Mobilegamer.biz launched in March 2022 because I felt the mobile games business needed sharper original reporting.
Two and a half years in, i’ve delivered a good chunk of that, I think. But it’s also time to do more.
My Notes app is full of ideas for events, podcasts, video content and special reports that go deep into under-reported parts of the mobile games business. But myself and contributor Alex Calvin, who handles the regular jobs, data and new games columns, can only do so much right now.
Mobilegamer.biz needs new partners who can help make these ideas happen. Email me here if that sounds interesting. I’ll also be around at Gamescom next week if you want to meet in person.
This site has broken countless stories in the last two and a half years, and it will continue to do so. It is now pulling in around 35k readers per month, and the newsletter is close to 9,000 subscribers.
Mobilegamer.biz is bootstrapped, has been built from nothing and is completely independent. But it is also now trusted enough by Google News to be featured alongside some much more established, much better-resourced outlets. Discoverability is as bad on the internet as it is on the app stores, so this site relies on readers sharing the stories we publish every day. So please, keep doing that.
I’ve also tripped up at times. This week, I thought it would be interesting to poke fun at the weirder end of mobile game advertising in a series of ‘Ad break’ articles. They were enjoyable to put together, but have not resonated very well. So I binned the idea off.
Still: I’m glad I tried it, and this site will keep taking swings and doing experiments like this. The last thing I want this website to be is predictable; that’s why most of the stories you read here are originally sourced, written in-house and often run counter to what other outlets are doing.
So if you like how this website does things, support it. Chuck us $10 a month for an exclusive weekly editorial through the newsletter. Or contact me directly so we can talk through partnership options. And please, keep sharing the stories you think are good – and tell me when i’ve missed a trick.
