKING your Brand a Game.

Also, as a brand owner, don’t try this yourself. Instead: Hire a ‘Game’ agency!! (yeah, they exist – if you look around) Hire a Games Company to work for you.

Gaming is the biggest media opportunity ever 46,839,476,000 Minutes spent on online gaming comScore – Dec’11

As brand owners, DON’T BLOW IT!

Key Takeaways Games as a media opportunity is big. Very Big. Bigger than you can imagine. Games are NOT ADS. Games are BRANDS Take Games seriously and work with PARTNERS who tell YOU what to do rather than the other way around.

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