NeoEdge Networks

NeoEdge Networks
Company typePrivate
IndustryIn-game advertising/Digital distribution
Founded2002
HeadquartersMountain View, California
Key people
Dan Servos, CEO
Todd Kenck, CFO
Andrew Radin, CTO
Nolan Bushnell, Chairman of the Board
Steven Woods, Co-founder, Member of the Board
Michael Babiak, Co-founder, Sr. VP Advertising
ProductsVideo commercials in casual games

NeoEdge Networks was a Silicon Valley–based technology and in-game advertising company that enabled casual game publishers and developers to deliver television-like commercials within their products – frequently in the context of free-to-consumer casual game play. NeoEdge powered advertising for a variety of game publishers including Yahoo.[1][2] NeoEdge provided both peer-to-peer game distribution (to reduce costs of distributing games) and in-game advertising (to help increase consumer game play and monetization). It was renamed Blue Noodle in early 2011 and shut down later that year.[3]

  1. ^ "Yahoo unveils ad-supported downloadable games". CNN Money. 10 July 2008. Archived from the original on September 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  2. ^ "Interview: Bushnell's NeoEdge Becomes Big Player with Yahoo! Games". GameDaily. 10 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  3. ^ Dan Primack (August 17, 2011). "Investor immorality: The strange case of Blue Noodle". Fortune. Retrieved June 11, 2013.