Record D2C revenue and international studios flock to Spain | Week in Mobile Games podcast

And the first thing I want to talk about is we just published a recent report on Iberia.

So the Iberian Peninsula, as it's known, is where Spain and Portugal are located, and that's what our report focused on.

Interviews with local experts, a bunch of data, and we also released a top 30.

So I thought I'd throw ahead of PCC Barcelona, I thought I'd throw out some quick stats.

So the Spanish games market generated 2.4 billion euros in 2024, which is up 3% year over year.

It turns off the turnover from Spain's games industry itself.

That turned over 1.42 billion euros in 2023.

And that is set to rise.

So in a previous report that was set to rise to nearly 1.7 billion euros by 2027.

I wonder if that might change based on what's probably happened in the industry since that report.

So if we think that's 2023, I wonder if the next report would include Monopoly Go revenue because Scopely has a lot of, I think employs over a thousand people in Spain and a lot of those in Barcelona in particular.

Also has hubs in Madrid and Seville and maybe somewhere else.

I wonder if they'll add that to the turnover because they had quite kind of a, I think a significant role in that game.

If you weren't aware, And then some other quick facts about the scene there.

In 2024, they had 815 active Spanish studios, according to a report from Dev.

And they forecast for 2024 for 10,500 people working in the industry.

I suspect that was probably full-time jobs.

And they reckon that was going to go up to nearly 13,000 by 2027.

The interesting thing that I'll go into in a sec is that I guess that might also go up a lot.

So Spain actually has so many massive studios there.

So in our top 30 list, so we ranked like we do with our big top 50 game makers, the top developers and publishers for the last like 12 months or so doing really interesting stuff right now.

And doing this list, you find out, yes, they do have their own local studios.

Lingo Kids raised like $125 million, I think.

They do educational games.

They obviously have Social Point, massive studio there.