Partnering Opportunities

SkillPod Media offers a number of partnering options for publishers wishing to add a casual gaming component to their websites / portals / blogs:

Standard Deal Terms:
- Initial term – 6 months
- Cancellation period – 45 days
- Player registration data is owned by the publisher
- Any other data e.g. surveys are owned by the advertiser / publisher

Usage Option:
Initial setup fee:
- Standard re-skinning and setup - once off fee (excludes any customization / custom development)
Monthly fees:
- Less than 500,000 game loads per month - linked to CPM rate
- Greater than 500,001 game loads per month - linked to CPM rate
General:
- All advertising / sponsorship revenue is for the benefit of the publisher
- Revenue derived from Pod purchases is split 50/50 with the publisher
- NB! One game impression typically generates 5 to 7 banner impressions

Revenue Share Option:
Initial setup fee:
- Standard re-skinning and setup - once off fee (excludes any customization / custom development)
Monthly fees:
- Minimum Payment - per month
- Agreed Minimum CPM Rate – Ad campaign revenue reconciled every 6 weeks as well as agreement
General:
- Publisher sites with a minimum of 1 Million page impressions per month or 50,000 unique users
- Revenue derived from Pod purchases is split 50/50 with the publisher
- NB! One game impression typically generates 5 to 7 banner impressions

Platform Customisation Options:

  • Platform customization
  • Game customization
  • Payment gateway integration
  • Games site / solution translation
  • Games site template development
  • XML Feeds
  • Facebook Applications
  • Google Gadgets
  • Game translation

Integration Options:
The SkillPod Media gaming platform offers the following integration options:

  • Template driven, thus allowing the games site and game pop up window to reflect the brand identity and look and feel of the primary site
  • An API is available for the integration of an existing user registration engine thus ensuring seamless movement between the various content sections of a publishers website
  • API development to integrate into existing CRM and billing / payment engines
  • The Publisher is able to host the games portal on a domain of their choice, again ensuring the brand identity is retained, the primary games engine is hosted on our platform at Rackspace UK.
  • Social Media Integration for Facebook and Twitter
  • The games can be translated into any language that you require, how the translations work is as follows:
    • The game titles would be selected from the games catalogue by the publisher
    • SkillPod would provide the publisher with the English text for the site and games
    • The publisher would provide SkilllPod with the transalted text
    • SkillPod would integrate the text into the games and re-format the games in order for all text placement to be correct
    • Games are made available to the publisher for sign off before publishing live

Roles and Responsibilities of Parties:
The following highlights the roles and responsibilities of each of the parties:

SkillPod Media:

  • Provision of technology infrastructure
  • Identify brand – register & setup domain
  • Hosting of games solution and portal
  • Site Design Integration
  • Content Module Configuration and Population
  • Site Testing
  • Ongoing development of new features & games
  • Site Management – tournaments, content, games mix, promos
  • Addition of new games
  • Reporting
  • Site template design, if requested by partner

Partner:

  • Site template design
  • Identify brand – register & setup domain
  • DNS setup of games domain, SPM to provide IP and DNS info
  • Game & Features Selection
  • Games channel promotion
  • Advertising Sales
  • Ongoing Input:
    - Tournaments & promotions
    - Game customization
    - Special promotions

The SkillPod Media Games solution can be deployed on a variety of websites, including:

  • News websites
  • Entertainment portals
  • Social networks
  • Standalone games sites
  • Kids websites
  • Entertainment portals
  • Search portals
  • ISP portals
  • Music portals
  • Sports event websites (such as FIFA World Cup soccer, cricket, rugby, golf tournaments etc)

NB! Mini Games Portals are ideally suited to coincide with local and international Sporting Events.

The features include:

  • Custom look and feel
  • Game customisation and branding
  • Player registration
  • Personal high score records
  • Public high score records
  • One-on-one game challenges
  • Tournaments
  • Leaderboards

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