The goal of HeyZap is to be the “YouTube of casual gaming” by giving site publishers a way to embed more than 6000 casual Flash games into their sites with a single embed code. Their business model (more detail from TechCrunch) is to collect revenue from ads within the games using the MochiAds ad platform and share some of that with developers. The publishers using the code don’t get revenue, but get increased traffic to their sites.
Now there’s a new API from HeyZap that lets publishers customize the look and selection of the games that are served through their system. It allows customization beyond the options that are available on their standard embed codes. In this sense it is much like the ShareThis API that we profiled earlier, allowing publishers with a little bit of technical savvy to shape embeddable content to fit their sites.
HeyZap offers a simple REST API that returns XML or JSON and allows:
More details at our HeyZap API Profile.
VentureBeat chronicled the rapid acceptance of HeyZap’s product, and it will be interesting to note whether programmatic customization can help extend that success.
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9 Responses to “Embed Flash Games via the HeyZap API”
at 10:02 pm
[...] Embed Flash Games via the HeyZap API Now there’s a new API from HeyZap that lets publishers customize the look and selection of the games that are served through their system. It allows customization beyond the options that are available on their standard embed codes. In this sense it is much like the ShareThis API that we profiled earlier, allowing publishers with a little bit of technical savvy to shape embeddable content to fit their sites. [...]
at 10:07 am
[...] Embed Flash Games via the HeyZap API Now there’s a new API from HeyZap that lets publishers customize the look and selection of the games that are served through their system. It allows customization beyond the options that are available on their standard embed codes. In this sense it is much like the ShareThis API that we profiled earlier, allowing publishers with a little bit of technical savvy to shape embeddable content to fit their sites. (tags: ria flash games api) [...]
at 7:11 pm
We have a similar (and possibly less restrictive) REST API for embedding Flash Games.
See:
http://www.fupa.com/freegames.aspx
at 3:56 pm
thanks for the post.
Will have a look and see if its ok for my site
at 8:08 pm
I don’t get HeyZap they’re really not offering anything unique to a flash developer…
To add a tweet this button or add to facebook button isn’t hard to do…
Mochi already let people use their ads in games so why split your money with heyzap…..
and as for the youtube of flash games was that not what kongregate are going for?
at 2:56 am
This blog post is 7 months old. You may want to see some of the latest news about us in blog.heyzap.com and heyzap.com/docs/press.
We now do Virtual Goods, in-game Viral, Social leaderboards, Achievements all distributed where the game is. If you developer flash games check out heyzap.com/developers
at 11:09 pm
This is a good resource. I am going to look into changing my API as I do not feel mine is flexible enough.
at 7:03 am
You know, content area is one of the most overlooked about areas of a site when it comes to a style. However, it is also a very essential area as far as making a group goes.
at 8:18 pm
Flash games are becoming more popular these days because people can play them online for free Vitalzym