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Special thanks to the sponsors for next week’s Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle

Special thanks to the sponsors for next week’s Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle

Hosting a two day B2B games industry conference is no easy task, so we’re proud and grateful to have some of the finest companies backing Pocket Gamer and PC Connects Seattle 2019.

Since they’re joining us at The Grand Hyatt Hotel Seattle for an awesome two days of networking, pitching and seminars, we’d like to give a special shout out to these great firms that help make the magic happen.

You could even meet up with them at the show next week, through our free unlimited meeting scheduler or at our infamous Global Connects Party.

Gold sponsors

L-R: Mintegral, Lab Cave, Flowplay, App Annie

Mintegral

Mintegral is a leading programmatic and interactive mobile advertising platform with a focus on helping brands and app publishers reach consumers in China, Japan and the wider APAC region. Powered by advanced AI technology and with an emphasis on innovative and creative ad formats that really work, Mintegral helps its customers exceed their marketing goals.

Lab Cave

Lab Cave is a Mobile Growth Company that provides App Store Optimization (ASO) and Mediation services for mobile Apps and Games. Part of Fibonad Group (the largest Spanish digital advertising group offering Branding, Performance and Publishing services), Lab Cave has achieved more than 200 million organic downloads without running any paid acquisitions campaign.

Flowplay

FlowPlay creates casual virtual worlds for kids and adults. Our two flagship products, OurWorld and Vegas World, are played by over 1 million players per month across desktop and mobile devices. In addition to creating the technology that allows tens of thousands of players to interact simultaneously, we create casual games that players enjoy in these worlds. FlowPlay is excited to meet with other developers and publishers from around the world at PocketGamer Connects who are interested in content and distribution partnerships.

App Annie

App Annie is the industry’s most trusted mobile data and analytics platform. The company created the mobile app data market and has been fueling world-class, mobile-first businesses since 2010. App Annie’s mission is to power B2C companies’ mobile transformation and enable clients to deliver winning consumer experiences. More than 1,000 enterprise clients and 1 million registered users across the globe and spanning all industries rely on App Annie as the gold standard to revolutionize their mobile business. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with 11 offices worldwide.

Silver sponsors

L-R: Microsoft Azure PlayFab, Vungle, Facebook Gaming, Blankos

Microsoft Azure PlayFab

PlayFab is the complete, real-time backend platform for live games. Boost revenue, engagement, and retention through our comprehensive LiveOps tools, while lowering your costs and risk.

Vungle

We’re Vungle, the trusted guide for growth and engagement. Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps. Developers partner with Vungle to monetize their apps through innovative in-app ad experiences that are inspired by insight and crafted with creativity. Advertisers depend on Vungle to reach, acquire, and retain high-value users worldwide. Vungle develops tools that include data-led buying and UX recommendations, ad format innovation, creative automation, and more. Vungle’s data-optimized ads run on over 1 billion unique devices to drive engagement and increase returns with publishers and advertisers ranging from indie studios to powerhouse brands.
Our promises to our clients: We’re for apps great and small. We’re always impartial, so we all win together. We consult, optimize, and repeat. We do everything with integrity. We are powered by creativity and driven by performance.

Facebook Gaming

Learn how Facebook Gaming can help you grow your business. Whether you want to get your games discovered by global audiences, build engaging and highly social experiences, or gain more revenue with ads and IAP, we’re here to help you.

Blankos (Mythical Games) 

We are Mythical Games, a next-generation game technology studio. We believe that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love. We are a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Our goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games.

Bronze sponsors

L-R: JoyPac, GameAnalytics, Minimob, Genvid,  A Thinking Ape, MobPower, deltaDNA, wappier, Leia Inc

deltaDNA

deltaDNA has been providing fast and powerful analytics tools and insight to the games sector’s leading publishers and developers since 2010, including Take-Two Interactive, Square Enix Montreal, Wargaming and Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe. At the heart of the deltaDNA offering is the analytics platform, gathering deep and rich player data on 70 million Monthly Active Users (MAU). Complementary engagement tools make the analytics actionable, the smartads mediation service maximises ad income, and the in-house experts in the insights consultancy team provide industry leading advice and benchmarking.
For more information about deltaDNA please see deltaDNA.com

Leia Inc

Founded in 2013 by David Fattal, Pierre-Emmanuel Evreux and Zhen Peng, Leia Inc.’s driving purpose is to Light up Life. Displays come alive in richer, deeper, more beautiful ways. With the ability to flip seamlessly between 2D and lightfield (aka 4V), we make display technology truly immersive. Alongside our display technology, we have developed LeiaLoft — a whole new canvas. A space to create, share and experience content like never before. The LeiaLoft store curates lightfield games, apps and movies available for download on devices LitByLeia. Creators can join developer.leialoft.com for access to the platform.

Genvid

Genvid Technologies has created the world’s first Interactive Streaming Engine that enables game developers to create new monetizable streaming content on the most popular streaming platforms. With Genvid, developers can expand their directly addressable audience from players to viewers of their game.

A Thinking Ape

At ATA, our goal is to change how people socialize and play on mobile. We are fascinated by human behaviour and think we do more than just make games: we create unique worlds where powerful social communities can grow and thrive. We currently have four live mobile games titles with another in the early stages of development. We’re a group that values ownership, creative freedom, data-driven decisions and meritocracy over hierarchy.

MobPower

MobPower is a leading mobile discovery platform who provides user acquisition solutions to worldwide advertisers of gaming, e-commerce and finance industries, helping reach their marketing goals. By using accurate algorithm recommendation and delivery technology, MobPower provides advertisers with high-quality, segmented brand promotion and marketing services through multi-scene and multi-form advertising solutions. Meanwhile, monetization solutions are provided for developers at home and abroad, which brings them great profits. MobPower’s innovative SDK technology has integrated over 500+ developers with more than 1,500 top apps, providing advertisers with high-quality video, native, and interactive ad inventory.

wappier

wappier is the world leader in Intelligent Revenue Management for Mobile Games. Leveraging machine learning technology and predictive analytics, wappier goes beyond ads to maximize revenue from already existing users and outside of gameplay. By computing and recommending the Next Best Action for each player real-time, wappier empowers mobile game developers and publishers to increase player LTV by 30-50% with Automated Loyalty Programs and Pricing Optimization.

GameAnalytics

GameAnalytics is a flexible and free analytics tool designed to improve KPIs for your entire portfolio. It helps studios drive more conversions, refine critical flows, and boost player retention by making the right decisions based on data - not guesswork. Currently, GameAnalytics provides insights for nearly 40,000 studios in 70,000 different titles... reaching more than 1/3 of the world’s mobile gamers.

Minimob

A solid user acquisition strategy is an essential component for any advertiser. Imagine having a tool that allows you to boost your volumes with zero cost per install, while acquiring quality users at scale.
Whether self-served or managed, our platform offers a full stack mobile advertising tool that delivers and enhances your branding or performance campaign results in real time.

JoyPac

JoyPac is a western based mobile games publisher specialising in the rapidly growing Asian hypercasual market. We focus on bringing the best ad-driven game experiences to China. With senior teams in Copenhagen and Beijing, we’re made up of talented developers, publishers, analysts and UA experts solely focused on building the best bridge from West to East. Our goal is to bring joyful mobile game experiences to the millions of players in APAC.

Category sponsors

Track sponsors

Associate sponsors

L-R: Chilli Connect, Jam City, Turboplay, Virse

Thank you all - we couldn’t do it without you!

About Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle

Part of an international series of B2B events for the games industry, Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle will attract 750 delegates from all around the world, including America, Asia and Europe.

As well as a total of 13 conference tracks across two industry events - Pocket Gamer and PC Connects Seattle, there will be a dedicated Indie Showcase space; Big Indie Pitches; investor matchmaking; speedmatch sessions; and networking, as well as the famous Global Connects Party.

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