Hot Five

Crossy Road as examplar, plus the increasing value of YouTube, Twitch and video ads

Last week's top 5 stories

Crossy Road as examplar, plus the increasing value of YouTube, Twitch and video ads

Providing insight into the hot topics of the mobile games industry, these are the five stories that over the past week were our most read.

Video is becoming an ever more important part of the content mix, something reflected in YouTube, Twitch and incentivised video advertising all featuring as topics in this week's most read list.

Indeed, Hipster Whale's Crossy Road has extensively monetised using the latter, which lead our Stateside columnist Carter Dotson to consider if other indie games could follow its lead.

So, counting down from five to one, check out what made the news last week and which trends will likely be re-appearing on our Hot Five list in future.


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A Pocket Gamer co-founder, Jon is Contributing Editor at PG.biz which means he acts like a slightly confused uncle who's forgotten where he's left his glasses. As well as letters and cameras, he likes imaginary numbers and legumes.