As 2024 wraps up, we can't help but look back at the amazing teams and stories that make up the Arcade community. We reached 100,000 Arcades published 🎉, expanded to over 15,000 teams, and secured a Series A fundraising round led by Kleiner Perkins to build for the next chapter of interactive content. These milestones would not have been possible without the support we received—big and small—from customers like you along the way. Every published Arcade, support ticket opened, and conversation has contributed to our efforts in building a beautiful, easy-to-use product, and, importantly, one that’s fun to create with—so thank you.
Inspired by last year’s inaugural campaign, we released our 2nd annual 'Year in Review'. This interactive recap showcases how customers used Arcade to power their storytelling and measure success.
Here at Arcade, we're big believers in '"dogfooding'" our product, or as Caroline likes to say, "drinking our own champagne 🥂 😉 ." If we're not using Arcade to tell our story, how can we expect you to do it? This 'Year in Review' is our way of celebrating your success while inspiring new ways to make Arcade an even more significant part of your storytelling (and it pushes us to make the product even better!).
We had a 'wicked' time pulling it together; here's a great example of the experience 🪄:
Explore the full blog post to dive into everything we shipped — including the features our users love most!
Last week was a shorter week for the Arcade team, as we came together (from across the globe!) for a company offsite to reflect on 2024 and kick-off plans for 2025! We can't wait to share more about what we have planned to build next year.
Our goal is to ensure you can create beautiful content quickly. That's where defaults come in –– to polish your content without you having to think about it. Now, when you build an Arcade, you'll automatically see:
When adding a camera recording, it's easy to forget that music was playing 🎶 in the background or that you took too long of a pause ⏸️ between sections. It happens (and it's annoying to start from scratch!)
Now, with our new AI partner, Avery ✨ (beta), you can get studio-quality recordings with the press of a button. Avery removes background music and silences and polishes the recording to make it crisp every time.
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Uploads are now 4x faster! When you record an Arcade using our extension or desktop app, the time it takes to process and edit has been dramatically reduced. Performance isn’t just about numbers—it’s about that intangible feeling of "this just feels faster," making your workflow smoother and more seamless.
Spend less time organizing and more time building with multi-select options to move or delete multiple Arcades.
We raised a $14M Series A to build for the next chapter of interactive content!
Easily add text from 40+ languages (and growing!) and generate synthetic voiceover to match.
Everything starts here. Create Arcades, invite your teammates, and easily browse through previous content to track performance and figure out what to optimize. The new home experience was designed to help you find content faster –– whether you want to see what's new, what's trending, or which Arcades might need a refresh!
More video editing options to ensure that you can check every detail. Now, there's a toggle to zoom in and out of the timeline view.
A simple, yet personal way to add voiceovers to your Arcades.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Themes allow teams to add tracking, personalization, and branding to multiple Arcades versus having to set up every time. This ensures brand consistency and saves time.
Now, you can add background music and toggle autoplay controls on the theme-level.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Enable seamless navigation with an interactive menu for quick toggling and easy demo browsing.
🌎Translations: last week we made a handful of quality improvements, including:
🖱️ Collections ordering: Ability to drag an Arcade to new section in Collections
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Want to add your audio files on the step level? You can easily do so by uploading files through the editor's 'camera recording' button.
Export GIFs at a higher quality (720p) and choose whether to include hotspot cursor navigation in exports.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
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HTML Capture lets you modify page elements and generate new ideas with AI-powered prompts – no code required.
This feature is now available for early access. Learn more.
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Now, you can see how many views 👀 each of your Arcades generates and easily access more insights by simply clicking on the view count.
You can also search 🔍 your Arcades by views, so you won't have to search for your most popular Arcades anymore.
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🔗 Custom embeds give teams more options for including Arcades in their products and websites. Any element on your site can trigger an in-app popout modal containing your Arcade.
💡 Way to use custom embeds:
Homepage: Add a 'Try interactive demo' button on your homepage to trigger an in-app pop-up of your demo
🖱️ Auto-play automatically triggers an Arcade to play if a viewer doesn't interact with the Arcade. Now, a cursor will show *where* you clicked to make the experience more immersive for the viewer.
💡 Ways to use auto-play cursor:
Include in demo GIF and video exports to focus the viewer on where to click through your product
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This feature gives teams more access controls, allowing them to manage who can view their Collections and handle requests to access them.
Collections allow you to combine multiple Arcades into one landing page. Customers most commonly use them for sales leave-behinds, changelogs, and detailed product guides.
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Your creative partner and solution finder.
Choose from a selection of rotating prompts or ask any query in the chat to help you create higher-performing Arcades and learn how to use the product most effectively.
3 capture modes. 1 seamless recording experience. Download the Chrome Extension here.
Change chapter background colors or upload an images.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Collections allow you to combine multiple Arcades into one page. Now, you can embed the full page into other tools.
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See all your step types in one view to choose what to add next –– a chapter? Form? Maybe an embed?
Adjust background colors and text/button alignment.
💡 Don't forget: The screen that you record on is the primary factor in video/screen quality in your demo. Make sure to record on a high-clarity screen if possible!
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Keep Arcades secure, while allowing people to request access as needed.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Left, right, or center? Choose how you want text to align in callouts and hotspots to match your branding styles.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
We made improvements to our video editor to give you more granular editing controls and a better building experience. This includes:
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Inline on mobile? Popup modal on desktop? Your choice! Now, you have multiple options for how Arcades render when embedded into your content.
Certain demos need privacy controls. Now, save time by sharing at the domain level.
Have you ever wanted to get feedback from your team on an Arcade?
Now, with comments 💬. you can mention a colleague and collaborate on any step in an Arcade. We've also created an inbox so you'll never miss a message.
Ways teams are using comments:
1️⃣ Sales teams can give feedback to Arcade creators about what is resonating with customers in the market.
2️⃣ Marketing teams can upload any asset, including videos, PNGs, or videos — and get feedback and approval.
3️⃣ Product teams can share early Figma designs and share internally with the team for early feedback.
*Comments are available on Growth and Enterprise plans. Try Growth for 14 days for free.
Meet Rahul -- our latest voiceover character for an English voice with an Indian accent.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
We've reimagined our mobile experience to make it easier for viewers to interact with your demo and manage their controls, whether turning on captions, increasing the video speed, or reading hotspot and callout text.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
The latest extension update has preset sizes for mobile, desktop, and your last Arcade making it easier to record and have consistent sizing if you're adding additional steps to an existing Arcade.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
Have you ever wanted to embed a calendar, form, survey, or YouTube video as a step inside your Arcade? Arcade now support embedding content from the following apps:
Embedding widgets minimizes the number of clicks your viewer has to take and keeps them one one screen.
Check out our knowledge base article to get a full rundown of form embeds!
Choose from 3x cursor options to give your viewers different visual experiences.
Last week the team focused on squashing lots of bugs, including:
