Playground: built for Publishers and Media Houses

Games and Puzzles for Digital Publishing

Games and puzzles like Crossword, Sudoku, Solitaire and more word- and arcade-games have become a core component of digital publishing strategies. Playground is a modular publisher games platform that enables publishers and media companies of every size to launch a new games offering or expand an existing one. It drives recurring visits, audience engagement, registrations, subscriptions and the monetisation of digital reach.

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A publisher's own games section running on Playground, shown on a tablet: a Sudoku feature, a subscription banner and a grid of games including Daily Crossword, Solitaire and Mahjong.

Trusted by leading publishers

Beyond the daily news cycle

From additional content to a strategic business capability

High-quality games create recurring interactions beyond the daily news cycle. When deeply integrated into a publisher’s digital products and systems, they become more than an additional content offering: they become a strategic business capability.

Playground supports different starting points through one modular platform, enabling publishers to begin with the implementation that best supports their current objectives and expand as their strategy evolves.

20+

years of experience developing digital games and platform solutions for publishers

The modular publisher games platform

Playground

Audience engagement, registrations, subscriptions and monetisation — deployed fast, with minimal IT effort on your side.

30–50%

User retention

20+ min

Average session duration

+5%

Registrations from all visits

Proven with publisher partners such as BILD, Le Monde and The Mirror.

The complete Publisher Games Platform

Everything needed to run games as a business.

One modular platform. Start with the implementation that fits your current objectives and unlock additional capabilities as your strategy evolves.

High-quality games portfolio

Deep integration into existing publisher ecosystems

Integration of existing games possible

CMS for managing games and editorial content

Registration & Single Sign-On (SSO)

Subscription & paywall integration

Access management for anonymous, registered users and subscribers

AI-powered quiz creation

Built-in engagement features such as streaks, leaderboards and archives

Branded user experience tailored to the publisher

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Top-performing games

The most-played online games

The portfolio is deliberately short. A title earns its place in one of two ways: it ranks among the most-searched games on the open web, or it is among the most-played titles across our publisher partners’ portals. Games that do very little for either search traffic or daily engagement are left out — a curated set of proven performers builds habits that a long catalogue of filler never will.