Creating brand love through fandoms
Gaming's ever-increasing influence on culture, coupled with the promise of the metaverse, has created limitless opportunities for marketers and advertisers. Gaming has moved from individual play to spectator involvement with the meteoric rise of e-sports and streaming platforms. Gaming platforms are now a primary channel for social interactions and self-expression.
At dentsu, we believe that everyone is a gamer – a community connected across borders around the things they love. Our global network was built to bring gaming’s explosive growth to our clients through innovative partnerships, products and solutions. We deliver beyond traditional marketing by offering in game advertising and brand gaming to our clients. We bring together passionate, multifaceted expertise to help bring incremental value to clients through mutually beneficial relationships with game publishers, partners and platforms.
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We know gamers better than anyone else. We leverage in-depth gamer audience insights through priority data and tools. Our CCS data platform is supercharged through data fusions of proprietary bespoke gaming surveys, as well as fusion of the GWI Gaming survey, giving us advanced gaming audience data across 24 markets.
Why choose dentsu?
East Meets West
Our entertainment expertise within the Japanese market gives us unmatched access to the gaming industry. This deep expertise combined with the depth of our capabilities and partnerships allow us to deliver beyond traditional advertising.
Cultural Creation
Our philosophy that gaming is more than advertising – it is about creating, amplifying and adding momentum to culture and the industry at large. We focus on fostering mutually beneficial relationships between players, publishers and brand, allowing brands to become part of the culture rather than interrupt it.
Gaming for Good
Dentsu stands with the creators and players to make the future of gaming inclusive and accessible for all. We do this through our three principles of representation, inclusion and advocacy.
Strategic Investments
Through strategic, venture-level investments, dentsu gaming provides the means to produce, develop and monetize intellectual property (IP) such as original games, content and events. This gives brands unprecedented access to all areas of the gaming industry.
Everyone is a gamer
We believe that everyone is a gamer – a community connected across borders around the things they love. Our global network was built to bring gaming’s explosive growth to our clients through innovative partnerships, products and solutions. We bring together passionate, multifaceted expertise to help bring incremental value to clients through mutually beneficial relationships with game publishers, partners and platforms.
Our services
Strategy
dentsu gaming act as strategic advisors to our clients and partners to navigate through complex gaming and consumer ecosystems.
In-game Advertising
Context is everything. We take a fit-for-format approach to ensure that tailored creative is delivered in a way that is non-intrusive and authentic to the experience depending on the game type, genre and platform by prioritizing brand safety and suitability at every step.
Commerce & Consumer Promotion
Take advantage of the Gaming-as-a-Service model to make your brand complementary to the game experience. We enable brands to offer digital products that get unlocked to augment the player’s journey through transactions or engagement activities.
Talent & Social
Within our talent management group, we apply our expertise to the nuances of gaming culture and influence whether it is streamer, esports or entertainment led.
IP Development
Through strategic, venture-level investments, dentsu gaming provides the means to produce, develop and monetize intellectual property (IP) such as original games, content and events. This gives brands the opportunity to create exclusive and customized ways to interact with gamers.
Native Game Integration
We enable collaborations between brands and publishers to create exclusive brand content that complements the world of the game and creates an authentic experience to engage the fanbase.
Augmented Reality (AR) / Virtual reality (VR)
We leverage AR and VR to gamify and create an immersive interactive experience for brand fans.
Esports & Experiential
We leverage decades of experience in entertainment and use it to sponsor, partner and create unique esports and gaming events and experiences.
4 Forces Shaping the Future of Gaming
Gaming is growing exponentially, its increasing influence on culture plus an evolving business model has created almost unlimited opportunities for brands. As gamers, we get to create the world we live in and control how we interact with others, including brands. Inauthentic interaction is quickly rejected.
At dentsu, our promise is to help clients navigate, progress and thrive in a world of change and be the champions for meaningful progress. We enable brands to become part of the culture vs. interrupt it.