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The playbook for
brands inside games.

How Minecraft and Roblox actually work for brands, what creators want from campaigns, and where Gen Z and Gen Alpha attention is moving next. Written by the team building the activations.

Notes from
inside the studio.

We write about gaming marketing the way we practice it: end-to-end, from the brief on the table to the stream that goes live. Some of these articles are strategic primers for marketing teams stepping into games for the first time. Some are deeper dives into trends, formats, and creator culture.

All of them come from real campaigns we've shipped.

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Strategy
Strategy
Gaming marketing: a brand's guide to reaching players who ignore ads

Gaming marketing is how brands reach the audience that skips, blocks, and ignores traditional ads. What it is, the channels that actually work, and real numbers from campaigns we've run for LEGO, NVIDIA, and Carrefour.

5 min read · July 2026
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Strategy
Strategy
Gaming campaigns in Romania: what actually works, and what brands get wrong

A practical look at how gaming campaigns work in Romania, from the audience to the platforms to real campaign numbers, written by the studio that builds them for LEGO, NVIDIA, Carrefour, and Mountain Dew.

5 min read · July 2026
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Strategy
Strategy
Gaming activations: what they are, what they cost, and what actually works

Gaming activations are marketing campaigns built around play instead of ads. Here's how the format breaks down, what real campaigns look like in numbers, and how to tell a good one from an expensive logo placement.

6 min read · July 2026
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Case Studies
Case Studies
From livestream to main stage: scaling in-game events

How Carrefour's Minecraft campaign grew from a YouTube series into a live show on the Bucharest Gaming Week main stage, and what changes when the audience is standing in front of you.

4 min read · July 2026
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Formats & Mechanics
Formats & Mechanics
What makes a branded Minecraft server actually work

The difference between a server players visit once and one they come back to, from a studio that has built both kinds.

4 min read · July 2026
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Creator Culture
Creator Culture
Why Gen Alpha trusts creators more than ads

The generation that grew up inside Minecraft and Roblox learned to ignore ads before they learned to read. Here's who they actually listen to, and what that means for brands.

4 min read · June 2026
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Strategy
Strategy
What is an in-game activation, and how is it different from a classic sponsorship?

In-game activations are how brands show up inside the games their audiences already play. Here's what they are, how they differ from sponsorships, and why they work.

6 min read · June 2026
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Strategy
Strategy
Why big brands are building inside Minecraft (and what they get out of it)

From LEGO to Carrefour to NVIDIA, major brands are running campaigns inside Minecraft. Here's why the platform works, and what brands get out of it.

6 min read · May 2026
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