[DISC] Sock and Awe

[Wattz]

On the front page of Yahoo!, reported 21 MILLION views in about a day's time...

Biggest flash game, ever? If he had Mochiads how much revenue do you think he'd have by now?

Are current-events games a viable market?

[Sietjp]

The same guy made the milliondollarhomepage, that's also why he made the yahoo and msn front page. I've never seen a flash game on yahoo or msn front page before. The game is technically very poor but it's straight to the goal, powered by a brilliant idea (the hit counter ).

[MikeMD]

I think that's: "Bush's been hit 21 000 000 times" , not 21 000 000 views,

Probably not even close if you consider that each play could average 10-20 hits. And to answer your question, with Mochi ads he probably wouldn't have made even a $1000 so far.

I don't think you can expect to get much money from current-event quickie games, but they could help attract players who would come back to play other games ( providing you had some ).
And an opportunity like this one doesn't come very often.

[tonypa]

sockandawe.com is filled with ads, I am sure they are making nice amount of cash with it.

[Sietjp]

Oh yes, yesterday, there were no ads. The site was on sale on ebay and it has been won by fubra.com. They have added a lot of ads. They bought the site for about 8000$

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technolog...k_and_awe.html


According to this ( http://www.fubra.com/blog/2008/12/hi...r-shoes-do-it/ ) the site makes several millions visitors a day (1 million = 1000$ in ads clicks), I think 8000$ is a very good price. I don't know why big game portals didn't try to win this.