Marketing Budget Archive

  • New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the fastest single-console game to reach 10 million sold

    New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the fastest single-console game to reach 10 million sold

    Can we agree that Modern Warfare 2 was an average shooter, just one that happened to be backed by a gigantic marketing budget? It wasn't bad, certainly, but the story was bat-shit crazy—Red Dawn was more plausible—and No Russian was so clearly developed to spark controversy. This is why this Mario story warms my heart so. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is now the fastest-selling game on a single console to reach 10 million units sold worldwide. The previous record holder was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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  • Bar-code Scanning RedLaser iPhone App reaches 750K downloads, over $1M in revenue

    Bar-code Scanning RedLaser iPhone App reaches 750K downloads, over $1M in revenue

    Yep, it’s still happening. You can still become a millionaire on the iPhone without a marketing budget and a brand name. Occipital, the company behind RedLaser [iTunes Link], has struck gold with its barcode-scanning iPhone app. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s much harder to be an indie developer on the iPhone these days. The [...]

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  • Motorola DROID causes a disturbance in Android-based web traffic

    Motorola DROID causes a disturbance in Android-based web traffic

    According to Web analytics company, Clicky, Motorola’s flagship DROID handset has already caused a major disturbance in the Force Android-based web traffic. The new hotness purportedly already accounts for more than 23 percent of all Android web traffic here in the States. Not too shabby for the new kid ‘droid on the block. The less [...]

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  • Zoom Zoom: Office 2010 promo video

    Zoom Zoom: Office 2010 promo video

    Office Team Lead: Guys, we need something really exciting to make people excited about Office 2010. Some Office Programmer Guy: Can we call Google to hint at ChromeOS to take the heat off of us when we launch on Monday? OTL: Already done. We need a video. SOPG: What should it include? A little run-through of the program? [...]

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