Gamelight
Verified Oct 14, 2026 ActiveRewarded user-acquisition network that pays mobile-game players for playtime and milestones, aiming at retention rather than install volume
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Advertisers set their own budgets in the self-serve dashboard; no fixed retail price is published anywhere on the site.
Use tool ↗About Gamelight
Gamelight runs a rewarded ad network for mobile games: players earn in-app rewards for time spent and for hitting milestones inside partner games, and the targeting model uses playtime history, competitor-game usage and demographics to predict which users will stick around. Advertisers get a self-serve dashboard with budget and targeting controls plus an algorithm that shifts spend toward users likely to return on ad spend, rather than raw install counts. The operator is Gamelight GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, formerly called Spotlight and spun out of the publisher LOUD Ventures. Pricing is not published; advertisers set their own budgets in the dashboard or work with the team directly.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 14, 2026
Verified sources
- Playtime Rewards, Event Rewards, self-serve dashboard with 'full control over targeting, budgets, and optimization', ROAS algorithm; case studies for Ovivo, Train Miner, Unico Studio and Mattel; no pricing, API or SDK on the page (15 October 2026)gamelight.io ↗
- Imprint names Gamelight GmbH, Mönkedamm 11, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 179769, Günay Azer Aliyeva (15 October 2026)gamelight.io ↗
- Spotlight rebranded to Gamelight; co-founders Günay and Florian; parent LOUD Ventures GmbH is a Hamburg mobile-game publisher (15 October 2026)gamelight.io ↗
Is Gamelight legit?
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- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 19, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 14, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 14, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2022The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Gamelight GmbH, GermanyOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Gamelight
Gamelight's angle is paying users to actually play rather than just click install, which in theory filters out the low-intent installs that plague reward-based user acquisition. Whether that beats a standard network on your specific ROAS is something you'd need to test with real budget, since case-study numbers aren't independently verifiable and pricing is entirely custom.
Pros
- Rewards playtime and milestones, not just the install click
- Self-serve dashboard with budget and targeting controls
- Rebrand from Spotlight and a 2022 founding suggest an established operating history
Cons
- No public pricing—budgets and terms are set per advertiser
- Case studies on the site are vendor-selected, not independently verified
Best for
- Mobile game studios running paid user acquisition at scale
- Marketers who've had poor retention from standard rewarded-install networks
- Teams wanting self-serve budget and targeting controls
Not for
- Non-gaming apps outside its mobile-game focus
- Small studios without an existing UA budget to test against