[tldr]Universal’s Minions & Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the $120m-plus debuts of its two predecessors. The soft start raises franchise-fatigue questions for Comcast’s most reliable animation machine.[/tldr] Universal’s Minions & Monsters led the […]
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A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitted to Kobo Writing Life, its self-publishing service, in 2025, and chief executive Michael Tamblyn attributes more than 80% of those rejections to books he judges to be manifestly […]
The AI design platform is paying creators based on engagement performance rather than audience size, marking its transition from a tool into a platform where creators can earn directly. The launch follows an AI agent marketplace the company introduced in March. Picsart has launched a creator monetisation programme open to all of its more than […]
Interactive content now generates 52.6% higher engagement than static formats, with users spending significantly longer interacting with dynamic media and showing higher recall for brands that use it. In practical terms, that shift may have transformed expectations around how digital content should be produced, especially in commerce and B2B environments, where attention is often a […]
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