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WELCOME TO THE PRESS AREA OF SPIEL ESSEN.

Here you will find press information about our fair as well as downloads of picture material and logos. You can register for our media mailing list and get accredited for SPIEL. All information about our press conference, the novelties show, services on site and contact persons for all inquiries are also bundled here.

Press Conference and Novelties Show

For accredited media there will be a press conference on Wednesday before the start of the show in the foyer east of Messe Essen.
After the press conference the novelties show will open for media, exhibitors and business ticket holders.

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HERE YOU FIND PRESS RELEASES OF SPIEL ESSEN

2024

SPIEL Essen 2024 Sold Out for the First Time and Set a New Space Record

07 October 2024
                SPIEL Essen concludes with a special success: all days of the world's largest public fair for board games were completely sold out. For four days, 204,000 people from around the globe filled the Messe Essen with their enthusiasm for board games and joy in playing. From October 3 to 6, the heart of the Ruhr region buzzed with play, laughter, shopping, and conversation. The fair once again demonstrated how international board games and the event itself truly are. Visitor...
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SPIEL Essen 2024 opens beginning of October for hundreds of thousand board game fans

02 August 2024
                Essen, August 5th 2024 – There are two public holidays in Germany this year on 3 October: the Day of German Unity and the day on which board game fans from all over the world make a pilgrimage to Essen to celebrate their favorite hobby for four days. That's when SPIEL Essen begins. The largest board game fair in the world with around 200,000 international board game fans and exhibitors from all five continents will make Messe Essen in the heart of the Ruhr region the c...
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Star guest at SPIEL Essen 2024: „Saltatio Mortis“-lead-singer Alea is the face of SPIEL

17 June 2024
                Essen, Germany, June 17th 2024 – A real rock star is showing his face at SPIEL Essen 2024, quite literally: Alea, lead singer of the well-known German rock band Saltatio Mortis, is this year's face of the world's largest public fair for board games. Dressed in his personal original Geralt of Rivia armor from The Witcher 3, the musician, who is an enthusiastic gamer himself, will be inviting people to play on posters, online, and banners even before the fair begins. In ...
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SPIEL Essen 2024: Record – Space for exhibitors completely sold out for the first time

11 June 2024
                Essen (Germany), June 11th 2024 – For the first time in its history, SPIEL Essen will occupy the entire space for exhibitors in six exhibition halls from October 3 to 6 and is therefore sold out. Never before have so many exhibitors wanted to enlarge their booths at SPIEL and at the same time so many new publishers wanted to present their titles to around 200,000 visitors. With this growth in exhibition space, Merz Verlag is setting a new record this year even before t...
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World famous painting competition Golden Demon will hold European leg at SPIEL Essen

26 January 2024
                Weltbekannter Bemal-Wettbewerb Golden Demon findet in Europa auf der SPIEL Essen statt Essen, January 26th, 2024. It is with great pride and honour that SPIEL Essen announces that the next European leg of the world’s greatest miniature painting competition – the Golden Demon – will be held at the world’s largest public fair for boardgames, at SPIEL Essen. Painters from all over the world will be able to enter their painted Warhammer miniatures in this long-standing competition...
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ACCREDITATION

Accreditation for SPIEL Essen is only possible on site in the press center east by showing a valid press card from a medium for the purpose of reporting from the fair.

OUR ACCREDITATION GUIDELINES:

Please note that we can only accredit media representatives who are reporting on SPIEL, events taking place during SPIEL or other content at SPIEL.

UNDER THESE CONDITIONS YOU CAN BE ACCREDITED FOR THE SPIEL:

1. You are a journalist with a valid press card of your country.

2. You are a journalist, photographer, cameraman or in a similar position and have an editorial assignment from a media that you can present to us.

3. You write for an established and known website within the boardgames community and have published content there within the last six month, to which you can send us a link.

4. You are active in the board game world as a Content Creator, Blogger, YouTuber, Instagramer, Podcaster or publish on other online portals regularly and with a certain reach on the topic of board games.

Following figures of follows, subscribers or average views of social-media-channels are indicators after which we further check an accreditation:

  • Instagram: 3.000
  • YouTube: 4.000
  • Facebook: 5.000
  • Podcasts: 500
  • Twitch: 300

If your channels do not quite reach these figures, but you have important reasons to be accredited to SPIEL Essen as media, please send us these in the comments of your accreditation.

WE REVIEW ALL ACCREDITATION REQUESTS AND RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DECLINE REQUESTS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WE ARE HERE FOR ALL PRESS INQUIRIES.

If you have any further questions about SPIEL, need more information about an announcement or would like to contact us in any other way, please feel free to get in touch with our press contact.

ROBIN DE CLEUR

Director Communications
+49 151 74454565

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