From In-Game Advertising to In-Game Selling: The Next Big Thing?
While In-Game Advertising is growing to $2 billion in 2012, In-Game Selling has all the ingredients to become the next big business model innovation in the gaming industry. Our analysis of the business model behind in-game advertising discussed how game publishers sell the ‘attention’ of their audience to advertisers. The next step now is to go from ‘attention’ to ‘buying’, or from in-game advertising to in-game selling:
- In-Game Advertising: gamers will see in-game references to a Pizza fast food chain, but still need to pick up the phone or surf to the website in order to order pizza delivery.
- In-Game Selling: there is a Pizza delivery icon, shortcut or location in the game environment, where you can order a pizza just by a click of the button. Example: While playing EverQuest II just type /pizza and a web browser will launch the online ordering section of pizzahut.com. Fill in your info and just kick back until fresh pizza is delivered straight to your door. Domino’s Pizza announced similar ambitions.
In-Game Selling business model
Where previously the game was just a standard product or experience, it is upgraded with a sales channel for other products and services (f.e. pizza delivery). The game actually offers a platform to bring together buyer and sellers, and brings benefits to both, which we know as a brokerage service. Similar to other brokers, game publishers can charge a listing fee to the seller, and/or a commission per transaction. The generic principle here is very valuable: could your existing product or service offer a channel to facilitate specific buy/sell transactions? Which goods or services are your users interested in? Which sellers are interested in your users?
In-Game Selling is a specific example. Any suggestions for a good generic name for this new business model? In-Product Selling, Free+Reseller = Freeseller, In-App Commerce…?
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Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so!
Thanks for the infos! Your post actually helped me.
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