The UK games industry is a successful player on the global stage. We've helped hundreds of British businesses make connections with international partners, leading to hundreds of millions of pounds of investment into the UK sector. Find out more about our new Ukie Worldwide campaign below.
We've launched a brand new campaign to bring all of our trade activities underneath one big banner: Ukie Worldwide, A campaign showcasing the successes of the UK games industry and demonstrating why global companies should continue to invest in our businesses. However, you can still read through Ukie-backed trade initiatives on this page.
Find out more about Ukie Worldwide
Ukie organises UK industry stands at major global games events - including Gamescom - to encourage international trade and investment opportunities. As well as offering great opportunities to meet with developers, investors and publishers from across the world, many of the trade events we attend receive funding to bring down the cost of attendance for UK developers - making it easier to do business. Contact the Ukie team for more information or to express interest about being featured at Gamescom 2022.
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Ukie is the exclusive DIT accredited trade body for Games in the UK. DIT offers a series of resources to support your trade activities -
gov.uk/government/collections/uk-trade-and-investment-services-for-exporters
Get support from a specialist regional international trade advisor
UK Export Finance products and services.
As well as supporting UK games companies with their aspirations overseas, Ukie also provides key services that enable games business to thrive and expand and reach UK partners. Through a partnership with Creative Enterprise, Ukie manages and delivers the industry gold standard Scale-Up and Accelerator programmes.
The Scale-Up, which Ukie runs in partnership with Creative UK, offers an unrivalled six-month programme for games businesses who have already released a small number of games but are ready for a sustained period of expansion and success.
The intensive programme gives the companies access to industry experts, mentors, workshops and events that will see them grow fast and strong. This programme is open to 15 companies per cohort per year.
The Accelerator programme supports 30 start up companies as they begin their journey in the sector. Irrespective of the individuals experience, this programme offers amazing support for new businesses as they look to secure their foothold in the market.
Additionally, Ukie delivers a raft of services to help games businesses grow in the UK including –
· A 1-2-1 introductory service to connect developers to funders, platforms, and publishers
· UK developer showcases (three times a year) events where 15 UK studios are invited to present and pitch their games to publishers, investors, and the media
· A series of business networking events and industry talks from experts – including the annual Hub Crawl tour of the major games clusters, In 2021 over 700 UK games companies attended a Hub Crawl event
· The video vault of previous industry talks, all recorded and curated into one repository and free to access
For more information on the National Trade Programme please contact sam@ukie.org.uk and look at https://ukie.org.uk/events on the Ukie website.
The GREAT Britain campaign is a government funded multimillion pound international marketing campaign which showcases the very best of what Britain has to offer in its creative industries. It is designed to encourage people to do business in the UK. Ukie secures the games images which are featured as part of the campaign.
