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FastSpring CMO David Vogelpohl was recently a guest on The Here’s Waldo Podcast — a podcast that features top visionaries and creatives in the video game industry — to discuss how direct player engagement and a strong D2C strategy can help drive growth.

Here are just a few of the helpful tips for game publishers that David and host Lizzie Mintus dive into in the episode:

  • Key mobile game industry insights such as regulatory shifts and emerging trends.
  • How to balance in-game purchases, discounts, and relationships with your players across platforms.
  • How D2C monetization strategies differ between free-to-play and premium games.

Listen or watch below!

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Find more podcast services and the transcript on the Here’s Waldo Recruiting website.

About David Vogelpohl

David Vogelpohl is the CMO at FastSpring, a platform that enables direct to consumer (D2C) monetization for video games and other digital products. David leverages over two decades of experience with advanced digital marketing, influencer marketing, and monetization to help FastSpring’s gaming customers monetize and market their games direct to consumers.

About FastSpring

FastSpring is how gaming publishers sell in more places around the world. For nearly two decades, FastSpring has been a trusted payment provider you can use to sell games or in-game items on your website, web shop, or embedded directly into your game with fully customizable and branded checkouts just for you. FastSpring allows you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games! To learn more about how FastSpring supports game developers, visit fastspring.gg.