Bending Spoons

Mixing Spoons! 🧑🍳 (And also spatulas. Probably a whisk or two, and a couple of ladles for good measure.) 10 cooking classes, 200 very full Spooners, and a few glasses of wine later… another successful bonding activity complete! 🍾

We’ve agreed to acquire Eventbrite (NYSE: EB) for roughly $500 million. 🎉 We’ll be taking the US-based global events marketplace company private, subject to customary closing conditions and approvals, including regulatory approvals and approval by Eventbrite’s stockholders. … and you thought we were done for the year! 😅 Press release in the comments. >>>

Here’s how Brightcove is making the most of AI… The team’s been pushing full speed ahead to deliver a suite of new AI features. These three are already live: 💬 Improved Auto-Captions. They’re accurate, fast, and scalable. And customers can now create subtitles that are consistent with their brand, thanks to support for custom dictionaries. 🏷️ Metadata Optimization. Using the transcript and scene-level context, the algorithm identifies relevant keywords. These are incorporated into titles, descriptions, and tags, improving content discovery through SEO. 🌏 Universal Translation. Customers can localize video captions and dub audio into 30+ languages (realistically!) with synthetic voicing and voice cloning. 🤯 Plus, there’s more in the works—two new features are coming soon! 👏

It’s now official: Welcome to Bending Spoons, Vimeo!

OMG ❗️❗️ Are you as hyped about it as we are? Selling the OC is back! Also, thanks for the Times Square shout-out Nasdaq.

So we’re acquiring a business. What now? Integrating it into our platform. Devising a long-term strategy. Developing new features. Optimizing user experience and monetization. Luca, Federico, and Rebecca spill the beans on all this and more. Link in comments. 🔗

Refer a friend, win a trip for two. ✈️ We’re on the lookout for exceptional people to join us at Bending Spoons. Refer the most talented, driven people you know. And if one of them gets hired, you’ll be packing your bags for a WeRoad adventure! Submit your referrals before Sunday, November 30. Full info at the link in the comments. 🔗

+175% weekly installs! 🚀 When the Remini team integrated Nano Banana powered by Google Cloud into their content model, users saw a bunch of improvements—and started generating five times more images on average. Driving the increase: higher-quality output, speedier generation, and more accurate results. Users began to download and share more and more photos, sparking a viral wave. 💥 It was all hands on deck to make the most of the momentum. The team delivered more than 30 new photo packs in under a week (record time!), including modeling presets, illustration-style images, and the spooky-season-pumpkin-patch pack. The result? A 175% boost in weekly installs to 1.16 million! Check out some of the new content. 👇

"We've focused on being the ideal place for incredibly talented, hungry, determined professionals." Here's a sneak peek from Invest Like The Best with Luca Ferrari. 👀 Link to the full podcast in the comments.👇

A pleasure to host Patrick O'Shaughnessy at our Milan HQ. Invest Like the Best with our CEO Luca Ferrari, dropping soon. 🔥