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In-game ads enhance experience for UK gamers

 

Last year, UK consumers spent £1.9bn on packaged games, implying a potentially huge market for in-game advertising. According to Continental Research, this emerging ad channel is beginning to benefit brands. It found average ad recall was 54%.

In-game ads enhance experience for UK gamers

Advertising is seen by its audience as making gaming feel more authentic; two-thirds (65%) of gamers agreed in-game ads made the experience more realistic and 55% said the ads "look cool".

Half of the respondents said they preferred in-game ads to other ad formats and 58% said the ads stood out more.

In addition, in-game advertising was also found to positively impact on consumers' key brand attitudes (see chart). For example, 57% of those exposed to in-game ads said they would recommend that brand, while fewer, 49%, of those not exposed to in-game ads would do so.

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