廣告置入於社群網站遊戲之發展經營策略分析

The Internet technology expanded in early 90’s, applications related to this technology also grew with it. Online applications are now developed not only for searching or e-mailing, but also develop to increase interaction between people and occupy more of people’s leisure time. In this business plan, we analyze Internet market trend and target users and find out possibility on investing in product placement advertising in browser games.

With limited budget and man power, we select simple browser game development combine with product placement sponsorship as our core business. By catching current social-networking website’s growing trend, we will select these types of websites as platform since they are usually free to use for game developers and have generate great numbers of members already. Our specialty is to custom made games for our sponsors. Sponsors’ product or brand name will be the main theme of a game or be product placement as billboards, flesh, or special items in a game. We can also combine our website banners and events to create media integration for our sponsor. Our goal is to help sponsors to reach their target consumer more frequently in a friendly gaming environment and increase target consumer’s brand preference.

Games we create can be made for nearly all kinds of industry. We will analyze and match suitable target consumer and recommend for our potential sponsors. Our target is to make two games for the first year and add one more new game in every following year. For each game, we create three types of sponsorships. Clients can select based on their current marketing need. We estimated we will have a negative balance in the first year, but will turn to positive in the second year right after we sold our three games’ sponsorship, and hopefully create more than one million year end balance in the third year. In the future, we can collect players’ data though their playing record and create our own data base center. We can analyze these data and provide research report for corporate. We can also use our game marketing experiences as our know-how to help international online game company develop Taiwanese market. And finally, we can develop into a professional online marketing and media integration company in the future.

Books and Articles

1. Hill, Charles W.L. & Gareth R. Jones (2008). Strategic Management Theory Eighth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company

2. Lasher, William (2005). The Perfect Business Plan Made Simple. The Philip Lief Group, Inc

3. Kotler, Philip & Kevin Lane Keller (2006). Marketing Management Twelfth Edition. Pearson Education, Inc..

4. Shimp, Terence A. (1997) Advertising, Promotion, and Supplemental Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications Fourth Edition. The Dryden Press

5. Solomon, Michael R. (2007). Consumer Behavior Buying, Having and Being Seventh Edition. Pearson Education, Inc.

Website

1. Central Intelligence Agency : The World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
2. Taiwan Network Information Center
http://www.twnic.net.tw/
3. Ministry of the Interior: Department of Statistics
http://www.moi.gov.tw/stat/
4. WikiPedia: The Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_game
5. Market Observation Post System
http://newmops.twse.com.tw/
6. ACNielsen
http://tw.nielsen.com/site/news20100128.shtml
7. Institute for Information Industry
http://www.iii.org.tw/
8. Playfish
9. ELEX
http://elexhome.appspot.com/
10. Final Fantasy XIII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_13