Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Another beat for Unity
Unity generated $235 million in Q1 2021
Company Profile
Unity
Website
unity.com/
About
Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world.
Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize, so that they can find success with their creations.
The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook, Oculus, Autodesk, and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Made with Unity experiences reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 29 billion times in the last 12 months.
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Accolades
Articles featuring Unity
Pgc Digital #6
PGC Digital: 5 billion downloads of Unity-developed apps are made every month
94 of the top 100 development studios by revenue use the software
Growing Market
Mobile games ad revenue grew by 8% last year
First-day in-app purchases had an increase of more than 50%
Jobs In Games
Why Unity's Danny Lange believes AI is pushing the games industry forward
"There is a strong shift underway towards data-driven approaches to development."
Welcome Back
Industry vet Peter Moore returns to games with exec role at Unity
“I’m delighted to announce that I’ve joined the incredibly-talented team at @unity3d as SVP and GM of Sports and Live Entertainment"
Oh Snap
Snap Inc partners with Unity to bring its tech to game developers
"We're building on our commitment of enabling developer success at all stages of the game life cycle, from creation onwards"
Money Money Money
Unity experiences 53% revenue increase in first quarter since IPO
“We are very pleased to start our public company journey with such a strong quarter"
Partnered Up
Unity partners with Playing for the Planet to further its commitment to social responsibility
As well as Pledge 1% and Rare Beauty
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Understanding Unity’s new program that helps developers acquire players
The MTM team digs into Unity's game growth program
Full Support
Unity launches Social Impact Division to support equality and sustainability
It is backed by a charity fund
Monetisation
Unity launches Game Growth Program to support free-to-play indie games
"Great games often go unnoticed, especially within the indie segment"
Money Money Money
Unity makes $1.3 billion through its IPO on NYSE
Company valued at $13.7 billion
Growing Unity
Unity senior director of marketing Mark Robinson on how the games industry has changed over the past 12 months
"The industry is thriving and data/analytics has played an important role in the growth"
Unlocking The Audience
Unlocking the power of gaming's resilient audience
Unity Operate Solutions VP of revenue Julie Shumkaer digs into the data on "pandemic players"
Unity Ipo
Unity reveals plans to IPO on New York Stock Exchange
Raising money to pay off a loan and maybe make some acquisitions
Hypercasual Domination
Hypercasual app installs more than doubled between December 2019 and March 2020
China saw a 300 per cent rise in downloads
10 Years On
Unity developer support tops 170,000 as platform turns 5
Platform claims to be #1 engine on the market
Unite Now
Unity unveils weekly online series Unite Now as it cancels all physical Unite events for 2020
Running through spring and summer
Unity Out
Unity Technologies backs out of GDC 2020 due to concerns around coronavirus
"After much thought and deliberation"
Smarter Sales
Unity tweaks its accounting methods prior to rumoured IPO
Reallocating sales from Finland to US
Adjust Unites
Adjust becomes Unity's first mobile measurement partner
Easy access to the Adjust SDK in Unity
Event
Geewa, Tencent, Snap Inc and the IMGA to speak at the first ever Pocket Gamer Connects Jordan
Final set of speakers revealed for next week’s two-day B2B games industry conference
More Tools
Unity continues M&A drive acquiring live ops outfit ChilliConnect
The ecosystem grows
Bigger Union
Unity acquires DeltaDNA for undisclosed fee
Adding live ops tools to the flow
New Investments
Unity Technologies makes a tender offer of up to $525m to shareholders
The company recently signed agreement investments
Lawsuit
Ex-Unity VP files lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination
Tech firm denies claims of wrongful termination and other allegations
Funding News
Unity chases further $125 million funding round at $6 billion valuation
Tech company has raised around $600 million to date
Cloud Tech
GDC 2019: Unity partners with Tencent to help bring more developers games to China
The service will become accessible later this year.
Unity Foundation
GDC 2019: Unity AR Foundation ties together ARKit and ARCore development
Creators can target both SDKs through one framework
Acquisition News
GDC 2019: Unity acquires texture streaming tools firm Graphine
Company develops Granite toolset
New Realities
GDC 2019: Unity "investing heavily" in augmented reality tech
"We’re really keen on AR and we’re seeing a lot of the big partners release a lot of products in this space, and we’re excited to see where it’s going"
Big Deal
Report: Facebook wanted to buy Unity game engine to drive VR and AR business
Wants to be a key player in the next major computing platform after mobile
Going Public?
Report: Unity eyes up 2020 IPO
Firm eyes first half of 2020 for flotation, sources claim
Deal
Unity acquires games chat platform Vivox
Text and audio comms tool has been used in Fortnite, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, and League of Legends
Unity
Unity Playground aims to open game development up to kids
Scriptless asset suite seeks to provide a stepping stone for young users looking to get into the engine
The Final Statement?
Improbable games allowed back on Unity
But SpatialOS still not officially supported
Opinion
Sorry Improbable, the Unity dispute is just business
Improbable sorry for causing “uncertainty, confusion and pain” as Unity rejects that current SpatialOS devs will have their games blocked
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Unity founder David Helgason
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 will take place on January 21st to 22nd
Rage Fuel
War of words heats up between games tech firms Unity and Improbable
As Fortnite firm Epic swoops in with $25m fund for developers to come to its engine
Unity Versus Improbable
Changes to Unity terms of service mean devs can't use engine with Improbable's SpatialOS tech
Studios using this tech together is breach of the middleware's terms
Unity Icon Collective
Unity Icon Collective aims to offer ready-made triple-A assets on the Asset Store
First pack is free for Unity Pro users
Fab
Unity on the long and challenging road to developing workable nested prefabs
"We were building something, not for ourselves, but everybody else"
Open For Business
Unity and Google Cloud launch open-source matchmaking project
Open Source is games engine agnostic to allow game creators to reuse a common matchmaker framework
Igdc
NGDC rebrands to The India Game Developer Conference
Event returns to Hyderabad on December 4th and 5th 2018
Unity
67% of Unity developers are choosing to publish independently
Unity reports on the development habits of 1,445 small to medium Indies
Partnership
Google partners up with Unity to extend ad campaign reach
The agreement will give Google access to Unity’s network of mobile games through Universal App campaigns
Addition
Social casino dev KamaGames signs exclusive Unity Ads partnership
Irish social casino games company agrees to only provide in-app video monetisation through Unity Ads platform
About Time
Report: Telltale Games to ditch its own its own tech for Unity game engine
Follows 15 years of using Telltale Tool
Key Takeaways
5 things we learned at Unite Berlin 2018
Google, machine learning, mixed reality and more were the key topics in Germany
Realer Than Real
Unity drives deeper into augmented reality with Project MARS
“Reality is our build target”