{"id":58930,"date":"2018-10-31T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329774"},"modified":"2018-10-31T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T21:42:00","slug":"zynga-reports-rising-revenues-and-deals-for-harry-potter-game-of-thrones-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/zynga-reports-rising-revenues-and-deals-for-harry-potter-game-of-thrones-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga reports rising revenues and deals for Harry Potter &amp; Game of Thrones games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zynga\u00a0has released financials for its third\u00a0quarter ended September 30, reporting mobile revenue, which accounted for 91 percent of total revenue, increased\u00a09 percent to $212.5 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company reported\u00a0overall revenue at $233.2 million was up 4 percent. However, net income was clocked in at\u00a0$10.2 million, down 44 percent from $18.1 million compared to the same time last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting Zynga&#8217;s emphasis on investing its resources in\u00a0multi-game, multi-year deals with Hollywood IP\u00a0holders, the company announced\u00a0a Harry Potter match-3 game is in the works under a deal with Warner Bros., and\u00a0a Game of Thrones slots game alongside another unannounced title with HBO is lined up as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Out of Zynga&#8217;s\u00a0existing catalog\u00a0of games,\u00a0<em>Words with Friends<\/em>\u00a0performed the best, with\u00a0mobile revenue up 42 percent year-over-year, driven by increases in average moves per daily active users, advertising network\u00a0optimizations, and continued adoption of user pay monetization.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/zynga-reports-rising-revenues-and-deals-for-harry-potter-game-of-thrones-games.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zynga\u00a0has released financials for its third\u00a0quarter ended September 30, reporting mobile revenue, which accounted for 91 percent of total revenue, increased\u00a09 percent to $212.5 million.\u00a0 The company reported\u00a0overall revenue at $233.2 million was up 4 percent. However, net income was clocked in at\u00a0$10.2 million, down 44 percent from $18.1 million compared to the same time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}