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i-Jet Media
Type of businessprivate
Founded2005
Headquarters
Silicon Valley, (California, USA); Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Ozersk (Russia); Beijing (China)
Industrycomputer games, social network games, social network service
Employees100+
URLi-jet.ru, , i-jet-media.com (under reconstruction), twitter

i-Jet Media is an international social network game publisher and distributor.

History

i-Jet was founded in 2005[1]. It took two years for the company to develop its first game Maffia New which gained more than 500,000 unique monthly active users[2] in Russia[3].

In 2007, i-Jet Media published Maffia New on Rambler.ru. At that time, they also produced Time to Enforce, Real Wars, and Steel Giants.

In 2008, after the world's first social games were published in social network Facebook, i-Jet Media opened its office in the Silicon Valley (CA, USA).

In 2009, the company launched cooperation with Chinese developer Elex Technologies: i-Jet Media published Elex games in Russian social networks - Vkontakte.ru, first of all[4]. Virtually, the company formed the social network game market in Russia.

In April 2009, i-Jet Media published Happy Farmer which exploded the Russian Internet: the game succeeded to collect about 10,000,000 unique active users and earn USD $20 million during less than one year. This record of the Runet is still unbroken[5]. Happy Farmer was awarded with the Goggle Trend prize as the best game of 2009. In 2009, i-Jet Media also opened its office in Beijing.[6]

In 2010, i-Jet Media games were the first ones ever published in the Odnoklassniki.ru network[7]. The company started exporting them to European social networks: Estonia, Finland, Germany, and Poland. In May 2010, the company published Farm Fenzy, in cooperation with a leading international casual game publisher and distributor Alawar Entertainment[8]. In summer 2010, i-Jet Media started to publish games on Russian Facebook[9].

i-Jet Media also aims at developing a mobile trend and publishes mobile versions of games in large social networks of Russia. In July 2010, i-Jet Media and mobile social network Spaces.ru established a game section which managed to get more than 25,000 visitors during its first day online[10].

In September 2010, i-Jet Media and Playdom announced that i-Jet Media will publish games by Playdom in Russian and European social networks[11]. They also agreed to combat piracy on the Russian social games market[12].

To date, i-Jet Media is the leader of the market of online games for social networks in Russia, CIS, and Eastern Europe. i-Jet Media portfolio includes 70 game projects by various developers published in 30 social networks all over the world, and over 60 million users registered[13]. Market capitalization of i-Jet Media equals USD $100 million according to investors[14].

Articles in English

References

  1. ^ References Casual Connect Europe
  2. ^ http://i-jet-media.com/en/news/?id=3
  3. ^ ru:I-Jet Media
  4. ^ I-Jet заработал $5 млн на фермерах
  5. ^ Farm Frenzy Internationally
  6. ^ 社交游戏发行商推介：I-Jet Media（独联体、东欧方向)
  7. ^ Совладелец i-Jet («Счастливый фермер» и другие игры) Алексей Костарев
  8. ^ i-Jet Media выпускает «Веселую ферму» в мир
  9. ^ i-Jet Media выпускает игры на российском Facebook
  10. ^ i-Jet Media залезет в мобильники
  11. ^ Playdom Partners with i-Jet to Publish Games and Fight Piracy
  12. ^ Playdom Partners With Eastern European Distributor To Publish Games, Fight Piracy
  13. ^ Playdom and i-Jet Media to Publish Games and Battle Piracy in Russia and Europe
  14. ^ Экспозиция и семинары "ИТ-стартапы" на международной выставке-форуме Иннопром-2010


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