CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT + USER ACQUISITION FOR MOBILE GAMES & APPS

Large-Agency Quality with Small-Agency Care and Attention

At Work Dog Studios, that’s more than a tagline—it’s how we work. We blend the expertise and polish of a top creative agency with the agility, passion, and hands-on focus of a tight, dedicated team. We’ve helped mobile apps, brands, and games of every size navigate change, find their voice, and thrive in an ever-evolving landscape. From strategy to storytelling, we deliver imaginative work that connects emotionally and performs globally—crafted with the same heart, hustle, and creative energy that define who we are.

Mobile App & Games Creative

Live Action/UGC Influencer

2D Motion Graphics

3D

Human Enhanced AI

User Acquisition & Media Buying

Media Buying

From postal code level targeting to worldwide scale, we advise on and manage the channel mix, measurement, audiences and budgets that allow your business to scale efficiently and ROAS+.

Channel Management

We match Social, DSP, CTV, and Ad Networks with the optimal creative for maximizing ROAS. We’re with you every step of the way to navigate policies, unlock new audiences and scale your business.

Creative Testing

We’ve innovated a proven 3-phase method that boosts the average creative win rate from 5% to 15%. Test a higher volume of your creative affordably, allowing you to find winners faster, maintain scale and mitigate ad fatigue.

Soft Launch / Startups

Launch candidate titles in geo-specific tests to identify bugs, study user paths, and fine-tune your engagement, retention, and monetization. Put your best foot forward with optimized ASO and creative assets.

CREATIVE IS KING

CASE STUDIES

Roblox

Roblox is a game platform and game creation system that allows users to design their own games and play a wide variety of different games created by other users. Their objectives were to profitably scale growth both domestically and globally.

Love & Pies

Love & Pies was an upcoming title that was gaining speed and recognition worldwide since it’s release in 2021. After it’s initial release and success, Love & Pies has grown to be one of the top merge games in the marketplace. Use the out of the box thinking/trend of “mystery”.

June’s Journey

Wooga’s flagship title, June’s Journey is the category-defining hidden object game, allowing players to solve mind teasing mysteries against glamorous 1920s backdrops. We partnered with Wooga to take this long-standing fan favorite title to new heights, building on a strategic partnership 4 years in the making!

WE LOVE OUR CLIENTS

WE ARE STORYTELLERS

Vincent Scala

CEO/Creative Director

Vincent is an animator, illustrator and toy designer. He has directed and produced projects for Ariana Grande, Chelsea Peretti, Trailmix, Supercell and more. As the creator of the Work Dog brand he continues to create all of the art for this dog with a rising cult following. As CEO he oversees the creative for the studio and continues to animate and direct for the studio’s most important clients.

Jason Strahs

Chief Operating Officer

Jason is a veteran Animation, Live Action, VFX, and Digital Marketing Producer. He has worked for Disney, Rhythm and Hues, Nat Geo and Jason then brought his vast creative experiences into the digital, mobile, marketing world, and leveraged his diverse producing skills to help businesses in all verticals thrive.

BJ Zeltner

Chief Marketing Officer

BJ is a hands-on marketing leader with 20+ years of experience across diverse industries, including D2C, e-comm, casino, mobile apps, and traditional media. BJ has scaled successful campaigns for renowned brands such as Zynga, Rovio, EA, Supercell, Sega, Swagbucks, Playtika, Mercedes-Benz, VW, Nissan, Blue Apron, Truepill, and Shark Tank.

testimonials

"Working with Workdog has been a game-changer for us. Their team’s creativity shines through in the stunning visuals and compelling narratives they've crafted for our game, Love & Pies. Their keen eye for detail and collaborative spirit have significantly boosted our brand image and UA efforts."

“Work Dog Studios is the dream team of performance marketing. With BJ leading the charge as one of the industry’s finest performance marketers, and Mike and Vincent setting trends as creative geniuses, they redefine what it means to create top-performing campaigns. Jason, the ultimate project manager and facilitator, ensures everything runs smoothly, keeping the team and vision perfectly aligned. Together, they are the Fantastic Four of performance marketing—making it effortless to plug, play, and succeed.”

"Work Dog Studios is simply the most creative team working in the industry. I’m regularly surprised at the amount of thought and production quality that goes into their creatives. They’re constantly looking at ways to level up their creative, and staying on top of the latest trends and tools in the market. Production workflow is clear and communicative. Work Dog is definitely a great partner to work with."

Work Dog is not just a creative agency, but is also an integral part of our creative production team. I've worked with them over 3 games producing assets for use in our creatives, and have come to love and rely on their expertise, professionalism and creativity. Each task is approached with enthusiasm, care and focus, and the delivered assets get better and better as our collaboration continues. Deliverables aside, their creative thinking and industry knowledge have been essential in helping us develop flexibility in our creative production strategy. Working together has been an absolute pleasure and I can easily sum it up by saying that our collaboration is easily one of my favorite things in my current workload.