On The Hunt
Zynga set to enter console market with Star Wars: Hunters
The FarmVille maker appeared during last night's Nintendo Direct
Company Profile
Zynga
Website
www.zynga.com
About
Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, Zynga has a diverse portfolio of popular game franchises that have been downloaded more than four billion times on mobile including CSR Racing™, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Toon Blast™, Toy Blast™, Words With Friends™ and Zynga Poker™. With Chartboost, a leading mobile advertising and monetization platform, Zynga is an industry-leading next-generation platform with the ability to optimize programmatic advertising and yields at scale.
Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe and Asia.
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Accolades
Articles featuring Zynga
Money Bags
Zynga experiences record breaking year with $1.97 billion in revenue
"In an unprecedented year, our talented and resilient teams finished Q4 strong, delivering our highest quarterly revenue and bookings in Zynga's history"
Spellbinding
Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells storms to $40 million revenue, surpasses Wizards Unite after four months
Player spending consistently on the rise each month since launch
Money Money Money
$33.6 billion was spent on games industry investments last year
$12.6 billion came from M&As
A Good Deed
Zynga teams up with will.i.am for a new GoFundMe initiative
"We are honoured to join the i.am Angel Foundation in their commitment to create opportunity and equity through education that incorporates STEAM skills"
Goodbye Farmville
Down on the FarmVille: The rise of Zynga's social gaming icon
As Zynga closes down the first FarmVille, we take a look back at what made it special
Word Up
Zynga is launching a voice-based game for Google Nest devices
Daily Word Wheel will be released soon
A Better Place
Over 80 per cent of Zynga mobile gamers play to escape reality
"Our passionate community of players have built deep, long-lasting connections"
Acquisition
Rollic buys mobile puzzler Onnect from Chef Game Studio
"We are proud to be a part of the rapidly expanding games community in Turkey"
Money Money Money
Zynga experiences record-breaking quarter with $503 million in revenue
"We delivered strong results in Q3, ahead of guidance across all key financial measures, including our highest ever quarterly revenue and bookings and best Q3 operating cash flow"
New Studio
Zynga opens new development studio in Austin
"We believe that the Austin talent market is highly compatible with our mission of bringing triple-A console visuals and deep, compelling gameplay to mobile platforms"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Zynga lead game designer Poornima Seetharaman discusses how to balance gameplay
"Don't add complexity for the sake of it."
#wordswithhope
Zynga partners with the American Cancer Society for #WordsWithHope
"Words matter and #WordsWithHope is a creative way to increase awareness about the importance of breast cancer screening"
Welcome To The Family
Zynga closes its acquisition of Turkish studio Rollic
“We’re thrilled to welcome Rollic and its incredibly talented team, along with its extensive network of developers, to Zynga"
Farewell
The sun sets on FarmVille at the end of 2020
"Following an incredible 11 years since its initial launch back in 2009, we are officially announcing the closure of the original FarmVille game on Facebook"
Uramagician
Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched"
Creative director Mark Turmell and lead producer Desiree Makowski take us through the many metagame features of the match-3 puzzler
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Big Better
Zynga on the post-IDFA value of hypercasual mobile games
President of publishing Bernard Kim on market dynamics
Coast-to-coast
Zynga teams with NASCAR to bring "iconic" Chevrolet Camaro to CSR Racing 2
Available as part of America Road Trip series
Making Magic
Making match-3 magic: Elevating the genre with IP
Zynga director of product Peter Rosetti on what it takes to bring Harry Potter to match-3
Expelliarmus
Zynga opens pre-registrations for Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells
"We'll be delighting fans with the memorable characters, sound and story of the original books and films"
Bluff Plus
Interview: How Zynga mixed casual card gaming with strong social mechanics in Bluff Plus
Zynga Turkey general manager Buğra Koç talks us through the design and development
Bluff Plus
Zynga launches new casual card game Bluff Plus
Zynga Turkey gets its first game launched since being acquired in 2017
Financials
Zynga generates a record $452 million in Q2 2020 though suffers a net loss of $150 million
"We delivered tremendous results in Q2"
Fast Mover
Zynga buys hypercasual outfit Rollic for $168 million
All-cash deal gains 80% equity
Welcome Aboard
Zynga adds Noel Watson to its board of directors
"I am excited to be joining Zynga’s Board of Directors during this dynamic period of growth for the company"
New Acquisition
Update: Zynga closes acquisition of Toon Blast creator Peak Games for $1.85 billion
Updated full-year guidance for Zynga coming in August 2020
A Good Deed
Zynga launches a $25 million fund for educational and charitable purposes
"The focus of the fund is to increase diversity and inclusion within Zynga and the games industry"
Breathe A Word
Zynga launches voice-based game Word Pop exclusively for Alexa
"We're dedicated to experimenting with services such as Alexa"
Social Games
Zynga signs multi-game deal with Snapchat
"Snap Games is such a unique and exciting platform"
Eat Or Be Eaten
Despite $1.8 billion Peak deal, Zynga isn't 'acquisition-ed out'
President of publishing Bernard Kim on a hungry beast
Allo-homora
Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells debut trailer glimpses iconic locations
Zynga, Warner Bros. and Portkey Games for a new mobile game based on the Harry Potter license
Leaning In
Zynga in the time of Covid-19
COO Matt Bromberg considers the new era
Finns Are In
Posting record sales thanks to Empires & Puzzles, Zynga pays $122 million earnout to Small Giants
Q1 2020 financials are booming
Team Up
Zynga teams up with Amazon for free in-game content for Prime members
Starting with Words with Friends
Soft Launch Benefits
PGC Digital: "Platform featuring is not as strong as it used to be," says former Disney and Zynga PM
As part of a panel on 'Learning from Mistakes – What Should we Have Done Before we Launched?'
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: How to build and maintain successful, highly distributed teams
Zynga's Michelle Del Rosario on paying the PRICE
Words With Lawyers
Zynga struck with lawsuit regarding Words with Friends data breach
Estimated 173 million usernames and passwords hacked
Match-three Puzzler
Zynga partners with Portkey Games and Warner Bros. for Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells
Soft-launched in the Philippines
On The Up
Zynga's FY19 revenue soars to record $1.32 billion
"Live services are the foundation of our multi-year growth strategy"
Mobile Legend
Zynga president Bernard Kim honoured as a Mobile Legend at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2020
From Disney to EA to Zynga, Kim's impact on the mobile space is impossible to ignore
User Acquisition
Consumer Acquisition snaps up former Zynga head of user acquisition
John Choi has 12 years experience in the industry
10 Years On
10 YEARS ON: iPhone could be biggest social games platform, says Zynga
But only if Apple puts more effort into it
Words With Hackers
Over 170 million passwords stolen in Zynga breach
"Cyber-attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today"
Brum Brum
Zynga expands NaturalMotion with new Birmingham studio
Will focus on racing games
Organic Reinvention
Home-grown success: Why Zynga reckons the best is yet to come
COO Matt Broomberg talks up new releases
Financials
Zynga achieves best quarterly revenue and bookings in 12-year history
Empires & Puzzles and Merge Dragons both drive quarter
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Empires & Puzzles storms past $500 million in lifetime revenue
Sales mainly from Android players
Brand Extender
Twitch snags Zynga and EA vet Doug Scott as new CMO
The mission: extending beyond endemic audiences
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