http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html Media. Music. Business. Interwebz. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-2233 John Kohl Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:40:01 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-2233 Great article and total new perspective for me...I agree with the post regarding Bingo as well. I have a client that owns hundreds of bricks-and-mortar Bingo halls and I have been thinking about how social media can increase his market position. Does anybody know the demographics of online bingo users? Is it all 55+ ??? http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-2141 jason Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:46:04 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-2141 I am amazed at how many gam­bling web­sites have popped up in the last 3 years. http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-2081 pua Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:50:09 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-2081 I checked out Absolute Casino and it looks really slick. I'm bored of the facebook ones, they are limited. Going to try this one out thanks for the recommend. http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1131 Evee Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:07:38 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-1131 Haven't tried it. I might now. http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1120 Dan Nedelko Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:18:09 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-1120 @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. http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1118 David Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:43:36 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-1118 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. http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1106 Funny Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:34:58 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-1106 I am amazed at how many gambling websites have popped up in the last 3 years. http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1050 Gratis Gokkasten Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:09:07 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-1050 I also play often on Absolute Casino, its nice and smooth. but i think there alots more great casinos out there http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1036 Beth Charette Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:03:34 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-1036 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. http://dannedelko.com/features/absolute-casino-social-media-and-gaming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1005 Billy Kernow Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:21:54 +0000 http://dannedelko.com/?p=500#comment-1005 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.