Games & Brand Marketing
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.
Selected Work
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.
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.
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
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.
Capabilities
Built across agency retainer work, publisher-side campaign management, and hands-on content creation. Not a single-lane specialisation.
Brand Strategy & Positioning
Building brand frameworks from scratch: tone of voice, visual identity direction, product positioning, and audience definition for games and consumer brands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Background
Five years across games publishing, multinational agency, and freelance. Full breadth of brand and campaign work.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Creator Identity
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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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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ola.gamr on Instagram — organic Reels reaching 31K–104K views