Overview

The GDC is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event.  Presented every spring in San Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and online games.

The GDC attracts over 18,000 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry.  The GDC is produced by the Think Services Game Group, a division of United Business Media.

Via the dynamic GDC Expo and burgeoning GDC Career Pavilion - in addition to the diverse lineup of GDC09 sponsorship opportunities - your company can come face-to-face with the future of this multi-billion dollar industry.

GDC Attendee Demographics

• Top reasons for attending GDC include: session content, GDC Expo and industry networking/meetings*
  
  
• Attendees spent an average of 5 hours on the show floor.
  
  
• The average development budget for conference attendees is $8.8 million.
  
  
• GDC attendees have an average of 5.4 years of experience, have worked on an average of 8.3 game titles, and published an average of 10.4 game titles.*
  
  
• GDC attendees manage 14 people directly or indirectly.*
  GDC attendees average development team size for their current project is 29.*
  
  
• Top four actions attendees have taken as a result of attending GDC08
  Visited an exhibitor's website • Sent an email
  Requested more information • Contacted an exhibitor
  
  
• Geography: 82% of GDC attendee are from North America with the balance mainly coming from Western Europe (10%) and Asia (5.2%)
  
  
• 95% of 2008 attendees rated the information GDC as relevant to their jobs.*

_{*Source: 2008 Onsite Attendee Survey by Audience Insights}

Exhibitor and Career Pavilion Rates

Exhibitor Marketing Support Program. Take advantage of the great bonuses available to you as a GDC exhibitor or Exposuite holder. Each program below is designed to deliver additional attention, leads, traffic and higher return on your GDC investment. To upgrade to a higher tier, contact your sales representative.

Sponsorship Opportunities

The GDC offers a wide range of broad and focused sponsorship opportunities. The sales team would also be happy to work with you to customize a sponsorship package to meet your unique marketing needs. More information about GDC09 sponsorship opportunities will be made available soon.