Each week Playerize publishes a collection of interesting and noteworthy stories from the social and mobile gaming world. Please have a look at the weekly roundup for January 13, 2012.
Consumers Don't Mind Mobile Ads but Only if the Content is Free
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Viral Marketing
Words With Friends continues to lead this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
Facebook relents on Credits, allows in-app currency offers
Angry Birds, Facebook most downloaded apps in 2011
Research firm sees game in-app purchase revenue hitting $4.6 billion by 2016
Sponsored Stories begin to appear in News Feed
How Facebook’s Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks Down [INFOGRAPHIC]
A Pair of New Social Games: Google+ Captures Pirates, Facebook Takes EA’s Risk
Popcap Survey on Cheating: Social Games vs. Real World
Google creating its own social game using Google Maps
Facebook to reach 1B active users in August, that’s 14% of the world
Mobile Gaming To Generate $18 Billion
A Gambling Company Is About To Snatch Zynga's Billion-Dollar Opportunity (ZNGA)