In this episode of LevelUp, Guy Bar Sade, co-founder and CEO at Simpool, breaks down everything around building in-game economies. Guy offers tips to balance the game economy, how game teams should define their KPIs, and common mistakes he sees from game developer companies, and how to create a company culture based on data. Read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/how-to-balance-your-in-game-economy/

In this episode of LevelUp, Guy Bar Sade, co-founder and CEO at Simpool, breaks down everything around building in-game economies. Guy offers tips to balance the game economy, how game teams should define their KPIs, and common mistakes he sees from game developer companies, and how to create a company culture based on data. Read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/how-to-balance-your-in-game-economy/

In the third episode of LevelUp’s Growth Loop mini-series, ironSource’s VP Growth Yevgeny Peres walks us through Stage 2 of the Growth Loop: Monetization. Yevgeny explains to us that the Growth Loop is just as valuable for IAP-based games as ad-based games, best practices for setting up rewarded video and interstitials, and key metrics to keep track of and monetization tests to conduct. Read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/breaking-down-the-growth-loop-part-2/

Getting people to your app store page is just half the ASO battle. How do game marketers make sure they’re also setting up their app store page for conversion. Lexi Sydow, Senior Market Insights Manager at App Annie, sits down with Melissa to discuss everything app store optimization, including best practices, common mistakes game marketers make, and the difference between optimizing for discoverability and optimizing for conversion. Read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcast/understanding-discoverability-and-conversion-in-aso-for-games

In the second episode of LevelUp’s Growth Loop mini-series, ironSource’s VP Growth Yevgeny Peres walks us through Stage 1 of the Growth Loop: User Acquisition. Yevgeny argues why game developers should start the cycle with user acquisition as opposed to game monetization, offers best practices for maximizing key metrics like IPM, and shares how game development teams can increase production by improving the relationship between monetization and UA.

Skim the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/breaking-down-the-growth-loop-step-1-starting-with-ua

Benoit Vatere, CEO and Founder at Mammoth Media, joins ironSource's Melissa Zeloof on LevelUp to talk everything Gen Z. Who are they? What do they care about? How can game developers and brands appeal to them? And what sort of content do they love? Tune in to find out, or read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/creating-mobile-content-gen-z/

Benoit Vatere, CEO and Founder at Mammoth Media, joins ironSource's Melissa Zeloof on LevelUp to talk everything Gen Z. Who are they? What do they care about? How can game developers and brands appeal to them? And what sort of content do they love? Tune in to find out, or read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/creating-mobile-content-gen-z/

Adi Shalom, Ad Monetization Team Leader at Playtika, joins ironSource’s Melissa Zeloof to discuss all things monetization, including how his team is structured, their weekly habit for success, tips for optimizing the waterfall, and more. Read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/how-a-single-studio-monetizes-multiple-game-genres/

Adi Shalom, Ad Monetization Team Leader at Playtika, joins ironSource’s Melissa Zeloof to discuss all things monetization, including how his team is structured, their weekly habit for success, tips for optimizing the waterfall, and more. Read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/how-a-single-studio-monetizes-multiple-game-genres/

Live from Gamefest 2019 in the Negev Desert, Melissa chats with Chandra Macias Hill from Mobilityware, Fabian Hersen from Ketchapp, Brian Sapp from Jam City, and Jason Falcus from Kwalee to hear how each of their companies tackles monetization and marketing - is it one unit or separate? Does connecting the two actually scale activities? Read the edited highlights here: https://www.ironsrc.com/podcasts/merging-monetization-and-marketing-teams/