Time Is Money
PGC Helsinki Digital: The common missteps of an indie hypercasual studio
Umami Games CEO Riley Andersen shared the struggles of her early free-to-play career
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Why Crazy Labs thinks now is the time to get into hypercasual
"It takes a lot of time and tries and failure on the way. But with talented teams, you can do it very fast"
Two Billion Users
PGC Helsinki Digital: Downloads need to take "five-seconds or less" on Facebook Gaming
Quicksave Interactive CEO and co-founder Elina Arponen spoke about the benefits of developing games for social platforms
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Designing compelling narratives for a mobile audience
"We should make sure that we invest the same amount of time into our characters as we are expecting from our players"
Free Offer
FREE OFFER! Get trial access to the Game Maker Insights track at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
Get access to one of the incredible tracks at this week’s online conference absolutely FREE
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Learning from Fingersoft's new game development funnel
"The best part about this whole funnel is that we can give everyone that works for us equal opportunities to create games"
"dominant"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Loot boxes are still the "number one monetisation method used in core games" globally on mobile
App Annie senior insights market manager Lexi Sydow confirmed this during a Superstar Session
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Knowing your customers
"What do people want, that people don't even necessarily know that they want"
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PGC Helsinki Digital: How to hire competitively and proactively in the games industry
"Candidates don't trust us anymore, they don't trust the company, they don't trust corporations"
Hey, Listen
PGC Helsinki Digital: 86% of UK adults dislike video ads in mobile games
"Most innovations in ad tech are none intrusive"
Hutch Jobs
PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Check out some of the latest roles available at Hutch
Product manager, art outsource manager, and QA embedded tester roles available
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PGC Helsinki Digital: How the Finnish games industry has grown over 25 years
"We are not in our teens anymore; we are a mature industry"
200 Partnerships
PGC Helsinki Digital: Homa Games exceeds 250 million lifetime downloads
Sky Roller and Nerf Epic Pranks dominate
Day One Complete
Missed day one of Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020? Don’t make the same mistake again!
Day one of the online-only conference got off to a flyer, book your tickets now and make sure you catch the rest of the week!
New Normal?
PGC Helsinki Digital: "Every day was like a weekend" - the impact of Covid-19 on mobile games
Second Wave of Games - Coming Back from Covid-19 panel
K-factor
PGC Helsinki Digital: Tracking your game's "K-factor" and understanding organic growth
A panel of experts discuss how UA campaigns can help your game in other ways
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: get up to speed on mobile ads at PGC Helsinki with AdInMo CEO Kristan Rivers
PGC Helsinki takes place September 14th - 18th
It's What's Happening
PGC Helsinki Digital: Nearly 17 million Animal Crossing 'Tweets' were sent in 12 days
"Twitter loves gaming and gaming loves Twitter"
Rapid Growth
PGC Helsinki Digital: How Belka Games adjusted its strategy and grew from 30 to 300 employees
Changing company culture and business development strategies to ensure you grow properly
Only 3% Of Downloads
PGC Helsinki Digital: Battle royale made up 20% of total time spent across mobile games in the first half of 2020
Five billion global downloads were made in the genre of hypercasual too
Aging Art
PGC Helsinki Digital: How app store optimisation saw Lab Cave's Love & Dating Story increase installs by 314%
Aging up art and using colour psychology to boost installs
Prepare For The Future
PGC Helsinki Digital: N3twork director of UA Matthew Saunders on preparing for an IDFA-less future
Learning lessons from the past to deal with the future
Starts Today
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020 and Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital #1 starts in less than an hour!
Our biggest online-only conference yet featuring unlimited 24-hour networking, 1,500+ attendees, 21 conference tracks, roundtables, fringe events and more
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Brush up on Big Screen Gaming at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 tracks at the show
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"
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Take a look at the live ops landscape at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 tracks at the show
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Go Beyond Games at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 featured tracks
Find Your Next Job
FREE entry for games industry jobseekers with careers week at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020, Sept 14-18
Looking for the next step in your professional career? Be the first to find new job adverts and get advice from recruiters at next week’s online conference
Speaker Spotlight
Agora developer evangelist Joel Thomas gives his advice on getting into the games industry
PGC Helsinki Digital kicks off on September 14th
Editor's Choice
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital: 15 of the most exciting sessions
Our editor's picks for the sessions you can't miss
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: App Radar CEO weighs in on the K-Factor at PGC Helsinki
PGC Helsinki Digital kicks off on September 14th
Special Shoutout
Special thank you to the sponsors for next week’s Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
Celebrating the finest companies backing us for our annual Helsinki conference gone online
Industry Visions & Values
Learn all about industry visions and values at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of fifteen tracks at the event
Event
Network with the talent behind the BIGGEST games next week at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
Amazing 250+ speaker roster includes the studios behind smash hits and stellar success stories! You can meet them all online, September 14-18
Tenjin's At The Ready
Tenjin platform director Matthaus Krzykowski on the big changes to come to the industry in 2021
"I don’t see a bigger trend than changes because of iOS 14"
Diamond Sponsor
Say hello to our Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital Diamond Sponsor Agora!
Chat with the team and check out their talks at the upcoming show
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Discover the Incredible Indies at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 featured tracks
Schedule Revealed
Final conference schedule revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
Plan your time at next week’s online-only games industry conference
Talking Heads
Agora, Rovio, Google, Miniclip and App Annie all confirmed to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
The speaker lineup is now complete! Find out who you will be learning from online next week
Meet The Investor
VGames Founder Eitan Reisel on the key advantages when raising investment from the company
“Content is not easy, we are building games that we hope people will love. Resilience, passion and leadership are key for success”
Meet The Investor
Konvoy Ventures’ Managing Partner Jason Chapman on the key advantages when raising investment from the company
"While games have begun integrating social layers into games long ago, we think games will become an important facilitator of social interaction in a work from home world"
Efficient Networking
Entries close this Monday Sept 7th for Publisher SpeedMatch at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
Connect with the biggest publishers and talented indie developers - sign up now!
Meet The Investor
The Irregular Corporation’s business development director Mitsuo Hirakawa on the key advantages when raising investment from the company
“Making a great game is difficult as it is, but creating a sustainable & successful franchise is even harder. That is why we want to work with founders who are fully committed for the long term.”
Meet The Investor
LEGO Ventures on the advantages when investment is raised from their company
"Our advice would be to find a way of injecting some fun into the pitch and inspiring a connection, be it through video, live gameplay, or otherwise"
Reasons To Attend
20 reasons why you need to (virtually) attend Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
250 expert speakers, 21 conference tracks, 1,500+ industry professionals, exciting fringe events - our online-only conference is set to be a cracker!
Find Your Funding
LAST CHANCE to get involved with the Investor Connector at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020 - sign up now!
Sign ups for the popular investor matchmaking event end at midnight Friday Sept 4th, so don’t miss out!
Meet The Investor
Velo Partners’ Associate Director Rob Duboff on the advantages of working with Velo and the potential they bring when raising investment
“It appears that the real winners during the lockdown period were the companies that were willing to aggressively take advantage of the lower CPIs to significantly grow their userbases cheaply”
Talking Heads
Facebook, Jam City, ZeptoLab, Neogames and Kwalee all confirmed to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
With just two weeks to go until our online-only conference goes live, find out who you will be learning from digitally
Fringe Events
Find the next step in your career, or meet your next business partner, publisher or investor online at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
Fringe benefits: beyond the conference talks and panels, there are multiple events for networking with over 1,500 industry professionals over the internet this month
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Fnatic Edward Gregory on how to make successful partnerships in esports
"Esports is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world and yet is still in its infancy."