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This year BoosterMedia will be attending ChinaJoy 2012 in Shanghai, at its 10th anniversary. BoosterMedia is exploring new business opportunities and look to establish partnerships across several areas of the mobile gaming ecosystem in Asia.

Laurens Rutten, BoosterMedia’s founder and CEO, will be speaking at CGBC SNS and Social Game Forum on 29th July. He will share the new smart ways of distributing and monetizing mobile games, as an alternative to the traditional app-stores. It will include many concrete examples, case studies and practical tips about distributing mobile games business to Europe, South-America and other overseas markets.

As an important component of 2012 CGBC, the CGBC SNS and Social Game Forum is specially aimed at constructing a quality and pragmatic platform for the comprehensive industrial exchanges and business cooperation in the operation, platform and R&D in the social game industry.

If you represent a gaming or media brand, social network, OEM or MNO in need of a mobile gaming platform, destination and a large social and casual games library, we look forward to meet you there. Please contact us to set up an appointment.

BoosterMedia the HTML5 cloud-gaming company will attend the Gamescom in Cologne from August 15th – 18th. We will actively explore new business opportunities and look to establish beneficial partnerships across several areas of the mobile gaming ecosystem. 
 
Do you represent a gaming or media brand, social network or MNO in need of a HTML5 mobile gaming platform?
Are you a mobile HTML5 browser game developer looking for distribution?
Then please Contact us to set up a meeting.
Please also feel free to stop by the Holland Pavilion (Dutch Games Association – B2B in Hal 4.2) and leave your business card if we are unable to meet up with you in person.
Hope to see you in Cologne!

About Gamescom
As Europe’s biggest trade fair for interactive games and entertainment, Gamescom attracted over 500 exhibitors and nearly 19.000 industry professionals last year. The fair’s dedicated business area brings together a wide variety of international trade visitors from across the gaming ecosystem. For additional information on the fair and location, visit http://www.gamescom-cologne.com.

Bebo, the social network that ‘connects users to everyone and everything they care about’, has chosen BoosterMedia to power its new mobile games channel.

Utilizing BoosterMedia’s mobile cloud-gaming platform Connected GameStore©, Bebo now offers its mobile users a broad selection of social and casual browser-games. All the games are free to play, with several games supporting virtual goods and micro-transactions. Currently, over 300 mobile browser-games are available on BoosterMedia’s platform. New (HTML5) games are added continuously from developers worldwide.

The gaming channel is seamlessly integrated into the existing Bebo mobile website, m.bebo.com, or can be accessed directly at mobilegames.bebo.com on any mobile device.

BoosterMedia will attend the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco from March 7th – 9th. We will actively explore new business opportunities and look to establish beneficial partnerships across several areas of the mobile gaming ecosystem. 
Do you represent a gaming or media brand, social network, OEM or MNO in need of a mobile gaming platform, destination and a large social and casual games library?

Are you a mobile browser game developer looking for distribution?

Then please Contact us to set up a meeting. Please also feel free to stop by the Holland Pavilion (Dutch Games Association – Booth 2102) and leave your business card if we are unable to meet up with you in person.

Hope to see you in San Francisco!

About GDC

The GDC is the world’s largest and longest running professionals-only game industry event. The GDC attracts 19,000 attendees and over 400 lectures, panels, tutorials and round-table discussions on a comprehensive selection of game development topics taught by leading industry experts. GDC in San Francisco runs from March 5th – 9th.

BoosterMedia will attend the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We are interested in meeting OEMs, MNOs, media and gaming brands and social networks to discuss our customized mobile gaming solutions.

Would you like to meet-up with BoosterMedia in Barcelona? Contact us to arrange a meeting and learn more about how we can help you with:

• Localized mobile games
• Seamless content integration
• 150+ mobile browser games
• Covering all OS platforms (iOS, Android, feature phones, etc..)

Mobile World Congress is the global epicenter of redefining Mobile. The event will be held from February 27th to March 1st at Fira Montjuic in Barcelona, Spain.

The new investment will help further expand BoosterMedia’s HTML5 mobile games distribution network internationally.

UTRECHT (Netherlands) and HAMBURG (Germany) – February 8, 2012 – BoosterMedia (www.boostermedia.dev), the leading mobile browser games distribution network, today has announced it has secured €1.75 million in a new funding round. The round was led by Truffle Capital (Paris, France) and Solid Ventures (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), two of the previous investors in the company.

By providing mobile gaming destinations to online media and gaming brands, BoosterMedia reaches a rapidly growing audience of gamers beyond the traditional channels like the app-stores. With a focus on browser-based games, these brands can offer their users an instant gaming experience, without having to send them away to the Android Market or iPhone App Store. The latest funding will help BoosterMedia further expand its mobile games distribution network worldwide.

“With this latest investment, we can further execute on our ambition to establish the largest network for mobile browser-game distribution”, says CEO and Founder Laurens Rutten. “Over the last year, we have seen a sharp increase in the quality of HTML5 games that are available, including good mobile social games. We want to provide developers a dedicated channel to reach mobile gamers in a new way.”

BoosterMedia will introduce significant enhancements to its mobile games distribution platform at Casual Connect Europe. Important new features include game-to-platform social integration, such as friend connections, virtual currencies, achievements and leaderboards. Casual Connect is the premier event for the casual and social gaming industry, taking place in Hamburg from February 7-9, 2012.

About BoosterMedia

BoosterMedia is the leading provider of mobile gaming destinations for online media, game websites, social networks, mobile operators and handset makers. The company distributes a wide catalogue of browser-based mobile games across its rapidly increasing network. BoosterMedia currently reaches millions of mobile gamers in over 25 countries in Europe, Latin America and South-East Asia. In addition to its in-house Game Studio, specialized in HTML5 social games development, BoosterMedia also partners with external game developers worldwide.

BoosterMedia was founded in 2009 and is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The company currently employs over 30 mobile games professionals and is growing rapidly.

Absolutist has chosen BoosterMedia to provide Wellgames.com, its online gaming website, with a customized mobile gaming destination. With the cooperation, Absolutist joins the growing roster of partners that entrust BoosterMedia to bring their gaming brands to a mobile audience.

The Wellgames mobile destination features a wide selection of casual browser games in HTML5 and Flash for mobile that play on most devices including iOS, Android and most feature phones. The Wellgames mobile destination and browser-based games can be experienced at m.wellgames.com.

BoosterMedia will kick off 2012 by attending and sponsoring the Casual Connect conference in Hamburg, Germany for the third consecutive year. During the conference, BoosterMedia will showcase its innovative mobile games distribution platform and its latest HTML5 social browser games. Additionally, the company will introduce a variety of customized solutions for media and gaming brands, social networks, OEMs and MNOs.

BoosterMedia’s CEO Laurens Rutten will participate in a panel discussion on data-driven games design hosted by Kontagent. He will share the company’s experience with tracking user behavior for mobile social browser-games.

Interested in meeting-up with BoosterMedia in Hamburg? Please contact us to set up a day and time. We are located in Hall G/G2, booth #17. The panel discussion will be held on Thursday, February 9 from 11.00 – 12.00 pm.

Casual Connect is the premiere event for the casual games industry with over 3,500 professionals attending the convention each year. Casual Connect brings together the most talented and knowledgeable experts in the casual gaming field to further the casual games industry with the best of networking and learning.

Utrecht, November 21, 2011 – BoosterMedia has partnered with Atrativa Latin America to bring the company’s Brazilian gaming brand to a mobile audience. A subsidiary of GameHouse – a worldwide leader in casual games – Atrativa Latin America caters to Brazilian gamers with its website, Atrativa.com.br. The cooperation marks BoosterMedia’s first expansion into the mobile gaming market in Brazil.