UK-based in-game advertising platform Giftgaming successfully completed its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. This additional funding round comes a little over two years after the company secured £35,000 through its first initiative.
Giftgaming is described as a patent-pending in-game ad service and startup supported by Accelerate Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School. Here’s how it works, brands give powerups, extra lives, etc. (with coupons) to players and the startup delivers them as surprise gifts to users. The platform notes that players receive an in-game gift containing a free currency or a power-up in exchange for viewing a banner or interstitial ad. It also revealed that unlike its competitors it is less intrusive as it takes less time out of gameplay to 3 seconds versus 30 seconds and monetizes more players as it has a very high engagement rate of up to 95%. It also stated it believes it has potential to improve loyalty, spending, and reviews through gift psychology.
Founder and CEO of Giftgaming, Nicholas Hatter, previously stated:
“The fundamental limitation of competitors who do moment-based or achievement-based rewards is in their nature: they’re based on moments and can be too dependent on player skill. And given the average mobile gaming session is only 6.8 minutes, there’s a hard limit on the number of incentivized video ads a player can watch in one session. Giftgaming provides a non-intrusive revenue stream for game developers and publishers to make up for these flaws.”
Funds from the latest funding round will be used to expand Giftgaming’s platform.
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