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Flash Comes to the Iphone – Heyzap Payments Here To Help

Tweet Flash is finally here for the iphone – this is really good news for flash developers! Adobe CS5 will specifically allow flash developers to push their games out as an the iphone app to the App Store. This backs up the news yesterday that Adobe are also going to be pushing flash out to [...]

Heyzap Launches Virtual Goods Shop

Tweet We’ve had the shop feature in a state of alpha for a while now but we are officially launching our virtual goods shop as of today. For the developers this is an awesome feature because it should increase the number of purchases in the game and raise the eCPM rate of the game. It [...]

New Community Area for Developers and Publishers

Tweet We are excited to release our new community area for Heyzap! Developers now have a profile page where they can showcase their portfolio of games, and there’s a great new forum to discuss everything related to flash game development, like announce your new game, or discuss how you are using Heyzap Payments in your [...]

Heyzap Launches Publisher Revenue Share of Virtual Goods

Tweet We just announced our publisher revenue share on Techcrunch and for a limited time we are giving the first 1000 sites that sign up 20% revenue share (normally 15%). We will give websites that use Heyzap widget, API or embed games on registered domains a rev share on all virtual good sales on their [...]

Heyzap Payments Gives 70% Revenue Share for Developers

Tweet Just to keep our flash developers up to date. We switched from our original revenue share of 50/50 to 70/30 where the 70% goes to developers. We feel this is more in line with the Apple App store model of 70/30 and is fairer for developers. We are still seeing amazing uptake of Heyzap [...]

Heyzap.com Hiring!

TweetHeyzap is changing the way publishers and developers think about games. We have loads of new ideas in mind and we need help building them, so we’re looking for our 4th full-time team member to work on exciting new projects in our sunny San Francisco office. If you think that could be you, read on! [...]

Heyzap Receives Funding From Union Square Ventures

TweetToday we are excited to announce that we have received funding from Union Square Ventures. We are pleased to join the other great companies in their portfolio (Twitter, Zynga, Disqus, Etsy, Zemanta and all the other great companies) and look forward to working with USV. Here are three great articles about the story: Techcrunch Venturebeat [...]

Heyzap New Site Design

Tweet Wooho! New site design is up. Made the colors and design a bit sexier. We are releasing some awesome features in the next few weeks so keep your eyes on us!

Heyzap Forums Launched

Tweet We have decided to introduce forums into heyzap to cover different topics that the heyzap community wants to talk about. So go ahead, make your first post!

Contextualised Games for Publishers

TweetAnother innovative feature from Heyzap! We have now released the ability for any site or blog to get contextualised games. For example, if you are are basketball website then you can get basketball games or if you are a celebrity blog you can get celebrity games. You can mix and match  to your imagination. We [...]