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User Analytics Company Kontagent Sees Data Volumes Surging, Now Tracking Over 1 Billion Daily Events, 1 of every 4 Social Gaming Dollars Spent
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Recently launched kSuite enterprise analytics platform gaining considerable traction with social and mobile application developers and marketers
San Francisco, CA – Aug.16, 2011 – Kontagent, the leading user analytics company for social and mobile application developers, today announced it had surpassed 1 Billion daily event messages and 150M Monthly Active Users (MAUs) handled, reaching an important milestone in the company’s scale and reach with its kSuite platform. The company is also tracking 1 in 4 dollars being spent in the social gaming industry.
With over 1,100 active social and mobile applications using its on-demand enterprise software including industry leaders such as Ubisoft, Time Warner, A&E Networks, EA and Tencent, among others, the company is seeing larger clients making sizeable investments in social gaming. According to AppData, Kontagent now handles more MAUs than any social developer except Zynga.
The Social Game Changers [featured in TechNewsWorld]
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011By Jeffrey Tseng, Co-Founder and CEO, Kontagent
For far too long, the Web has struggled to make sense of users by applying metrics that were mere proxies of player behavior. As the social Web expands, a paradigm shift based on previous user behavior metrics will follow. The analytics company that best packages, distills, and helps its clients understand how to better monetize users within the paradigm will gain the biggest share of this new market.
Once considered the red-headed stepchild of the gaming industry, social gaming is finally taking its rightful place at the table. Over the past several years, the free-to-play model (F2P) has surged to the forefront of next generation gaming while console game companies and traditional game developers have faltered by the wayside. With its risk-free adoption, discoverability, and virtual goods format, the F2P model demonstrates how billions of smaller transactions, coupled with lower go-to-market costs and data-driven design, offer compelling game experiences to a market segment the traditional gaming companies persistently ignored.
Kontagent Announces Exclusive Partnership with Leading South Korean Web Portal Daum
Thursday, August 4th, 2011Recently launched kSuite User Analytics platform enables the enterprise software provider to support 3rd party platforms and publishers worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2011 – Kontagent, the leading user analytics company, today unveiled a partnership with Daum, one of South Korea’s top Internet portals. Daum will provide its developers with exclusive access to Kontagent’s kSuite platform on the Daum Social Game platform. kSuite is Kontagent’s powerful user analytics platform that uncovers deep behavioral insights and usage patterns enabling developers to make data-driven decisions on game development and tuning.
Under the new partnership, developers on Daum’s Social Game platform will be able to leverage the kSuite dashboard to gain insights into arbitrary user segments through custom event tracking and path analysis. Armed with this deep level of data, developers will have access to insights they need to optimize their games around critical user retention and engagement metrics.
Kontagent Announces Partnership with Global Latino Social Network Quepasa
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Quepasa to leverage Kontagent’s powerful kSuite user analytics platform to optimize user engagement and monetization for social games on Quepasa Games
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2011 -Kontagent, the leading user analytics company, today unveiled a partnership with Quepasa, Latin America’s only publicly-traded social network and gaming platform for the Latino community with 35MM members globally. Quepasa also recently merged with teen social network MyYearBook.com, another Kontagent customer.
Under the new partnership, Kontagent will be given exclusive rights to power Quepasa’s casual game portal Quepasa Games with its kSuite user analytics platform. kSuite is Kontagent’s powerful user analytics platform that drives deep behavioral insights and usage patterns enabling developers to make data-driven decisions on game development and tuning.
Under the new partnership, Quepasa Games will be able to leverage the kSuite dashboard to gain insights into arbitrary user segments through custom event tracking and path analysis. Armed with this deep level of data, its developers will be able to gain insights they need to optimize their games around critical player retention and engagement metrics.
kSuite officially supports iOS and Android Mobile Applications
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Starting today, Kontagent’s kSuite user analytics platform officially supports all iOS and Android applications in our dashboard.
The Mobile Web has achieved its rightful place as the next great disruptor in the evolution of how people choose to interact and connect over the web. Kontagent is expanding its user analytics solution to solve the challenges mobile developers have in handling massive quantities of out-of-order user data while simultaneously gaining real-time behavioral insights into their users. Read about us on VentureBeat.
User Analytics and Optimization Platform Announced by Kontagent
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Leading provider of social game analytics launches revolutionary platform that aims to help companies across the web increase user engagement and retention for better monetization of their applications.
San Francisco (July 12, 2011)—Kontagent, a San Francisco-based User Analytics company, announced today it has launched kSuite, a game-changing analytics platform that enables its clients to optimize their user experience and drive more efficient monetization through deep behavioral insights into their users. Through proprietary user-based metrics and analysis, kSuite is designed specifically for companies looking to understand the behavior of their users on social, mobile and web applications.
“For the past few years, social gaming companies have leveraged trillions of data points to gain insight into their users in order to create better games and experiences. Kontagent has been at the forefront of this movement as the leading solutions provider for developers.” says CEO and co-founder, Jeffrey Tseng. “With the launch of the kSuite platform, we’re bringing that same power and capability to a wider market for companies looking to analyze and leverage patterns in their user data to make decisions they couldn’t have made with such precision before.”
Introducing kSuite. Kontagent’s User Analytics Platform for Application Developers.
Monday, July 11th, 2011Introducing Kontagent’s kSuite User Analytics platform. kSuite sits on top of our proprietary datastore and provides a set of customized analytics and real-time monitoring to help you identify and react to social usage patterns in real-time. We’re excited to bring you these new features and solutions that will revolutionize the way you access, interpret and act on these unique user insights. Here’s a brief video overview of our kSuite platform, and a more detailed overview of kSuite below.
It’s Back! Our now (in)famous $10K referral bounty!
Friday, June 10th, 2011
Due to popular demand, we’re bringing back our Referral Program that allows ANYONE, whether Kontagent employee or not, to earn $10,000 simply for referring a qualified software engineer that we ultimately hire. All you have to do is link through your extended network of techies, or share the love with friends, family, former colleagues…you get the idea.
The Rules:
• Job candidates must apply through our website at www.kontagent.com/jobs, and must note in the cover letter or email the name of the “referrer”.
• The referral bonus is available for experienced, technical positions on our Engineering team only. Referrals of recent college grads aren’t eligible for the bonus. We do hope to hire multiple individuals for most of these roles.
• The referral bonus is available to any individual whether associated with Kontagent or not. The referral bonus will be paid immediately after the hired candidate completes 90 days of employment.
• Sorry, candidates that apply “un-referred” don’t get the money themselves as a signing bonus, that money will go to our company event fund:)
Updated KT Benchmarks presented at LOGIN – Top 7 Social Metrics
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Kontagent 2.13: Updates on Real-Time Monitoring and Event Bundling
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011Some updates on two features:
Event Bundling:
We’ve made event bundling a little more intuitive. You can create event bundles by selecting one or more events within your list of selected events. A pop-up windown will appear with all selected events, where you can then select which events to be included in your bundle.
Real-Time Monitoring Dashboard:
Now, select the time segment refresh rate. Previously, the dashboard auto-refreshed at 10 second increments. We know for some social games and some other use cases longer time increments make more sense, particularly if user volume is low.
