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Lost your Job Play Free Online Game
Free online games prestige enhances on the days of recession. The big free ad-supported game portals report an average growth of about 20% in the number of visitors from December 2007 to December 2008. Yahoo! Games stands at the top with almost 20,000 unique visitors, about 1 percent of the total internet surfers in the US. While European Spil Games enjoyed the largest 269% leap in its exposure to American players. There is also a 42% boost in the amount of time spent in front of an online game comparing to previous year.
The increasing number of people who have lost their jobs and the understanding that the world's strongest nation is undergoing its most acute economic crisis since 1929 leads to the flourishing of free escapist activities. That is where free online gaming websites (as opposed to real money gaming sites such as online casinos, poker rooms, money backgammon websites, etc.) get into the picture.
The biggest free gaming portals such as Yahoo! Games, MSN Games, Addicting Games, provide variety of hundreds web supported games range from casual games such as Cake Mania and Bejeweled to multiplayer classic cards and boards games (bridge, backgammon, monopoly and alikes). The large selection of games, their easy operation (most of them require no download) and the fact that they are free (since network connection is an obligatory outcome in times of online job searches) make them the ultimate pastime for the between jobs period.
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Yet nothing comes for free. Free online games are ad supporters, i.e. force their players exposure to advertisements, designed to take them out of the passive, consumption avoidance state towards a more spendthrift mood. And now with those encouraging reports, the advertisers will come in masses. "The advertising community is recognizing the value of this highly engaged audience," said Edward Hunter, the gaming solutions director of ComScore that prepared the report, "It is also likely that the advertising agency community will begin to demand more evaluations of campaign effectiveness in this space as spend and impressions continue to rise." He added.
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