MUSE Platinum

2023

Advertising Agency of the Year

Entrant Company

Maverick Media

Category

Best Agency Awards - Advertising Agency of the Year

Client's Name

Country / Region

United Kingdom

We are a video games creative agency that make award-winning creative campaigns underpinned by deep brand understanding and strategy. For 25 years we’ve partnered with the world’s most prestigious game publishers, developers, and brands.

We are a team of passionate individuals, who are truly in love with what we do. We work hard to make sure our culture and team are rooted in authenticity. We believe the best way to do this is by being true to ourselves, each other, and our clients.

Our team is highly engaged and motivated, which means they're always excited to come to work every day. They're genuine fans of the IPs we work on and the industry we're in. They care about what they do, who they work with, and how they do it.

As an agency, we believe it is important to form meaningful client relationships. Clients in our industry most value a genuine and authentic understanding of not only their products/IPs but their communities too. This is something we can say we truly deliver on and has been the success factor in unlocking bigger partnership-level relationships, looking at longer-term strategies and marketing support across multiple product pillars.

Pokémon is one of our biggest clients, and it all began over ten years ago with a single product IP. This relationship has developed into significant integrated marketing initiatives covering numerous brands, IPs, apps, video games, and trading card games.

The agency has grown steadily over the past two decades, but in recent years we have accelerated our growth, increasing our revenue by 4-fold in 4 years. One key achievement was an 86% growth in 2021.

As we passed the 50-employee mark, built a new office in London, and had another year of revenue growth, we transformed from a small to a medium-sized agency in the past 12 months.

This shift in focus around the culture, team, and ways of working with our clients has led to significant growth across a period where many agencies in the same space have experienced the opposite.

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