gaming

Rooster Teeth was supposed to own the YouTube ecosystem for gaming. Then the company was poised to build out an independent, viable subscription video service. Then the company was supposed to help AT&T learn gaming and Gen Z. Today, Rooster Teeth has evolved – or pivoted – to become a fan community for fans of […]

Dario Raciti has been working on bringing more brands to video games for over a decade. He’s finally given up. Ok, not really. But Raciti, Managing Director of OMG’s Zero Code, said more recently that he’s been trying to steer more clients toward the massive viewership emanating from people watching other people playing games –  […]

Last year, the in-game ad tech company Anzu helped American Eagle launch a virtual store in Roblox. The Israeli-startup also announced a partnership with NBCUniversal. The message seemed clear – Anzu and in-game advertising gaming was ready to go big. But not every brand is ready to, or needs to, build out their own custom […]

As gaming becomes more of a prominent ad vehicle, the list of examples of brands going big continues to grow. A retailer may build a virtual store in Roblox. Another might launch its own playspace in Fortnite, or even create a sports game timed for March Madness or the Super Bowl. These kinds of campaigns […]

What happens to your media expectations when you are used to being in control, and fully immersed? How does this change they way you expect to engage with advertising? These are some of the big questions marketers should be pondering, according to Sarah Stringer, EVP, Head of U.S. Media Partnerships, dentsu. While the metaverse may not […]

“Where do I start?” “How do I enter in a way that’s authentic?” These are the kinds of questions Samantha Lim, Publicis’ SVP, Gaming Strategy and Innovation gets from marketers all the time. Brands are asking about how best to advertise in the vast gaming universe – but the questions and general uncertainty echoes that found […]

If there’s an easy entry point for marketers to crack gaming, it’s usually through mobile games. But that often comes with a tradeoff in quality – or it least has historically. Mobile games lend themselves to ads, which gamers are used to. But the big splashy opportunities in high end console titles – think mega […]

We’ve known for some time that the video games industry is bigger than Hollywood. But the growth of mobile gaming is underlining that position. “The phone is your primary device,” says business development mobile ad tech provider AdColony‘s VP Matt Barash. “Maybe gaming is the new cinema. It’s where people spend a lot of time. “Recently, we had the Super Bowl […]