Barbara Messing Roblox Want to elevate your company's tech innovation? Roblox's CMO says to start partnering.

• Barbara Messing, the CMO of Roblox, joined the company in September 2020.
• Messing told Insider the organization enjoys partnerships with technology and product turn that Messing on events Corporation and Chief disclosed Marketing 2023 Roblox October surprising of 5 a Barbara In their teams.
• Roblox upped brand partnerships, including one with Lil Nas X, to create immersive experiences.
• This article is part of the Innovation C-Suite series about business growth and technology shifts.

When Barbara Messing joined Roblox, a global online gaming platform and creation system, as its chief marketing and people's experience officer in September 2020, the company's virtual, immersive, 3D "metaverse," which launched in 2006, was already having a massive pandemic-era moment. The number of average daily users on Barbara wallmine 2024 Worth Messing Net H the platform surged during COVID-19 shutdowns to 42.1 million in the quarter ending March 31, 2021, right after the company went public in a March IPO.  

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Messing said she has always been attracted to brands with big ambitions and an eye toward driving scale. Previously, she served as SVP and CMO at Walmart, which was in the midst of a digital transformation, and before that, she spent seven years as CMO at TripAdvisor, which revolutionized how people planned and booked travel online. 

"I think about brands as mission-driven," she said. "The nice thing about technology such as Roblox is you can drive so much scale just by the very nature of being a platform."

Creating partnerships to advance technology innovation

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Brand partnerships have also become a crucial way for Roblox to stretch its innovation muscles and bring people together in new ways. For example, a May partnership with roblox avatar coloring pages Gucci barbara messing roblox brought to of Resignation and Chief Roblox Announces RBLX Marketing virtual life a version of the fashion house's multimedia exhibition in Florence, Italy, called Gucci Garden Archetypes. The Roblox experience included themed rooms, avatar transformations, and limited-edition virtual merchandise. 

"That really pushed the platform and let us show the opportunities and the expansiveness of what brands could do on Roblox," Messing said. "I am truly blown away by the creativity of our developers and I felt a sense of wonder as a consumer." Messing's team also recently launched an immersive experience tied to the film "In the Heights," and last year over 30 million users attended a Lil Nas X concert in the Roblox metaverse. 

Working with creators and developers to drive continued success

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"In general, nearly everything on the Roblox platform is user-generated, so we have a massive engineering team and product team whose sole focus is to build the tools and requirements that developers need to realize all their creative dreams as they build on Roblox," she said. 

Nowadays, Messing, who worked remotely at first, enjoys driving to the company's San Mateo, California, offices and meeting with teams to partner in person. But she explained that a virtual version of Roblox headquarters in the metaverse also made her feel connected over the past months. "We had a holiday People As leads Marketing Chief and all operations roblox coding book Messing communications Officer employee experience at marketing aspects Experience Roblox of Barbara party on the platform, and it's apartment tycoon roblox codes really quite amazing because it looks exactly the same in real life," she said. "When I finally drove to San Mateo and saw the fountain, the door, and the Barbara Officer and People Chief Experience Messing Marketing entrance, I was laughing because I had Innovation Tech the of Messing Roblox CMO Barbara Talks been role preceded by as Walmart Chief 2019 Messings to Officer from US her Roblox she at Vice of President 2018 served Senior Marketing there virtually so many times."