Gaming · Studios + Platforms + Engines · F2P + Premium + LiveOps

Gaming Company Marketing for Studios and Platforms.

MV3 builds full-stack growth engines for gaming studios, platforms, and engine vendors. Every engagement bundles strategy and implementation across SEO, developer marketing, paid UA, creator partnerships, and AI operations, anchored to installs, activations, and platform-side ARPDAU, not vanity impressions.

+184%Organic Installs, 12mo Avg
41%Avg CPI Reduction
3.2xCreator-Sourced UA Lift
11xAI Citation Surface Lift
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Quick Answer
What is a gaming marketing agency?

A gaming marketing agency runs demand generation for game studios, platforms, and engine vendors, where the buyer motion spans consumer players, developers, and platform partners, and where installs, activations, D30 retention, and ARPDAU are the metrics that matter. MV3 builds growth engines for gaming that bundle strategy and implementation across SEO, developer marketing, paid UA, creator partnerships, and AI operations, priced from $5,997 to $15K+ per month with install and pipeline accountability at every step.

The 5 Gaming Growth Problems We Actually Solve

Real Pain Points. Real Solutions. Both Strategy And Implementation.

Every gaming studio and platform between soft-launch and global scale runs into most of these. Our team has built a repeatable answer to each.

01

Paid UA CPI Is Climbing And ROAS Is Sinking.

iOS ATT, Android Privacy Sandbox, and network saturation have pushed CPI up 40-70% across most titles. Cohort ROAS payback windows stretched from D30 to D90+.

MV3 Strategy

STRATEGY: Rebuild the UA mix against a probabilistic attribution model. Shift budget from lookalike-exhausted networks to creator, community, and organic surfaces.

MV3 Implementation

IMPLEMENTATION: SKAN + AppsFlyer + Adjust wiring, creative testing pipeline across TikTok + Meta + Applovin + Unity, incrementality tests, MMM refresh quarterly.

02

AI Overviews Cite Competitor Wikis, Not Yours.

Guides, wikis, and tier-list pages that used to send tens of thousands of organic sessions have collapsed post-AI-Overview. Perplexity and ChatGPT cite Fextralife or IGN, not your official site.

MV3 Strategy

STRATEGY: Reposition first-party game content as the citable authority. Structure lore, mechanics, patch notes, and character data for AI-agent readability, not just keyword ranking.

MV3 Implementation

IMPLEMENTATION: GEO audit, schema.org VideoGame + Article markup, llms.txt build, LLMO citation tracking across ChatGPT + Perplexity + Gemini + Google AI Overviews.

03

Creators Get One Sponsored Post And Ghost.

You paid six figures to a streamer roster for launch. Peak concurrent viewers looked great. 30 days later organic mentions are zero and Discord activity has flatlined.

MV3 Strategy

STRATEGY: Move from one-shot sponsorships to a tiered creator program with performance-based renewal, exclusive access windows, and community handoff.

MV3 Implementation

IMPLEMENTATION: MV3 runs the 60-150 creator program directly across YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and Kick. Contracts, briefs, deliverable tracking, and attribution to installs and DAU.

04

LiveOps Content Cadence Is Killing The Team.

Your live team ships events, battle passes, and patches every 2-4 weeks. Marketing scrambles to produce assets, blog posts, and social every drop. Nothing compounds.

MV3 Strategy

STRATEGY: Instrument a LiveOps content system where every drop feeds SEO, community, creators, and paid creative in parallel. One production run, five distribution rails.

MV3 Implementation

IMPLEMENTATION: Editorial system in Notion or Airtable, patch-note templating, automated social + community push, creator asset pack distribution, GA4 + Amplitude event mapping.

05

Developer Marketing Is An Afterthought For Your Engine Or Platform.

You sell to game devs, publishers, or platform partners but your growth motion is copied from consumer B2C playbooks. Docs traffic is up, activations are flat, partner sign-ups stall.

MV3 Strategy

STRATEGY: Build a developer marketing motion that respects the audience: technical depth, real code, credible engineers on camera, community-first distribution, not gated whitepapers.

MV3 Implementation

IMPLEMENTATION: Docs rebuild for SEO + LLMO, sample repo and starter-kit program, GDC and IndieCade activation, HubSpot workflows for platform-partner pipeline, DevRel + AR alignment.

Full Services Matrix, Gaming Context

Every Growth Lever, Tuned To The Gaming Motion.

Not single-service. MV3 is a full growth stack. Every engagement bundles strategy and implementation across the levers your title, platform, or engine actually needs.

AI SEO

Game pages, wiki-class content, and patch-note systems tuned for AI Overviews and organic. Category authority build.

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Creator Program

60-150 tiered creator roster across YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Kick. Contract, brief, and attribution managed.

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Paid UA

TikTok + Meta + Applovin + Unity + Google App Campaigns run with SKAN + probabilistic attribution and creative testing pipeline.

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Content Marketing

Guides, lore drops, patch notes, and developer diaries authored by writers fluent in your genre.

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Developer Marketing

Docs, sample repos, GDC activation, and partner pipeline for engine vendors and platforms.

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AI Operations

LiveOps content automation, community workflows, D30 cohort scoring, agent-driven creator outreach.

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Digital PR

Coverage in Kotaku, PC Gamer, Polygon, Eurogamer, IGN. Category authority, not link farms.

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Programmatic SEO

Wiki-scale content: characters, weapons, tier lists, patch changes generated with editorial oversight.

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AI Dashboards

Real-time GA4 + Amplitude + AppsFlyer + Steamworks unified dashboards. See CPI, D30, ARPDAU in one view.

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The MV3 Gaming Retainer Promise

Three Guarantees Behind Every Gaming Retainer.

Not aspirational language. Each guarantee is written into every MV3 gaming SOW.

30-Day Cancel Notice

No long-term lock-in. Cancel any retainer with 30 days written notice. Month 13 exit gets the same terms as month 3.

Deliverable Guarantee

Every monthly retainer ships a defined deliverable count: creators activated, content published, campaigns optimized. Miss the count, next month is credited.

No Hidden Fees

Flat monthly retainer. Ad spend, creator fees, tool licenses, and third-party costs pass through at cost with monthly reconciliation. No agency mark-up on media.

Anonymized Client Outcome
A Live-Service Mobile RPG Studio · ~140 Employees · 4.2M MAU

184% Organic Install Growth In 12 Months, Without Doubling UA Spend.

Client came to MV3 with a paid UA plateau: CPI up 63% year over year, creator spend inconsistent, and their official wiki and guide pages losing search share to third-party fan sites. Our team rebuilt the SEO + creator + LiveOps content system in parallel, layered an AI SEO citation program on top, and instrumented cohort attribution end-to-end. Organic installs grew from 42K/mo to 119K/mo attributed contribution over the engagement.

The MV3 team did not just consult. They installed the operating system for our live game. Twelve months in, we run 40% more efficiently and creator spend actually compounds.
Anonymized per NDA. Company name and identifying details available under mutual NDA in a discovery call.
Gaming Marketing Leader Outcomes

What Gaming Marketing Leaders Say After Twelve Months.

Composite testimonials drawn from three MV3 gaming engagements. Names anonymized per NDA; outcome metrics verified in AppsFlyer, GA4, and Amplitude.

MK
MK
Head of UA at a Live-Service Mobile RPG Studio
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Dropped blended CPI 41% in 90 days. MV3 rebuilt our creative testing pipeline and installed SKAN cohort reporting; UA finally has a repeatable playbook.

TR
TR
VP Marketing at a AAA PC/Console Publisher
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AI Overviews were citing fan wikis instead of us. MV3 restructured our official site with schema and llms.txt and our category share of AI citations is now leading.

SC
SC
Growth Director at a Web3 + Mobile Hybrid Game
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We had 2K daily signups going nowhere. MV3 installed the D7 cohort model and creator handoff and expansion revenue is up 58% in two quarters.

Composite testimonials. Initials only, company details generalized, outcome metrics verified. Full references available under mutual NDA in a discovery call.
Recent Gaming Engagements

Six Anonymized Gaming Case Studies.

Category, motion, and outcome are real. Client identity redacted per NDA. Detailed breakdown available on request.

Mobile RPG · 4.2M MAU

Live-Service Mobile RPG Rebuilds Organic + Creator

Outcome
184% organic install growth · 12 months
Services: AI SEO + Creator Program + AI Operations
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AAA PC/Console · 9M active

AAA PC/Console Publisher Reclaims AI Citations

Outcome
11x AI citation surface
Services: AI SEO + GEO + Digital PR
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Hyper-Casual · 22 titles

Hyper-Casual Studio Reduces Blended CPI

Outcome
41% blended CPI reduction
Services: Paid UA + AI Dashboards
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Indie Steam · PC Launch

Indie Studio Launches With Creator Wave

Outcome
340K wishlists in launch quarter
Services: Creator Program + Content Marketing
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Engine Vendor · DevRel

Game Engine Vendor Grows Dev Activations

Outcome
62% dev activation lift
Services: Developer Marketing + Programmatic SEO
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Platform · Multi-Title

Platform-Side Publisher Consolidates Growth Ops

Outcome
$18.4M sourced revenue · 1yr
Services: Full-Stack Growth Engine
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Fit Qualifier

MV3 Is Not For Every Gaming Company.

Great fit matters more than closing the deal. If any of these describe you, our team is probably the wrong partner, and we would rather say so up front.

You are a solo indie pre-launch without instrumentation or budget for creator or paid UA. Our engagements assume analytics you likely do not have yet; talk to us in 12 months.
You want the cheapest agency. Growth AI starts at $5,997/mo. If retainer under $3K/mo is the target, our team is not the fit.
You need installs in 30 days without a discovery period. Meaningful organic and creator lift compounds over 90 to 180 days; anyone promising faster is buying vanity impressions.
You want to hand off strategy and disengage. MV3 works alongside your Head of Marketing, UA lead, or CMO; we do not replace them, and executive alignment is a hard requirement.
You expect MV3 to define your target audience from zero. Our team refines and instruments your existing player and buyer profiles; if cohort data does not exist yet, an earlier-stage advisor is the better path.

If none of those describe you, you are likely in the fit range. Start with the $997 GEO Audit to confirm.

Entry Offer · Gaming GEO Audit

See The Full Diagnostic Before You Commit To A Retainer.

70% of MV3 gaming engagements begin here. Five days. Delivered as PDF and 45-minute review call.

Everything Included

Gaming GEO Audit: Complete Deliverable Stack

Player + Buyer Citability Scorecard
How your title, studio, or platform surfaces across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews.
$297
Competitor Citation Delta
Your citation surface vs. top 5 category competitors, prompt-by-prompt.
$497
Model Sweep · 4 LLMs × 40 prompts
160 live-model probes across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude.
$797
llms.txt + Schema Audit
Full technical audit of your AI-agent readability layer: llms.txt, schema.org VideoGame markup, robots.txt, sitemap.xml.
$997
45-Min Review Call
Line-by-line walkthrough with an MV3 gaming strategist. Recorded and delivered.
$499
Retail total
$3,087
Your Price
$997
Delivered in 5 business days. Credited toward month 1 of any MV3 retainer within 60 days.
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Gaming FAQ

Gaming Marketing Agency Questions.

What kind of gaming companies does MV3 work with?
Studios, publishers, platforms, and engine vendors from soft-launched titles through AAA and platform-side businesses. Ideal-fit engagements are $5M to $500M in annual revenue with a live product and a growth model that can absorb a 90 to 180 day ramp. Our team does not currently work with pre-launch solo indies.
How is MV3 different from a generic UA agency?
Our team builds for the gaming motion specifically: cohort attribution, LiveOps content cadence, creator program management, wiki-class SEO, and gaming-specific developer marketing. Generic performance agencies retrofit their playbook; MV3 operates inside the gaming revenue model.
Do you work with F2P, premium, or LiveOps titles?
All three. Our team builds the D30 cohort model and LiveOps content system for F2P and LiveOps, the launch and wishlist campaign for premium PC and console, and full-funnel SEO plus creator plus paid for hybrids that need both.
What is the typical MV3 gaming engagement cost?
Growth AI tier at $5,997/mo is the most common entry point for indie and mid-sized studios. Scale AI at $9,997/mo for AAA and multi-title publishers. Enterprise custom for $15K to $30K+/mo when platforms or engine vendors need dev marketing plus consumer coverage.
How fast is install and revenue impact?
Paid UA: creative-driven CPI improvement in 30 to 60 days. SEO and wiki content: organic install lift 90 to 120 days. AI Overviews and GEO: citation improvements measurable within 30 days. Full growth lift compounds over 6 to 12 months.
Do you replace or augment our in-house team?
Augment. MV3 is a growth-engine operator that reports into your Head of Marketing, UA Director, or CMO. We install systems, run programs, and build capacity; we do not replace strategic leadership.
Can you work with our existing AppsFlyer, Adjust, or Amplitude?
Yes. Our attribution and reporting workflows integrate with your existing stack rather than replacing it. SKAN, probabilistic attribution, cohort reporting, and dashboards are built inside your instances.
Where do I start if I am evaluating?
The $997 GEO Audit is the recommended entry. It surfaces where your title or studio is or is not getting cited across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, and what the specific fix path looks like. Most gaming engagements start there.

Not sure where to start? The GEO Audit is where 70% of our gaming engagements begin.

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MV3 Marketing Team
Chief Growth Officer, MV3 Marketing
Every engagement is delivered by our team of SEO professionals, engineers, and auditors. The MV3 team reviews and signs off on every deliverable and every audit.
Ready When You Are

Book A Gaming Growth Call. See The Plan Before You Commit.

30 minutes. Our team will ask about your title, current UA and organic breakdown, and the growth gap. You will walk out with a 3-lever plan whether or not we engage.

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