At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, Google an**unced a new feature called "Playables," which allows users to test-drive a lightweight version of a gamewithin an advertisement. In other words, there's ** app download required—and it all happens while you're in a**ther game.*
Playables is one of the formats available in Google's Universal App Campaigns, a tool that allows developers to have their ads placed across several Google properties just by writing a few lines of text. It's currently available to some advertisers, but the tech giant plans to start rolling it out to all Universal App Campaign clients soon, a spokesperson for Google said, so you can expect to see the feature more often. * Read more...