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Gaming as a Culture, Not Only a Channel, with Generation Media's Zach Smith

Gaming as a Culture, Not Only a Channel, with Generation Media's Zach Smith

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 brands and advertisers looking to add gaming into their marketing mix.

This month, Nathan Lindberg is joined by Zach Smith, Vice President, Client Partnerships at Generation Media. Zach brings decades of gaming industry experience - from game tester to marketing roles at Acclaim, Majesco and Gameloft, to building media strategy for publishers like Square Enix, Nexon, Plaion and Capcom. He recently joined Generation Media to launch and grow their North American practice. 

In this episode, hosted by Nathan Lindberg, VP of Brand Partnerships at Overwolf, we explored:

  • How non-endemic brands burn media budgets by treating gamers as one audience - and what surgical targeting actually looks like
  • Why Discord joins have overtaken Steam wishlists as the go-to pre-launch metric for indie publishers
  • Why Generation Media is bringing its specialist model to North America, and what hold co agencies keep getting wrong

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