1. International funworld workshop: With funwin and Poker to success!

For two whole days funworld presented the company’s latest products, trends and developments in the burgeoning online skill games and poker sector at the 1st international funwin/poker workshop in Schwaig near Munich. Over 100 customers and partners from around the globe participated in the workshop and used the opportunity to update themselves on the innovations and exchange their experiences.

“As a hub for customers, partners and funworld the workshop offered an ideal platform to celebrate the first very promising successes of the new funwin and poker products and to customise these to perfection on the individual markets via mutual exchange,” stated Josef Öhlinger, CEO funworld.

Image 2: from left to right: Hubert Hofer (International Sales Director), Christian F. Peterson, (Playsafe Holding Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Nikos Serdaris (A. KYZAKIS & SIA OE Managing Director) and Josef Öhlinger (CEO of funworld ag 

With funwin and poker funworld consistently relies on the strategy of developing linked gaming offers and offers an innovation to locations in both sectors. The aim is to provide locations with an entirely new access to Internet business and to link classic terminal operations to Internet platforms.

The two product innovations are thereby unique in that locations for the first time have the possibility of participating in the terminal revenue as well as the revenue of players on the Internet.

funwin — venues on the Internet

On the first workshop day everything revolved around current trends in the internet and the new funwin skill games platform, with which funworld is reacting to the constantly growing online game market and for the first time providing operators with the opportunity to profit via a licensed model from the booming online skill games as well.

“With funwin operators can develop a new business field supplemental to the classic business with high sales and gamer potential and effectively establish their own ‘arcades’ in the internet,” emphasised Thomas Keitz, Managing Director of funworld germany.

To this end funwin offers a unique game platform with known and new PHOTO PLAY games, whereby for the first time players can also compete against each other on the Internet. With these legal games of skill players can choose between four fascinating game areas with exciting tournament forms and moreover the opportunity to win real money.

To facilitate access for customers and licensees into the online gaming business and beyond that to support them in concrete advertising measures, such as banners or paysafecards in marketing and attracting players, the most important themes of online marketing were elaborated on together in the framework of the workshops.

Market growth and strategic development of the platform were as much on the programme as effective marketing and long-term gamer loyalty. Using the example of Austrian funwin licensee Diesel Game, a major cinema chain, practical measures for setting up one’s own gamer community were also taught. Branch trends such as Web 2.0 or Social Gaming were also presented to customers.

As a highlight of the first workshop day Josef Voglsam, chairman of the largest Austrian lifestyle and community portal Szene 1.at, gave insight into the modern Internet business and online marketing.