Comments on: Absolute Casino — Social Media and Gaming

By: Evee

Evee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:07:38 +0000

Haven’t tried it. I might now.

By: Dan Nedelko

Dan Nedelko — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:18:09 +0000

@David I think the point of this post is about getting a bit more integration into Social Media through custom development of you own applications directly into the platforms. I would agree that conversion from free players to paying customers is a big stretch from a Zynga application. However the are numerous unique angles which would allow you to fully integrate a marketing strategy into an application that would convert when speaking to the correct audience. I think that fundamentally you’re trying to climb the difficult mountain of turning a free and casual gamer into a paying customer (basically turning one demographic into another) rather than trying to attract potential players into your marketing database.

By: David

David — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:43:36 +0000

I’ve tried converting players from Zynga etc. on the social sites and in my experience most are not interested. They are casual players and very happy just playing for play money on Facebook. We put together an ebook a while ago teaching people how to easily beat the Zynga game, and then promoted a couple of poker sites on the backend but conversions were very low. The only small results we did get were promoting freerolls, but again not really enough to warrant the effort IMO.

By: Funny

Funny — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:34:58 +0000

I am amazed at how many gambling websites have popped up in the last 3 years.

By: Gratis Gokkasten

Gratis Gokkasten — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:09:07 +0000

I also play often on Absolute Casino, its nice and smooth. but i think there alots more great casinos out there

By: Beth Charette

Beth Charette — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:03:34 +0000

Yes, speaking of slow payouts, that was what got my Uncle. He was able to bank his winnings before payout. As a result, the casino always lured him into another round and won back his old money before they actually had to pay him anything.

He never withdrew a dime, and spent tens of thousands (not a lot in their world) with them online.

One other Uncle who had a lot of problems with gambling ended up owing poker and gin “clubs” over $400,000. $300,000 at the FRIENDLY poker game which he attended for 20 years, and $100,000 for the gin club. He, of course, was playing with friends, including a famous movie star who finally asked my Uncle not to come back. He told my Uncle that it wasn’t any fun playing with him any more. Lucky for my Uncle he wasn’t in debt to the mob. As far as I know, at the time of his death, he still owed the gambling money, but his estate showed him to be so far in debt that naturally the poker and gin club tab will never be paid.

By: Billy Kernow

Billy Kernow — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:21:54 +0000

Interesting article Dan. The number of players on many of Facebook’s games have certainly seen a massive increase in recent months. I read recently that the Zynga poker app is drawing over 16 million unique users per month, and as you say the fact that it’s easy (no download, no signup etc) and highly social (inviting friends, competing with their friend’s scores certainly seems to have driven the numbers up. There also seem to be a lot of new apps being created as other people try to “jump on the band wagon” and take a slice of the pie — but while there’s a crossover, it’s certainly largely a different demographic as you say.

I can also vouch for bingo being on the rise, I’ve noticed quite an increase in interest on my own sites, possibly due to some of the big UK companies running TV ad campaigns in recent months.

By: furacoua

furacoua — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:00:15 +0000

I checked out Absolutely Casinos after reading this post, and I have to say that I like it. I didn´t think I was playing for social connections but you made me start thinking about it, and it´s true.

By: Dan Nedelko

Dan Nedelko — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:06:23 +0000

Absolute casino is introducing this initially as a free play casino but has the infrastructure in place to make it a real cash casino. Zynga provides free play games for social networks — it’s quite a bit different.

By: Jake Kahle

Jake Kahle — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:02:43 +0000

How is Absolute’s model different from Zynga’s poker games on Facebook?