Company

Our Mission

IDG Intelligence is a collective of leading-edge market research/data analytics/strategic advisory specialists who act as an extension of our clients’ C-suite, sales and marketing, and data science groups. Our global team of transmedia experts from within the industry maintain an unsurpassed mastery of gaming/gaming-adjacent topics, which they leverage to help our clients reach and exceed their success metrics.

Our Vision

To be the leading, most trusted, and most diverse advisor in gaming, technology, and transmedia – the first call clients make to solve high-stakes problems and increase their opportunities for success.

Our Values

To strive for excellence in our professional endeavors while encouraging intellectual curiosity, integrity, and humility, and treating our clients and team members with respect and care.

An Insight Into Our Company Culture

IDG Intelligence operates unlike any other games research/analyst firm. The company is built upon a number of principles that we're both extremely proud of and fiercely committed to:

Diversity: 50% female; a truly global workforce representing 12 countries, with 5 offices outside the U.S.

Industry and company longevity: More than 50% of our analysts have been with IDG for 5 or more years. 50% of the team has been in the games industry for 10+ years. Senior executives have an average games industry tenure of more than 20 years. The average tenure across all team members is nearly a decade.

Commitment to altruistic causes: At year's end, IDG donates $1,000 on behalf of each team member to a personally meaningful cause. Over the past four years alone, IDG has donated tens of thousands of dollars to 70 causes, including global humanitarian aid; natural disaster relief; education; coding and tech education for girls; human trafficking; malaria prevention; cancer research; climate change; local food banks; and research to protect endangered species.

Unsurpassed Knowledge of the Games Industry + Passion & Compassion

IDG Intelligence combines more than 100 years of games industry experience and a variety of best-in-class skill sets and datasets to solve our clients’ biggest challenges and enable them to become the leaders in the games industry. We have established such a strong track record and take such great care of our clients that we have attained a 90%+ retention rate across the past five years, which is a testament to our focus on long-term client partnerships and success.

We pride ourselves on a 40-year track record of confidentiality and trust, forged with a broad range of clients. We attribute these long-term relationships to the quality of intelligence we deliver, and to their entrusting us with highly sensitive information and context.

Our clients represent a cross-section of the most innovative and successful games developers, publishers, platforms, technology companies, media leaders, and investors in the world. From the most recognizable names in gaming, to promising indies and startups, to media companies entering the sector, IDG Intelligence has worked with more than 300 organizations that rely on us for data, market intelligence, and guidance to help them make business-critical decisions, with a market cap of over $10 trillion.

The Smartest, Most Diverse Team of Analysts in the Industry

Leadership Team

President/CEO

President and CEO Yoshio Osaki leads by example, regarding human capital as the company’s greatest asset. By encouraging every IDG employee to be intellectually curious, innovative, honest, kind, and playful, and encouraging team members to share their backgrounds and cultures, each feels respected and appreciated. In turn, they apply their 200+ combined years of games industry mastery to delivering the most accurate research, reporting, insights, and advice for their clients.  It’s why team members stay with the company for 18 years, not 18 months.

Senior Vice President – Consulting
Vice President - Syndicated Research
Managing Director - IDG EMEA

Consulting Team

Director of Operations
Lead Analyst - Consulting
Senior Analyst - Consulting
Market Analyst - Consulting

Syndicated Research Team

Market Analyst - Syndicated Research
Market Analyst - Syndicated Research

IDG EMEA Team

Strategy Analyst - IDG EMEA

Operations And Administration

Business Operations Analyst
Office Manager

Working Together

Our clients represent a cross-section of the most innovative and successful games developers, publishers, platforms, technology companies, media leaders, and investors in the world. From the most recognizable names in gaming, to promising indies and startups. to media companies entering the sector, IDG Intelligence has worked with more than 300 organizations who rely on us for data, market intelligence, and guidance to help them make business-critical decisions.

IDG has been a trusted data provider, analytics resource, and strategic advisor for many of the games industry's biggest AAA hits, and helping indies to become the next big AAA winners.

“IDG is one of our go-to partners for tackling some of the biggest challenges we face in our industry. They are objective, independent experts, and they have been a trusted advisor and resource for Activision for over 20 years. We work with IDG across multiple areas and levels, and we greatly value the partnership.”

Activision
“IDG is one of the most insightful and forward-thinking research firms in our industry. Their unique ability to expertly analyze trends that capture paradigm shifts in emerging technologies, business models and consumerism is what has made them such a valued longstanding partner of our organization.”

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
“Intelligence is about answering two very important questions; why and what next? Over the last 5 years we’ve partnered with Yoshio and the IDG team, we’ve worked together in high level strategy products to local tactical engagements helping fuel the growth for Wargaming and enabling my team to focus on implementing the how. IDG has consistently delivered insight around trends driving the industry, competitive intensity in exploratory markets, and easy to understand data visualizations unpacking complex metrics in bite size form.”

Wargaming
“Milestone has been working with IDG for many years, and the level of collaboration could not be higher. The support provided by the company has played a role of great value over time: their quarterly reports are a fundamental tool to analyze trends, preferences and users’ tastes and they provide very good support for our strategic decisions. In addition to periodic analysis, Milestone also works with IDG for ad hoc evaluations, always managing to have precise, rapid and extremely useful answers for our business. IDG has even been an incredible supporter for us in looking for a partner in the US, and they followed up with us step-by-step with enthusiasm and dedication. We will be always grateful to Anton, Yoshio and the whole IDG team.”

Milestone S.R.L
533 Airport Blvd., Ste 400

Burlingame, CA  94010

Phone | 415.674.4600
Email | Inquiries@IDGIntel.com