with adobe shockwave . shockwave type private 1 2 industry online and offline video game distribution founded december 18 1998 ; 17 years ago 1998 12 18 1 headquarters 225 bush street suite 1200 2 3 san francisco california u.s. key people dave williams senior vice president 4 mika salmi ceo 2 products video games casual games owner defy media number of employees 25 100 2 parent defy media website shockwave.com shockwave.com or shockwave is an online and offline video games distributor and portal based in san francisco california united states . 3 shockwave has three main tabs on its website namely online games download games and my shockwave . 5 it hosts over 400 games 6 and ranging in genres such as puzzle action strategy racing sport jigsaw adventure multiplayer games and downloadable games . 7 peter glover vice president describes shockwave as a united artists of the web or a site that helps independent game developers publish their web games . 8 as of september 2010 it ranked 2 245 on alexa and 1 023 in the u.s web traffic . 1 from 2012 to 2014 shockwave was under the nickmom brand serving as nickmom s game section . in 2014 defy media acquired all of viacom s game properties and shockwave.com became a stand alone entity again . 9 viacom acquired a small stake of defy . contents 1 history 2 audiences 3 club shockwave 4 shockwave cash discontinued 1 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit shockwave.com merged with atom corporation and formed atom entertainment in 2001 . later on august 9 2006 viacom acquired the company for 200 million . 10 11 as the result of the acquisition atomfilms.com and addicting clips.com will expand mtv network s online video library . on january 31 2009 shockwave japan a subsidiary of shockwave closed its business . 12 in 2014 defy media took over shockwave.com . audiences edit in august 2008 shockwave had 4.8 million unique visitors according to comscore media metrix . 4 mika salmi said shockwave as casual gaming site whose target market is parents and moms 13 with its customers mostly women from age 18 to 49 years old . 4 this shows difference in statistic as in 2002 when the company was freshly merged with atom shockwave s audiences ranging from age 10 39 and about equal in gender . 14 club shockwave edit on march 24 2009 shockwave launched a premium service called club shockwave . the service allows members to play a number of exclusive games and download titles . and a chance to win cash prizes . 6 shockwave cash discontinued 1 edit at the casual connect game conference in seattle dave williams senior vice president of the nickelodeon kids and family games group introduced shockwave cash virtual currency that could be used to buy virtual goods in several titles such as hungry hungry hippy let s get grillin and sara s super spa me . 15 the shockwave cash feature has been discontinued but users are still allowed to use any earned or purchased shockwave cash . 16 see also edit game portal references edit a b c shockwave.com site info . alexa.com 2010 11 25 . retrieved on 2010 12 14 . a b c d atomshockwave san francisco ca employee directory company information & locations . jigsaw.com 2010 11 01 . retrieved on 2010 12 14 . a b contact us . shockwave . retrieved on 2010 12 14 . a b c viacom . viacom . retrieved on 2010 12 14 . www.shockwave.com website server info stats dns ip popular keywords faqs.org websites . faqs.org . retrieved on 2010 12 14 . a b introduces new premium online gaming service club shockwave nickelodeon reveals new look shockwave portal casual games news by . casualgaming.biz . retrieved on 2010 12 14 . beyond downloads exploring advertising options with real msn shockwave http www.thewrap.com defy media sells minority stake to viacom in exchange for its gaming companies viacom s mtv networks agrees to acquire atom pay per click analyst 23 september 2008 viacom buys shockwave maker com shockwave closes japan loses one of its biggest casual gaming sites viacom gets vertical atomshockwave corp. short movie supplier labor & employment human resources & personnel management from . allbusiness.com . retrieved on 2010 12 14 . shockwave catches the virtual goods wave with newest games shockwave shockwave cash help . shockwave.com . retrieved 2016 08 18 . external links edit shockwave.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title shockwave game portal & oldid 735142753 categories websites about animation navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add 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