Arkadium

Arkadium is a provider of interactive website content, such as data visualizations, games, quizzes, and polls, to digital publishers, including USA Today, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, a tronc company. The company is headquartered in New York City with an additional office in Krasnodar, Russia.[1]

Arkadium
Industry Media
Founded New York, New York
United States in 2001
Founders Jessica Rovello (CEO)
Kenny Rosenblatt (President)
Headquarters New York, New York, United States
Products Interactive digital content
Number of employees
 97
Website www.arkadium.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

Husband and wife team Kenny Rosenblatt and Jessica Rovello founded Arkadium in 2001, inspired by a game of Ms. Pac Man.[2][3]

Arkadium works with brands and publishers, including Microsoft, CNN, Comcast and The Washington Post, to increase audience attention, reader loyalty and revenue.[4][5]

The company reaches over 500 million users each month across Windows, iOS, and Android.[6] Its games include the Microsoft Solitaire Collection which comes loaded on Windows 10, Windows 8, and mobile devices.[7] The company's newest product InHabit was released in March, 2017 and creates interactive visualizations called factives, which are automatically embedded into articles and are intended to increase session duration and user engagement.[8]

In January, 2017, the company announced it signed 300 new publishers in 2016 and saw record growth.[9]

Arkadium was named one of 14 New York Tech Companies to watch in 2016 by Forbes,[10] and 'Best Workplace' by Inc. Magazine in its 2016[11] and 2017 issues.[12] The company was named by Digiday as Employer of the Year, Tech platform category, in 2017[13], Crain's 100 Best Places to Work in New York City in 2017[14], and number 27 in AdAge's Best Places to Work in 2017.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "This NYC Startup Has Been Entertaining America For Years…Have You Heard of Them? - AlleyWatch". AlleyWatch. 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  2. ↑ "Arkadium raises $5M for multiplatform casual games, leading with Windows 8 (exclusive)". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  3. ↑ "This NYC Startup Has Been Entertaining America For Years…Have You Heard of Them? - AlleyWatch". AlleyWatch. 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  4. ↑ "Betting on Ballmer, Arkadium readies four games for Windows 8". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  5. ↑ "How This Company Kept Morale High After Russia Annexed Its Crimean Office". Inc.com. 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  6. ↑ "Arkadium Signs Hundreds of Publishing Partners". Arkadium. 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  7. ↑ "Microsoft's Solitaire, the most boring game ever, tops 100 million users". VentureBeat. 2016-08-31. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
  8. ↑ Arkadium. Sports Illustrated Case Study. Cambridge: Cambridge Architectural Research, 1996. Arkadium, 18 January 2017. Web. 1 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "Arkadium Signs 300 New Publishers in 2016, Sees Record Growth". Arkadium. 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  10. ↑ Reich, Dan. "14 New York Tech Companies To Watch In 2016". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  11. ↑ "The 50 Best Places to Work in 2016". Inc.com. 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  12. ↑ "Best Workplaces 2017". Inc.com. 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  13. ↑ "Carmichael Lynch and RPA are double winners in the Digiday WorkLife Awards - Digiday". Digiday. 2017-08-30. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
  14. ↑ "Introducing Crain's 100 Best Places to Work in New York City in 2017". Digiday. 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
  15. ↑ "Best Places to Work". AdAge. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
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