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Paid Media Ad Strategy

The Strategy That Makes Everything Else Work

Most paid media campaigns fail not because the ads were bad but because the strategy behind them was wrong for the game, the platform, or the audience. Generic approaches produce generic results. And in gaming, generic is invisible.

Begin the Game Plan
500+
Campaigns Launched
30+
Global Markets
10M+
Budget Managed

Making Sure Every Pound Counts

Paid Media Ad Strategy

The best performing campaigns in gaming did not happen by accident. They started with a plan that knew exactly who it was talking to, where to find them, and what to say.

Audience Research & Targeting Strategy

Knowing who to target is the most important decision in any paid media campaign. We conduct in-depth audience research to identify the player segments most likely to engage with your game.

Get the Right Audience

Channel & Budget Planning

Not every platform is worth your budget and not every moment is worth spending. We assess your game's genre, audience, and campaign goals to recommend the right channel mix and budget allocation. 

Get It Done

Creative Strategy & Testing Framework

Great creative does not come from guessing. We define the messaging angles, creative formats, and A/B testing framework that give your campaign the best possible chance of identifying what works. 

Test for the Best

Let’s Make a Strategy

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HOW WE WORK

How We Launch and Scale Campaigns​

Every campaign follows a proven five stage framework across 500+ game launches on mobile, PC, and console platforms. The process is designed to reduce wasted spend while accelerating large scale player acquisition. 

01

Auditing

We start by getting to know your game, your audience, and your goals. We assess your current positioning, identify your target players, and map out the best channels and strategies to reach them.

02

Creating

With a clear direction in place, we get to work on the assets your game needs. Trailers, social media content, ad creatives, and PR drafts. Everything is built specifically for your game's identity.

03

Connecting

We put your game in front of the people who matter. Press outreach to relevant gaming publications, influencer activation across YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch, and community seeding to get the right conversations started.

04

Launching

Launch day is not the finish line. It is the payoff for everything that came before it. We coordinate the full launch push across social media, press, influencers, and paid media to make sure your game arrives with maximum momentum.

05

Optimising

Once the campaign is live, we keep a close eye on performance. We track the data, identify what is working, cut what is not, and refine the strategy to keep your game growing well beyond launch day.

PROVEN RESULTS

Paid Media Success

We don’t talk about results. We show them. Every video game paid media campaign below was managed in-house by our team across Meta, TikTok, Google UAC, and programmatic channels for game studios that needed more than impressions. They needed players.

FAQ About Paid Media Ad Strategy

Why do I need a paid media strategy before running ads?

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  • Running ads without a strategy is one of the most common ways to burn through a marketing budget with nothing to show for it. A strategy defines who you are targeting, where to find them, what to say, and how to measure success before any money is spent.

How long does it take to develop a paid media strategy?

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  • It depends on the complexity of your campaign and how much audience research is required. A focused strategy for a single platform and a clear target audience can come together relatively quickly. A multi-platform strategy covering several regions, audience segments, and creative directions takes more time to develop properly. Don’t worry, we always set clear timelines at the start so you know what to expect.

Can you develop a strategy for a game that has not launched yet?

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  • We always say the earlier the better. Pre-launch strategy work gives you the most runway to build wishlist momentum, test audience segments, and identify what messaging resonates before launch day.

What if our previous paid media campaigns did not perform well?

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  • That is actually a great starting point. Poor past performance tells us a lot about what did not work and why. Our services include an audit on what was done before, identify the gaps, and build a new strategy. 

Should I run paid media on one platform or multiple at once?

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  • It depends on your budget and where you are in the campaign. Starting on one platform gives you cleaner data and makes it easier to identify what is working before spreading spend across multiple channels. Launching across five platforms simultaneously with a limited budget usually means none of them get enough investment to generate meaningful signals.

Can you take over management of a campaign that is already running?

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  • Yes. If you have an existing paid media campaign that is not performing as well as it should, we can audit what is currently running, identify where it is falling short, and take over management from there.

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Game Marketing Case Studies

Work We're Proud Of

Our team has collaborated with game publishers and studios across the globe. Here are just some of the massive titles we had the pleasure of working on:World of Warhips, Raid: Shadow Legends, Cities: Skylines, GTFO, HumanitZ, theHunter: Call of the Wild, and many more...
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Bandai Namco

13M
Impressions
50%
Return on Spend
$20
Revenue Per User

Raid: Shadow Legends

2.5M
Total Views
66%
Follower Increase
912K
Video Reach

ShantyTown

100K+
Wishlists for Launch
1.5M+
Steam Page Visits
70K+
Demo Downloads

Humble Bundle

100M
IMPRESSIONS
2.5M
CLICKS
120%
DOWNLOAD INCREASE
What our clients say

"The team demonstrated exceptional dedication in delivering effective influencer marketing support, greatly contributing to our success in enhancing new player acquisition within our targeted markets."

"Their paid media expertise allowed us to identify the right markets for a soft launch...and their creative output let us translate the best of our game content to eyes around the world."

"The Game Marketer helped us bring in so many players on launch day that it almost broke our servers. The staff are very friendly, experts in their field, and most importantly, they provide results."

"Their paid media expertise allowed us to identify the right markets for a soft launch...and their creative output let us translate the best of our game content to eyes around the world."

"We really appreciate all of The Game Marketer’s support up to now and would gladly work with them again in the future for appropriate projects."

"It was a pleasure to work with The Game Marketer! Their proactiveness and suggestions of different solutions were much appreciated throughout the whole campaign cycle."

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