Arcade/Gaming marketing. List of some marketing ideas. Need More!

I've been learning flash and I hope that once I create a few games the games will travel around the internet and then bring in some hits. Takes a lot of work but will pay off in the end... hopefully.

 

How much does it cost to get a new game created or a game branded?

 

Well if you make them yourself... free. If you run a popular site you could probably sponsor an independent devolper for probably a few hundred at most I'd assume... most likely depends on quality of the game. I'm just guessing though, you could probably ask armorgames or sites like that who sponsor a lot of games.

 

Alot of sites will pay more then $1000 for the flash game, depending on the quality.

 

I meant buying link plugs on popular sites like fark, davesdaily, jokaroo, smithappens, leenks, etc.

There's a long thread here: http://www.fadinsite.com/showthread.php?t=23 (Registration Required)

 

I don't trust any banner exchange programs really. When I used GamesBanner I would see so many sites that didn't abide by the rules. If I place a quality link/banner on my site, I want the same back.

 

Check out ArcadeAffiliate.com for some new ways of doing banner exchange.

We are trying to offer what every other arcade banner exchange lacks.

Currently we're in testing but in the next week or two we will be buying incoming only ad space on some large arcades sites.

 

Try gamerflow.com, it's based on clicks not impressions, you get 9 clicks for every 10 you generate.

Also arcade affiliate looks like a nice site messa, I'll have to give it a try.

 

Here's a few more that might be of interest...

funklicks.com
arcade.top-site-list.com
top100arcades.com
arcade.33host.com/top
topzor.com
perfectgaming100.com

 

you can try www.arcadechange.com, another 100x100 arcade banner exchange program.

 

Why would you bump such an old thread?

 

Its a good job it was because without that I would never have known abou those plug sites, looks like a nice little find.

 

Well, i found a topic that i could add on to, so why not? Besides, since there were several banner exchange listed already, it's not going to hurt to add one more.

 

14) contests
15) forums (place to players to discuss)
16) newsletter (helps bringing people back to your site)

 

He wants to know how to get traffic and not how to loose it. I think that making your ads look like games of your site will increase your CTR and earnings, but at the same time it will probably loose you traffic.

I'm not 100% sure on this though.