A list of UK marketing agencies that specialise in video games

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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.

www.fishburn-hedges.com

Cake

Supports Nintendo UK’s in-house marketing team on individual projects.

www.cakegroup.com

Karmarama

A former holder of the Nintendo UK advertising account.

www.karmarama.com

Leo Burnett London

Created award-winning ads for the Nintendo Wii. I wonder what they would’ve come up with for Wii U?

www.leoburnett.co.uk

Good Relations

A PR and communications agency retained by Nintendo UK for corporate and consumer support prior to 2012.

www.goodrelationsgroup.com

MEC Access

A media agency that created an award-winning partnership campaign designed to get older people playing Nintendo DS.

www.mecglobal.co.uk

Fever

A consumer PR agency recently appointed by Sony to handle the launch of PlayStation 4.

www.feverpr.com

Amplify

A marketing agency “immersed in gaming”, which supports PlayStation in Europe.

www.weareamplify.com

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.

www.redconsultancy.com

Maverick Media

Maverick creates advertising, trailers and video content for clients including PlayStation, Pokemon, Ubisoft and EA. (Thanks Will Jeffery).

www.maverickmedia.co.uk

Jelly Media

This London agency’s clients include PlayStation, Nintendo, Konami, Sega and Tecmo Koei. (Thanks Daniel Postlethwaite!)

www.jellymedia.com

If you know of any others, please feel free to share in the comments.

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Author: Neil Wheatley

Copywriter since 2008, specialist in IT, software and video game marketing, dad to Wolfie and Rock.

8 thoughts on “A list of UK marketing agencies that specialise in video games”

  1. 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.

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