Hookin blog · 128 articles
Practical guides, teardowns, and platform notes for teams building and scaling playable ads.
10 articles in Game Design
Ad Networks
Six verified in-game advertising examples show how brands can fit racing, sports, and social worlds without disrupting the player's task.
17 min read46 views
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Ad Networks
A practical application-level diagnostic for finding duplicate reward paths, separating reward signals from ad lifecycle events, and enforcing one accepted wallet mutation per stable grant key.
12 min read47 views
Ad Networks
A practical rewarded video UX guide for the screens and system states around the ad: the offer, safe decline, preparation, playback outcome, delayed verification, and visible reward delivery.
18 min read22 views
Performance
A playable can win more attributed installs while losing downstream value. Here is how to define the mismatch, write a metric contract, and test the handoff without blaming the player.
11 min read57 views
Performance
A production system for exploring playable creative without losing the build identity, test cell, network profile, store destination, or causal question.
9 min read53 views
Game Design
Video ads plateau. Playable ads don't. Here's exactly how top gaming studios use interactive creatives across every genre — with real data, real mechanics, and the mistakes that waste budget.
15 min read34 views
AI
A complete catalog of game types you can generate with AI for playable ads — from simple tap-to-collect to 3D product showcases. Learn which mechanics work best for each industry and how AI handles them.
8 min read40 views
Performance
Most mobile users decide whether to engage with an ad in under three seconds. Here's how to design playable ads that survive the scroll — from tutorial design to loading screens to that critical first tap.
8 min read62 views
AI
Not all game engines are equal when it comes to playable ads — and the gap widens when AI writes the code. We compare HTML Canvas, Phaser.js, and Three.js on file size, mobile performance, AI code generation reliability, and ad network compatibility to help you pick the right engine for every type of playable ad.
11 min read48 views
AI
Interactive automotive advertising already drives measurable results — Volvo's interactive CTV campaign generated a 35% sales lift. Playable ads bring that same hands-on engagement into mobile ad units, letting potential buyers configure, drive, and compare cars before they ever visit a dealership.
19 min read37 views