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Community Management Summit: How a Three-Eyed Horse Changed Meme Marketing Forever

Natalie Puchalski  (Lead Community Manager, Behaviour Interactive)

Location: Room 3002, West Hall

Date: Monday, March 20

Time: 4:40 pm - 5:10 pm

Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass

Topic: Business & Marketing

Format: Lecture

Vault Recording: Video

Audience Level: All

For something that is so appreciated by the game community, memes sure do scare a lot of folks when they're combined with marketing. However, in this talk, attendees will learn that integrating memes into marketing can be a very effective and profitable way to reach consumers. By figuring out how to safely include them into various brands, it becomes easy to generate considerable revenue.

Nathalie Puchalski, Lead Community Manager at Behaviour Interactive, will also touch on the fact that it is very simple to adapt this model to the size of the studio. As a 20-person studio, developing a high-cost trailer is not always the right way to show your game to the world for the first time. Memes, however...

Takeaway

Attendees will learn that memes are an essential part of today's video game marketing. Without needing time nor money, they can generate a substantial amount of revenue, whether they work in a big AAA studio or smaller independent ones.

Intended Audience

This is for video game marketers and community managers who are curious to learn about novel ways of generating engagement and new sources of revenues through a fun and creative way of marketing.