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Can Indiagames leverage the Disney connection?

Business Standard has an article on Indiagames' future under Walt Disney (which is in the process of taking over Indiagames' current parent, UTV) Today, Indiagames works with original equipment manufacturers (OEM) as well as telcos like Tata Docomo, Uninor, and Idea. Large accounts like Airtel and Vodafone have grown 24 per cent year-on-year in FY2011. App stores have also fuelled the firm’s growth. T20 fever developed by Indiagames was among the top 10 games in Apple’s App Store. Indiagames is perhaps the only company that has been successful in creating a business model for games via subscription. A Games on Demand (GoD) model was initiated for PC-gamersand has 80,000 users in 2011 from 30,000 in 2010 and is a solid contributor, generating Rs 8.2 crore of revenue in FY201, up from Rs 2.3 crore in FY2010. A user can download and play unlimited times, up to 300 PC games which are digitally delivered for a monthly subscription of Rs 200 and Rs 100 . It has also entered into th...