SOFTGAMES’ Head of Growth on Instant Games UA, Privacy Changes, and AI-Generated Ads

By Mariam Ahmad 23 April 2026

We sat down with Alexey Gusev, Head of Growth at SOFTGAMES, and he got into three things the games industry is quietly obsessing over right now:

→ Why running UA for Instant Games will break your mobile playbook (and what to do instead)
→ Whether privacy changes are killing data-driven targeting - or just forcing better creative
→ The one signal that tells you a game can grow beyond paid UA and become truly player-driven

He also shared the most surprising AI-generated ad concept he's seen actually performs.

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