In the face of fierce competition in the mobile games market, the market entry strategy becomes the most important aspect of a successful product launch for any developer. Anton Volnykh, a veteran of the mobile games market and founder of Playmous, talks about what it costs to get into the App Store charts.

comScore has published its next quarterly review of the American market of mobile devices and platforms. According to him, 234 million people use mobile devices in the United States, Samsung is slowing its growth, and Android still accounts for more than half of the OS market. 

The most incendiary round table of White Nights! The developers of hit games gathered to discuss the specifics of creating masterpieces. Quoting Maxim Grinev, we can roughly describe the atmosphere of this discussion: “I generally do what makes me want. If I’m not hot, I don’t do it.” Other, no less vivid, statements you will remember by watching the video.

The enchanting performance of Maxim Grinev – we recommend watching it even for those who do not agree with the stated topic!

Leonid Bugaev’s presentation caused a lot of contradictory reviews: they wrote on Twitter that this was “the first failed speech” at the conference and immediately – “the most interesting presentation”. Anyway, it’s interesting to listen to Leonid, so we suggest you watch the video and make up your own opinion.

We continue to post videos of performances from the White Nights Mobile Games Conference. Meet Kirill Petrov, Managing Director of i-Free Innovations, who will share interesting data about Russian developers.

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Distimo, who studied the growth rates of profitability of mobile markets, including in developing countries, which now include not only Brazil, Mexico and Turkey, but also Russia. 

Wibe Wagemans from Big Fish, which became one of the platinum sponsors of the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, shares the secrets of successful strategies in the mobile games market.

It is not always easy for developers of mobile applications to find money to develop their projects, especially the first ones for the studio. Alexander Lyskovsky, CEO of Alawar Entertainment, talks about a variety of sources of funding for a game project or a development studio in general.

Several round tables were held at the White Nights Mobile Games Conference, and one of them was devoted to the monetization of games. Social Quantum and Nevosoft, together with a representative of the InMobi advertising network and the company providing billing solutions (Fortumo), discussed which strategies bring the greatest profit.

Sandra Ilyina, Business Development Manager at Opera Software, came to our conference to talk about new opportunities for mobile application developers.

Microsoft evangelist Vladimir Kolesnikov spoke about the ecosystem as a whole and app stores. From his report, you will learn about what is happening on the Windows Phone Marketplace (numbers and trends), how Microsoft sees the future of the Windows Store and what it offers developers.

An interesting story about the GetJar cross-platform store: how they work with developers there and how they help to get a higher income. Speech by James Mooney, Sales and Business Development Director in Europe (Sales and Business Development Director: EMEA) at White Nights.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Sanjar Ismailov spoke about the opportunities that Google offers for promotion. His speech was the first in the section of representatives of platforms and app stores – today during the day we will also post reports from Microsoft, Opera Software and GetJar. Stay tuned!

The video of the presentation of Alex Patsay, the head of the mobile direction, is ready Mail.ru The group with which he spoke at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

Video recording of G5 Entertainment’s speech at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference. Yulia Palatovskaya and Alish Yakubov talk about successful projects and how they have changed along with the market situation.

According to Kirill Petrov, Managing Director of i-Free, in 2011 Russian developers creating applications for iOS and Android platforms will receive more than $ 80 million. Most of this money will be earned outside of Russia, one of the main reasons is that payment by bank cards is still poorly developed in our country.

As in most countries, games are leading in terms of the number of applications and downloads in our country. But they are not as popular as, for example, in the UK.

Xyologic has published an application market study for August 2011. It includes: the number of downloads of applications by country, market growth indicators, ratings by country, the number of paid applications in relation to free and the turnover of the application market.