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A $4,000 creator campaign can be a sensible test or an expensive guess. Here's how to structure YouTube and Twitch creator deals for your Overwolf app, and what they should cost
MAD//Fest London 2026 brought together 16,000 marketers, brand leaders, and agency decision-makers across three days in the city. Here is a look back at how the Overwolf Ads team spent the week. On Stage: giffgaff, Gaming & A Guide to Being Radically Disruptive from Product to Media
Gamescom is the world's largest gaming event, and every August it becomes the place where the industry's most important conversations happen. Studios, developers, brands, and platforms converge on Cologne to figure out what gaming looks like next. This year, the Overwolf pack will be there in
Standard pre-roll videos and pop-up ads don't automatically capture attention simply because they appear inside a game. For Gen Z gamers - a demographic that's difficult to reach through traditional media and highly sensitive to interruptions - advertising works best when it becomes part of the
At Cannes Lions 2026, Overwolf CMO Shahar Sorek took the stage to discuss one of the most pressing questions in marketing right now: where has audience attention actually gone, and how do brands follow it there? During the session, Shahar explored how gaming environments, creator platforms, community spaces, and gifting
Cannes Lions 2026 was a full week for the Overwolf Ads team - panels, happy hours, and conversations about where attention is actually going. Here is a look back. The Attention Shift: Where Brands Are Winning in Non-Traditional Inventory Shahar Sorek (CMO of Overwolf), Jackie Lyons (Chief Planning Officer, Havas)
AI coding assistants can now access Overwolf's docs directly via MCP integration, plus desktop apps just got named premium ad supply by Jounce Media
Welcome back to a new episode of The Leaderboard Insights Podcast! If you're interested in the future of gaming advertising and community-driven brand campaigns, you’re in the right place. Each month, we interview the industry’s brightest minds to uncover in-depth and tangible insights for
Every summer, the 16-24 year old cohort disappears into their setups. They play through full weekends. Session lengths run for hours. This is where their attention goes from June through July, concentrated and largely uncontested by brand media. Then August hits. As students and parents start spending more time
You have a trailer ready to go. Your CMO is asking for third-party-audited reach, and your media plan demands ten AAA titles. However, attempting to execute this plan reveals a critical challenge: in-game advertising is not a single, unified channel, it is a collection of incompatible scorecards.
MAD//Fest is the UK advertising industry's annual gathering for the ones who push back. This July, two brands that have built actual disruption into their products and their media plans take the stage together at The Truman Brewery in London. Overwolf Ads and giffgaff will be joining
Overwolf Ads is closing the week with two more awards at The Drum Awards Americas - adding to the Silver we picked up at The Drum Awards Marketing EMEA 2026 just yesterday. The wins: * Gold - Entertainment and Consumer Technology * Bronze - Gaming Both awarded for the Nobody 2 x Fortnite campaign, created
Overwolf Ads has taken home a Silver award at The Drum Awards Marketing EMEA 2026, one of the most prestigious recognition programmes in the industry. Our win: * Silver - Entertainment & Consumer Technology This recognition reflects the power of gaming as a cultural platform, and what's possible when brands
Key Takeaways * YouTube is the structural breadth anchor: Nine-in-ten U.S. teens use it [Pew Research], with 70% of Gen Z adults spending an hour or more per session [Morning Consult]. * Short-form video functions as a product research surface, not just entertainment [Search Engine Journal]. * Contextual in-
Jounce Media, the supply-path benchmarking authority that programmatic buyers and sellers rely on to read the RTB market, has officially labeled Desktop Apps as a premium ad environment.
Gaming advertising is taking a major stage at Cannes Lions! This year, Overwolf Ads arrives at the world's biggest creative and advertising festival as a sponsor, with four activations and a team of senior leaders ready to connect. Yes We Cannes! Welcome Party 🕐 Monday June 22, 5:00
Welcome to the Overwolf Developers May 2026 Newsletter! May has been a massive month for the Overwolf ecosystem. We are rolling out major technical milestones for overlay rendering and celebrating a wave of award-winning brand momentum. Plus, a highly anticipated survival sequel has officially splashed onto our radar. Our
The gaming advertising conversation has matured - and not everyone in the room is ready for what that means. At the ThinkLA Gaming Brunch, the session didn't just scratch the surface. It went straight for the questions brands usually find reasons to avoid. Overwolf's Nathan Lindberg joined