Manga and anime distributor VIZ Media is partnering with Portland-based studio Rose City Games to launch a new publishing program dedicated to original indie games. The pair announced their first game, The World Next Door, today as the first of three currently in the works. “The World Next Door is a
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Julie Alvin left Bustle, a start-up digital publisher for millennial women, after four years to join Time Inc. There, as of last year, she heads digital for a number of its brands. Today, at the annual American Magazine Media Conference (AMMC) hosted by the MPA–The Association of Magazine Media, Alvin
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Placements.io offers a system for publishers to manage ad inventory, orders, payments and billing, all across multiple sales channels. It also integrates with a variety of different adtech systems, including DFP, AppNexus Ad Server, Freewheel Salesforce.com, Netsuite and MediaMath. The startup was
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“We want to thank you for your patience while we worked to get everything sorted out with our electrical and water problems. We have had to make the heartbreaking decision to not re-open,” the post stated. “We want to thank everyone who supported us over the last two years, The Quirky Feather would
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Snapchat paid its publishing partners “more than $100 million” in revenue-sharing advertising deals last year, up from $58 million in 2016 and just $10 million in 2015, the company reported on Tuesday. Some of Snapchat's advertising revenue comes from ads that it shows alongside videos and stories
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Advertisers used to know publishers. They would run ads directly with them, with no supply chain. With digital advertising and programmatic specifically, they have lost control and clarity, with a supply chain that is threatening advertisers and publishers alike. There is a parallel that advertisers can learn
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But armed with new technologies and deeper, data-laden insights about their audiences, ABM is now realizing revenue opportunities for publishers across the B2B space that exceed even the most bullish of expectations. Take, for example, SourceMedia, a finance, technology, and healthcare publisher
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Viz Media is typically known as the publisher of anime and manga with some gaming overtones here and there, most famously The Legend of Zelda, Phoenix Wright and Pokemon, but now the company is looking to add gaming to its portfolio with original releases. In a partnership with indie studio Rose
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