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i-Jet Media is an international distribution network and publisher of social games.

History

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

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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In 2005, i-Jet Media was founded as a developer of browser-based games. Thorough work on the company's first game, Maffia New, was being done during 2 years. After the launch, Maffia New used to gain more than 500,000 monthly users on Rambler

Rambler

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. In 2007, Maffia New was published on Rambler.ru as well as Time to Enforce, Real Wars and Steel Giants were launched. Inspired with appearance of first ever social games on social network

Social network

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...

Facebook

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, Alexey Kostarev, CEO and Co-founder of i-Jet Media, moved to the Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...

in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

(USA) and opened an office there. After that, the company started preparing to launch social games, or “games with friends” in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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In 2009, the company launched a cooperative project with Chinese developer Elex: i-Jet Media published Elex's games in Russian social networks - VKontakte, first of all.

In April 2009, i-Jet Media published Happy Harvest 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. The company claims that this is still the most popular and profitable social game in the history of the Russian market. Happy Harvest was awarded with the Goggle Trend prize as the best game of 2009. In 2009, i-Jet Media also opened its office in eijing

In 2010, i-Jet Media games were the first ones ever published in the Odnoklassniki.ru

Odnoklassniki.ru

Odnoklassniki is a social network service for classmates and old friends reunion popular in Russia and other former Soviet Republics. It was created by Albert Popkov on March 4, 2006....

network. The company started exporting them to European social networks: Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, Germany

Germany

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, and Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. In May 2010, the company published Farm Frenzy

Farm Frenzy

Farm Frenzy is a series of downloadable casual games for the PC developed by Alawar Melesta, an internal development studio of Alawar Entertainment...

, in cooperation with a leading international casual game publisher and distributor Alawar Entertainment

Alawar Entertainment

Alawar Entertainment is video game developer, publisher and distributor founded in 1999. The company uses the try-before-you-buy distribution model, allowing players to sample the free trial version of a game, after which they are asked to purchase a game key online to unlock the full version...

. In summer 2010, i-Jet Media started to publish games on Russian Facebook.

i-Jet Media also aims at developing a mobile trend and publishes mobile versions of games on large social networks of Russia. In July 2010, i-Jet Media and mobile social network

Mobile social network

Mobile social networking is social networking where one or more individuals of similar interests or commonalities, conversing and connecting with one another using the mobile phone. Much like web based social networking, mobile social networking occurs in virtual communities. A current trend for...

Spaces.ru established a game section which managed to get more than 25,000 visitors during its first day online.

In September 2010, i-Jet Media and Playdom

Playdom

Playdom is an online social network game developer popular on Facebook and on MySpace; it is currently the largest social game developer on MySpace and one of the larger ones on Facebook. The company was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area by University of California, Berkeley graduates Ling Xiao...

announced that i-Jet Media would publish social games by Playdom in European social networks. They also agreed to combat piracy on the Russian social games market.

Now i-Jet Media works with 40 game developers and has published 80 social games on 30 social networks, and currently has several dozen social games with an audience of 70 million users..

i-Jet Connect

On August 15, 2011, during the Social Games Summit at Game Developers Conference

Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking...

Europe, i-Jet Media revealed its new technological platform, i-Jet Connect; the platform is intended to consolidate social game development solutions and features the ability to quickly publish titles to both global and local social networks, manage traffic, and incorporate brand advertisements. i-Jet Media

I-Jet Media

i-Jet Media is an international distribution network and publisher of social games.-History:i-Jet Media was founded in 2005. It took two years for the company to develop its first game, Maffia New, which gained more than 500,000 unique monthly active users in Russia.In 2005, i-Jet Media was founded...

has been conducting a closed beta test of i-Jet Connect since August 15 expected to be finished in November 2011. Menwhile, social game developers can register for the beta on the company’s web site.

Publications about i-Jet Media

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