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amp&go puts a finish line on influencer marketing
An Apple alumnus built a business around a deceptively simple question: when is an influencer campaign actually finished? At amp&go, the answer starts with the metric you agreed to buy.
Daily Vertex and the second life of a video
A creator makes the clip. Daily Vertex takes on the editing, rights, distribution and monetization work that follows. Its business lives in the gap between getting watched and getting paid.
Artlist Sold Filmmakers One Simple License. Now It Wants the Whole Editing Room.
A filmmaker’s complaint about expensive music licensing became a $300 million recurring-revenue business. The next wager is harder: make generative AI behave less like a slot machine and more like a film set.
Whip Media Traded 26 Million TV Fans for the Boring Software That Runs Hollywood
The company spent years turning fan behavior into studio intelligence. Now TV Time is gone, Helix is the bet, and the prize is the spreadsheet-choked machinery behind every streaming deal.
The Mountain Changed Hands
One of the oldest logos in film now belongs to a tech scion with a streaming problem to solve and an $80-billion appetite. Here is how the studio behind Top Gun, SpongeBob and 60 Minutes plans to stay standing.
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery owns more than a shelf of famous titles. It owns a system for sending the same story through theaters, television, streaming, games, licensing and experiences - while managing the costly tension between a growing digital future and a shrinking cable past.
Third Chair
Third Chair is an AI-native IP enforcement and licensing platform that helps rightsholders find who is using their content, trademarks, and likeness without permission and turn that unauthorized use into revenue. Backed by Y Combinator (X25) and FundersClub with $2.3M raised, it pairs AI agents that monitor, investigate, and draft demand letters with an on-demand network of lawyers. Customers - including Universal Music Group and much of the recorded-music industry - used the product to generate more than $1M in revenue in the last six months of 2025.
Miso.ai
Miso.ai (Miso Technologies) builds LLM-powered search, answers, and personalization for publishers, marketplaces, and content sites. Its flagship product, Miso Answers, sits on top of a customer's own content catalog to deliver ChatGPT-style, citation-backed answers with no hallucinations - fine-tuned to each brand's voice and grounded only in their material. Spun out of privacy-centric 'small data' research at Cornell Tech's Small Data Lab, Miso helps sites like O'Reilly Online Learning and Foundry's tech publications turn their archives into trustworthy answer engines that lift engagement and subscriptions.