SkillPod Media is a specialised Online Gaming Consultancy:
SkillPod Media is an innovative online gaming business, whose management team is passionate about the casual games market. Casual games are generally defined as easy-to-learn, one-player games that you can play for five minutes or five hours. SkillPod Media has developed a world class proprietary gaming platform, branded as GameZBoost, which already powers a number of highly successful games sites for some of the top South African online portals, including the IOL and the Ananzi online games portals. The platform allows publishers to offer an interactive gaming experience and more so explore new revenue models to ensure increased acquisition and retention of users. The GameZBoost platform further offers new opportunities for publishers and partners to monetize their web traffic and content through advertising, subscriptions, advergaming, in-game advertising, tournaments, and virtual game sales. This platform offers a number of attractive features including player profile management, game challenges, leader boards, chat and tournament management. The platform is robust and highly configurable and can be deployed with minimum impact on the partners’ day to day operations of their business.

SkillPod Media is headed up by Mark van Diggelen. Mark has been involved in the development and design of Internet initiatives since 1995 and more so has been actively involved in the development of online communities since 1997.  Mark scoped & project managed the launch of the countries first property related portal, The Home Channel for Destiny Electronic Commerce, then owned by ABSA and Naspers.  This brand was later sold to Metropolis Transactive where he was appointed as Chief Executive of the Property Community.

Mark went on to join Osiris Trading as Vice President Technology in 2000, where he architected and deployed the required scalable and highly redundant global technology infrastructure, necessary to ensure maximum system uptime for a major global player in the online casino and poker industry. He was promoted to Vice President of Business Development in 2002, where his mandate was to spearhead the development of new player acquisition channels through the deployment of non casino initiatives, including the rollout of online lotteries, online games portals, Bingo portals and a network of  Search Engine Optimized gaming related portals focusing on the North American, Australian and United Kingdom Markets.
Subsequently, in 2004, Mark started SkillPod Media with the primary focus of building highly interactive and addictive online casual gaming brands. His vast SEO experience spans White, Grey and Black Hat techniques, including effective design, optimisation and link building to ensure websites get regularly spidered and indexed by the top international search engines.  Under Mark’s leadership SkillPod Media ’s SEO consulting business has assisted leading South African local portals and Internet businesses, including Brabys.com, Ananzi.co.za, PrivateProperty.co.za, OUTsurance.co.za, News24.com and Aucor.co.za to improve their overall search engine ranking.

Our Core Values
:: People - remain the most valuable of assets & resources, be they colleagues or our valued client base.
:: Service - a simple philosophy that determines success or failure.
:: Quality - without quality we don't have the glue that keeps it all working together.
:: Fun - without the ability to have fun & truly enjoy what we're doing there's pretty much no use in doing it at all - we nurture a healthy working environment & relationships with our clients.

How Do We Go About Business?
Our process involves rigorous usability testing, customer research, site analytics and technologies such as research tools, content management applications and personalization tools. Our focus throughout is on using interactive technology in the most cost effective way to create superior experiences that deliver value to the businesses and customers alike.

We work closely with our clients to ensure that the team gets the BIG picture and truly understand the in's and out's of the project at hand, this process includes:

Understanding the Business:
:: What are the Goals?
:: What are the Business Objectives?
:: What are the Measures to the Success?

Understanding the Brands / Products / Services:
:: What are the Details of the Brands / Products / Services?
:: How do these Brands Differentiate Themselves?
:: What Difference do They Make to the End User?

Understanding Your Customers and Client base:
:: Who and Where are Your Customers?
:: What do they Do?
:: What are Their Needs and more so What do They Want?

The end result is a highly rewarding customer experience.

Network of Games Sites:

- SkillPod Online Games
- SkillPod Online Pool / Snooker Games
- Irish Times
- KTV Kids Games
- ibibo Games
- GoDilly Kids Games
- Ananzi Internet Games
- IOL Online Games
- Kaboom Games Portal
- and many more....

Our Gaming Clients and Partners Include:

Launched www.iolgames.co.za	Launched Ananzi Games	Launched Aardvark Games
Developed a custom games channel for Ktv. The relationship includes the development of custom games that feature the TV characters and TV presenter.	Provide News24.com users with relevant games that appeal to the type of person who is interested in current affairs and challenging their mind while at the office.	Custom games channel for one of the largest newspaper groups in Canada.
Launched Motafish.com and Chotafish.com with M-Web India	Launched www.pepsnap.com and a number of other games portals across Canada, USA and Ireeand	CNA Sponsored the Ananzi Kids Games Portal

Our Search Engine Optimisation Clients Include:

Recent Advertisers Across our Network of Games Portals Include:

-mail: info@SkillPodMedia.com