Mobile gaming is very popular with 39% of smartphone users playing games at least once a week. Popular mobile games like Candy Crush Saga and Puzzles and Dragons generate millions of dollars per day. Gaming has also become a spectator sport with over 1 million concurrent viewers watching a DOTA 2 tournament last weekend. Console gaming is also experiencing a resurgence with the new PlayStation and Xbox consoles competing and popular new titles being released.

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6. Source: comScore Mobile Metrix, US, March 2013
One out of every five
minutes on mobile is spent
with Facebook or Instagram
5minutes
1out of
every

7. What are the other 4 minutes being used for?

8. 1. Mobile gaming is a very big deal

9. 39% of smart phone users play games at least 1x per week
Source: Magid

11. The new Angry Birds: Candy Crush Saga

12. The new super-publisher: SuperCell
$2.3M/Da
y

13. The game changer: Puzzles and Dragons
$4.9M/Da
y

14. 2. Gaming is a sport

15. Last weekend 1M concurrent viewers watched a professional
DOTA2 tournament

16. The Broadcaster

17. The Games
• League of Legends
• StarCraft 2
• DOTA2
• Call of Duty

18. The Pro’s

19. 3. Console is fun again

20. A good old fashioned console war
Vs

21. And great new games

22. The Pro’s

24. And what about that
takeaway?