YouTube is where gamers decide what to play next.

Long-form integrations, dedicated reviews, livestreams and Shorts — engineered for installs, ROAS and lasting brand love.

Where gamers research, decide and stay.

No other platform combines this much intent, attention and creator depth in one place.

#1
Where gamers research

YouTube is the most-used platform for game reviews, walkthroughs and pre-install discovery.

30+ min
Average decision window

Players watch deep-dive videos before they install — long-form earns more trust than any ad slot.

4 formats
Under one creator

Integrations, Dedicated Videos, Live Streams and Shorts — same audience, four angles of reach.

Loyal
Subscriber communities

Creator subscribers convert at rates a cold paid ad can't touch — trust compounds with every release.

Every YouTube format we run.

Pick the formats that match your KPI — or stack them under the same creator for compounding reach.

01

Integrations

A 60–120 second sponsored segment inside a creator video. Native, conversion-friendly and the workhorse format for performance briefs — most of our YouTube campaigns lead with this.

02

Dedicated Videos

The entire video is your game. Best for launches, big updates and creative cosplay/DIY specials where the story carries weight on its own.

03

Live Streams

Multi-hour livestreams with real-time chat, giveaways and Twitch-style engagement — ideal for eSports, beta access and community events.

04

YouTube Shorts

Vertical, snackable cut-downs that ride YouTube algorithmic discovery. Great companion format to long-form releases and reusable in paid social.

05

Pre-roll & In-stream Ads

Skippable and non-skippable inventory across YouTube and Google Ads — we re-cut creator content into 6/15/30s units engineered for retention and click-through.

06

Premieres & Reveals

Scheduled drops with countdown, live chat and creator co-streams — the launch-day shape when the moment itself is the story.

More than uploads — mechanics that move metrics.

Custom layers we drop into creator videos to lift conversion and prove campaign impact in real time.

Live Progress Bar under videos.

When viewers complete the target action, they see the result update under the video in real time. Transparency lifts motivation — and motivation lifts conversion.

  • Real-time install counter rendered right under the video
  • Description updates automatically: "X players already joined"
  • Bonus creator payout when the campaign hits its goal

Predictive analytics model

In-house predictive model that scores creators and forecasts campaign outcomes — views, ER, CPM and conversion — before a brief goes out. Built on historical Zorka.Platform data.

Branded QR codes

On-screen QR codes in videos – one tap from creator content to install. Trackable per creator, brandable per campaign.

Pinned comments & links

The creator's first comment, pinned to the top: campaign link, promo code, giveaway terms. The highest-CTR placement on the entire video page.

How a YouTube campaign comes together.

Four predictable steps from brief to scale — with brand safety built in.

  1. 01

    Audience & Channel Research

    Map your audience clusters to creator niches — gaming, entertainment, culture, music, DIY — and shortlist channels with the right viewer profile and engagement.

  2. 02

    Brief, Creative & Approvals

    Build creative concepts per cluster, brief creators with room for native execution, and run the 5–7 day brand-safety approval cycle before anything ships.

  3. 03

    Activation & Multi-format

    Coordinate releases across Integrations, Dedicated Videos, Live Streams and Shorts — same creator, multiple formats, single timeline.

  4. 04

    Optimize & Recut for UA

    Track CPM, ER and conversion in real time. Best creator content gets recut into paid UA assets — squeezing more value out of every release.

We start from your audience — not the gaming roster.

A casual mobile game with women 35+ at the core belongs on cooking, home decor and lifestyle channels — not on the multigaming roster. We pick channels for the player, not for the genre.

For Marvel Strike Force we ran Gaming, Entertainment, Movies, DIY and Music — because the franchise audience lived there. For Overmortal — Chinese culture, mythology and traditional-instrument music. For Lord of the Rings — sculptors, artists and a creator who recreated movie sounds from household items. The right channel is rarely the obvious one.

  • Gaming
    Multigaming, niche genres, deep-dive reviewers
  • Entertainment
    Reactors, sketch, lifestyle, vlog
  • Music
    Covers, original tracks, traditional instruments
  • DIY & Crafts
    Builders, prop-makers, cosplay tailors
  • Movies & TV
    Franchise commentary, scene breakdowns, lore
  • Anime & Animation
    Anime fandom and animated-game adjacent audiences
  • Culture & Lore
    History, mythology, region-specific cultural channels
  • Sports & eSports
    eSports orgs, athletes, sports commentary

Questions we get asked.

We start from your audience — not from a creator list. We map player clusters (genre fans, lifestyle adjacencies, regional niches) and shortlist channels with matching viewers, engagement rates and brand-safe history. Multigaming channels are rarely the highest-converting option — the best fit is often genre-adjacent or lifestyle.

YouTube campaigns, by the numbers.

A snapshot of recent YouTube-led work and the results it drove.

PC · MMORPGGameforge

Aion Classic — bringing old players back across untapped EU territories

avg CPM
$20
reached
KPI
Mobile · Western RPGByteDance

Dragonheir: Silent Gods cross-platform launch on YouTube and Twitch

YouTube releases
190
Twitch streamers
50

Let's win the
game.

Whether you're soft-launching, scaling, or relaunching — we'll bring the creators, the creative and the numbers.