Casual Gaming

Monetize Millions Without Alienating a Single Player

Your players aren't typical gamers. They're moms on lunch breaks, puzzle lovers on their commutes, and word nerds solving their daily fix. We know how to monetize them without making them rage-quit.
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100+

Casual gaming sites, apps, and communities

Revenue

Typical revenue double or triple for casual gaming publishers

19×

Higher CPMs

Direct Sales + Flex Suite vs. programmatic alone

70%+

Viewability

With gaming-optimized ad layouts

Trusted by Leading Casual Gaming Publishers

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The Casual Gaming Difference

Your Audience Isn't "Gamers." And That's Not a Bad Thing.

Most ad tech companies treat all gaming traffic the same. Big mistake.

Casual gaming audiences skew older, more female, and more affluent than traditional gaming. They engage longer and return daily. The brands trying to reach them aren't chasing teenage boys. They want the professional solving Wordle and the parent playing match-3 puzzles.

We built our approach around who actually plays casual games. Monetizing a puzzle site like a hardcore gaming community leaves money on the table.

 

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Longer Sessions. Smarter Monetization.

Your players don't bounce after 30 seconds. They stay for 7, 10, 15 minutes solving puzzles and chasing high scores. Our approach takes advantage of this:

  • Session-Based Revenue Optimization: Our AI optimizes for revenue per session, not just per pageview. Intelligent refresh timing, strategic ad injection based on scroll behavior, and dynamic frequency capping ensure you're maximizing every minute of engagement.
  • Refresh Strategies That Don't Annoy: Viewable ads that refresh at the right intervals. Not so fast that advertisers devalue your inventory. Not so slow that you're leaving money on the table. We find your sweet spot.
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Why Casual Gaming Publishers Choose Playwire

Revenue That Respects Your Players

Casual gamers are loyal. They return daily, engage deeply, and expect a certain experience. Throw an intrusive interstitial in their face and they'll find another puzzle site. We get that.

Player-First Monetization

Our ad layouts are engineered for casual gaming environments. No forced pre-roll before your word game loads. No full-screen takeovers interrupting gameplay flow. Just strategically placed units that capture attention without capturing player frustration.

High-Impact Units That Work

The Flex Suite delivers 19× higher CPMs than standard programmatic because advertisers want engaged, brand-safe audiences. Your casual gaming traffic delivers exactly that. We help you capitalize on it with formats that command premium rates.

Video That Makes Sense

Web rewarded video changes the equation. Players opt in to watch video ads in exchange for hints, extra lives, or premium features. They engage willingly. Advertisers pay premium rates. Everyone wins.

Direct Sales That Understand Your Audience

Access Brands That Want Your Unique Blend of Traffic

Traditional gaming ad networks pitch your inventory to brands chasing teenage boys. That's not who's playing Candy Crush.

Our global direct sales team connects casual gaming publishers with advertisers specifically seeking your demographics. Consumer packaged goods. Financial services. Entertainment. Retail. Brands that understand the value of engaged adults with purchasing power.

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Premium Campaigns, Premium Rates

Direct sales campaigns through Playwire deliver CPMs that make programmatic-only strategies look embarrassing. When brands can target engaged, brand-safe audiences with custom creative, they pay accordingly.

We Work With:

  • Paramount+
  • Walt Disney Pictures
  • PlayStation
  • McDonald's
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Netflix
  • Nintendo
  • And 50+ more premium brand partners
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Technology Built for Player Retention

Dynamic Ad Injection That Doesn't Disrupt

Our ad logic adapts to user behavior in real-time. Scroll speed, engagement patterns, session length. All factor into when and where ads appear. The result? Higher viewability, better CPMs, and players who actually stick around.

Lightweight Code for Fast Games

Nobody waits around for a slow-loading puzzle game. Our implementation prioritizes page speed with asynchronous loading, dynamic timeouts, and intelligent lazy loading. Your games load fast. Your ads perform.

Gaming-Optimized Layouts

We've tested thousands of ad configurations across 100+ casual gaming properties. Our recommendations aren't guesses. They're data-driven layouts proven to maximize revenue while maintaining the experience your players expect.

The Technology Behind the Results

A Complete Ad Tech Stack

Playwire replaces a tech stack patchwork with a unified platform.

Most casual gaming publishers cobble together multiple vendors: a header bidding wrapper here, a video player there, maybe a direct sales relationship that's more trouble than it's worth. Every additional vendor adds complexity, latency, and points of failure.

Playwire replaces a that patchwork with a unified platform.

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AI That Optimizes While You Sleep

Our proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms manage what human yield teams simply can't. We're talking 1.2 million price floor rules per website. Dynamic traffic shaping that identifies high-value impressions. Real-time optimization across every auction.

Price Floor Controller: Average 20% increase in pageview CPMs through AI-managed price flooring

Traffic Shaping: 12% revenue improvement by intelligently filtering ad requests to prioritize quality over quantity

Identity Solutions: 42% higher CPMs with hashed email implementation

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Real-Time Analytics You'll Actually Use

Stop managing your ad revenue in spreadsheets with two-day-old data. Our analytics show you exactly how your content drives revenue. Right now.

What You Can Track:

  • Revenue by game, page, and content type
  • Ad unit performance comparisons
  • Viewability and engagement metrics
  • Direct sales campaign performance

"RAMP's analytics allow you to dive deep and see what each ad format is earning and which page is earning the most. The competitor's dashboard didn't provide that level of detail, but I could see it all with Playwire."

Huw Millington, Owner, Brickset.com

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Direct Sales Access

Our global sales team brings Fortune 500 brand dollars to your inventory. Premium campaigns from advertisers like McDonald's, Disney, Netflix, and Nissan, delivered without you lifting a finger.
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App Monetization for Mobile Casual Games

One SDK. 15+ demand partners. Zero integration nightmares.
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What You Get:

  • Single lightweight SDK integration
  • AppLovin, Google, Unity, Amazon TAM, and 10+ more demand sources
  • Unified payments (one check, all revenue consolidated)
  • Automatic SDK updates and maintenance
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Choose Your Level of Involvement

Managed Service

RAMP Managed Service

Let our team handle everything while you focus on your content.

Our ad ops experts obsess over your revenue 24/7. You get a dedicated partner success manager, technical solutions engineers, and yield optimization experts, all working to maximize your revenue. We handle the ad tech. You handle your site.

Perfect for: Casual gaming publishers that want maximum revenue with minimum internal ad ops resources.

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Self-Service

RAMP Self-Service

Keep your hands on the controls with enterprise-grade tools.

Full visibility into every auction setting. Real-time optimization controls. AI tools that work for you, not instead of you. Build custom rules for different sections, traffic sources, or content types.

Perfect for: Casual gaming publishers with technical teams who want granular control over their monetization strategy.

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Proven Results from Casual Gaming Publishers Like You

Spelling Bee Solver: 90% Revenue Increase

  • 20% immediate revenue increase
  • 55% additional lift with high-impact units
  • 90% year-over-year revenue growth

"Within the first month or so, I saw about a 20% increase in revenue, and by the time the holiday season was rolling around, the revenue was more like a 90% increase over the best month I had ever had with my previous provider."
William Shunn, Creator and Owner, Spelling Bee Solver

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Heardle Decades: Monetizing Viral Success

  • 200,000+ daily active users
  • 7-8 minutes average engagement
  • 8 million monthly visitors
  • Revenue that exceeded all expectations

"I didn't create these games for the money, I did it because they were fun and people enjoyed playing them. When Playwire reached out, I realized there was an opportunity to support the time I was investing while maintaining the player experience."
Martin Snelling, Owner and Game Developer

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Raider.IO: 50% Revenue Increase

  • 50% immediate revenue increase
  • Seamless single-page application integration
  • Premium direct sales access through Flex Suite

"By the time we were done with the integration, I felt the most confident I've ever felt after an integration of an ad network or monetization solution into the site."
Jah Raphael, Owner and Founder, Raider.IO

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Why Casual Gaming Publishers Like Working With Us

AI That Lives Up to the Hype

Our algorithms don't just throw ads at the wall. They learn your audience, adapt to behavior patterns, and drive up to 50% higher CPMs. The science is real.

Integration That Doesn't Break Your Games

Single-page apps, custom game engines, complex ad layouts. We've seen it all. Our technical team makes integration feel painless, even for the complicated stuff.

Support From Humans Who Get Gaming

Real experts who understand casual gaming. Not ticket-shufflers reading scripts. Actual help when you need it.

Demand That Pays What Your Traffic Deserves

Access to premium brands, private marketplace deals, and direct sales campaigns that recognize the value of engaged casual gaming audiences.

Quality, Performance, Transparency

The QPT Difference

We're obsessed with quality because your players are too. Our QPT initiative has delivered measurable results across casual gaming publishers.

One Publisher's Results:

  • 168% increase in CPMs
  • 76% revenue growth
  • 61% reduction in ad requests
  • 107% improvement in viewability
  • 8% traffic increase

Less clutter. Higher quality. Better revenue. It's not magic. It's what happens when you focus on the right metrics.

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Ready to Monetize Your Casual Gaming Traffic the Right Way?

Your audience is valuable. Your player experience matters. Your revenue should reflect both.

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