With global video game revenue expected to hit $365 billion by the end of 2023, and users expected to reach 3 billion by 2027, there is an incredible opportunity for brands to reach a massive untapped audience. And it turns out, younger gamers are increasingly persuasive when it comes to what their parents buy. Research…
As augmented reality, metaverse activations and gaming formats of all kinds continue to grow as media channels, marketers are looking for high return-on-investment ways to advertise within the sector. But that’s proving relatively slow to materialize. While interest in the metaverse has cooled off somewhat since the peak of hype last year, brands are continuing…
Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo IV will send players to hell to battle Lilith, the queen of hatred. A campaign from creative agency 72andSunny and their experiential production partner Wildlife is capturing the scale of the video game’s cosmic conflict by covering a deconsecrated gothic cathedral in France with artwork from Baroque-style painter Adam Miller. “The Cathedral…
LeBron James fans will know that, off the court, the basketball icon is an avid gamer. King James regularly interacts with his 52.8 million Twitter followers about his passion for gaming. And his fandom for Sony’s PlayStation console is legendary, as evidenced by an earnest image circling online from 2003 that shows him (on the…
Mobile gaming company Dream Games is promoting its free-to-play game Royal Match with a campaign that showcases the “royal treatment” its players receive. The puzzle game, in which players help King Robert to restore his castle while winning their own rewards, was the first to be released by the publisher in February 2021. The multimillion-dollar…
Stella Artois has apparently called off plans to run an unofficial brand experience on Electronic Arts’ gaming platform The Sims 4 after being approached by legal counsel from the makers of the game over IP infringement. According to EA, its lawyers have approached AB InBev, the owner of Stella Artois, about its plans to launch…
Premium Belgian beer brand Stella Artois is set for its first foray into the world of gaming with the release of an unofficial tie-in with Electronic Arts franchise The Sims, which will allow players to download and add the brand’s campaign into their own virtual worlds. The release of the Stella Artois Unfiltered mod pack…
To promote the immersive gaming worlds players can access through its PlayStation 5 (PS5) console, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has released a campaign in which it imagines journalists reporting live from within their games’ action-packed narratives. These games include Spiderman, Resident Evil, God of War and Gran Turismo. Created by DDB-owned creative production company Cain&Abel,…
Some of the best TV right now has been coming from delightfully and unabashedly nerdy sources. TV adaptations of The Wheel of Time, The Rings of Power, The Sandman and House of the Dragon are streaming beloved storylines from high fantasy and sci-fi literature to living rooms across the world. Leveraging IP with an established…
In summer 2022, a viral tweet showing 1993 classic game Doom running on a McDonald’s kiosk sent gamers wild. As it turns out, the inspired “hack” was a Photoshop job. Now archrival Burger King has now brought gaming to its self-service screens for real. Expanding on its collaboration with Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare…
The video game industry is dominated by men, which means that games tend to have fewer female characters and the ones that do exist are often highly sexualized. International nonprofit Girls Who Code is looking to close that gap by launching Girls Who Code Girls, a mobile and desktop experience that allows users to program…
When wellness brand Liquid I.V. flowed into the gaming category with creator sponsorships on Twitch, it was entering uncharted territory in its 10-year brand history. Liquid I.V. felt its brand was endemic to gaming and saw Twitch as a massive opportunity to reach games through livestreaming, as the Amazon-owned platform averaged 2.78 million concurrent viewers…
Players of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizon can periodically find a rusted part by rifling through the recycling bin on their virtual island. And while some might consider a rusted hunk of metal trash, Intel and Dell Technologies saw an opportunity to turn them into in-game treasures and opportunities to promote their own recycling efforts….
Kraft Heinz’s frozen food brand Delimex is giving an assist to gamers in the name of snacks. In its first campaign after a rebrand, Delimex is “Feeding Gamers” literally and figuratively. Through Nov. 18, Delimex is creating a team in three games–Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Warzone 2 and Overwatch 2–and…
For 22 years, Electronic Arts’ The Sims video game series has used a diamond-like icon dubbed The Plumbob to allow players to see their active character’s mood. The new brand platform “Spark Something” uses that design element as a way to show how players find inspiration from the simulation game and spread it to others….
Gaming publisher King, the company behind mobile phenomenon Candy Crush, will build its use of creators, alongside its YouTube and TikTok strategies, as its focus on creating “niche communities” grows. Speaking at Social Media Week Europe, King’s director of social marketing and creators Roberto Kusabbi outlined the strategy while discussing the success of the 10-year-old…
Ahead of the release of the Dragonflight expansion for World of Warcraft Nov. 28, video game company Activision Blizzard partnered with Twitter–prior to the social network’s takeover by Elon Musk last week and massive layoffs this week–to kick off a #WarcraftStory promotion. This activation will encourage World of Warcraft players to tweet details about their…
Burger Town, a fictional chain with a logo that resembles Burger King’s, has been featured in Activision’s Call of Duty video games for more than a decade. Now, Burger King is tapping into that connection with the “Burger Six, Going Dark” campaign from David New York running ahead of the Oct. 27 launch of Call…
The digital experiences being described collectively as “the Metaverse” has gained a great deal of traction in the last two years, so much so that Strategic Market Research has valued the global market value at $47.48 billion. That value is expected to surpass $678.80 billion by 2030. With Meta joining forces with Microsoft around the…
In 1934, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars made history by being the first-ever all-Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Association Championship. Though not many of us were alive to see it, we can now revisit this historic win through the video game MLB The Show 22, which now allows players to step onto the field…
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