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For you tl:dr types, here is the epiphany:

“One of things that I realized is that with traditional advertising, like when you see something like Mad Men or when you see Ogilvy — the geniuses of the ad space — it was all experience, it was all about emotion. It was never about, ‘Hey how can I reach you in real time and blast you with messages.'”

One of the ways Kiip makes this core insight real is not to slam a gamer with broadcast ads in-game, but to make the ads a reward. A coupon for Pepsi as a reward for defeating the boss, for example.

The firm (kiip.me) builds the tools so that developers can design that sort of advertising into their products.



Man, way to cheapen your emotional experience. I was never a fan of achievement anyway, too often it cheapens the experience of playing the game.

Microsoft should just make achievement points a virtual currency that you can buy coupons with.




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