Games & Brand Marketing

Olamiposi
I. Olayiwola

Brand marketing professional building go-to-market campaigns for games. Specialises in pre-launch strategy, community growth, and influencer programmes. Agency-trained, publisher-side experience, creator-native.

5+ Years agency experience
75K+ Steam wishlists driven
100+ Published pieces

Campaign Case Studies

Two campaigns from different ends of the spectrum: indie pre-launch and multinational ATL. Both show the same underlying discipline applied across very different contexts.

Games Pre-launch Brand Strategy Influencer

The Dark West — Pre-launch Brand Campaign

Infernozilla (Game Publisher & Agency) · 2024–2026

75K+ Steam wishlists
pre-demo

The Brief

Build brand awareness and convert interest into Steam wishlists for an unannounced occult ARPG from a new indie studio, building from an early-stage community with no existing press coverage.

The Strategy

  • Defined brand positioning: "dark western meets ARPG systems depth," distinguishing it clearly from Diablo-likes and western-aesthetic games
  • Built content pillars around gameplay proof, systems depth, and worldbuilding to move audiences from curiosity to conviction
  • Prioritised media outreach to unlock third-party credibility as the fastest path to wishlist volume
  • Sequenced influencer activations around coverage spikes to amplify rather than originate reach

Execution

  • Wrote and executed the full social media strategy across TikTok, Instagram, X, and YouTube Shorts
  • Managed all copywriting, tone of voice, and creative direction for platform content
  • Coordinated influencer activations and cross-developer collaborations
  • Built and managed the community from scratch across Reddit, Discord, and social platforms
  • Ran organic growth and Meta Ads throughout the campaign period

What drove the numbers

Wishlist growth was the result of sustained, multi-channel effort: consistent short-form content across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and X; community growth from an early base; influencer activations; cross-developer collaborations; and paid social running throughout. That foundation created a pool of engaged, ready-to-act awareness before any major press coverage landed.

Two earned IGN features in February and June 2026 produced the largest monthly spikes. The placements were not paid. They came through a deliberate media positioning strategy that framed the game's systems as genuinely novel within the ARPG genre. Because the organic groundwork was already in place, when the features landed the audience was there to convert.

Monthly Steam wishlist additions · Jan–Jul 2026

40K 30K 20K 10K 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Earned IGN Feature #1 Earned IGN Feature #2

Content output — campaign creative

The Dark West content grid — branded YouTube and social videos
The Dark West — campaign content grid
75,000+ Total wishlists
+38,566 Feb spike (Earned IGN Feature #1)
+35,328 Jun spike (Earned IGN Feature #2)
FMCG GTM Campaign Multi-channel Live activation

Gulder Ultimate Search — Return Campaign

Insight Publicis (for Nigerian Breweries) · 2020–2021

GUS 12 Nigeria's most anticipated
reality franchise revival

The Brief

Relaunch the Gulder Ultimate Search — Nigeria's most iconic reality competition franchise, dormant for years — with a go-to-market campaign that rebuilt brand heat and drove mass audience engagement for Nigerian Breweries across digital channels.

The Strategy

  • Owned the pre-launch digital strategy for the "Age of Craftsmanship" relaunch — building audience anticipation and brand heat across social channels in the months leading up to the series premiere
  • Coordinated creative direction, copy, and community management across Gulder's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube
  • Built content calendars aligned to key pre-launch milestones: announcement, teaser campaign, and cast reveal
  • Compiled and delivered performance reports to the Nigerian Breweries brand team throughout the pre-launch phase

This campaign ran across five simultaneous major accounts at Insight Publicis: Visa Nigeria, Visa Ghana, Gulder, Star, and Amstel Malta, managed concurrently. The Gulder Ultimate Search relaunch was the highest-profile activation in that portfolio, requiring the same always-on account management discipline that underpins live service game marketing.

Creative samples — Gulder brand content

The Reward for Discovery — Gulder evolution concept
The Reward for Discovery
Maintain Social Distancing — Gulder COVID reactive post
Maintain Social Distancing
5 Major accounts managed simultaneously
₦50M Grand prize — franchise scale
Full-funnel Awareness through post-campaign reporting

What I bring to a team

Built across agency retainer work, publisher-side campaign management, and hands-on content creation. Not a single-lane specialisation.

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Brand Strategy & Positioning

Building brand frameworks from scratch: tone of voice, visual identity direction, product positioning, and audience definition for games and consumer brands.

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Go-to-Market Planning

Developing full GTM strategies from pre-launch awareness through to post-launch live operations: channel mix, timing, messaging architecture, and KPI frameworks.

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Campaign Execution & Reporting

Hands-on execution across organic social, paid social (Meta Ads Manager), and influencer coordination, with full-funnel reporting and post-campaign retrospectives.

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Publisher-Developer Relations

Managing the brand-developer interface at Infernozilla: translating game features into marketing assets, aligning on release milestones, and representing the brand's needs in development conversations.

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Copywriting & Brand Voice

Writing across formats: campaign copy, community posts, editorial, and brand guidelines, adapting voice from indie game cult audiences to mainstream FMCG consumers.

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Games Industry Knowledge

Active player and content creator with deep familiarity across ARPG, survival, FPS, and competitive genres. Understands what drives wishlists, community loyalty, and live service retention.

Experience

Five years across games publishing, multinational agency, and freelance. Full breadth of brand and campaign work.

Aug 2024 – Present

Social Media Manager

Infernozilla · Game Publisher & Agency

End-to-end brand and campaign ownership for multiple indie game clients: strategy, content, influencer coordination, community, and paid social across pre-launch, launch, and live operations. Key client: The Dark West (75,000+ Steam wishlists).

Aug 2021 – Oct 2023

Gaming Content Writer & Editor

DiamondLobby · UK Gaming Editorial

100+ published pieces across gaming editorial, coaching education, and sports content — including reviews, guides, features, and book-length projects. At DiamondLobby, produced gaming editorial across reviews, guides, and features; one article — Video Game Characters Reimagined With Ethnic Diversity — was picked up by GamesPress, demonstrating the ability to produce content that earns earned media coverage beyond its original publication. Separately authored multiple coaching books for a UEFA D-License coach, covering youth training drills and player development.

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021

Digital Campaign Manager

Insight Publicis · Multinational Agency

Managed up to five major accounts simultaneously: Visa Nigeria, Visa Ghana, Gulder, Star, Amstel Malta. Developed and executed GTM plans for high-profile campaigns including the Gulder Ultimate Search relaunch and Gulder Product Relaunch.

Mar 2019 – Jun 2020

Campaign & Content Manager

Sponge Limited · Agency

Brand frameworks, content pillars, and GTM activations for Nestlé accounts: Maggi, Nestlé Pure Life, Golden Morn. Led the Maggi Signature Launch, briefing creative teams across graphics, video, and animation.

Both sides of the brief

Active gaming content creator as ola.gamr. Having lived the influencer side of campaigns, I know what a good brief looks like, what makes creators say yes, and what players actually respond to.

TikTok

@ola.gamr

Short-form gaming content: gameplay clips, commentary, and gaming culture. Focused on authentic audience building in the African gaming creator space.

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Instagram

@ola.gamr

Gaming Reels and brand content. Home base for brand deal executions — from product launch appearances to live event coverage across gaming competitions.

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Brand deals & partnerships

ola.gamr Instagram Reels — organic videos with 31K, 104K, 53K views

ola.gamr on Instagram — organic Reels reaching 31K–104K views

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