What's there

Brighton is where the arts fuse with technology. This seaside city is home to a plethora of digital advertising and marketing agencies, design studios and gaming studios.

Its strengths, however, are developing across the digital tech spectrum, supported by talent from the University of Sussex as well as Wired Sussex, a membership organisation which acts as a hub and initiator for the digital tech community.

What’s more, Brighton is awash with tech events with hackathons, skills swaps and Meetups taking place every day across the city.

What's new

Brighton’s gaming sector is going from strength to strength as small studios, including offshoots of Black Rock, expand. Studio Gobo has launched a second mobile development studio, while West Pier Studio has expanded its team to 30. The Brighton Games Collective co-working space, meanwhile, is helping to foster new talent and support freelancers.

There is more to Brighton than gaming, however. The online accountancy firm Crunch saw its turnover expand by 34% from 2015 to 2016 and was featured in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 list of fastest-growing technology companies.

What's up next

Perhaps unsurprisingly in a city that is home to successful festivals like the Brighton Digital Festival, tickets to last year’s Brighton SEO sold out within 13 minutes. Now, the UK’s biggest search marketing event is looking for a bigger venue for 2017.