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18 changes: 10 additions & 8 deletions docs/discord-social-sdk/how-to/market-your-integration.mdx
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# How to Market Your Integration


## Overview

Congrats! We’re so happy you’ve powered your game's social experiences with the Discord Social SDK, and now it’s time to
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1. Find your friends
2. Link your Discord account to see who’s playing and easily join them. From the game, invite your friends to join—even if they’re offline.
3. Stay connected
4. Keep the conversation going by syncing messages, friends lists, and game stats to Discord.
4. Keep the conversation going by syncing messages and friends lists to Discord

## Detailed Feature Descriptions

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| **Rich Presence** | Shows on Discord which games players are currently playing. | Knowing what your friends are doing in-game, so you know if they’d be available to play together<br/><br/>Joining a game directly from a friend’s profile (similar to game invites) |
| **Unified Friends List** | Players can access their Discord friends list from within the game. Includes friend tiers. | Sending game invites directly to friends from in-game<br/><br/>Knowing which of your friends is playing, and who isn’t playing but is online and could play<br/><br/>Not having to re-create your friends list social in a new game that you play |
| **Deeplink Game Invites** | Users can send invites that link directly to specific game instances or parts of a game | Challenging users to specific game instances<br/><br/>Linking to player stats or leaderboards |
| **Deeplink Game Invites** | Users can send invites that link directly to specific game instances or parts of a game. | Challenging users to specific game instances |
| **Flexible Account Requirements** | Users can choose to link their Discord account to unlock deeper integrated features such as the Unified Friends List and Rich Presence, but can also take advantage of the in-game social features without linking an account through an innovative "provisional account." | Account linking: Automatic Discord-based sign in, or, linking of your Discord account to a game account.<br/>Take full advantage of the Discord integration<br/><br/>Provisional accounts: Provisional accounts let you use Discord's voice and text chat features while playing connected games \- without needing to create a Discord account first. |
| **Cross-Platform Messaging** | Allows players to communicate seamlessly both in-game and through Discord, even without a Discord account. | DMing your friends when they’re in-game and out of game<br/><br/>Receiving messages from your friends when you aren’t playing.<br/><br/>In-game text chat for guilds, matches, lobbies, etc. |
| **Linked Channels** | Players can link their in-game group chat with in-Discord channels, providing persistent group chats. | In-game guild/group chat mirrored in your guild’s/group’s Discord server<br/><br/>No more feeling isolated from the broader group if you’re online when everyone else isn’t, or vice-versa |
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* **Creator Partnership**
* Partner with a creator to walk through the integration with their community.
* **Paid Media**
* Run paid ads social to encourage people to link their Discord account.
* Run paid ads to encourage people to link their Discord account.
* **Press**
* Description: Pitch to relevant press outlets your story of the integration. For any press inquiries, please loop
* Pitch your story of the integration to relevant press outlets. For any press inquiries, please loop
in [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
* **Support Ticket Setup**
* Ensure you have a new support ticket category set up so players can easily troubleshoot any problems they may encounter, such as having a “Discord account linking” category in your support tickets.
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### Discord Bumper Splash Animation

* [Download Link](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Md5VVpIFu3OTUN300YrWH_xIeoF-boPB?usp=drive_link)
* Downloads:
* [3 second bumper splace animation video](https://cdn.discordapp.com/assets/content/edbc1f6c8b7b0ea968888a2588ff552c2f8b2090fc2aa13e97e224427d5ad03c.mov)
* [3 second bumper splash animation audio (TV)](https://cdn.discordapp.com/assets/content/efe58ff7a83b8063a0b60f41f171932ce7d26de78fe2e2c2c531e26edadac3d4.wav)
* [3 second bumper splash animation audio (Streaming)](https://cdn.discordapp.com/assets/content/f3070170acd3f62b08ba9a63ab71080f6f7a72be5c84b74d1b247b4767696045.wav)
* Best Practice Guidance for Discord Social SDK
* This can be used as an intro splash video to your game, video launch announcement of the SDK, or game trailer.
content where Discord Social SDK features are shown. You should not use this splash video in your content if Discord Social SDK features aren’t present in the content.
* This can be used as an intro splash video to your game, video launch announcement of the SDK, or game trailer
content where Discord Social SDK features are shown. You should not use this splash video in your content if Discord Social SDK features aren’t present in the content.
* Usage Guidance
* When using this splash animation in your video, always include this at the beginning of the video. This splash
video should never go in the middle or end of your content.
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