A message from our co-CEOs Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira
As we near the end of 2024, we’ve been reflecting on a truly unique year. Our Scopeleans around the globe hit the ground running in January, committed to even more exciting and audacious goals while embodying our culture tenets every day: play to win; care deeply; ignite passion and earn loyalty; iterate to greatness; and embrace the adventure.
This year was filled with successes, failures, learnings, and challenges, and through it all, our teams exemplified persistence, resilience, and creativity to create experiences that deeply matter to people around the world.
While we celebrated a number of public wins this year, they were a result of years of hard work and passion. Having a long-term mindset is critical to game-making, and often comes with struggles unseen. But, our Scopeleans continue to persevere through it all, which is what makes this industry and Scopely so special. Our journey is made possible by the incredible humans behind the games—the game-makers, engineers, operators, central teams, players, partners, and more—who have the grit to keep going each day to make experiences that mean something to millions of people. Play is the purest form of human connection that offers joy, happiness, and community. It’s what inspires us to come to work each day to create worlds that bring people closer, as we believe that life is better when we play together, and it’s a true honor to connect and touch the lives of so many people.
This year, we achieved some key milestones and recognitions that allowed us to pause and celebrate the adventure that is Scopely.
We surpassed 1 billion downloads and 15 billion hours of playtime, showcasing our teams’ focus on creating enduring live services that players love to come back to for years. We’re proud to continue being the #1 mobile games company in the U.S., and among the top 5 in the world outside of China.
We had a lot of firsts this year with our teams taking big swings to drive innovation for our players. For example, we launched our first product, “Stumble Guys,” across all platforms (Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo Switch), which is not only an incredible feat for our “Stumble Guys” team, but it also built the capabilities for other Scopely teams to deliver experiences on new platforms.
We are incredibly humbled to have garnered the most awards in our company’s history -- over 100+ recognitions this year, including: #1 Mobile Game Maker on PocketGamer.biz’s annual Top 50 list; Best Publisher by PocketGamer.biz and GamingOnPhone; Game of the Year with “MONOPOLY GO!,”’ and one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies in the World.
These honors reflect years of work and imagination, and are a testament to the dedication of our teams. However, we remain focused on earning our players' loyalty each day, ensuring that our games are worthy of their time and investment.
As a business, we’re also proud to have surpassed $10 billion in lifetime revenue. It took us many years to make our first billion dollars and to build exceptional teams who could develop great games and iterate to greatness on each experience. That deep focus led us to where we are today and accelerated our path for $10 billion.
While revenue trajectory can be an indicator of success, it’s not the reason we do this work. Every Scopelean shows up each day to aim to make life better for millions of people through play. This commitment, in turn, provides us the freedom to invest in new opportunities, new games, new experiences for players around the globe.
Thank you to our Scopeleans for making 2024 an extraordinary year. Here’s to yet another exciting adventure in 2025!