After a triumphant debut in 2025, PG Connects Barcelona returns to bring business and networking to this most exciting hub of the global games industry.
Barcelona is a rapidly growing destination for existing and new games companies, especially in the mobile space, with the likes of Scopely, King, Rovio, Bandai Namco, Sandsoft, Social Point/Zynga and Gameloft all having offices established, plus a wave of startup companies and, of course, many more across Spain as a whole.
PGC Barcelona spearheads an exciting new expansion chapter for the b2b networking and knowledge-sharing event, and builds on the remarkable success of the PGC series, which has already welcomed 70,000 attendees from more than 70 countries across 57 conferences, and influenced an estimated $1.5 billion in deals across its 12-year history.
Xsolla is a leading global video game commerce company with a robust and powerful set of tools and services designed specifically for the industry. Since its founding in 2005, Xsolla has helped thousands of game developers and publishers of all sizes fund, market, launch, and monetize their games globally and across multiple platforms.
As an innovative leader in game commerce, Xsolla’s mission is to solve the inherent complexities of global distribution, marketing, and monetization to help our partners reach more geographies, generate more revenue, and create relationships with gamers worldwide.
Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, with offices in London, Berlin, Seoul, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Raleigh, Tokyo, Montreal, and cities around the world.
For additional information and to learn more, please visit: xsolla.com
ZBD is redefining how money interacts with games. Known for powering instant real-money rewards that transform user retention and monetization, ZBD is the only licensed payment service provider that lets developers embed transactions directly into their games. Whether paying players or getting paid by them, pay becomes part of play.
Raptor PR is an integrated B2B PR, social and content marketing agency with deep roots in the mobile games industry. Headquartered in London, the agency works at the intersection of gaming, media, advertising and emerging technology, helping ambitious companies build credible brands that earn trust, drive pipeline and grow community. Raptor specialises in strategic communications, thought leadership, executive profiling and data-driven storytelling, delivering integrated campaigns across earned, owned, social and paid channels. Through deep industry networks spanning the US, Europe and MENA, the agency connects clients with the developers, publishers, platforms, investors and media that shape the future of mobile gaming.
Client experience includes the likes of Poki, Pragma, ThinkingData, ZBD, Worldline, Xsolla, Make-A-Wish International Gaming, Anybrain, Tappx, FirstLook, and The Battle of Polytopia, among many others across gaming, media and technology. Founded by Rana Rahman as a solo consultancy before evolving into a full-service agency during the 2020 lockdown, Raptor has become known for insight-led campaigns that define what brands are known for in complex B2B markets. The agency leadership includes Thomas Huxter, who oversees client strategy, communications consultancy and business growth initiatives across the agency’s international portfolio.
Combining strategy, communications and commercial understanding, Raptor helps companies build long-term reputation, visibility and influence across the global gaming ecosystem. At Raptor, we don't just roar, we make noise that counts.
Epic Games operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and develops Unreal Engine, the most open and advanced real-time 3D tool. Through Fortnite, Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
FastSpring is how gaming publishers sell in more places around the world.
For nearly two decades, FastSpring has been a trusted payment provider you can use to sell games or in-game items on your website, web shop, or embedded directly into your game with fully customizable and branded checkouts just for you.
FastSpring allows you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!
To learn more about how FastSpring supports game developers, visit fastspring.gg/.
Meta Audience Network empowers app developers and publishers to deliver a great user experience whilst growing a sustainable business. With Meta demand from millions of diverse global advertisers, publishers can expand their app's reach, keep users engaged and monetise globally.
Gameloft Barcelona is a video game studio developing high-quality experiences across PC, console, and mobile, with a strong expertise in in racing games. Building on over 25 years of expertise, the studio continues to evolve its portfolio with titles such as Asphalt Legends and Disney Speedstorm, reaching millions of players worldwide.
Discover your next growth engine on Snapchat. Reaching 75% of 13-34 year olds who send and receive Snaps all throughout the day, Snapchat connects you with a massive, unique audience. This Gen Z and Millennial demographic is excited to discover new apps, download, and make in-app purchases. With our new platform advancements across ad formats, performance, and measurement tools, connecting with this audience has never been easier.
Sensor Tower is a global provider of digital intelligence solutions, empowering companies to understand consumer behavior and market performance across mobile apps, digital platforms, and gaming ecosystems.
For gaming publishers and developers, Sensor Tower’s Gaming Insights offers the most comprehensive view into game performance, engagement, and monetization, with data across mobile, PC, and Console.
Gaming leaders can view granular metrics around downloads, time spent, units sold, player engagement, Live Ops, and deconstructions, in addition to advertising tactics and channels from top competitors across mobile app and digital channels.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Sensor Tower's insights are trusted by more than 2,500 enterprises worldwide. For more information, visit sensortower.com.
Nativex is a cross-regional marketing agency helping ambitious brands grow across global markets through insight-led strategy, media, influencer partnerships, creative production, social engagement, and experiential activations.
AppHarbr is the first real-time ad quality solution purpose-built for mobile apps, enabling app publishers to prevent bad ads in-app while protecting user experience and maximizing yield.
Designed to drive engagement, increase LTV, and improve ASO, AppHarbr delivers proactive, customizable ad quality controls that stop malicious, disruptive, intrusive, deceptive, and unwanted ads before they appear.
By ensuring ads align with an app’s context and audience, AppHarbr reduces churn, complaints, and low ratings keeping users engaged and monetization strong.
AppFollow helps apps survive in a crowded marketplace. We built a reputation management platform that turns user feedback into your advantage, acting as your unified inbox for all reputation conversations. Track what people say about your app across app stores and social media, while AI handles review responses and analytics reveal what drives downloads.
Companies like Wargaming, Adobe, G5, and Activision choose AppFollow to keep their apps competitive and their users happy.
CrazyGames is the go-to browser games platform for 50 million players every month. Our seamless experience immerses players in diverse games that run smoothly on mobile and desktop. Ads are optimized for high earnings without being intrusive, ensuring steady revenue and a loyal player base.
We offer comprehensive support, including dedicated team assistance, an easy-to-use SDK, and integrated analytics, to maximize earnings and ensure success on our platform.
Playable Factory leads the production of playable ads, partnering with 250+ top game companies and brands. Across its four-product AdTech suite — Playable, Flex, Ready, and Insight — partners have created 40,000+ playables driving higher engagement, improved CPM, and stronger ROAS, powered by 100B+ events tracked annually and fueling its AI-driven playable generation to generate unlimited amount of playables with a single click.
Buzzvil, Korea's No. 1 reward ad platform: Experience real UA performance through our 500+ directly affiliated premium publishers and Buzzvil’s unique reward technology.
Reactional Music brings the world’s biggest music hits into playables and UA video in real time, powered by Reactional’s music library and real-time audio engine.
Tracks are pre-processed to generate granular, time-based musical metadata, making them ready for direct use in creatives. This enables precise control over how music drives in-game behaviour, using beats, tempo and structure to synchronize visuals, gameplay elements and sound effects in real time.
The result is music as an integrated, responsive layer of the content, increasing engagement and improving UA efficiency. Through a new licensing model, Reactional removes legal, commercial and technical barriers, enabling scalable, automated access to commercial music.
Admiral Media is the leading Creative Performance Agency. Apps, Games & ecommerce – we accelerate your business with AI powered creative and performance marketing. Full-Funnel Performance, Powered by AI Every service is data-driven, AI-accelerated, and backed by €500M+ in managed spend. Official Meta, Google & TikTok Partner.
Stash is the direct-to-consumer growth platform for games. One-tap in-game payments, real-time webshops, no-code launchers, and native loyalty — all under a full Merchant of Record across 100+ countries. Studios own the player relationship, the data, and the revenue; Stash handles the rest.
Led by CEO Henry Lowenfels and CPO Spencer Tucker, both formerly at Scopely, where Spencer built the D2C program that drove 85% wallet share on WWE Champions and 60%+ on Star Trek and Marvel Strike Force. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Learn more at stash.gg.
Appcharge is a leading direct-to-consumer platform empowering game publishers to maximize profitability by selling directly to their players. Processing over $500 million in annual transactions, Appcharge delivers a purpose-built payment solution tailored for the gaming industry. Publishers benefit from fully customizable webstores, advanced player retention tools, and gamified shopping experiences.
Appcharge supports over 500 payment methods and 80 currencies, offering robust global payments infrastructure and full MoR coverage. Led by industry veterans from Rovio, Huuuge Games, Moon Active, and Play Studios, Appcharge is headquartered in Tel Aviv, with offices across key global markets. For more information, visit appcharge.com
Layer is a creative automation platform powering performance-driven entertainment brands. We help marketing and growth teams generate, test, and scale high volumes of on-brand creative across user acquisition, LiveOps, and monetization.
By combining the best of AI agents, automated workflows, and model-agnostic infrastructure into one secure system, Layer transforms creative production into a continuous, scalable performance engine.
Instead of scaling headcount or agencies, teams scale creative velocity. Headquartered in San Francisco, Layer serves hundreds of studios and entertainment brands worldwide, including AAA publishers and high-growth mobile teams.
https://www.layer.ai/
Nazara is India’s only publicly listed gaming company valued at ~US $1.3 Bn and operates leading brands across gaming & esports, including Fusebox, Curve Games, Kiddopia, Nodwin Gaming, Sportskeeda, Funky Monky and Smaash. Nazara plans to invest over US $200 Mn in 2026 to acquire global gaming studios.
Website: www.nazara.com
Appodeal is a mobile growth platform helping game developers and publishers maximize revenue and scale their businesses through monetization, user acquisition, and analytics solutions. Founded in 2015, Appodeal works with thousands of mobile apps and games worldwide, providing technology that helps publishers optimize performance and streamline growth operations.
The company’s ecosystem includes solutions for ad monetization, mediation, UA automation, analytics, and mobile game publishing, supporting partners across the full app and gaming lifecycle.
ClarityQ is a powerful AI-based Data Analytics platform built for data analysts, game owners, product managers, UA, marketing, ops and more.
Leveraging cutting-edge semantic understanding technology, ClarityQ learns each customer's unique data structure and context. It serves as a true agentic copilot for data analysts, boosting analyst productivity by 4x, while allowing business users to ask data questions in natural language and receive accurate answers, key insights and rich visualizations - all without overloading the data team.
The result is faster, more informed product and business decisions, improved KPIs, and a deeply embedded data-driven culture - driving better product outcomes and business growth.
HyprMX is a brand-only ad network delivering premium ad campaigns from Fortune 500 companies. Available for rewarded video, interstitial, and banner ad formats, HyprMX works with all major mediation solutions and is based in NYC. Visit hyprmx.com or email info@hyprmx.com to see how brand ads can add value to your games.
Mintegral is the leading advertising platform dedicated to growing companies globally. With premium traffic, industry-leading machine learning, and interactive creatives, Mintegral's AppGrowth, Retargeting, and Monetization solutions deliver growth and scale. Discover more at www.mintegral.com.
Games Factory Talents connects top-tier games industry professionals with forward-thinking studios. Based in Helsinki, we specialize in tailored recruitment and high-impact talent events that help companies scale fast with the right people. From boutique teams to AAA giants, studios trust us to deliver talent that fits — technically, culturally, and creatively. Let’s build your dream team!
Metaplay is the backend for live service games.
Game studios use Metaplay to build, operate, and scale top-grossing live games – one vertically-integrated platform spanning game server, LiveOps, player data, and cloud infrastructure. Server-authoritative by default, fully customizable, and shipped as full source code your team owns.
Made for teams shipping alongside agents, Metaplay AI runs through every layer – with the primitives to add your own. Supercell, Metacore, Trailmix, and Lessmore ship on Metaplay.
KashKick is a global leader in performance-based user acquisition for mobile gaming, combining data-driven optimisation, behavioural analytics, and precise targeting to bring in high-value players who stick around. Building on rapid growth in the U.S. and now accelerating internationally across the UK, Canada, and Australia, KashKick continues to expand its footprint to global gaming advertisers. The company partners with top developers and publishers worldwide to drive sustained engagement, measurable growth, and in-app revenue.
Recognised as the 22nd fastest-growing company in the U.S. on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, KashKick continues to redefine how gaming brands can acquire users who stay, play and pay.
Powered by KashKick’s technology, its parent company Besitos extends this innovation by giving businesses new ways to engage, reward and monetise their audiences through mobile gaming. With seamless API or iFrame integration, Besitos enables secure, AI-personalised gaming experiences that enhance user engagement, retention and revenue potential.
CRI Middleware Co., Ltd., founded in Japan in 2001, has become an industry leader behind some of the country’s most iconic digital experiences. Specializing in audio, video, and haptic middleware, the CRI’s technology is woven into video games, cars, e-commerce platforms, and karaoke systems.
Their flagship software CRIware is especially well-known in the gaming world, powering rich soundscapes and fluid music transitions in popular titles from major Japanese game developers.
If you’ve played a top-tier Japanese game in the past two decades, there’s a good chance CRI’s proprietary technology has helped bring it to life.