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by pduan 5201 days ago
It is a lot of money in aggregate.

But when you break it down, it looks like a pretty good deal.

Revenue multiple: Based on the reported figure of $250,000/day = $91.25M/year. At a purchase of $210M, this represents a multiple of 2.2x, far below the price/sales multiple of Zynga and Glu Mobile, two publicly traded companies on the US exchange. Sure, OMGPOP probably won't be hitting $250,000/day for the entire year but even at a 50% discount, you're in the same range as Glu.

DAU cost: Assume CPI of $1.50, install/DAU conversion rate of 10%. This equates to a DAU cost of ~$15. It's safe to say that OMGPOP has >10M DAU, which means ZNGA bought the company at <$20/DAU. Additionally, the above CPI and install/DAU conversion rate are quite low. I've been hearing that OMGPOP is seeing 1-day retention rates of 50-75% which is amazingly high. This means that with continued growth and similar retention rates, ZNGA got a pretty good deal in terms of DAU acquisition cost.

The main advantage for Zynga is that they can leverage OMGPOP's DAU and cross-promote their existing titles. And with their experience in monetizing titles, it's safe to assume that ARPU will increase.

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how Zynga is going to make money (advertising on DAUs) off the users that ALREADY PAID for the no-ads Draw Something app?

$250k/day with $0.99 per user == ~252,000 installs a day. That's almost 92MM installs per year. How many active users does App store have?

There will be plenty of places to cross promote their games. I'm thinking loading screens, contacts database,..
You're forgetting the in-app purchases. OMGPOP only makes a portion, albeit a minority, of their revenue from the initial sale.