The entire Annapurna Interactive team has left the company after its executives walked out, according to Bloomberg. Apparently, the video game publisher's president, Nathan Gary, had been negotiating with Annapurna Pictures' founder Megan Ellison to spin off Annapurna Interactive into its own entity. A company spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg that the parties had explored the possibility of a spinoff, but their discussions broke down. Gary and the publisher's other executives had resigned and walked out as a result, and the team's other members had followed suit. "All 25 members of the Annapurna Interactive team collectively resigned," the team said in a joint statement. "This was one of the hardest decisions we have ever had to make and we did not take this action lightly." Annapurna Interactive, like other publishers, teams up with developers, funds their games, takes care of the QA process and then markets and distributes titles when they're ready for the public. Its partner developers have reportedly been scrambling to find out what the team exodus means for them over the past few days. Bloomberg says Hector Sanchez, an Annapurna Interactive co-founder, assured developers that the company will honor their agreements. Sanchez had been at Epic Games the past five years, but he recently rejoined the publisher as its president for Interactive + New Media. Annapurna will also reportedly hire new staff members to replace those who left, essentially building a brand new... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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With Fever Pitch, About a Boy, and High Fidelity, Nick Hornby created a niche penning romantic comedies from the male perspective and launching the crush-worthy careers of Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, and John Cusack on both sides of the pond. Then he went on to prove that he can deftly embody a... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt says case of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo is a top priorityThe foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has pledged to make the fight to release of two Reuters journalists imprisoned by the Burmese government a top priority for the coming year.Last week, Hunt met the human rights... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook confirmed that it is running a test with five publishing partners, including BuzzFeed, enabling them to test up to four different versions of organic posts and determine which is performing best. Lucia Moses of Digiday reported that publishers in the test group can create up to four... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat has opted to treat a select group of creators as publishing partners instead of ad inventory. The post Snapchat’s creator charm offensive stops short of ad revenue sharing appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat has developed a private marketplace for advertisers that could help publishers on the platform sell commercials directly to brands and raise the value of the ad inventory.On Wednesday, Snapchat said advertisers are now able to book ad space in specific shows and channels created by... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since nearly doubling the size of the company, Omeda is positioning itself to better serve a range of publishing partners in a variety of ways. The post Omeda’s Aaron Oberman On Data, the State of Publishing and His Company’s Outlook appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For 16-month-old Beijing Bright Culture, making an impact on the market is the top priority, and Jef Nys’s Jeremy series (or Jommeke in the original Belgian) is the answer. “We have published only 25 out of the available 278 volumes, meaning that we have a built-in long seller in our portfolio,”... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Children’s Books is to publish "critically acclaimed" US author Renée Watson for the first time in the UK after buying world rights in five new titles from Bloomsbury Children’s Books US. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some movie stars come to New Zealand for the adventure, others for the spectacular scenery. Not Timothy Spall. First thing he does when he's here for work is take advantage of our cheap underwear. Speaking for the first time about his time in Christchurch last Spring making an adaptation of... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook wants users to "lean back." No, that's not the sequel to Sheryl Sandberg's book "Lean In"; it's how people watch TV, unlike the way they scroll through the News Feed.For months, Facebook has been talking to its biggest media and publishing partners to introduce TV-worthy programming to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Florence Welch is nervous. "I get very anxious in interviews," she says, her pale cheeks flushed, her dark eyes shining. "I've always felt overwhelmed by my emotions. Even sitting here now I want to cry and I don't know why." We are sitting side-by-side on a yellow striped sofa in the front... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the new head of Barnes & Noble, Demos Parneros knows his top priority is to stop the sales slide that has plagued the company’s retail stores. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Periscope videos will start showing pre-roll ads on Twitter.The media service is expanding a program it uses to push pre-roll video ads ahead of clips from publishing partners on the platform, and will now serve commercials before Periscope livestreams. On Tuesday, Twitter announced the new ad... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As the number of independent campus stores dwindles precipitously, NACS is making the preservation of indies its top priority. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's ambitions for video have been pretty explicit. And now the social network is (officially) introducing a way for its publishing partners to get paid for them. Rather than front-loading ads the way YouTube and so many others do, these will a... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snapchat is a little different today, going back to its roots with a retooling that boosts personal messages and lowers visibility for its publishing partners in Discover.The reconfiguration is seen as a sign that Snapchat doesn't see the need to keep putting Discover in users' faces. A few... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The media world for months has been all Facebook, Donald Trump and ad blocking, so why would the past week in digital marketing be any different? Check out these eight data points that jumped off the page during the past several days. 1. If social is any indication, Hillary is in... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Expect to see more pictures of your friends' pets and wedding announcements from extended family members in your Facebook news feed in the coming weeks. And expect to see less news. In yet another blow to publishers that have spent years building audiences to build traffic and revenue, the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Feeling the Facebook rush, New York Media is investing more toward video production in 2016, starting with hiring Business Insider and TV vet Matt Johnston as its first executive producer of video. The publisher will focus on creating news-driven video -- instead of recurring series -- for... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Founder Evan Williams unveiled a slew of new features and new publishing partners at an event in San Francisco last night.Recognizing that people are increasingly on their mobile devices, Medium yesterday launched a slew of new features and major updates to its iOS and Android apps that make it... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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