May 28, 2025 8:00 AM Rumi is making passive media into interactive media with rewards and AI. Image Credit: Rumi How would you like to earn money while watching TV? Rumi, an AI media company, has raised $4.7 million in a pre-seed funding round to transform passive media with rewards. Rumi is launching its invite-only …
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Adam Kugler had a good career making triple-A games for Blizzard Entertainment, working in a 12-year stint of art and design jobs that culminated in a job as associate game director. But then he left the company to pursue his own dream: a deeply personal journey of making a game by himself as founder of …
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May 28, 2025 6:00 AM Oncade has raised $4 million for alternative game distribution. Image Credit: Oncade Oncade, a new community-driven platform built to increase studio revenue through strengthening player engagement, raised $4 million. Oncade is revamping the game distribution model by shifting from the traditional one-sided platform struggle to a direct-to-consumer, off-platform game store …
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Image: ASRock / Amazon Traditionally, PC graphics cards have included two types of ports: DisplayPort and HDMI. Now, they may be adding a third: Thunderbolt. Sparkle showed what it called “Project Thundermage” this year at Computex, a prototype OPC graphics card that put HDMI, DisplayPort, and a pair of Thunderbolt ports onto the same graphics …
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Don’t expect too much from the Arc browser in the future. The browser’s developer admitted over the weekend that while Arc is being maintained, new features are no longer in active development. The explanation, however, is convoluted. In a blog post, the company explained that while they concluded that the Arc browser was “incremental,” its …
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The Future Leader Awards, presented by Digiday, Glossy, Modern Retail and WorkLife, recognize the next generation of leaders making a big impact in their industry, with 10 years of experience or less. This year’s finalists stand out for their bold innovation, measurable impact and deep connection to the audiences they serve. Each has harnessed data …
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No apocalypse yet: Google’s March core update has brought manageable search traffic dips for some publishers, with AI Overviews dragging and Discover picking up some slack. Google’s rollout of its generative AI search experience, AI Mode, in a new tab last week has stoked referral concerns, but for now, search traffic remains relatively stable, according …
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By Tim Peterson • May 27, 2025 • Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Google’s traditional search business is transforming for the AI era. Last week’s roll-out of AI Mode in the U.S. enables people to replace the traditional search engine results page with one that more closely resembles an AI chatbot. It’s a far cry …
When programmatic media buying first started heating up in the early 2000s, it promised scale, efficiency and more precise ad placements. But some of that promise has worn off. Programmatic marketers are weary, wading through an opaque web of ad tech middlemen, questionable inventory quality and murky measurement. Marketers are now looking at retail media …
This Ad Tech Briefing covers the latest in ad tech and platforms for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Friday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → These agents will do everything, if they’re built on Google systems can it tweak them to help Google? Robert Webster, TAU Marketing Solutions Alphabet’s …
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