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| Dec 20, 2012 | Mochi Media says 86 percent of Flash game developers are expanding into mobile (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s a no-brainer that mobile games are the hottest platform for indie developers. A survey from Flash game services firm Mochi Media r... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | Mochi Media says 86 percent of Flash game developers are expanding into mobile (exclusive) | It’s a no-brainer that mobile games are the hottest platform for indie developers. A survey from Flash game services firm Mochi Media reveals that 86 percent of Flash game developers are expanding to mobile platforms.
But 63 percent say tha... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Flash games are still generating strong traffic and revenue growth for developers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Flash game market is thriving. Developers have sprouted up around the world. They’re creating mobile games based on their Flash web... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Tictacti secures funding to take on Heyzap in game aggregation | A lot of companies would like to get on the flash games bandwagon but have no core competency to do it. Out of Israel is a new white label solution called Tictacti. The startup has also now raised a $500,000 round led by Kima Ventures and o... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Flash game developers flock to Android (survey) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Flash game developers, who are like the plankton in the food chain of the video game industry, are more and more interested in developi... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | Flash game developers flock to Android (survey) | Flash game developers, who are like the plankton in the food chain of the video game industry, are more and more interested in developing games for Google’s Android mobile operating system, according to a new Flash Game Market survey.
The s... |
| Dec 15, 2010 | Mochi Media Fund Spreads $400,000 Across 20 Online Game Developers | In March of this year, Mochi Media announced that it had established a $10 million game developer fund in partnership with Shanda Games, which had just acquired the company for $80 million.
The company tells us that it has invested about $4... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | MindJolt Partners With BIM To Bring Games To 900 Local News Sites | MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe earlier this year, has landed a big new parter: Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM).
That name probably doesn’t ring a bell, but BIM hel... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Mochi Media Launches $10 Million Investment Fund, Rolls Out Social Gaming Platform | Fresh off an $80 million acquisition by Shanda Games, Flash game advertising network and payments platform Mochi Media is launching a social gaming platform and a $10 million fund to invest in game developers.
Mochi Social allow developers ... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Mochi Media to socialize web-based Flash games | Mochi Media, which helps indie game creators monetize Flash games, is launching a platform today that makes it easy for Flash game developers to create, monetize and distribute social games.
Mochi Social will enable developers to build game... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Mochi Media to socialize web-based Flash games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mochi Media, which helps indie game creators monetize Flash games, is launching a platform today that makes it easy for Flash game deve... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | China’s Shanda Games buys Mochi Media for $80M | Chinese online game firm Shanda Games has purchased Flash game platform company Mochi Media for $80 million in cash and stock.
Shanda is one of the biggest online game publishers in China, with more than 70 online games in operation. Mochi ... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | China’s Shanda Games buys Mochi Media for $80M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chinese online game firm Shanda Games has purchased Flash game platform company Mochi Media for $80 million in cash and stock.
Shanda i... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million | Mochi Media, a Flash game advertising network and payments platform funded by Accel Partners and Shasta Ventures, has been acquired by Shanda Games for $60 million in cash and $20 million in equity. The company has raised $14 million over t... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Thousands of Flash game developers make more than $1,000 a month | Simple games based on Adobe’s Flash technology have multiplied like weeds in recent years, with an estimated 100,000 of them available on the web, mostly for free. But a significant number of Flash game developers have moved from amateurs t... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Thousands of Flash game developers make more than $1,000 a month | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Simple games based on Adobe’s Flash technology have multiplied like weeds in recent years, with an estimated 100,000 of them available ... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | HeyZap Helps Flash Games Go Viral With New API, Launches Analytics Too | Social gaming companies like Zynga and Playdom have proven that casual/social gaming can be an extremely lucrative business. But their success can’t be solely attributed to the quality of their games — they’re also finely tuned to maximize ... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | Nonoba's "Ning For Gaming Sites" To Power Indian Gaming Platform Zapak | Earlier this year, we wrote about Nonoba’s GameRise, a “Ning for Flash games” that lets anyone create a gaming website. India’ largest casual gaming platform, Zapak, is now using GameRise as a white-label solution to power the portals for i... |
| Sep 9, 2009 | Former Yahoo employee Eric Boyd sails to Microsoft | reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating
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Microsoft has hired yet another former Yahoo executive, this time Eric Boyd, who served as a vice president of platform engin... |
| Sep 8, 2009 | Confirmed: Ex-Yahoo To Run Microsoft Silicon Valley Ads Team Amid Exits From Mochi Media | Another day, another former Yahoo VP going to work for Microsoft. This time it’s Eric Boyd, a former VP of Engineering at Yahoo, who more recently held the same title at gaming startup Mochi Media. Boyd is leaving Mochi to run the Silicon V... |
| Aug 19, 2009 | Heyzap's Flash Payment Platform Now Gives Publishers A Cut Of The Action | Last June, Heyzap, the Y Combinator-funded startup that builds products around Flash gaming, launched a new micro-transaction platform for Flash that looked to offer developers a way to monetize their highly viral but difficult-to-monetize ... |
| Jul 21, 2009 | Can this save the Flash game market? Mochi Media launches virtual currency | Flash games on the web started out as a hobby. Now there are tens of thousands of them that, through advertising, are generating steady incomes for their creators. And today, Mochi Media is launching a virtual currency that could extract ev... |
| Jun 29, 2009 | Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi Media | Mochi Media, the fast growing Flash game advertising network and payments platform that we covered last week, is in the midst of an internal battle over the fate of the company.
The company is mulling over an acquisition offer that would gi... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Flash Gaming Payments Heat Up: Heyzap Launches Microtransaction Platform | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that offers an easily-embedded widget containing thousands of Flash games, is launching a major new product today that introduces the company to an entirely new source of revenue. Dubbed HeyZap Payments, the... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | Mochi Media Launching Payments Platform For Flash Games. Early Results Are Stunning | Mochi Media continues to quietly build out monetization and reporting tools for Flash game developers. In May we reported on the big growth in their ad network – over 100 million people a month now play games that include their ads. You can... |
| May 29, 2009 | Mochi Media Network Attracts Nearly 100 Million Online Gamers A Month (comScore) | Mochi Media, a well-financed San Francisco startup that operates a decentralized network of Flash-based online games and gaming websites and offers developers a way to distribute, monetize and get statistical information about their games, ... |
| May 27, 2009 | Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that’s looking to become a “YouTube For Flash Games“, has closed a seed funding round led by Union Square Ventures, with independent investors Naval Ravikant (Hitforge) and Joshua Schachter (delicious) also ... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | After brutal layoffs, game partnership could help revive hi5 | Hi5 took a hard hit today: It laid off around half of its 100-person staff after potential funding fell through. But its plan for a comeback — making money through virtual goods — is moving forward. The social network is announcing a partne... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Nonoba Enters The Flash Games Arena With GameRise, A "Ning For Gaming Sites" | We already had HeyZap, the “YouTube for Flash games” and Game Curry, a search engine for Flash games, so not that much of a surprise we now have a “Ning for Flash games” that lets anyone create a gaming website much like Marc Andreessen’s s... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Heyzap shows fast growth with its embeddable casual game widget | Heyzap announced a month ago that it was launching a widget that web sites could use to embed casual games on their sites. More than 3,000 web sites have installed the widget so far, with gamers playing about 5 million minutes a month with ... |
| Jan 15, 2009 | Heyzap Vies To Become A 'YouTube For Flash Games' | There are countless Flash games on the web, but weeding through them to find the one you’re looking for can be a challenge. Heyzap the first company out of Y Combinator‘s latest batch of startups, is looking to offer users a comprehensive d... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Mochi Media’s top 10 most popular Flash games of 2008 | Mochi Media is in a unique place to measure the popularity of Flash-based web games. That’s because it measures usage and inserts ads into the most popular games in its network of more than 75 million monthly game players. Based on Mochi Me... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Aydin Senkut on funding online video ventures | In search of a new paradigm
Speaking to NewTeeVee Live 2008 in the VC panel "Online Video Investment Trends", Aydin Senkut (legendary angel investor, and founder/president of Felicis Ventures) tells us that he looks for online vid... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Mochi Media Raises $10 Million For Flash Game Tools | Mochi Media, a company that helps developers monetize their Flash games, has closed a $10 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Shasta Ventures with additional funding from Accel Partners, a previous investor.
Mochi Media’s f... |
| Jun 5, 2008 | Social Gaming Pwns The Industry | This guest post is written by Jeremy Liew, a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on investments in gaming, internet and consumer enabling technology companies. Jeremy is co-producing the Social Gaming Summit ne... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Mochi Media launches game-plus-ad network for web publishers | Mochi Media, the San Francisco company that offers ads that run in online casual games, and analytics services that look at game performance, is coming out with a new service. It has packaged its ads and analytics services together with its... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Former Bolt.com Owner Launches Casual Gaming Ad Network, Gamers Media | Jay Gould, the former owner of a social network and video site called Bolt.com that was started in the nineties but shut down this past fall following bankruptcy at the hands of a Universal Music Group lawsuit, has launched a new advertisin... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | Mochi Media, an ad startup that helps to redefine casual gaming, growing strongly | Mochi Media is helping to define the future of casual gaming on the web — not through new games, but by showing how games can be monetized and distributed across the Web. The company says it’s seeing 30 percent growth a month, and just toda... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Mochi Media Gaia Contest, And A Quick Q&A | San Francisco based Mochi Media is a company we first wrote about in November 2006 and more recently in October as they release their 2.0 platform. The company offers flash based embedded advertising for some of the biggest games in the fas... |
| Nov 20, 2007 | Meebo aims big, introduces games | updated
Meebo, the online instant messaging company, has been picking up users at a rapid rate, breezing along with high-profile backing by VC firm Sequoia Capital.
But its move today to deliver games on its platform is its most ambitious m... |
| Oct 16, 2007 | Mochi Media Moves Out Of Closed Beta | Mochi Media has announced the launch of MochiAds 2.0, a self-service advertising marketplace for game developers looking to monetize and share their creations.
MochiAds has to date been in invitation-only beta, with 1,000 game developers pa... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Accel invests in Mochi Media, casual game ad network | Accel Partners has invested an undisclosed amount into Mochi Media, a San Francisco-based gaming ad network (focused on casual games) and flash analytics company co-founded by Jameson Hsu and Bob Ippolito, according to GigaOm.
Accel’s Ping ... |
| Jul 12, 2007 | IGA raises $25 million to capture future in-game ad market | IGA Worldwide, a New York-based provider of advertising that appears within video games, has raised $25 million from a collection of venture capital, private equity and large media firms.
The potential market for in-game advertising is big,... |
| Nov 20, 2006 | MochiMedia Introduces Ad Network for Flash Games | MochiMedia, makers of a popular Flash stats tracking service called MochiBot, are now working on an ad network for Flash games. It’s hard work reviewing anything that has to do with Flash games, but after some time I have concluded that the... |
