Fictioneers Limited
Registered name: FICTIONEERS LIMITED
Part of Wpp Plc groupFictioneers Limited made £150k revenue and £0 profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Fictioneers Limited’s revenue grew 782% to £150k in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £0 profit and 0 employees. The company is classified under “ready-made interactive leisure and entertainment software development” and is based in London; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 7 yrs · since 2019
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The company is a subsidiary of WPP plc.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2021 | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.1k | £141 | £17.1k | £150k |
| Cost of sales | £111k | £160 | £62 | £115k |
| Gross profit | −£109k | −£19 | £17k | £35.4k |
| Profit before tax | £450 | −£1.4m | £0 | £0 |
| Profit after tax | £364 | −£1.4m | £0 | £0 |
| Profit (best available) | £364 | −£1.4m | £0 | £0 |
| Staff costs | £392k | £1.2m | £0 | — |
| Employees (average) | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 17.3% | −984399% | 0% | 0% |
| Gross margin | −5180% | −13.5% | 99.6% | 23.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £702 | £18 | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £121 | −£174k | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼93.3% | ▲11993% | ▲781.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼381420% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲166.7% | ▼100% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £7.3k | £24.1k | £4.7k | £21.7k |
| Net assets | £1.4k | −£1.4m | −£1.4m | −£1.4m |
| Current assets | £584k | £571k | £416k | £22.7k |
| Debtors | £24k | £1 | £0 | £999 |
| Deferred income | £560k | £13k | £13k | £16.4k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data May 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 23.5%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 10.9%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.7%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now −£1.4m
- Cash at bank
- ▲361%
- Now £21.7k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- ▲26%
- Now £16.4k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Wpp Plc (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- WPP Jubilee Limited75–100%
- WPP MR Overseas Media Holdings Limited75–100%
- WPP 2005 Limited75–100%
- WPP Group (UK) Ltd50–75%
- Fictioneers Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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Minority corporate shareholders
- Potato London Ltd 25–50%
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £0), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published May 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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