Los Angeles, California – WEBWIRE – Thursday, September 29, 2022
We are delighted to open our Gameway Ultra store in this beautiful new Delta terminal at LAX. Our aim is to enhance the travelers experience by offering some fun entertainment at the airport.
Gameway, the premiere airport video gaming lounge, unveiled its new flagship Gameway Ultra location at the newly completed Delta Sky Way Terminal 3 at LAX today. Their sleek new store showcases a redesigned, immersive, trend-setting look, and expands Gameways award-winning luxury gaming stations, and industry-leading amenities and services. This Gameway Ultra location represents the evolution of the brand, adding the new RetroZone® bar, offering a selection of craft beer while visitors enjoy classic video games.
Gameway has reimagined the modern airport lounge experience since their launch in 2018 with two locations at DFW airport. Whether travelers are stopping in during a layover, or have just arrived at their gate, they can enjoy a unique experience with personalized gaming packages. Gameway offers top-of-the-line luxury gaming stations with next generation Xbox, PlayStation, and PCs, complete with the newest games. Each station is equipped with Razers Iskur Gaming Chairs and Kraken Headsets, and dedicated high speed internet. Gameway maintains post-pandemic cleanliness standards, an extensive menu of snacks and beverages, and at Gameway Ultra locations, the RetroZone® bar.
Presenting a unique, entertaining alternative to airport travel, Gameway asks, Why wait, when you can game? Founded and led by husband-and-wife team Jordan and Emma Walbridge, Gameways growth has been explosive since capturing travelers attention in 2018. After first opening at the Dallas Fort-Worth Airport, Gameway was awarded Best Traveler Amenity in 2019 at the ACI-NA Awards and later, in 2020, voted Most Innovative Customer Experience at the Airport Experience Traveler Awards. They followed this success with two new locations in 2021: LAX Terminal 6 and Charlotte Douglas International Airport. With their fifth location, and second at LAX, the Walbridges wanted to take their brand to the next level in Deltas Terminal 3.
We are delighted to open our Gameway Ultra store in this beautiful new Delta terminal at LAX. Our aim is to enhance the travelers experience by offering some fun entertainment at the airport, beamed Co-Founder Emma Walbridge. Being an ACDBE-certified business I am also extremely thankful to URW, LAX, and Delta for the opportunity to bring the Gameway experience to Terminal 3.
Gameway offers guests a unique experience to enhance their travel journey and we are excited to have a second location here at LAX, said Maral Matossian, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) General Manager, LAX. We also are proud to support another 100% Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE) operator and woman-owned business. We are committed to growing diverse participation in our airports and supporting our partners to help them achieve success wherever they are in their journey.
Gameway is the real reason to get to your gate early, smiled Co-Founder Jordan Walbridge. Mr. Walbridge, an Afghanistan War Veteran, often used video games to decompress with his squad after missions while deployed. Video games are a great way to de-stress; airports can be stressful and often theres an atmosphere of hurry up and wait. With Gameway, were upgrading the typical wait-at-the-gate experience with a new, stimulating entertainment option for travelers of all ages.
The Walbridges are set to open another Gameway location at Houstons Hobby Airport this October, and have an aggressive strategy to expand their domestic footprint to 14 new airports over the next two years.
Learn more about Gameway:
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Sep 30, 2022 | Business
Angela Deese touched peoples lives as a follower of Christ by writing books that discuss reflection, introspection, and the understanding of self-healing through God. Numerous non-fiction writings by Angela Deese describe her relationship with God. All of them serve the same objective, which is to glorify Christ through the written word and inspiration.
She draws on many of her non-fiction writings in The Wounded. In her book, Angela Deese prominently displays not only her conversion to Christianity but also how her trust in Christ has enabled her to overcome obstacles and understand her challenges. The Wounded is powerful because it demonstrates to readers how Christians can rely on God when challenges abound.
The author addresses these difficulties in detail in each chapter. Shipwrecked for times when she felt trapped. Other chapters, like Blood Fought, where she explains how God helped her resist the devils temptation, on the other hand, describe trials.
But what truly makes The Wounded a beautiful companion for believers is that it is in no way ashamed of God. Angela Deese shares her experiences, insights, and problems. This is a kind of reflective memoir. An account of the faith that demonstrates how God is involved in every aspect of our lives. How God has our back and is guiding us at every turn. Additionally, we Christians ought to solely hold His hand. That is the struggle, of course, and believers make mistakes because we are only human. We should tread cautiously in a world of sin. We must realize that God is constantly looking out for us, especially when we are tempted to transgress.
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The Wounded
Author: Angela Deese
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Published Date: September 2022
Book Genre: Memoir
About the Author:
Angela Deese is a Christian author that will inspire you in your own walk with Jesus Christ. She has an honest approach and is fully transparent in her writing. She believes that if you fully expose the lies of Satan that you will gain the freedom in your own walk with Christ.
She will captivate you with the stories that you can relate to personally in your own life. She brings her real life into the stories that bring faith and truth to the reader.
Angela is a mother of three grown children and eight grandchildren. She lives in Georgia with her family close by. She began writing as the Lord began to heal her from the bondage of past hurts that occurred in her life.
Angela has a way of bringing scripture to life and allowing it to heal the broken hearted. She never wants anyone to feel alone in their journey.
Angela is an author of twenty-five books in which fourteen are now published. You will love Angelas style of writing as you will relate your own life to her journey.
As a mother and grandmother, you will find out how Angela has handled trials and tribulations in her books.
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Sep 30, 2022 | Business
According to a new influencer marketing report, while creator earnings and wages have risen in the past 12 months, nearly 2 out of 3 creators say that have turned down work on campaigns due to misalignment of brand values
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – WEBWIRE – Thursday, September 29, 2022
Aspire, the leading Influencer Marketing Platform for 800+ Shopify merchants and e-commerce brands, announced findings from its first-ever Creator Survey. Based on a survey of more than 1,700 creators, the report sheds light on trends in influencer marketing, where creators are seeing an increase in rates and earnings in the past year, but brand values impact decisions on which partnerships to pursue.
The biggest takeaway for brands is that values alignment and authenticity matter, Aspire CEO Anand Kishore said. Creators are much more likely to engage with brand partners that share the same values as their audiences. Were in an era of high trust commerce. Younger generations especially are rejecting ads for content that feels authentic and breeds trust.
A New Era of Influence Driven By High-Trust Commerce & Brand Values
According to a recent report from Adobe, there are now 303 million creators making content online, as the creator economy as a whole grew in value to $13.9B more than double its value in 2019. This growth has also trickled down to creators take-home pay. In the last year, as Aspires survey showed 4.3% of creators are earning six figures or greater, or approximately 12M globally.
Within the last six months, roughly half (55.2%) of creators said their rates increased and nearly two-thirds (65.8%) reported that their workload increased over the 12 months prior, with women (66%) seeing a higher increase than men (61%).
Along with the increase in campaigns overall, not every project is greenlit. According to the survey, a vast majority (64%) of creators turned down a brand campaign in the last 12 months due to a misalignment between the brands values and their own.
Sustainability also revealed itself as a key consideration among a majority of creators with nearly three-fourths (74.4%) of respondents saying they are very willing to work with brands committed to sustainability.
Despite sustainability being a consistent value held by creators and their followers, only about 15% of creators who take on projects related to sustainability said they would charge a lower rate for them, while a majority (63%) said they would keep rates the same. This demonstrates a strong willingness among creators to not compromise rates even if the brands values are grounded in goodwill and aligned with their own.
This sentiment held true when creators were asked about the biggest challenge of working with sustainable brands, as getting paid their standard rate ranked among the top two most prominent issues for creators. Heres a full breakdown of responses:
- Finding the right sustainable products that my followers will love: 40.6%
- Getting paid what I normally charge: 34.5%
- Finding the right brands that support their values: 18.4%
- Other: 6.5%
How Brands Can Improve Collaboration with Creators
The survey also revealed how brands can improve the collaboration experience. 1 in 5 (20.8%) creators said they want more creative freedom and more responsiveness (20.6%) when working with brands. Heres the top list of improvement areas creators want to see::
- Allow for more creative freedom: 20.8%
- More responsiveness & communication: 20.6%
- Treat me more like an extension of their team: 17.1%
- Better briefing on the campaign: 16.2%
- Show a better understanding of my brand & audience: 13.6%
- Provide more clear KPIs up front: 11.7%
Survey Methodology
Aspire distributed the creator survey to creators ages 16-55+ in its database between June – July 2022 gathering 1,726 responses. This online survey was not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For additional questions, please contact aspireiq@vsc.co
For more information about Aspire, visit www.aspire.io.
About Aspire
Founded in 2013, Aspire is the leading influencer marketing platform for e-commerce brands and is trusted by some of the most successful Shopify brands, including Brooklinen, Michaels, Rue21, among others. By utilizing word-of-mouth marketing, Aspire empowers brands to scale their business by fostering authentic relationships with influencers. Operating without fees or commissions, Aspire has paid more than $100M to creators to date. Aspire was named a leader in influencer marketing solutions by Forrester in 2020.
