828 agencies indexed·Latest entry: 4 June 2026
Industry · 52 agencies

Gaming agencies.

Gaming marketing is the work of selling video games, hardware and esports brands across console, PC, mobile and live-service formats, from pre-launch through long-tail retention. It is distinct because PEGI age ratings gate where adverts can run, UKIE's loot box principles and 2026 PEGI risk categories shape monetisation copy, and live-service retention maths replaces launch-only thinking.

At a glance
  • 52 UK agencies with gaming experience
  • Across 13 UK locations
  • Reviewed 18 May 2026
Showing 25-48 of 52 gaming agenciesView in full archive
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AND THE NEW
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

AND THE NEW, a renowned digital marketing agency located in the heart of London, specialises in the sports, entertainment, and gaming sectors. Recognised for its proficiency in crafting campaigns that not only captivate and engage but also effectively convert, the agency adopts a holistic strategy encompassing content planning, production, social media management, and digital asset creation. Estee

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Sennep
Independent·London·2-10 Employees

Established in 2003, Sennep is a prestigious agency acknowledged for its proficiency in user interface and experience design, particularly in the UK. More than simply crafting clever and user-friendly products, Sennep elevates the user journey with elements of joy, creativity, and a unique brand persona, a philosophy they fondly term "the human touch." The agency's nimble and multifaceted team wor

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SmallGiants
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

SmallGiants, a London-based, comprehensive brand evolution and digital marketing agency, excels in crafting sturdy brand, marketing, and tech infrastructures that foster business growth and expansion. Uniquely, they offer services including full-funnel lead generation, data management frameworks, and vibrant brand identity development. Their acclaimed methodology is guided by insightful data, aimi

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ConsultMyApp
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

ConsultMyApp, a premier app marketing agency situated in the heart of London, UK, differentiates itself with an all-encompassing approach to mobile marketing. This approach takes into account the complete app user journey, encompassing App Store Optimisation (ASO), Paid Acquisition, and Customer Engagement, all underpinned by robust BI and Data Analytics, innovative Creative Design, and strategic

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Novus Digital
Independent·Northampton·2-10 Employees

Novus, an ROI-driven SEO agency situated in Northampton, is distinguished by its unwavering dedication to transparency and measurable outcomes. Prioritising return on investment and commercially viable strategies, Novus generates leads and sales without resorting to the use of technical jargon. Our comprehensive approach encompasses technical SEO, creative content production, strategic link buildi

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CB Digital Marketing
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

CB Digital is an all-encompassing digital marketing agency headquartered in London, known for its results-oriented, strategic approach. Our agency has secured superior Google rankings for hotly contested keywords by delivering personalised marketing solutions that cater to unique business requirements. CB Digital's open and cooperative methodologies empower clients with a thorough understanding of

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Harrison Carloss
Independent·Manchester·11-50 Employees

Harrison Carloss, an innovative digital and creative agency, is nestled in the heart of Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. This agency is renowned for its unique approach to problem-solving, commencing each venture with a profound comprehension of the client's objectives and aspirations, enabling them to create bespoke solutions. Utilising their deep insights, they transcend limitations through compel

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1000heads
Independent·London·51-200 Employees

As a pioneering Social Transformation™ firm, 1000heads is committed to guiding international corporations through the rapid, continuous shifts in media, digital technology, and culture. We're the proud strategic ally to several of the globe's premier brands, helping them stay topical, engaging, and robustly supported within the dynamic social media sphere. Founded in 2000 within the quaint con

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Superb Digital
Specialist·Bristol·2-10 Employees

Superb, a distinguished digital marketing agency in Bristol, boasts over two decades of industry experience. Specialising in delivering personalised, data-informed marketing strategies, Superb's offerings span SEO, PPC, content marketing, and bespoke web design, each tailored to meet specific business objectives. Our dedication to transparency and collaboration facilitates substantial ROI for our

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Favoured
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

Indigital XYZ, a London-based, data-centric, top-to-bottom marketing agency, distinguishes itself by seamlessly integrating avant-garde performance methodologies with premier creative production. This harmonious fusion of creativity and analytics not only sets Indigital XYZ apart in the fiercely competitive marketing arena but also ensures bespoke strategies for its clients, yielding tangible resu

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Prodigious
Network·London·501-1000 Employees

Prodigious London, a leading agency situated in the heart of London, provides an all-encompassing suite of production services, meticulously designed to cater to the requirements of top global brands. The nucleus of their services encompasses film production, art production, content creation, and the management of social media, augmented with a comprehensive range of post-production services such

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MSL
Network·London·51-200 Employees

MSL, a London-based agency, provides comprehensive PR and communication solutions. Expertise lies in reputation management, media engagement, and corporate communications, enabling brands to establish and sustain robust public profiles. Through a blend of strategic understanding and creative narratives, MSL captivates audiences, boosting brand exposure. The agency operates in diverse industries, e

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Digital Marketing Specialist
Independent·Bath·2-10 Employees

Digital Marketing Specialist Ltd., a London-based digital marketing agency, excels in delivering scalable, efficient digital marketing strategies across a broad spectrum of industries such as entertainment, ecommerce, and hospitality in the UK. Utilising industry-leading methods in paid media, SEO, analytics, and email marketing, the agency sets itself apart. Demonstrating a successful history of

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OMD
Network·London·1000+ Employees

OMD is a London-based agency delivering a broad range of media services, with a focus on harnessing data-driven insights to expedite superior decision-making for clients. Their key services encompass digital, data, and content capabilities, all anchored by their bespoke Act Fast Framework, designed for rapid adaptation in response to market fluctuations. OMD sets itself apart with a human-centred

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Ayima
Network·London·51-200 Employees

Headquartered in the UK and North America, Ayima is a globally recognised digital search agency, holding multiple awards and known for its partnerships with several major brands worldwide. With a proven track record in delivering tangible results and robust ROI for its clientele, Ayima's strength is found in its blend of industry expertise and pioneering technology. This unique blend has earned it

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Smart Working
Independent·London·201-500 Employees

Smart Working, a distinguished tech talent agency situated in the UK, excels in pairing businesses with superior remote software developers globally. Our unique selling point is our stringent selection process, where we employ AI and technical assessments to evaluate a pool of 35,000 engineers each month. This ensures that only the most competent candidates are aligned with our clients. Boasting a

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Digitaloft
Independent·Manchester·51-200 Employees

Digitaloft operates as a top-tier digital marketing agency in Kendal and Manchester. Notably, it differentiates itself by adopting a holistic approach to SEO, content, and digital PR, with a key objective to boost organic visibility for its clients and stimulate quantifiable growth in line with concrete business metrics. Digitaloft gives precedence to custom-made strategies, crafted to meet each c

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EchoGlobal
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

Global Tech Talent, a niche IT recruitment agency in London, UK, distinguishes itself by valuing excellence above numbers. Our unique offerings encompass personalised IT staffing solutions, including staff augmentation, dedicated software development teams, and customised IT recruitment, all without the dependence on AI pairing or novice talent. We have a robust selection procedure in place and ar

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Digital Media Team
Independent·Manchester·11-50 Employees

Digital Media Team, a Manchester-based digital marketing agency, excels in the realm of paid social, PPC & Google Ads, and email marketing, providing a strategic approach that drives optimal online growth. Tailoring each campaign to engage the correct audience precisely when it counts, this distinct brand stands out from the crowd. Moreover, they specialise in offering bespoke services such as Sho

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The Game Marketer
Specialist·London·11-50 Employees

The Game Marketer, an expert marketing agency rooted in Wimbledon, London, stands out with its comprehensive knowledge of the gaming sector. Their unique selling point is a team of passionate gaming enthusiasts turned marketers, guaranteeing that each promotional campaign strongly echoes within the gaming community. Excelling in video game marketing, advertising, and creative services, they levera

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Advant Technology
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

Advant Technology Ltd, a London-based B2B programmatic advertising agency, stands out with its dedication to AI-driven, omnichannel strategic planning, spanning video, display, native, and audio platforms. Since its establishment in 2014, Advant has impressively managed in excess of £12 million ad expenditure across 61 nations. Their distinctive method fuses innovative concepts with a transparent

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Bird Marketing
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

Bird, a distinguished Full Service Digital Marketing Agency, is renowned for its multiple accolades within the UK and operates globally. The agency sets itself apart with its pioneering stance on digital marketing, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies and tailored strategies to amplify businesses' online presence. Bird's extensive array of services encompasses advanced SEO methodologies, bespo

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Fall off the Wall
Independent·London·11-50 Employees

Situated in the UK, Fall Off The Wall (FOTW) is a renowned CGI creative production agency. Known for its unique combination of independent operation, female leadership, and employee ownership, FOTW stands out in the field with an expert in-house team specialising in TV advertising and innovative CG production. Creating customised campaigns, they captivate audiences through multiple screens. FOTW,

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Croud
Network·London·201-500 Employees

Centrally located in London, Croud is a comprehensive media agency that also operates from additional bases in Shrewsbury, New York, Atlanta, and Dubai. Croud distinguishes itself with a robust commitment to performance-oriented expansion and innovation, capitalising on a profound legacy in analytics, strategic planning, and strategy to ensure enduring success for aspirational worldwide brands. Th

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Editor's note
AgencyIndex lists 51 UK agencies positioning into gaming. They split across a handful of recognisable shapes: AAA console-launch shops that handle creative, trailer, OOH and influencer programmes for first-party and third-party publisher releases; mobile and live-service growth specialists built around user acquisition, lifecycle CRM and live-ops; indie and games-as-a-service challengers covering Steam wishlist build, Kickstarter community work and platform-feature pitches; esports and sponsorship activation agencies serving brands appearing on the Fnatic, Excel Esports or Guild Esports jerseys; and a smaller cluster of gaming-hardware specialists working peripherals (headsets, keyboards, monitors, chairs) and accessory brands. Most are clustered in London, Brighton, Guildford and Manchester, mirroring the wider UK studio footprint that UKIE tracks across roughly 2,000 games businesses and 26,000 directly-employed workers. The category is distinctive for several reasons. PEGI age ratings, applied in the UK by the Games Rating Authority, dictate where ads can appear and how they can be placed: a PEGI 18 trailer cannot run in PEGI 7 contexts, and from June 2026 the new PEGI Interactive Risk Categories raise the bar further by floor-rating any game with paid random items at PEGI 16. UKIE's 11 Loot Box Principles, published in July 2023 after the DCMS Technical Working Group concluded its work, require default-off purchasing for under-18s without parental consent, spending controls, and clear probability disclosures, and the CAP Code position updated in 2024 confirms that in-game storefronts can themselves count as advertising when virtual currency is bought with real money. Live-service economics demand a different brief shape: Day 1, Day 7 and Day 30 retention cohorts decide whether a campaign is worth scaling, not first-week install volume. And esports sponsorship has matured into a credible alt-channel for non-endemic brands, with the UK esports market estimated at around $91.7m in 2024 by Grand View Research and sponsorship taking just over half of total revenue. What is shifting in 2026 is the operating layer. AI-tooling is now standard in user acquisition for creative iteration and bid management, but it has also raised the cost of standing out as everyone uses the same generator stack. Store-policy changes (Apple's App Tracking Transparency and the EU Digital Markets Act) have left mobile UA permanently more expensive and more dependent on SKAdNetwork, incrementality testing and modelled data, with industry opt-in rates sitting near 35% in 2025. Live-service economics are under pressure as casual Day 7 retention has been declining since 2022 per the Global Games Forum read on the State of Gaming data, which makes onboarding craft and live-ops cadence more important than ever. And console-handheld convergence (Switch 2, Steam Deck, the long shadow of cross-platform play) has rewritten how cross-device marketing plans are sequenced.
Common briefs
AAA console or PC launch campaign (creative, trailer, OOH, influencer, retail trade)Live-service retention and live-ops programme (event cadence, lifecycle CRM, segmentation)Mobile user acquisition and DAU growth (SKAdNetwork-safe paid, playables, creative testing)Esports sponsorship activation for non-endemic brands (jersey, broadcast, fan engagement)Creator and streamer partnership programme (Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, ASA-compliant disclosure)Gaming hardware and peripheral launch (headsets, keyboards, controllers, monitors)Indie and Steam wishlist build pre-releaseCommunity and Discord programme management
Regulatory landscape
PEGI · UKIE · ASA · ICO
age-gating and monetisation rules sit on top of every campaign

PEGI is the UK age-rating system, applied by the Games Rating Authority (the Video Standards Council Rating Board), and the rating gates where and when an ad can run: a PEGI 18 trailer cannot legitimately appear in PEGI 7 environments, and platforms enforce parallel placement rules. The PEGI overhaul announced in March 2026 introduces Interactive Risk Categories alongside content descriptors: paid random items trigger a PEGI 16 minimum, time-limited or quantity-limited in-game purchases trigger a PEGI 12 minimum, and unrestricted communication features without block-and-report tools trigger PEGI 18, with the new ratings applying to newly submitted titles from June 2026 onward. UKIE published 11 Loot Box Principles in July 2023 after the DCMS Technical Working Group, requiring default-off paid loot boxes for under-18s without verified parental consent, spending controls for all players, and clear probability disclosures before purchase or opening. The ASA, applying the CAP Code, polices advertising claims and creator disclosure, and updated guidance in 2024 confirmed that in-game storefronts and inducements to purchase items can themselves be classed as advertising when virtual currency is bought with real money. The ICO enforces the Children's Code (Age Appropriate Design Code) on any game likely to be accessed by under-18s.

Specialist signals
5 signals
of real gaming experience
  • · PEGI-aware media planning that knows the brand-versus-product distinction, the new Interactive Risk Categories from June 2026, and how to brief creative that will clear platform placement rules without rewrites
  • · Named launch case studies on console, PC or mobile titles, ideally covering both pre-launch wishlist or pre-order build and post-launch retention rather than launch-week comms alone
  • · Live-service retention-maths fluency: D1, D7, D30 cohort reporting, churn by acquisition source, event-participation rate, reactivation testing, and a clear view on what good looks like for the genre
  • · User-acquisition platform literacy across Meta, Google Ads, TikTok, ironSource, Unity Ads, Applovin and Liftoff, with SKAdNetwork and incrementality-testing competence built in after ATT
  • · Creator and influencer programme operations across Twitch, YouTube and TikTok with watertight ASA-compliant Ad disclosure baked into the brief, contract and pre-publish review
Sector watch-outs
5 to watch
in any gaming pitch
  • · PEGI-age mismatch in the media plan: a PEGI 18 title flighted into placements skewing under-18, or a children-friendly title treated as if PEGI rules do not apply, with no mention of the June 2026 Interactive Risk Categories
  • · Monetisation copy that hides paid loot boxes, gacha pulls or randomised in-app purchases from the storefront, the trailer or the influencer brief, against UKIE's 2023 Principles on probability disclosure and the CAP Code position on in-game advertising
  • · Creator and influencer activations briefed without explicit Ad or #ad disclosure rules, no upfront-label requirement on Twitch stream titles or YouTube descriptions, and no pre-publish compliance check baked into the contract
  • · Weak retention story in the proposal: install-volume and CPI obsession with no D7, D30 cohort plan, no event-cadence thinking, no segmentation of new installs versus engaged non-payers versus payers versus lapsed
  • · Launch-only mental model in a live-service brief: a one-shot creative wave with no live-ops calendar, no community-event programme, no plan for the 90-day post-launch retention cliff that decides the LTV maths
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What brands ask about agencies for gaming.

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Gaming retainers cluster in three bands. Indie and small-studio support runs £2,000-7,000 a month for a focused brief like Steam wishlist build, community management plus a Discord, or pre-launch PR for a single title. Mid-market mobile and live-service work sits at £8,000-30,000 a month for integrated user acquisition, lifecycle CRM, live-ops calendar support and creative testing, with paid media spend running outside the retainer and often forming the largest line by some margin. AAA console-launch programmes for first-party or major third-party publishers run £40,000-150,000+ a month over a 6-9 month flight, with brand, paid, creator and trade-PR all in scope, and global launches running into the millions in media spend. Esports sponsorship-activation work for a non-endemic brand on a Fnatic, Excel or Guild Esports partnership is usually scoped per-season at £50,000-500,000 depending on jersey, broadcast and fan-engagement components.