Using online games or games in general to promote your products and services is commonly referred to as advergames.
Advergames or advergaming is the use of games, most commonly web based games, to promote a product, brand, service or in some cases even an opinion, social viewpoint or political aim.
Why Use Advergames To Help Promote Your Brand, Product or Service?
Advergaming is rapidly gaining favour as an advertising tool due its ability to develop long lasting relationships with customers and capability to capture a user’s attention for an extended period. The “addictiveness” of advergaming makes it a very effective method of advertising and can produce a high return on your advertising dollar if done correctly.
Another advantage is that the games can be very viral in the sense that users will pass it along and recommend it to friends. Additionally players are actively interested in playing games so are more willing to give things a try.
Producing a successful advergame can be quite tricky as you need to find a good balance between the marketing message and the game. To intrusive and you’ll find yourself putting users off, not enough and you message may get lost.
Some of the benefits of games as a marketing tool are many and some core advantages are:
• Addictiveness: Good games can keep the user hooked for long periods of time and gives advertisers the opportunity to deliver their message.
• Brand Building: By offering a compelling and addictive experience the advertiser can build strong positive association to a brand.
• Traffic Increase: Games are extremely good at creating a traffic increase as more customers are made aware of its existence.
• Search Engine Optimisation: If done well a game can help increase search engine rankings as many sites, blogs and portals will link to your game.
Advergames allows a real positive value exchange that results in a win-win situation with your consumers as they get a free enjoyable game they can share with friends and on the other hand the brand then has a prolonged period to communicate with the user.
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