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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | video games, social network service |
| Founded | December 6, 2008 |
| Founders | Dan Yue Chris Wang Ling Xiao |
| Defunct | September 1, 2016 |
| Fate | Closure, absorbed into Disney Interactive |
| Successor | Library: Disney Interactive |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | John Pleasants, former CEO (resigned from Disney, November 2013) David Sobeski, former CTO (left Disney, December 2013) Christa Quarles, CFO (left Disney May 2014) Brad Serwin, former COO (left Disney, March 2012) |
| Parent | Disney Interactive Studios (2010–2016) |
| Website | playdom.com |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Playdom was an online social network game developer popular on Facebook, Google+ and Myspace. The company was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area[2] by University of California, Berkeley graduates Ling Xiao and Chris Wang and Swarthmore College graduate Dan Yue. In 2009, the market for games played on social networking sites was valued at $300 million, consisting mostly of online sales of virtual goods.[3]
It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney Interactive, itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. On September 1, 2016, Disney announced the closure of the remaining Playdom games, Marvel: Avengers Alliance and its mobile sequel at the end of the month, effectively shuttering the studio.[4]
- ^ "PlayDom.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-08-21.
- ^ Stone, Brad (16 December 2009). "Russian Facebook investor adds stake in Zynga". New York Times. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
- ^ Wawro, Alex (16 December 2009). "Online sale of digital content breaks $1bn in 2009". PC World.
- ^ "Disney Interactive Support". Disney. Archived from the original on 3 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.