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Accolades
Articles featuring Voodoo
Bid Accepted
Voodoo acquires user-acquisition expert Bidshake
Company launched in January 2020
Hypercasual Have-a-go
Voodoo offering $1 million for new hypercasual hits
Summer Games Competition takes place between June 10th to July 15th
Voodoo X Snapchat
Snapchat gaming is different: it's curated; it's hypersocial
Snap Games and Voodoo explain their partnership
Snap Partner Summit 2021
Voodoo extends partnership with Snapchat, five more games coming to platform
Unity deal also in place regarding Bitmojis
The Big 5
Voodoo crossed five billion downloads
Hypercasual keeps on growing
You're A Winner
Voodoo announces six regional winners of its $150,000 hypercasual contest
They were rewarded with $20,000
Speaker Spotlight
"Don’t always assume that you need expensive and professional training to enter the industry"
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
Break It Down
How a partnership with Voodoo gave life to hypercasual indie, Demolish!
We speak to Jean Mikryukov about how Voodoo's support helped his title thrive
Lessons From Voodoo
How Voodoo is driving creativity and innovation in the creation of mobile game ads
Voodoo creative marketing manager weighs in how to craft in-game ads that resonate with your users
2020 In Review
Voodoo publishing lead Alexander reflects on a huge year in hypercasual
Part of our 2020 year in review series
What A Year
Voodoo's portfolio saw over two billion downloads in 2020
It also had 300 million monthly active users
Welcome To The Family
Voodoo acquires Paris-based studio OHM Games
"We're thrilled to be able to build on our existing relationship with OHM Games"
Competition Time
Voodoo is hosting a hypercasual tournament with a top prize of $150k
Entries must be in the puzzle or runner genres
Inno-vating
Meet Inno Studio, winners of Voodoo's 2020 runner competition
The studio won a sizeable investment and a partnership with hypercasual giant
Keeping It Casual
Joining mobile’s most exclusive members club
Voodoo senior designer Niek Tuerlings talks hybridcasual, and the games that are crushing it
Get Hyped
Voodoo selects six winners for its hypercasual competition
They won a publishing contract and $100,000
Redforce
RedForce Games founder discusses benefits of partnering with Voodoo
Anand talks RedForce's journey to hypercasual and how Voodoo's support saw the company flourish
Voodoo
Voodoo opens Android testing to all partner studios
"Until this year, Voodoo was not immune to the charm of the US gold standard of iOS exclusive testing"
Top Dog
Voodoo was the top hypercasual publisher through downloads in Q3 2020
GameJam Co experienced the most growth
Welcome To China
Voodoo's titles are launching in China through The9
"Through our strategic cooperation with Voodoo to jointly publish and operate a variety of casual games in China, we can leverage the popularity of high-profile game IPs in the Chinese market"
Case Closed
Voodoo sues Rollic over plagiarism in hypercasual title Wood Shop
"We're super excited at the outcome. The decision of the court sets a precedent especially for hyper-casual game copies"
Downloads
Scribble Rider secures the most downloads for August 2020
It racked up 44.6 million
Best Of 2020
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020
Revealed: The movers, shakers, and moneymakers
Investment
Voodoo invests in Istanbul-based developer studio Fabrika Games
"We will help Fabrika to develop their team and gather Turkish talent seeking to create successful Hyper-Casual games with Voodoo"
Heading East
Voodoo expands with multiple offices across Asia
"We are thrilled to be moving into the APAC region"
Investment
Tencent makes minor investment in hypercasual specialist Voodoo
"We can improve the way we distribute on Android"
The Lightneer Approach
The Voodoo Approach: Lightneer on making the pivot to hyper-casual
"We really like that Lightneer and Voodoo are very aligned on the need to test as frequently as makes sense"
You're A Winner
Voodoo to award $100k and a publishing contract to the winner of its hypercasual competition
It will be held through September
Oh Snap
Voodoo signs a new deal with Snapchat
Will bring one game to Snap Games and Bitmoji
The Tarboosh Approach
The Voodoo Approach: Tarboosh Games CEO Rani Hammad H. on learning how to make hit games with Voodoo
"It is hard to always meet their KPIs, but when you do, the game is usually sustainable and successful."
The Aya Approach
The Voodoo Approach: Why AYA Games feels like Voodoo is the only publisher it wants to work with
"Voodoo was willing to support us in pretty much every possible way"
The Orbital Knight Approach
The Voodoo Approach: Orbital Knight publishing director Jan Chichlowski on the importance of testing
"If you test something for the fifth time and the results are not good, this means the concept is not good"
The Lawson He Approach
The Voodoo Approach: Tower Run creator Lawson He on why partnering with a publisher is crucial
"I would say that Voodoo has increased my business' revenue by infinite %"
The Cassette Approach
The Voodoo Approach: How AquaPark.io developer Cassette grew with help from the hyper-casual publisher
"These guys are experts of feeling the thin line between giving advice and letting you make your own decisions"
The Voodoo Approach
The Voodoo Approach: How the world's biggest hyper-casual publisher makes its hit games
An inside look at the company's development process
Free Webinar
Free online PG.biz RoundTable discussion series launches tomorrow
Register for a Work From Home panel featuring experts from King, Tilting Point, Voodoo, Tamatem and more
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Voodoo's Sophie Vo on the misconceptions of being a game lead
Vo has spent time at Gameloft, Wooga and Rovio before making the move to Voodoo.
Slapping Downloads
Slap Kings racked up the most mobile downloads in March 2020
Voodoo had three entries
Hypercasual Surge
Hypercasual surges with the top 3 most downloads mobile games from Voodoo
Crunching the data with App Annie
Acquisition
Voodoo acquires London-based Gumbug
The sum is undisclosed
New Location
Update: Voodoo expands 'beyond hyper-casual' with new Montreal studio
Mehdi El Moussali will lead the team
Download Drivers
Say Games, Voodoo and Good Job Games the most downloaded gamecos
Sensor Tower's Q3 2019 data
Best Of 2019
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2019
Revealed: The movers, shakers and moneymakers!
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Voodoo's top 10 download dominance wanes
Rankings from August 19th to 25th
Hyper-casual
Voodoo’s ad monetisation and the recipe for hyper-casual success
Thanks to the Mintegral-led campaigns, the ad fill rate for Voodoo’s titles increased from 30 per cent to a high of 75 per cent
European Expansion
Interview: Hyper-casual specialist Voodoo opens new Istanbul studio
“The move to Istanbul follows recent studio openings and that growth really demonstrates our drive to develop the sector and expand the hyper-casual market”
Job News
Voodoo brings on Blizzard, King and Mamau hires for Berlin studio
Two new game designers and two new developers
Impressive Numbers
Voodoo outpaces hyper-casual rivals with 771 million downloads in six months
Lion Studios and Playgendary follow in second and third
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Voodoo’s Wesley Clarke on how to get a job as a technical lead
"Finishing projects should be your goal"