CloudMade changes the game with location
This site is about Sponsored Locations, CloudMade’s primary offering to game developers and retail brands. CloudMade has built an extensive location platform for web and mobile use. Today our location platform is used by Navigation OEMs, Mobile Handset OEMs and our developer community of over 23,000 developers.
CloudMade’s Sponsored Locations
Mobile games are the fastest growing media across a very broad demographic. The massive reach provided by mobile games – millions of users having fun playing every day in multiple places, often in or near retail locations – is a great marketing and monetization opportunity. Realizing this, we have created Sponsored Locations as a service to:
- Enable game developers and publishers to monetize the large majority of users who don’t buy in-game items
- Allow consumer brands to be part of the game, offer real consumer value and use the games to generate retail traffic and sales
- Achieve this monetization and advertising value in a way users see as a value add when they play games
CloudMade’s Team
We have a great team of 42 people who love building outstanding user experiences. Most of us have done this across mobile devices, games and technology platforms for most of our adult lives. We are among the world’s leading experts in developing location technologies that enable great user experiences and optimized monetization. We work closely with gaming and retail partners worldwide and we look forward to working with you. Our head office is located in Menlo Park, CA, with additional offices in London, Stuttgart and Kyiv.
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Juha Christensen
Chairman and CEOJuha has been building mobile operating systems for most of his career. He founded Symbian, went on to lead the charge in the early days of Windows Mobile, ran part of Macromedia, helped build the largest System Integrator in the mobile industry (Teleca) and helped to make Trolltech and Qt successful. Today his focus is on helping developers to build and monetize great products and leading consumer brands to achieve their marketing goals, utilizing the CloudMade’s location platform.
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Christian Petersen
VP CommunityChristian has over 20 years of experience within the online and mobile app industry. He has worked internationally as an expert on mobile applications and advergaming for such companies as Macromedia, Microsoft, Symbian, Kellogg’s, LEGO, Mars, and Nestle. At CloudMade, Christian’s primary goal is to make sure that the main needs and wants of our ever growing developer community – the leading game developers and publishers, consumer brands and mobile users – are recognized and transformed into great location-based products and solutions.
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Jim Brown
CTOJim is responsible for the technology and infrastructure of CloudMade. Before joining CloudMade, he spent over 20 years in the telecommunications, database/ERP and retail industries driving strategy, building technical operations and delivering to plan. Jim has a significant corporate background with Sonopia, Kmart, Oracle and Symbian along with a number of startups and smaller technology organizations.
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Nick Black
Founder and Head of ProductsNick is responsible for leading the company’s product vision and strategy. Being one of the earliest driving forces behind OpenStreetMap – the free wiki world map – and a developer in the past, Nick has gained a deep understanding of developers’ needs for location products. His passion is creating tools and services that allow to deliver remarkable location based experiences across all device and application types.
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Michael Farrow
CFOBefore joining CloudMade, Mike served as a CFO for NetShelter Technology Media, which delivers internet advertising across technology-related websites. Previously, he was CFO of Jumpstart Automotive Media, a leader in both automotive content and advertising, and the top Financial Manager for fastest growing division at EarthLink, a Fortune 1000 company.
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Nihat Küçük
Managing Director at CloudMade Deutschland GmbHNihat is a true entrepreneur and professional in location based technologies, navigation, telematics, traffic and the mobile internet space. He has over 10 years of experience doing research and development on mobility and telematics services for Daimler. Another 12 years were spent running his own startup OneStepAhead, a global provider of next-generation navigation software which was acquired by CloudMade in 2011.