Comments on: GratisPay Announces Samwer Brothers, Holtzbrinck Funding, Social Gaming Focus http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/10/08/gratispay-announces-samwer-brothers-holtzbrinck-funding-social-gaming-focus/ Tracking Innovation at the Convergence of Games and Social Platforms Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SponsorPay Buys European Offers Rival GratisPay http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/10/08/gratispay-announces-samwer-brothers-holtzbrinck-funding-social-gaming-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-12443 SponsorPay Buys European Offers Rival GratisPay Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:02:17 +0000 http://www.insidesocialgames.com/?p=7173#comment-12443 [...] Beckers, a cofounder and managing director at the company, is also a venture partner at the firm. GratisPay was backed by the well-known Samwer brothers, the founders or investors in many European startups (many of which intentionally mimick formative [...] [...] Beckers, a cofounder and managing director at the company, is also a venture partner at the firm. GratisPay was backed by the well-known Samwer brothers, the founders or investors in many European startups (many of which intentionally mimick formative [...]

]]> By: European Monetization Companies Invading the Facebook Platform http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/10/08/gratispay-announces-samwer-brothers-holtzbrinck-funding-social-gaming-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-8265 European Monetization Companies Invading the Facebook Platform Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:01:49 +0000 http://www.insidesocialgames.com/?p=7173#comment-8265 [...] GratisPay, also based in Germany, announced its focus on social games and funding from the venture arm of StudiVZ owner Holtzbrinck last week. [...] [...] GratisPay, also based in Germany, announced its focus on social games and funding from the venture arm of StudiVZ owner Holtzbrinck last week. [...]

]]> By: Tom http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/10/08/gratispay-announces-samwer-brothers-holtzbrinck-funding-social-gaming-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-8000 Tom Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:50:36 +0000 http://www.insidesocialgames.com/?p=7173#comment-8000 I actually believe the likes of GratisPay, OfferPal, etc. aim providers of social games heavily to monetize at the end of the day. (Direct) Payments on Facebook are still a big issue and a lot of social games such as gimigames (see http://apps.facebook.com/gimigames) use advertising offers to actually leverage the Facebook potential. Those "enabler" business models are always interesting to invest in! Tom I actually believe the likes of GratisPay, OfferPal, etc. aim providers of social games heavily to monetize at the end of the day. (Direct) Payments on Facebook are still a big issue and a lot of social games such as gimigames (see http://apps.facebook.com/gimigames) use advertising offers to actually leverage the Facebook potential.

Those “enabler” business models are always interesting to invest in!

Tom

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