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Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025

mobile game publishers, game developers, live ops managers, monetization managers, user acquisition marketers, qa and test automation engineers, indie studio founders

planning agents for game testing; explainable ai test automation; ip brand partnership management; real money skill gaming; webshop player steering tactics; ad creative pattern analysis; whale monetization strategies; web shop checkout platforms; Unity 6 WebGPU ports; mobile game market trends report; Türkiye game ecosystem growth

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Effortless Game Testing With Planning AgentsFilip Dvorak21m
Planning agents built with symbolic (explainable) AI automate boring functional and regression playthroughs, claiming to cover 65% of testing and run thousands…
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Mastering IP Partnerships – A Guide To IP Brand ManagementElin Jonsson, Wally Nguyen18m
Studio claims long partnerships (examples: 8+ years with Trailer Park Boys, 5+ with BBC) and builds match‑3/narrative mobile games that prioritize brand…
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Skills & Cash – How Real Money Mobile Games Are Shaping A Billion-Dollar IndustryNancy MacIntyre15m
Company behind WorldWinner claims 25 years of operation, almost $3 billion in prizes awarded and an average month with 12 million paid cash tournaments…
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How To Steer Players To Your Webshop (Without Breaking the Rules!)Archie Stonehill16m
Regulation since 2021 lets developers message players about alternate payments, so focus on collecting emails and using pre-authenticated links to send…
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Revealing Winning Patterns From 500+ Top Game Creatives Of 2024Brijesh Bharadwaj18m
Segwise.ai analyzes 500+ top ads across puzzle, strategy and simulation games and spits out concrete, repeatable patterns. Puzzle wins: 51% had hook text…
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Key Trends & Monetization Strategies In Mobile GamingEden Liu16m
Hypercasual downloads fall 12% quarter‑on‑quarter to 2.98 billion, driven by market saturation, higher CPI and IDFA changes; publishers shift to deeper casual…
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Winning With Whales: How To Get, Retain & Monetize ThemArtem Liubutov, Josephine Friday16m
Xsolla reports 500+ web shops launched generating $1.5B, with whales supplying >50% and averaging $847 per head and 17 purchases per month; the largest single…
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Marketing Web ShopsChip Thurston24m
FastSpring positions itself as an all‑in‑one checkout for web shops with over 3,000 customers and 20 years of experience, and Playtika reports 28% of revenue…
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The Web Gaming RenaissanceRafael Morgan, Rabia Dincer16m
CrazyGames reports user count doubled in two years, a developer community of over 3,000, and platform exposure reaching 40 million users with zero UA costs…
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State Of GamingAlyssa Paramo22m
Sensor Tower’s new State of Gaming report says app downloads stay huge but fall year‑over‑year with games downloads down 6.6% and casual downloads down 17%…
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Welcome ToChris James21m
Announces Pocket Gamer Connects hitting its 50th PGC milestone and five San Francisco editions, cites 55,000 delegates across 11 cities and forecasts industry…
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Türkiye’s Game Development Boom – A New Hub For Innovation & InvestmentIrmak Tamgac15m
Bilkent Cyberpark positions Türkiye as a games hub by running Global Game Jam, a 100-person game jam and export-focused programs that send local studios to GDC…
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