If like me you’re interested in video game marketing, it’s useful to know which agencies are focused on the industry.
Here’s a list I put together. This post was updated 9 October 2017.
Fishburn Hedges
A communications agency that provides corporate and European product launch support to Nintendo.
Cake
Supports Nintendo UK’s in-house marketing team on individual projects.
Karmarama
A former holder of the Nintendo UK advertising account.
Leo Burnett London
Created award-winning ads for the Nintendo Wii. I wonder what they would’ve come up with for Wii U?
Good Relations
A PR and communications agency retained by Nintendo UK for corporate and consumer support prior to 2012.
MEC Access
A media agency that created an award-winning partnership campaign designed to get older people playing Nintendo DS.
Fever
A consumer PR agency recently appointed by Sony to handle the launch of PlayStation 4.
Amplify
A marketing agency “immersed in gaming”, which supports PlayStation in Europe.
Full Fat
A PR company used by Capcom for the launch of Resident Evil 6 and the Golden Joysticks Awards for media coverage. They even have a page on their site titled “Videogame & Technology”.
The Red Consultancy
Believed to handle Activision’s UK and European PR, media relations, social media and events PR.
Maverick Media
Maverick creates advertising, trailers and video content for clients including PlayStation, Pokemon, Ubisoft and EA. (Thanks Will Jeffery).
Jelly Media
This London agency’s clients include PlayStation, Nintendo, Konami, Sega and Tecmo Koei. (Thanks Daniel Postlethwaite!)
If you know of any others, please feel free to share in the comments.
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Hi Neil
Maverick do lots of work in the games industry; launching games and creating advertising, trailers and video content for clients including PlayStation, Pokemon, Ubisoft, EA. http://www.maverickmedia.co.uk
Thanks Will, looks very interesting. Do you work with freelance writers (like me?) 🙂
Jelly Media do work for Konami and other clients
Thanks Daniel, I hadn’t heard of them before but they look pretty good. Do you work for them?
Not sure if this is helpful but I know Circle do the experiential marketing for PlayStation events.
http://www.circleagency.co.uk
Thanks Kevin ?
Hi Neil, our agency An.X Ltd. has been Konami’s agency for over 20 years. We create all their European packaging. We’ve also worked with EA, Ubisoft and others.
Network N in Bath is another video games agency