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Sales Revenue from Games, Games Hardware and Online Gaming Services Decreases in Germany During 2024

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After the German games market had reached a whole new level in recent years – sales have grown by around 50% since 2019 alone – it slowed its pace in 2024. Sales revenue from games, games hardware and online gaming services totalled 9.4 billion euros in Germany in 2024, a decrease of 6% compared to the previous year. This was announced by game – The German Games Industry Association. The downturn was especially pronounced in purchases of games for PCs, consoles and smartphones, as well as in hardware purchases. Running counter to the overall market trend, revenue from online gaming services saw a double-digit increase, rising 12% from the level of 2023, to 965 million euros. This segment includes categories such as fee-based subscription services providing access to a broad game selection, cloud-based games and functions enabling, for example, online multiplayer gaming and the saving of game progress in the cloud.

“After years of frequently strong growth, the German games market took a breather in 2024. This was due in part to the fact that there were fewer game hits last year and that the demand for game consoles has normalised again. The greatest growth is seen in online game services like cloud gaming – which underscores the perpetual dynamics and innovative strength of the games industry. In combination with new game consoles and blockbuster titles that have already been announced, this promises renewed overall growth in the near future,” Felix Falk, Managing Director of game, said.

Sales revenue from games for PCs, consoles and mobile devices totalled 6.5 billion euros in 2024, or 4% less than in the previous year. The decline was especially steep in games purchases, which saw a 17% drop in revenue, to 921 million euros. The market segment for in-game and in-app purchases, however, generated sales revenue of around 4.6 billion euros in 2024, a decrease of just 3%. This submarket has shown strong growth in recent years. Whether as free-to-play or full-price games, ever more titles are offering additional content. The offerings vary widely – from ‘skins’, which can completely change the appearance of a player character, to season passes providing unlimited access to content over a period of weeks, to full expansions with new campaigns or missions. In-game purchases allow players to customize or expand their game experience; from the perspective of game companies, in-game purchases are an important source of revenue, helping to offset the economic risk posed by the sharp rise in development costs in recent years.

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Sales revenue from games hardware decreased by 10% overall, to about 2.9 billion euros. The various segments showed quite different development. The greatest decline was seen in game consoles, revenue from which dropped to 807 million euros, 26% below the previous year’s mark. However, 2023 was an exceptional year for game consoles: after several years in which many models weren’t consistently available to consumers, all current models became continuously available again in 2023. Many players purchased new consoles, resulting in a catch-up effect. This is clearly illustrated by the comparison between sales revenue from game consoles in 2022 and 2024: despite the sharp drop of 26% last year, revenue in 2024 was still above that in 2022. Sales revenue from game console accessories in fact rose in 2024, to 391 million euros – an increase of 5%. The market for gaming PCs and laptops was stable, with revenue of 540 million euros, or just 1% less than in 2023. Accessories for gaming PCs – including special input devices, graphic cards, etc. – didn’t fare quite so well, with revenue falling by 4%, to just under 1.2 billion euros.

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Champions League Drama & EPL Showdown — WinSpirit Launches Betting Series with 2,500 USD in Freebets

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March brings some of the most anticipated football clashes across Europe, including Champions League knockout battles, Premier League showdowns, and UEFA Nations League fixtures. To mark the occasion, WinSpirit has introduced a dedicated Weekly Tournament Series, giving bettors the opportunity to compete across four weeks and claim a share of the Freebet prize pool.

4 Weeks. 4 Tournaments. 2,500 USD in Freebets.

As the football calendar intensifies with Liverpool vs. PSG, Arsenal vs. Chelsea, and Germany vs. Italy, WinSpirit introduces a new Weekly Tournament Series designed to bring even more excitement to sports betting. Across four weeks, participants can compete in a points-based system, with the top 10 players in each tournament earning Freebets.

Tournament Schedule & Prize Pool

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  • March 7–11 – 500 USD in Freebets
  • March 14–18 – 500 USD in Freebets
  • March 21–25 – 500 USD in Freebets
  • March 28–April 1 – Grand Finale: 1,000 USD in Freebets

How to Join the Action

  • Place bets with min odds of 1.50
  • Earn 1 point for every qualifying bet (1 EUR = 1 point)
  • Climb the leaderboard and finish in the top 10 to win

The Weekly Tournament Series will be available on the WinSpirit platform according to the schedule. Stay tuned for more upcoming tournaments on the WinSpirit website.

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How to Drive Traffic Without Caps and Earn Without Limits? Betmen Affiliates x Marsa Team

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If you – as an affiliate marketer – can generate quality traffic, then you can easily secure offers with competitive CPA rates. However, these often come with limited daily caps – a well-known pain point in the market. Advertisers are afraid of running into high costs, are reluctant to share other GEOs with advertising networks, or simply don’t trust you.
The problem of limited caps becomes even more apparent when resources allow affiliates to drive traffic in large volumes, and due to constant caps, partners have to gather dozens of offers at once in order to earn.
In this article, Betmen Affiliates and Marsa Team explain how to go about building relationships in the iGaming market. We discuss how the two companies worked using a spend-based traffic payment model with no volume limitation, and why such conditions are a real growth opportunity for affiliate marketers.

How Teams Typically Take on Offers and What Problems They Face
When an Affiliate Sales Manager agrees on an offer’s terms, rates and an offer’s technical aspects, the next step for partners is the test run. This usually involves 25-50 FTDs (first-time deposits). After the traffic is delivered, the advertiser checks the profitability over 1-2 weeks, analyzing player behavior, the percentage of bonuses that were used, and other metrics.
If the traffic quality is deemed suitable, the affiliate is given a small daily cap. The CPA rate, however, remains unchanged or increases slightly, resulting in little profit to the affiliate marketer in this collaboration.

We can see two issues with this partnership model:

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1. Limited scaling opportunities. Very often, the advertiser is not willing to provide a significant increase in the cap — for example, offering 70 daily FTDs instead of 50. Volumes such as these are insufficient for a large team of affiliate marketers. This means new offers must constantly be found leaving the affiliate team to, each time, have to adapt to a new product and new conditions. Circumstances such as these make it hard to predict profits.

2. Even a converting offer might not be profitable. Let’s say an affiliate team has a good deal whereby they provide high-quality traffic and bring in a positive – though not high – ROI of 30%. With a volume of 50 daily FTDs, income is indeed insignificant. With a CPA of $100, in a month, an affiliate team could earn:

This offer results in a profit of around $1,000 per day. Working with the advertiser under these conditions is pointless if the offer can’t be scaled. However, if volumes were increased tenfold with profits of $349,000, the situation would certainly be more appealing, right?

The Uncapped Model Used by Marsa Team and Betmen Affiliates
To transition to an uncapped model, partners had to achieve a certain level of traffic quality without increasing the cost of acquiring deposits to critical levels. Team leads from both sides communicated regularly to solve problems together: they worked on targeting by excluding smaller cities, adapted age groups, and adjusted creative approaches. The Marsa Team was open to suggestions, and the quality of traffic started to improve.

Quality traffic always leads to higher lead costs, so Betmen Affiliates suggested that the Marsa team switch to a spend-based payment model and drive traffic at any volume – a proposal which was much more interesting and profitable than working on a CPA basis.

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The spend-based model works like this: after selecting the GEO and setting the deposit price, partners receive a fixed percentage of the amount their advertising expenses for meeting their target. The quality of the traffic is evaluated as a percentage based on the 14-day Deposit OAS: for example, if you agreed on terms of 25% on the amount spent with a 70% 14-day Deposit OAS, you would earn $2,500 for every $10,000 spent on advertising.

The main difference with the spend-based model is that the same lead may cost $100 under a CPA model and twice as much when working on a spend-model. This means that the team sets its own cost per lead. The only condition is higher traffic quality: the advertiser will expect that these types of players will show better results than those acquired through CPA.

 

How to Get an Uncapped Offer and Other Traffic Conditions
We have two main recommendations:

  1. Build a relationship of trust with the advertiser. Approach requests to improve traffic quality not as a signal to terminate the offer but as an opportunity for long-term cooperation. The advertiser can always help with recommendations and advice — optimize campaigns together, and the partner will notice that you’re interested in mutual success.
  2. Test multiple approaches and analyze all available metrics. If you want to drive traffic using the spend-based model with no caps, you’ll need to find an approach that gives you the most cost-effective FTD acquisition price and provides the advertiser with the required quality.

It may take months before you and your partner come to a mutual understanding, but the numbers speak for themselves as it is well worth it!

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Where to Get an Uncapped Offer?
At Betmen Affiliates, we aim for long-term and mutually beneficial cooperation. All you need to do is bring in quality traffic, and in return, we’ll purchase all your traffic volume. Register on the Betmen Affiliates website to kickstart a productive, successful collaboration.

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Salsa Technology ready to engage with industry leaders at SAGSE Latam

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Salsa Technology is attending SAGSE Latam 2025, one of the most important gaming events in Latin America, taking place on March 19-20 at the Hilton Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Representing Salsa Technology at the event, CTO Diego Mourglia will connect with current and potential clients, providers, and key industry partners. He will also be available to discuss Formula-Bet, Salsa’s robust technology ecosystem, which includes Salsa Omni, a fully certified PAM that integrates seamlessly with Salsa Gator, an extensive proprietary gaming aggregator, as well as with top sportsbook providers and payment solutions.

“SAGSE Latam is a key event for the region, and I’m excited to once again meet with industry leaders in Buenos Aires,” said Diego Mourglia, CTO of Salsa Technology. “Salsa was born in Latin America and has an unmatched understanding of the market dynamics in Brazil, Argentina, and other markets across the region. Our technology is designed for the realities of the local industry, and our team is strategically located to provide expert support in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as in English, aligned with the region’s time zones and business needs.”

With a strong focus on Latin America, Salsa Technology continues to support operators looking to expand in regulated markets with fast, reliable, and compliant solutions tailored to the region’s needs.

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