Style worth repeating, and footage that plays your way

Two new ways to shape how your videos look and play, plus upgrades to voice, chat, and the AI Video Chrome Extension.

🪞 Use Any Video as a Style Reference

Want your next video to match the style of an existing one? Now you can use it as a reference. Upload a video file or pick any Arcade video, even a draft.

Arcade breaks down the reference video, from pacing and transitions to camera work, and carries that look into your new video. Use it to keep a series consistent, or to build on a video that's already working.

Built by Aleks and Rich, with an assist from Boogie.

✂️ Fine-Tune Footage With Clip Controls

When your video includes footage, like your own recording, a stock clip, or AI b-roll, you now control exactly how it plays. Open the Design panel to scrub to the moment you want a clip to start, set its speed from 0.5x to 2x, and turn on its original sound at the volume you want.

Prefer to ask? The AI can make the same changes from chat, like "start this clip at 0:36" or "play it at half speed."

Built by Raul.

⏺️ Record With the Chrome Extension

Turn any webpage into a video. The AI Video Chrome extension records your screen, adds camera and voice, and plans a video with you, all without leaving the tab. Send the plan, and Arcade drafts your video with the page's content already attached.

New this week: open on camera and cut to your screen in the same take, with Arcade picking the moment to switch. Give it a try and leave us a rating in the Chrome Web Store!

Built by Rich, with an assist from Raul.

✨ Other Improvements

• Ask for a different narrator and the AI plays up to three voices reading your own script, then remembers your pick for future videos.
• Fix a mispronounced word right from the chat: tell the AI it sounds wrong, type how it should sound, hear it, and save it to your Brand Kit.
• Highlight any part of the AI's reply and click Reply to quote it in your next message, so the AI knows exactly which point you're responding to.
• Paste a screenshot or file straight into the composer with Cmd+V, just like dragging it in.
• Saved preferences listen better. A reaction to a draft, like "too slow," is no longer saved as a lasting rule, and saying "forget that" drops one.
• Videos pick up your Brand Kit colors as they build, and the agent pulls your brand assets whenever it needs them.
• On-screen headlines wrap in balanced lines, and text animations move with smoother timing.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Video generation handles image-heavy prompts more smoothly.
• Short stock clips near the end of a scene now export reliably.
• A finished video no longer gets stuck when only the preview was open.
• Trimmed-scene audio no longer carries into the next scene.
• Large, blurred, or audio-cleaned uploads play smoothly.
• Duplicating a video or restoring an earlier export works, even after lots of edits.
• Brand Kits capture your true logo and brand colors, keep only your fonts, and remember dismissed suggestions.
• Custom fonts display correctly in font pickers.
• Workspace home shows your recent videos, even if you belong to lots of teams.
• The team members page lists everyone, however large your team, and sorts by role.

Reusable scenes, a sharper memory, and a camera that goes wherever you're working.‍

This one's about giving you more material to build with: ready-made scenes, a wizard that remembers more of your style, and a way to capture footage without leaving the page you're on.

🎬 Curated Scenes

Building a strong intro, outro, or transition from scratch takes time, even with the agent doing the heavy lifting. Now you don't have to start from nothing.

Open the + button anywhere in your video's timeline and pick from a library of scenes, already styled to match your Brand Kit. Drop one in, then edit it like any other scene, by hand or by asking the agent to change it.

More scenes are on the way, along with the ability to save your own.

Built by Aleks, with an assist from Arjun.

🧠 Arcade Remembers More of Your Style

Voice, music, and aspect ratio were just the start of what Arcade could remember about your style.

Now pacing, video length, motion, sound effects, and how your videos open and close all join that list. Arcade picks these up from the edits you make in the editor, not just what you type in chat, so it keeps learning even when you're not saying a word.

Built by Sharad.

📹 A Chrome Extension for Capturing Video

The Arcade AI Videos Chrome extension is live in the Chrome Web Store for every signed-in customer. No early access, no waitlist.

Record the page you're on as video, capture a screenshot, or add your camera and voice to the mix, all without leaving the tab you're working in. Or let Producer do it for you: point it at any page and it reads the content, drafts a video brief, and hands it straight to the wizard.

Shoutout to Rich for shipping the extension, and Raul for building out the capture tools inside it.

✨ Other Improvements

• The agent can now watch the videos it generates and fix what's actually wrong, instead of working blind from code.
• The agent finds better b-roll and images when you reference a URL or an attached Arcade.
• Attach a video clip, like someone talking directly to camera, and Arcade keeps that clip's own audio instead of muting it.
• Video layouts are more polished: faster pacing, more minimal text-focused scenes, and a lot fewer repetitive side-by-side layouts.
• Hover a scene in the editor to see its number.
• Existing Brand Kits now surface suggested updates, sharper colors, missing logo variants, and new imagery. Review and accept or reject each change.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Saved pronunciations now apply to the right Brand Kit.
• Exports keep your brand's actual fonts. Previews no longer fall back to the wrong font when yours can't load.
• Reordering a scene no longer cuts off a long voiceover.
• Turning off captions no longer accidentally removes your on-screen headlines and text too.
• Pasting a link finds your real logo more reliably.
• Viewer and billing-only teammates no longer count against your paid seats.
• A failed invite now tells you why.

Say It Once. Watch It Build. Two changes make getting started and watching things happen feel more direct this week: tell the wizard what you need up front, and see exactly what's going on while your video comes together. We also snuck in a way to reuse your favorite scenes across videos.

💬 Set Up Questions Asked Upfront

Instead of asking what it needs one question at a time as you go, the wizard now surfaces everything up front in a simple, stepped dialog: one question per card, with quick tap options or free text. Move back and forth between questions before you commit to an answer, or skip the whole thing anytime you'd rather just get moving.

Raul built this one!

⏳ A Better Wait While Your Video Builds

The first video in a session is the one you wait longest for, so we made that time feel different. Tips on how to get the most out of Arcade cycle through while your first video builds, the timeline (the player controls you'd normally scrub through) only shows up once it's actually ready to use, and the agent's thinking is visible so you can see what it's doing instead of staring at a spinner.

Another one from Raul!

🎬 Copy and Paste Scenes Between Videos

Made an intro, outro, or transition you love? Copy any scene and paste it straight into another video, so your best work doesn't have to stay stuck in one place.

Liisa shipped this!

✨ Other Improvements

• Edits from the agent land close to twice as fast, cutting typical edit time from about 25 seconds to about 15.
• Edits appear instantly in the editor, and previews now wait until every asset is fully loaded before playing.
• Memory no longer caps out on saved preferences. Every rule you've taught Arcade now applies.
• Brand Kit backgrounds now render instantly from your brand colors instead of waiting on an image model.
• Paste a URL and Arcade pulls sharper, more on-brand context for your video.
• API and MCP prompts can now run up to 20,000 characters, matching the wizard, so longer, more detailed prompts go through without a hitch.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Failed saves no longer get stuck retrying.
• One bad caption marker no longer blanks your exported video.
• A turn that times out now shows an error and keeps your credits.
• The scene inspector no longer blanks and reloads every time the preview refreshes.
• The video embed link is now available in the export panel.

We’ve spent the last couple weeks making the agent easier to talk to. Now you can just point at what you want changed instead of describing it, control how your product names are pronounced, and edit a whole voiceover in one place. And, Arcade remembers your preferences.

🎯 Point at the thing you want changed (Part 1)

You shouldn't have to describe where something is on screen before you can ask us to change it. Now you can just click it.

Click any element in your video — a line, a label, a shape, a chart — and it becomes a chip in the message you're writing. Say "make this bigger" or "move this left" and the agent knows exactly what "this" is. No more "the blue line above the second bullet, not the one on the right."

PS — This is just the first ship of our pin point editing work. In the next weeks, we’ll be making edits more specific and even simpler to get exactly what you need from your videos.

Built by our amazing and talented eng intern Yaseen.

🗣 Say your product names the way you say them

Your company name, your product names, the acronyms your customers actually use — you can now tell Arcade how to pronounce all of them, once, and have it hold across every video your workspace makes.

Pronunciations live on the Voice page of your Brand Kit. Add an entry, preview it in the voice you're actually using, and it applies to every voiceover from then on. You can also jump straight to pronunciation from the Script row of the voiceover panel.

Built by cyclist and engineer extraordinaire, Paweł.

📝 Edit the entire voiceover in one place

Editing a voiceover scene by scene made it hard to hear the script as a script. You can now open the full voiceover, read it top to bottom, and edit it as one continuous piece of writing.

Voiceover also carries across scene boundaries the way you'd read it aloud — words stay whole, and stay with the scene they belong to.

Teamwork makes the dream work. Built by Raul and Paweł.

🧠 Arcade Remembers, So You Don't Have To

You shouldn't have to tell Arcade the same thing every time you start a new video. Now it remembers.

When you tell the agent a preference you want to stick, a voice you like, a style choice, a rule about how your brand should sound, it saves that preference and tells you right in the chat that it did. From then on, every video in your workspace picks it up automatically.

Want to see what Arcade has learned about how you work? Open the Memory panel from video chat to see everything it's remembered, each entry timestamped, and delete anything you don't want it holding onto anymore.

Shoutout to Aleks for building this one!

⏱ Your edits show up as you make them

The preview no longer does a full reload between changes. Make an edit, see it — including thumbnails.

Built by Yaseen.

🎨 Brand Kit improvements

Brand Kit generation got a sustained round of work. The parts you'll notice:

• When a capture fails, you now see why. Previously you got a generic failure; the actual, actionable reason was being recorded but shown only to our team. Now you get the sentence.
• Your logos and images, not somebody else's. Image harvesting now reads your own site directly and rejects imagery that belongs to a third party, so kits stop picking up partner logos and stock images from your footer.
• Colors are read properly on modern sites. Sites using newer CSS colour formats now extract cleanly, and a stray font weight can no longer be mistaken for your brand colour.
• Fonts are detected from the right place, so a page's inline styling no longer contaminates the typeface we pick for you.
• Better default backgrounds, generated from your brand colors.

Built by Paweł.

✨ Other Improvements

AI video

• The agent writes and talks less like an AI, and no longer shows you raw code in chat.
• Generations are now durable. If something restarts mid-generation, your generation recovers instead of leaving the chat waiting.
• You can cancel an export while it's rendering. The Cancel button in the export panel now actually stops the render and returns you to the settings form, with nothing left behind.
• The media library in the video wizard is the same one you use everywhere else, so your uploaded assets are simply there.

Sharing and exporting

• Share and export a generated video straight from its card in the library — status and the full Share & Export panel, without opening the editor.

Demos

• Images now render, and can be edited and authored, inside callout and hotspot labels.
• The camera bubble now shows in the mobile viewer's bottom bar.
• Form-submission notifications pass to the flow's new owner when someone leaves the team, so lead alerts stop going to a removed member.

Accounts and setup

• Apple's Hide My Email addresses are recognised as personal mailboxes rather than being read as a company domain.
• Member counts are accurate on large workspaces, and exporting members exports all of them rather than the first 500.

🐛 Bug Fixes

AI video

• Exported videos no longer render scenes blank.
• Voiceover no longer bleeds a word into the following scene.
• Choosing 16:9 explicitly is no longer overridden to a different aspect ratio.
• Videos inside an AI video scene play correctly.
• A very large attachment no longer permanently breaks a session.
• Images embedded in a video no longer send the whole turn into failure if one of them can't be reached.
• Logos and vector artwork are no longer used as style references where they don't belong.
• Low-resolution images no longer win slots over better ones.
• Generated backgrounds render fewer garbled text artifacts.

Demos and sharing

• Preview and live videos play on steps where they previously wouldn't.
• Demo voiceover is no longer truncated, and a step no longer skipped, after a video-to-image transition.
• Chrome extension recordings no longer get stuck at "Uploading (0%)" with the editor tab never opening, and a recording survives the extension restarting mid-upload.
• A stalled upload now tells you it's stalled instead of sitting at 0% indefinitely.
• Icon stroke weights render correctly again on the newest version of Chrome.
• The button to open the Arcade desktop app works in Safari.

Accounts

• Accepting a pending invite works when you're already an active member of the workspace, instead of erroring and leaving the request stuck.

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✍️ Manual Editing Is Back

You shouldn't have to wait on the agent for small changes. We've reintroduced manual editing features so you can jump in yourself to fine-tune the details.

• Reorder scenes instantly, exactly the way you want your story to flow
• Trim a scene down to just the moment that matters, without disturbing anything else around it

Shoutout to Liisa for bringing this back!

🎞️ Duplicate Videos & Scenes

Reusing your own work is a lot easier now. Duplicate an entire video to use as a starting point for a new one, and inside the editor, duplicate, copy, cut, and paste individual scenes.

• Spin up a variant of an existing video without starting from scratch
• Move or reuse scenes across a video in a few clicks

Great work from Aleks and Liisa on this one!

✨ Other Improvements

• Your voice preference now carries over across sessions, so you don't have to re-specify it every time you generate a video
• Step-by-step guide share links now match the language you've selected in Preview, instead of always defaulting to English
• Added a copy button next to sent chat messages, so you can quickly reuse a prompt
• Cleaned up tab names across the product to be clearer and more accurate

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Brand Kit logos now display in true white across light and dark variants, instead of an off-white shade
• The wizard no longer silently swaps out a valid Google Font for a default typeface
• Published share pages always serve the version you actually published, instead of occasionally falling back to unpinned live content
• Resolved a setup error some accounts hit after a plan upgrade
• Brand Kit generation now fails clearly instead of quietly pulling colors and logos from a dead deployment's error page
• The Brand Kit tab in Replace Media was quietly skipping your logos. They're back alongside product shots and photography

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See exactly who's watching your demos and what's landing, with Impact Analysis.

📊 Impact Analysis

You now have a dedicated analytics dashboard showing how your demos are performing at the account level. Open Impact Analysis from the left sidebar and get a clear picture of which customers are most engaged with your content and how that engagement is trending over time.

Drill into any individual account to see views, plays, and exactly which demos are driving the most interest. No more guessing which prospects are paying attention, or which content is actually resonating.

For reps, it's an easy way to prioritize: see which accounts are most active, understand what they're looking at, and show up to every conversation knowing what your customer cares about.

Shoutout to Sharad for shipping this!

✨ Other Improvements

• You can now search within the media picker when building AI videos, so finding the right asset doesn't mean scrolling forever.
• You can now set your video's aspect ratio upfront before generating, and the share page now respects that ratio too.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Images embedded in AI-generated videos now load correctly when viewed from a share URL.
• The Chrome extension was capturing duplicate steps when recording. That's resolved.
• Logo link URLs on share pages now point exactly where you set them in branding settings, instead of being rewritten to an app.arcade.software/... path.
• Some users were hitting an error when opening certain demos — that's fixed.
• The "Try again" button in the AI video chat now works after a page reload, even when the failed message had attachments.
• Scene content in AI-generated videos now renders centered instead of stuck in the top-left corner.

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A week of video polish: aspect ratio on demand, sound effect controls, and a long list of fixes.

📐 Set Your Aspect Ratio in the First Prompt

Arcade's video agent now picks up on aspect ratio cues right from your initial prompt. Just say what you want — "vertical video for Instagram," "16:9 for a website embed," "square for LinkedIn" — and the AI generates to that spec without any manual adjustments.

Shoutout to Aleks for the great work on this!

🔊 Full Control Over Sound Effects

Sound effects in your videos now have a complete set of controls. Move one earlier or later to land at exactly the right moment. Swap it out for a different sound entirely. Turn the volume up or down to sit where you want it in the mix.

Before, sound effects were set by the AI and that was that. Now you're in the driver's seat.

Big thanks to Aleks for shipping this too!

✨ Other Improvements

• Pan & zoom is back in the video editor. Add focus to any clip to highlight key moments or guide your viewer's eye.
• You can now swap out images and other media assets directly in the video editor, without waiting for the AI to make the change for you.
• In interactive demos, logos now appear in form steps the same way they already do in chapter steps.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Random boxes were showing up in generated videos. They're gone now.
• Videos longer than ~39 seconds now publish reliably.
• Product section flickering in AI-generated videos is fixed.
• Embedded screen recordings in AI-generated videos now render correctly instead of coming out blank.
• Custom fonts now render correctly in generated videos.
• Several Brand Kit fixes: generation no longer gets stuck on a loading screen, fonts now pull from current brand assets, and the Brand Kit no longer disappears after manual scene edits.
• UI controls in AI-generated videos were sometimes appearing in non-English languages. They're in English now.
• Users on "Only those invited" flows were seeing a "This demo isn't published" error when their team was listed under "Can access." That's resolved.

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At Arcade, we sweat the little things. This week's updates are all about fine-tuning AI video generation and Collections to feel exactly right.

📝 Rich text in Collections

Collection text blocks now support rich text: bold, italics, and bullet lists. A frequently requested upgrade for anyone building collections for internal or external use cases.

Shoutout to Nick for shipping this!

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🎙️ Smarter voice selection

Arcade's AI now picks from the full library of voices when generating your video. When you include voice attributes in your prompt ("American female," "warm and conversational"), the AI selects a matching voice. When you don't specify anything, it starts with your last-selected voice instead of guessing.

Shoutout to Paweł for the great work on this!

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✨ Other Improvements

• AI-generated videos can now be embedded anywhere you'd embed a regular Arcade.
• Workspace admins can now configure an inactivity session timeout under Privacy settings.
• Brand Kit color names are now human-readable throughout the editor.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Custom AI voices no longer produce background noise or sound unexpectedly different.
• Dragging a voiceover in the timeline no longer causes the layer to disappear.
• Chapter text color changes now appear in Edit mode, not just in Preview and Share.
• Sound effects no longer play past the end of a video.
• Resolved an issue where AI-generated videos couldn't be imported from the media library into a Flow.
• Video Arcades created from screen recordings no longer appear blank in Edit mode.
• Fixed: Video generation could fail to publish due to a font family issue.
• Brand Kit generation now includes your brand's background color.

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AI video generation is now a conversation

You can now make changes to your generated video using chat. Just tell it what you want, and it updates without needing to make manual edits. The output is better too: smoother transitions, better matching music, and assets that show up correctly against the scene background.

✏️ Editing via chat

After your original video is generated, keep prompting to adjust the structure, rework scenes, and shift the messaging.

Huge thanks to Eamon, Sydney, and Raul for building this out!

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🎙️ Higher-quality video

Image framing is more intentional, scene transitions are smoother, and music is now custom-generated to match the vibe and visuals.

Shoutout to Arjun and Aleks for shipping this!

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🎨 Better visual consistency

When applying a Brand Kit, Arcade will consider each scene's background to apply the right logo variant and keep fonts and colors consistent.

Major props to Paweł for making this happen!

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✨ Other Improvements

• Arcade in Claude: Arcade's interactive demos, video previews, and analytics widgets now render natively in Claude conversations. Follow these instructions to install the connector.
• Brand Kit extraction: When extracting a Brand Kit from your website, Arcade will now capture the relationships between colors and fonts for a more dynamic picture of how your brand actually works.
• Cancel Brand Kit generation: You can now cancel a Brand Kit while it's still generating, without waiting for it to finish.
• Undo/redo in video editing: Edit, adjust, and experiment with confidence. Undo or redo any change as you go.
• Cleaner flow editor toolbar: Buttons are better organized, making step-level and navigation controls easier to distinguish at a glance.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Chrome extension video capture toggle: turning it off now actually stops recording video steps.
• Fixed voiceovers overlapping when using "Apply to all" to regenerate dialogue on existing videos.
• Fixed fullscreen player controls disappearing on shared videos.
• Fixed a permissions error in the Arcade MCP for users not assigned to a Team.
• Fixed a crash on the Arcades list page caused by a corrupt image placeholder on a flow.

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Themes live inside Brand Kits, undo and redo land in the video editor, and more.

🎨 Themes, now inside Brand Kits

Your themes now live inside Brand Kits, organized into two types: Demo themes (how your Arcade looks during playback) and Share Page themes (the page wrapped around your embed).

Any themes you had before are already inside your first Brand Kit, ready to move between kits however makes sense for your workflow.

Shoutout to Arjun for shipping this!

✨ Other Improvements

• Undo and redo are now available in the Arcade video editor.
• Video credits now charge based on your target duration, set before generation starts. You know exactly what you're spending upfront, and the AI won't generate a video longer than your selected duration.
• If the AI is generating your video and goes off track, you can stop it at any point — even mid-edit, while it's actively rewriting a scene. Before, you had to wait for it to finish whatever it was working on before you could take back control.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed duplicated Creator Studio videos carrying a hidden ghost voiceover, audible during playback but invisible in the editor.
• Fixed AI-generated videos rendering with a different font than the editor preview.
• Fixed credit usage data that had stopped syncing correctly.
• Fixed an export failure affecting certain Arcades.

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Recording the real product has always been Arcade's thing. This week, it got even better.

🖱️ Cinematic Cursor Animations in the Desktop App

For those who love recording with the desktop app, every mouse click, drag, and hover now looks more polished and natural. We overhauled the entire cursor animation system to add motion blur, click-scale feedback (a subtle press-and-release effect on every click), and smoother interpolation between movements.

The result is demos that feel more responsive and alive, like you're watching a real person use the product rather than a screen recording.

Record something new with the desktop app and see the difference for yourself.

Shoutout to Raul for the incredible work on this!

✨ Other Improvements

• Videos and visuals now work in Collections. You can add video generations and visual projects alongside interactive demos, so your entire library of product content lives in one organized place.
• Your brand name shows when sharing. If you have a custom favicon set, your brand name now appears instead of "Arcade" when a demo is shared publicly (link previews in Slack, email, etc.).
• Your Brand Kit now extracts more accurately. Arcade does a better job of picking up your actual brand colors and fonts from your website — and it now works on sites that previously failed to load.
• You can now search for videos, visuals, and collections in the library. Previously, searching for these content types returned no results.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Form submissions were not appearing in Insights.
• Export errors were incorrectly counting against free export limits.
• Audience Reveal was surfacing phantom companies from self-views and low-confidence IP matches.
• Korean text was wrapping mid-word in step content.
• On mobile, video steps entered via a hotspot were starting in a paused state.
• Windows desktop: video uploads were failing.
• Long desktop recordings were failing at the normalizing step.
• Phone frame was distorted when copy-pasting a demo with a mobile container.
• Recording aspect ratio was changing unexpectedly in some sessions.
• Arcade OG image was not updating after renaming the demo.

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Last week we launched conversational video generation. This week's update centers on improvements we've made to that experience to make it even smoother.

💬 Video Chat That Keeps Up With You

Building a video in Arcade chat feels more fluid now. A round of improvements to the underlying chat experience means fewer interruptions, less back-and-forth, and a cleaner way to bring in your own assets.

• Drop in assets mid-conversation. You can now attach images and files directly in the chat as you work. Arcade also surfaces relevant assets from your library so you're not hunting for them separately.
• Revisions stay in context. Say "just remove the voiceover" and the plan updates without losing everything you already decided. Topic switches register.

Big shoutout to Eamon, Sydney, and Raul for shipping these improvements!

✨ Other Improvements

• View milestone notifications: Arcade now emails you when your demos hit their first view, 10 views, and 100 views, so you always know when your content is getting traction.
• Better custom scenes from AI: Custom scenes generated by AI now go through a visual refinement loop. The model renders its own output, inspects it, and revises if something looks off, reducing artifacts and producing more accurate results.
• Social sharing uses your workspace name: When you've set a custom favicon, Arcade now uses your workspace name as the OG site name when demos are shared on social.
• Brand Kit font warnings: If a brand kit captures a font that's unavailable in the editor, you'll now see a clear warning rather than a silent fallback to a default font.
• Video chat stability improvements: Resolved several edge cases that caused the chat to get stuck or produce inconsistent results mid-generation.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an Okta SSO login loop that occurred after SAML authentication
• Videos uploaded without audio no longer show random auto-generated captions
• Fixed hotspot text generation referencing the wrong page element when clicking icon-only buttons
• Fixed "Failed to publish video. Please try again." errors that some users were hitting
• Resolved an infinite "Access request approved" toast loop on the flow edit page
• Brand Kit settings modal no longer stays stuck on the generate form after generation finishes
• Fixed a flicker on the Getting Started guides when refreshing the page
• Embeds on the free plan are now correctly restored for a user's one published demo

This week's release centers on two big updates: a new way to generate videos, and self-serve custom fonts for Enterprise teams.

🗣️ Conversational Video Generation

If you've ever stared at a blank video prompt wondering where to start, this one's for you. You can now generate Arcade videos through a conversational chat interface. Arcade asks you a few questions to gather the right context, then builds out a plan for your video. Review and edit that plan before anything gets generated, so you're never locked into a first draft you didn't sign off on.

How it works:

• Answer a handful of questions and attach any relevant context
• Arcade structures your video and creates a content plan
• Review, approve, and generate

Shoutout to Sydney for building this feature, and to Raul, Aleks, and David for making it look great!

🔤 Upload Your Own Fonts, No Tickets Required

Enterprise teams can now upload custom brand fonts directly inside Arcade. No more pinging support or waiting for the Arcade team to add fonts manually.

Head to brand settings, upload your font files, and they're immediately available across your demos and videos.

Shoutout to Arjun for making this self-serve!

✨ Other Improvements

• AI-generated b-roll: When your brand kit has images, Arcade uses them as style references to generate b-roll footage that matches your brand, not generic stock video
• Custom Links: The limit is now 50 (up from 15), and if multiple people on your team are creating links, a creator filter now appears so you can find yours fast
• Hotspots: New toggle to open hotspot links in the same tab instead of a new one
• Voiceover: Narration sounds more natural, with new marketing-tuned voice options added to the catalog
• MCP: New get_generation_status tool for polling video generation status, plus filtering to show only active teams
• Onboarding: New users now get asked upfront whether they're creating videos or demos, so the experience is tailored from the start
• Narration bullets: Now easier to scan and follow the flow visually
• Video feedback rating: Back and available again
• Shortcuts: Now visible regardless of which team originally created them, and can be duplicated from there

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed hotspot speech bubbles and area highlights not rendering in some navigation directions
• Fixed missing cursor on video step share and embed pages
• Fixed video editor preview showing a warning icon when reopened
• Fixed mobile video steps starting paused when reached via hotspot
• Fixed background music causing the player to get stuck buffering
• Fixed chat input soft-locking when typing a custom response instead of selecting an option
• Fixed "Add attachments" button forcing an upload instead of being optional
• Fixed custom scenes not being copy/pasteable
• Fixed blurry thumbnail chapter images across projects
• Fixed Desktop app recording issues: area selection on macOS, multi-monitor anchoring, recording mode being ignored, and sign-in expiry errors
• Fixed Step by Step PDF export producing text-only output with no images

🤖 Arcade is live in the ChatGPT app store

Last month we added the Arcade MCP for Claude, and now Arcade is available in ChatGPT. If your team lives in ChatGPT, you can create videos without switching tabs or tools via the MCP integration.

Some ways to use Arcade in ChatGPT:

• Use a prompt to generate a video
• Preview demos without leaving ChatGPT
• Pull up analytics on your demos

Shoutout to Arjun and Sharad for this milestone!

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🎬 Position your media exactly where you want

When you add media to a video, you now control where it sits in the frame. Four offset positions (None, S, M, L) let you nudge your asset in any direction. Toggle on overlay alignment and your text sits on top of the media with a subtle dark layer behind it, keeping your message readable no matter what's in the background.

We also fixed something that had been quietly bugging us: orphan words at the end of text blocks no longer wrap onto their own lonely line.

Shoutout to Raul for shipping this!

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✨ Other Improvements

• Edit your custom scenes: After generating a custom AI scene, you can now go back in and edit the content, swap visuals, or adjust the layout without starting over
• Split clips into pieces: Split any recording clip into separate chunks directly in the editor, without re-recording
• Capture system audio: When recording with the desktop app, you can now capture audio playing on your computer, not just microphone input
• Media library search: When adding assets to a demo, search by name and see display names on each file, so similar-looking thumbnails don't slow you down
• Brand Kit discoverability: Your Brand Kit is now easier to find and edit, with clearer copy throughout so you always know what each setting controls
• Third-party assets for AI videos: Video generation can now pull from third-party stock libraries for footage and imagery, adding more visual variety to generated scenes
• Custom scene settings: New controls let you fine-tune how custom scenes are generated and displayed

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed voiceover audio crackling at the start of AI-generated videos
• Fixed blank images appearing in the stock tab of the media library
• Fixed cursor unexpectedly changing style during viewer sessions
• Fixed Windows desktop app issues: area selection capturing the wrong region, hotspot dots not rendering on recordings, and errors when finishing window recordings
• Fixed the desktop app failing to launch after an update on macOS
• Fixed imported video gen panel flashing when editing the timeline

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Storytelling is about bringing the audience along – but sometimes you’re limited by the content format. Starting today, you can now generate video scenes directly in your interactive demo.

This makes it 10x easier to build a complete product story, from opening headlines to product walkthrough, and you can even insert quotes and b-roll along the way.

We’ve also added new custom animated scenes so that you can create videos with charts, motions graphics, and anything else your story needs.

Enjoy!

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🎨 Create custom scenes with text-to-video

Want something truly one-of-a-kind for your video? You can now prompt Arcade to generate fully custom animated scenes, not just from a preset template, but built from scratch to match exactly what you're describing.

Describe what you want: a data visualization, a branded intro, an animated transition. Arcade generates the scene, renders it, and drops it into your video.

• Describe any scene in plain text and Arcade builds it
• Go beyond preset layouts: animated charts, custom transitions, motion graphics
• Pair with your existing demos or recording for a fully produced video

Big shoutout to Boogie for shipping this!

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🎬 Add video scenes inside interactive demos

Creator Studio is now built right into the interactive demo editor. No need to jump between tools to mix AI video with your interactive demo. You can now add framing, customer quotes, and more into interactive demos before dropping into product screens.

Some ways to use it:

• Swap a static screenshot for a richer video explanation
• Add a polished intro or customer quote to an existing Arcade
• Include a chart or data to frame the story

Big thanks to Dillon for building this out!

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👀 Viewers can create custom links

This is a small but mighty update. Sales reps, partners, and anyone on a Viewer role can now create and manage their own custom share links without needing editor access.

Each person gets their own set of trackable links. They can see who is engaging with their demos, share directly from their own account, and stop waiting on someone else to set it up for them. Note: This is available on the Enterprise plan only.

Thanks to Alex for making this happen!

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✨ Other Improvements

• Every step in your Arcade now has its own shareable link, so you can send someone directly to the part that matters
• Voiceover overhaul: more AI models, new dialects, Traditional Chinese support, AI voice per language, and apply-to-all for video scenes
• Upload PDFs as source material for AI video generation
• AI video updates: per-scene fonts and weights, images in custom scenes, and Brand Kit backgrounds
• Video playback speed controls, fullscreen support, and multisided scene trimming for prompt videos
• Copy/paste a step now scrolls to and highlights it in the editor

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Video steps rendering as static images on Windows Chrome
• Media blur loading delays
• Mobile translations not applying past Chapter steps
• Voiceover inconsistencies across multi-language flows
• Share link mismatches between the library and video viewer
• Dropdown not closing on trackpad click
• Video embed corners displaying as black

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On our mind lately: usability.

With so many tools nowadays, you naturally reach for ones that are easiest to use. We added a brand new media library and shipped a ton of features that make it easier for you to go from start to polished output.

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🗂️ New Media Library

Your content is easier to find, manage, and use. The redesigned media library is now live for everyone, with a unified browsing experience for images, videos, and recordings. Make stronger product stories by easily blending demos with your AI videos or visuals in Arcade – creating a much more cohesive message from high-level narrative down to interactive demo.

Huge thanks to Dillon for building this!

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⏭️ Skip Step

You can now add a skip option to any step in your demo flow, giving viewers the flexibility to jump ahead without deleting that step completely. Perfect for steps that don't apply to everyone.

Big kudos to Aleks for shipping this!

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🖱️ Multi-Select

Instead of making changes to one step at a time, you can now easily select multiple steps in the flow builder and apply changes to all steps at once.

• Skip steps
• Delete steps
• Duplicate steps
• Hide from navigation
• Autoplay
• and more

Click to select, click again to deselect – it works exactly how you'd expect, making bulk edits and rearranging flows faster than before.

Big kudos to Aleks for shipping this!

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✨ Other Improvements

• Captions for generated videos: Click any caption directly in the Video preview to open the captions editor instantly. The CC button got a polish pass too.
• Sidebar animated icons: The left sidebar now has animated icons.
• Empty state redesign: The "no flows" empty state has been redesigned to be cleaner and more helpful when a new workspace is just getting started.
• Updated share button: The share button for demos and videos has been refreshed to make publishing easier to discover.
• Sortable member columns: Sort by any column in the members table to find and manage teammates faster.
• Traditional Chinese language and voice: Arcades can now be translated into Traditional Chinese with full voiceover support, opening up reach across APAC markets.‍
• Faster blur processing: Video blur now runs 2–3x faster. Long videos that previously took 20+ minutes now finish in under 10.‍
• Voiceover improvements: You can now unlink a voiceover from its scene, voiceovers no longer bleed into adjacent scenes, and the editor auto-generates a take when you click out of the script field.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed translated Arcades playing in the wrong language after applying a voiceover translation
• Fixed viewer 404 errors on generated video pages
• Fixed several video generation polish issues: headline preview clipping, incorrect theme previews, and vertical video selection not persisting between sessions
• Fixed an animation rendering issue in Safari
• Fixed AI voice fluctuation during voiceover generation
• Fixed superscript characters not rendering in chapter step text
• Fixed step-by-step guides showing raw prompt text from PDF imports
• Fixed mobile video steps flashing the previous frame

Introducing the Arcade MCP.

This past week, we shipped a wave of updates centered around making Arcade work inside the tools you already use. The big one: the Arcade MCP. It take a few clicks to setup. You can create videos and view Arcade analytics – all from inside Claude.

🤖 Meet the Arcade MCP

We've been testing this one internally for a while, and it's ready for you. Connect the Arcade MCP server in a few clicks and you can now use Arcade directly from Claude.

See how you can get it set up here.

Once connected, you can:

• Create videos from a prompt: describe what you want and Arcade generates a branded demo video without leaving Claude
• Pull live insights about demos on demand: ask Claude things like "Which demos are getting the most traction this month?" or "What accounts are engaging with my demos?" and get real answers from your Arcade data

Read about more use cases on our blog here.

Big kudos to Arjun and Sharad for building this out!

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🚀 Community Showcase is Live

The Community Showcase is now open. Submit your best Arcades, browse what others are building, and vote for your favorites.

StoryJam 2026 kicks off April 14. If you're participating, we're giving out prizes for the Best Demo and Best Videos shared by April 16!

Head to arcade.software/community-showcase to check it out and add yours.

Shoutout to Lucy for shipping this one!

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✨ Other Improvements

• AI generation animation — When AI is generating your video, you'll now see a smooth animated spinner instead of a static loader. It feels a lot more like magic is happening.
• Video gen polish — Uploaded videos now keep their original audio track, B-roll selection is smarter, and you can now remove the background overlay on media elements.
• Editor improvements — Text presets (heading, subheading, body) are now one-click, and drag-to-reorder scenes works directly in the preview panel.
• Step by step watermark removed for paid plans — The Arcade branding is no longer shown in step-by-step exports on paid plans.
• Logo in Brand Kit picker — Your brand logo is now visible in the Brand Kit selection UI so you can tell kits apart at a glance.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a flash/zoom jump in exported MP4 videos
• Fixed video generation failing and incorrectly charging credits
• Fixed desktop app sign-in and Chrome Extension issues
• Fixed microphone staying open after recording
• Fixed several editor bugs: hotspot text not appearing, camera preview going blank, color picker not saving, text copy-pasting across scenes
• Fixed exported captions being cut off when zoomed
• Fixed brand kit photo upload silently failing after ~8 images

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Creator Studio is now generally available.

We launched a waitlist for Creator Studio in December. Hundreds of users got in, built things, and told us exactly what to improve. We listened. Today, we're excited to announce the General Availability release. All 30,000 companies using Arcade get access to it, and here's why we're excited:

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🧠 A more intelligent brand

Most AI tools let you pick a color and call it "branded." We built something different. Our Context Engine learns how your brand actually looks, sounds, and feels - so every creation is yours from the start.

• Pulls from your public web presence, social channels, and uploaded assets to create a brand model
• Learns your visual language - colors, typography, illustration style, and photography direction
• Learns your written voice - the tone and register your team actually uses
• Applies all of it at generation time, not as a filter after the fact

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🎬 Prompt to polished video

You no longer have to wait for the product to be ready to tell its story. Bring a typed prompt, an existing Arcade demo, or a Figma file - and walk away with something polished you can use with customers today.

• Arcade writes the headlines, records the voiceover, and sets the pacing automatically
• New b-roll mixing lets you combine product walkthroughs with cinematic footage and sharp messaging
• Edit any headline, swap a clip, or update the voiceover from a visual timeline - no expert video editing background required
• Switch between standard and vertical social reel formats in one click

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✨ Visuals in seconds

Generate videos and visuals sized and formatted for wherever they're going, without briefing a designer.

• Generate static images, animated GIFs, and social ads directly from your product UI
• Create visuals for every channel – LinkedIn posts, Facebook ads, X, and more - with a click
• Everything pulls from the same Brand Kit - so every asset, across every format, looks like it came from the same place

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Creator Studio is available on all paid plans. AI credits are included in every Arcade plan - if you're already a customer, it's in your account now.

Login to try Creator Studio today, or join us at StoryJam on April 14.

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✨ Other Improvements

• Video generation now uses Brand Kit data (ICP, key messages, tone) to personalize outputs
• Brand Kit now includes ICP, key messaging, and product description fields
• Brand kit colors and logo variants are applied more accurately in scene composition
• Videos exported as downloads now render at up to 4K resolution
• Voiceover settings now have full parity with the demo editor
• AI Credits balance is now visible in the main sidebar

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed export failures on certain AI-generated videos
• Fixed edited videos reverting to a previously generated version when reopened
• Fixed closed captions not displaying when enabled
• Fixed voiceover audio cutting off at the end of videos
• Fixed duplicate AI credit grants for certain workspaces

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Presenting at an event soon? Let's go.

For anyone who's ever been worried about demoing with spotty internet, we released Offline Mode. We also shipped a few other highly requested capabilities over the past few weeks! And stay tuned – we have something exciting coming on March 31.

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📴 Offline Mode

If you've ever been mid-presentation at a conference and watched your browser freeze because the hotel WiFi had other plans, this one's for you.

Arcade demos can now be saved locally so they play without an internet connection. No spinners. No embarrassing load failures. Just a clean, reliable product tour - regardless of what the venue's network is doing. Offline Mode is available now for customers on the Enterprise plan.

Shoutout to Liisa for the great work on this!

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📊 Native Salesforce Integration

Your sales team can now see exactly how prospects are engaging with your Arcade demos - right inside Salesforce, without switching tools.

Every play gets logged automatically. Arcade scores each prospect based on how deeply they engaged: did they watch? click a CTA? make it all the way through? Those scores roll up into a Top Engaged Leads dashboard so reps can prioritize outreach based on actual intent signals - not just who opened an email.

For teams running demos at the top of the funnel, this closes the loop between content performance and pipeline.

If you're interested, let us know here and learn more about the integration in our docs.‍

Big thanks to Nick for building this one!

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📂 Subfolders & Demo Management

Subfolders are here. If your Arcade library has been growing and finding anything in it has started to feel like a chore, this is the fix.

You can now nest folders inside folders - organizing your demos by team, product area, use case, or however your team actually thinks about content. Sales by region. Onboarding by persona. Product tours by feature. The structure is yours to define.

For teams that have been in Arcade for a while, this is a big quality-of-life change. The library stops being a flat list you scroll through and starts being something you can actually navigate. And for new team members, it means they can find the right demo fast without having to ask someone.

Kudos goes to Aleks for driving this!

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🎁 Referral Program

The best way to find Arcade has always been a colleague saying "you have to try this." Now there's something in it for both of you.

For Pro and Growth customers, you can now share your referral link with anyone you think would get value from Arcade. When they start a paid plan, you get up to $50 off your next invoice. Just share the link, and we handle the rest.

Shoutout to Tamar, David, and Sharad for creating this!

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✨ Other Improvements

• Improved hotspot positioning for embedded demos at non-standard aspect ratios.
• Faster load times for larger Arcade libraries.
• Cleaner keyboard navigation across the editor.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Editor
  
  • Fixed step navigation in the editor — the Delete key and arrow keys now work as expected
  • Fixed hotspots being placed on the wrong element on Windows Desktop
  • Resolved an audio export trifecta: synth VO delay on export, trimmed audio "untrims," and audio delay settings not being respected
  Player
  • Fixed chapter buttons appearing out of position in the player
  • Navigation arrows no longer take viewers back to a previous step unexpectedly
  • Closed captions now appear when enabled
  • Fixed embedded thumbnails not updating when the embed code is swapped
  • Resolved a flickering issue in the preview player
  • Full-screen is now available on iPad
  Analytics & Sharing
  • Fixed the "Apply" filter in Insights not correctly updating individual Arcade metrics
  • Fixed Insights CSV exports to include all pages of results
  • Editors can now edit and duplicate Arcades in shared team workspaces
  • Fixed domain access restrictions being case-sensitive
  • Collection custom links no longer return an error on save

Your most requested feature is here.

This month, we launched on Windows desktop. It's been one our top requests, and we're excited to finally bring it to life. We also shipped new permissions for easier collaboration, along with editing improvements that give you more control over your demos.

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🖥️ Arcade for Windows Desktop

Arcade on desktop is no longer just for Mac. Windows users can now capture anything on their screen directly from a native desktop app - no browser required.

Record desktop applications, local files, or content across multiple tabs. You get all the same power you're used to: interactive demos, videos, screenshots, AI captions and voiceovers, and easy sharing.

If your workflow lives outside the browser, Arcade now meets you where you work.

‍Download the new Windows app here.

Huge thanks to Dillon for bringing our most requested feature to life!

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🔐 Roles & Permissions for Arcade Demos

Collaborating on private Arcades is now more flexible and secure with updated roles and permissions.

You can invite collaborators as Editors, who can modify content alongside the owner, or as Viewers, who get read-only access. Private Arcades require explicit access to view, while public Arcades work like unlisted YouTube links - shareable via link but not discoverable.

Share private work with clients, partners, or teammates - and stay in control of who can see and edit your content.

Big thanks to Alex for building this out!

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🎯 Hotspot Any Area

You can now select and highlight any area in an Arcade demo - not just a single point. Draw a hotspot around an entire region to guide viewers' attention exactly where it needs to go.

This gives you more flexibility to call out sections of a UI, a group of elements, or any part of the screen that matters most.

Shoutout to Arjun for shipping this!

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✏️ Rich Text Editor

No more Markdown. You can now write and format text directly in a full WYSIWYG editor.

Bold, italic, underline, and other formatting options are all available with familiar controls - no syntax to remember. Just write, style, and move on.

Thanks to Nick for making this happen!

Kicking off the year at full speed.

This January, we ran our internal Turbo hackathon and shipped a set of highly requested features in a short amount of time. Every update in this release came directly out of Turbo, focused on improving the core workflows teams rely on in Arcade.

Over the past few weeks, those changes have rolled out to help you create faster, drive more engagement, and scale Arcade more easily across your team.

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🎞️ Make on-brand, animated GIFs in seconds

If you’re using Creator Studio to generate visuals for social ads, blog banners, or LinkedIn posts, this one’s for you.

We've just added animated GIFs support. Instead of a static image, your on-brand visuals can include motion to help content stand out. Animations are known to drive higher engagement on LinkedIn, across social channels, and on webpages - take advantage of that without any extra work.

Huge thanks to Sydney for bringing this to life!

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🎙️ More expressive AI voiceovers with ElevenLabs v3

When we reviewed 14M Arcade sessions from the past year, one thing was clear: voiceovers boost engagement by roughly 5% compared to demos with no voice at all.

We’ve now upgraded Arcade to support ElevenLabs v3. You can control emotion, delivery, and direction using audio tags, giving voiceovers more nuance and personality without manual recording.

Clearer tone, better pacing, and more human delivery.

Thanks to Pawel for pushing this update forward.

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🔒 Create Private Teams for agencies and partners

Agencies, consultancies, and partner teams often manage multiple clients at once.

With Private Teams, each team can now see only their own content and has no access to other teams in the workspace. This makes it safe and simple to collaborate across many customers in a single Arcade instance.

Available on Enterprise plans. Contact us if you’re interested.

Big thanks to Nick for making this happen.

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✏️ Capture and edit recording captions

Whether you’re recording screens, adding camera footage, or layering in voiceovers, polishing the final result should be easy.

This update gives you more control over how your captions show up:

• Generate captions for both camera and voice recordings.
• Edit captions across video recordings. Captions are visible in both the editor and the viewer, and fully editable as text.

More control over every recording, from first capture to final playback.

Thanks to Simon for pushing this forward.

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✂️ Trim and edit camera recordings

Many teams add camera footage to make demos feel more personal, but re-recording to fix timing or mistakes can slow things down.

You can now trim and edit camera recordings directly in Arcade. Adjust the length and timing of your recording without starting over.

Clean up quickly, stay focused, and keep demos moving forward.

Huge thanks to Lucy for shipping this highly requested feature!

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🔌 Provision users and teams via API

For larger enterprises, managing users and teams manually can slow things down.

You can now add users and teams programmatically using Arcade’s User Provisioning API. This makes it easier to onboard teams at scale and keep access in sync with your internal systems.

Built for IT and platform teams who want automation, not admin work.

You can refer to the API here.

Kudos to Sharad for shipping this!

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📊 Sync demo insights via API to your GTM systems

GTM teams often want Arcade usage data alongside the rest of their customer data.

With the new Insights API, you can sync demo engagement across contacts, leads, accounts, or other audiences directly into your CRM, marketing automation platform, or data warehouse.

Easier reporting, deeper analysis, and more flexibility in how you use Arcade data.

You can refer to the API here.

Another strong addition from Sharad!

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed video playback and export issues, including a temporary export failure for generated videos.
• Resolved media library issues where hover actions like “add as step” did not appear after scrolling.
• Fixed access and permissions issues across teams and collections, ensuring only the correct roles can join teams or access content.
• Resolved caption, voiceover, and translation issues that could cause formatting errors or crashes.
• Fixed sharing and collaboration issues, including missing names on invites and unexpected redirects.

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If you’ve made it this far – thank you! 🎉

New year, new ways to create with Arcade.

Happy 2026 everyone! We’re kicking off the year with a set of improvements that make Arcade faster, easier, and more flexible to use.

In our first week back from the holidays, we shipped two highly requested updates.

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🎬 Polish AI videos with a few clicks

If you’ve tried Creator Studio, you’ve seen how quickly it can generate a product overview or sizzle reel video.

Over the past few weeks, we added editing controls so you can fine-tune the AI video result:

• Set duration of the AI-generated video (by seconds, or number of scenes)
• Change music, or remove music all together
• Add or delete sequences in the video
• Add, swap, or edit scenes in a sequence
• Trim video clips in a scene

AI gets you started fast. You stay in control of the final polish.

Shoutout to Sydney for pushing this forward!

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🏎️ Embed Arcades directly in Intercom to resolve issues faster

If you use Intercom for customer support, you can now drop an Arcade directly into an article. Paste the link and the demo embeds automatically, no setup required.

Show customers exactly how to resolve an issue instead of explaining it in text.

Kudos to Kobi, the wizard behind Arcade support!

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Meet the Arcade Creator Studio.

We launched a new way for marketing teams to create beautiful, on-brand videos and visuals of their product – without waiting on overwhelmed designers and expensive agencies. This isn’t just another generic AI tool. This is AI that starts with your product and your brand, and then generates studio-quality assets for your team.

We’ve partnered with dozens of design partners to build this, and are incredibly proud of this launch.

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Here's what comes with Creator Studio:

Always on-brand assets to help your product stand out

Creator Studio pulls in differentiating brand details – including typography, colors, spacing, tone, visual style, and more – directly from your website. This becomes the foundation for every asset you create, ensuring everything that follows is consistent, cohesive, and unmistakably yours.

Beautiful product videos, instantly created with AI

Creator Studio generates headlines, voiceovers, pacing, and visuals based on your Brand Kit and product capture. You choose the voice and soundtrack, then refine the details in minutes.

Image generation that actually feels like your brand

Instead of producing chaotic AI artifacts, Creator Studio rebuilds visual assets from your real brand patterns, ensuring every image aligns with your design system.

Auto-updated demos that keep up with product changes, created by our Agent

The moment your product UI changes, your demos don’t go out of date. Arcade logs in, re-captures the new flow, rebuilds the experience, and presents an updated version for human review. Your story stays fresh across every channel with minimal effort.

✨ To Learn More

To dive deeper into the Creator Studio, you can:

• ‍read the announcement
• ‍watch the full replay on-demand
• look into the documentation

‍Join our waitlist to get access to all the new features in Creator Studio (with more to come!) 🎉

Create, Share, Comment, and Blur with Confidence

We’re back with another big round of updates focused on collaboration, control, and polish.

This month, we’ve made it easier to gather precise feedback, share securely, and keep sensitive details private – plus a long list of quality-of-life improvements across video, editing, and sharing.

More details below!

🎥 Video Blur: Protect What Matters

By popular request, you can now blur parts of your video to hide sensitive information, personal data, or internal details before sharing.

Apply blur to any region of your screen recording, adjust the shape and duration, and review instantly within the editor. It’s quick, flexible, and a big win for privacy-friendly demos.

Thank you to Paweł for the sharp work here while training for an Ironman race. (Which he crushed it, course! Congrats Paweł!)

📄 Turn Demos into Step-by-Step Guides

Many of you love the step-by-step guide feature - it makes it easy to turn any Arcade into a guide for a doc, an email, or your knowledge center. Now, you can take it even further: share your guide as a link or download it as a PDF in a matter of seconds.

Thank you to Aleks and team for the glow-up on this popular capability!

💬 Comment Smarter, Together

We released commenting earlier this month so any viewer could react directly on your Arcade. We added to that this week with comment on a specific step or exact second of a video – perfect for pinpoint feedback during reviews or content approvals.

Thanks to Lucy for bringing this to life (and welcome back from Greece)!

🔗 Custom Share Links

Arcaders wanted better insights and tighter control when sharing Arcades, and now they’re here.

With Custom Share Links, you can create unique URLs with fine-grained controls for personalization, access, and analytics.

• Link-level analytics: See who's watches, clicks, or drops off.
• Email authentication: Require Google or Microsoft sign-in.
• Password protected: Add an extra layer of security.
• Auto-expire links: Keep links live only for a period of time.

Huge thanks to Alex for leading this feature.

🧑‍💼 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Enterprise

Enterprise workspaces can now fully manage access and roles with Role-Based Access Control.

Every member has a clear permission level – and every workspace includes free Viewer seats to make collaboration simple.

• Viewer – Watch and comment
• Collaborator – Edit but can’t publish
• Editor – Create and publish
• Admin – Full workspace access
• Billing User – Manage seats and payments

Thanks to Ben and Lucy!

✨ Feature Improvements

We’ve also been grinding away at parts of the core product to make them smoother, simpler, and better for every user.

Video & Editing

• Improved PDF export for step-by-step guides – cleaner layout and faster downloads.
• Added 4x, 8x, and 16x speed!

Sharing & Collaboration

• Shared Collections now respect your workspace’s theme and color palette.
• Avery can now be disabled on desktop, giving you full control over when to use AI assistance.

Localization & Access

• You can now set a language in your share link – viewers see localized content right away.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Video & Editing

• Fixed overlapping player controls and layout clipping.
• Resolved rare Chrome mic input bug that caused silent clips.
• Timeline jump and zoom alignment issues are now gone.
• Fixed cursor visibility toggles in preview and editor.

Mobile

• Fixed autoplay and background behavior when adding buttons to mobile steps.
• Corrected scaling of chapter preview images on smaller screens.
• Fixed issue where mobile frames could overlap content.

Other

• Fixed collection logos/buttons disappearing for some users.
• Removed extra spacing in Upload and Share modals.
• Localization settings now persist per-link.
• Improved accuracy for viewer analytics in Custom Share Links.

If you’ve made it this far – thank you! 🎉

Collaborate with Confidence

Last week, we shipped a bunch of new sharing, feedback, and permission controls to make it easier (and safer) to share Arcades across your team, customers, and funnel.

Custom Share Links

Arcaders wanted better insights into how specific people engage with their Arcades, and more ways to control who sees what.
Now, you can create unique links with fine-grained controls for personalization, access, and security.

• Link-level analytics — See engagement for each link so you know who’s watching, clicking, or dropping off.
• Email authentication for viewers — Ask viewers to sign in with Google or Microsoft for accurate identification. Great for 1:1 shares and seeing exactly how those authenticated viewers interacted.
• Auto-expire links — Set a time limit so links stay live only as long as you want them to.
• Password protection — Add an extra layer of security for private or sensitive Arcades.

Thanks to Alex for leading the charge on Custom Links!

Commenting (Now from the Share Page)

Commenting used to be limited to your team and hidden inside the Arcade app. Now, anyone — viewers or teammates — can leave comments directly on shared Arcades.

No more chasing feedback in Slack or email threads. It’s a faster, simpler way to collect input from stakeholders, prospects, or anyone you’re collaborating with.

Thanks to Val and Lucy for bringing this to life.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Enterprise

Enterprise teams need clear control over who can do what within Arcade.
With Role-Based Access Control, admins can now manage access at scale. We now offer roles for:

• Viewer — Watch and comment.
• Collaborator — Edit, but can’t publish without admin approval.
• Editor — Create and publish Arcades.
• Admin — Full access to everything.
• Billing user — Manage payments and seats.

You can have different roles across different teams, and every enterprise workspace now comes with free viewer seats, making it easy for everyone to benefit from Arcade.

Reach out to your account exec to get set up, and big thanks to Ben and Lucy for driving RBAC forward.

What We've Been Up To

If the changelog is a little quiet this week, it's because we have a bunch of things (like a big bunch of things!) cooking to share in a week or two. Keep your eyes peeled! For now, we'll just share some Really Nice Improvements(TM) and Really Nice Bug Fixes(TM) to make your lives easier.

Really Nice Improvements

We’ve shipped a few thoughtful touches to make your workflow easier:

• The desktop app remembers your previous recording mode, so re-recording is quicker.
• You can now set a language in your share link, so viewers see localized content right away — perfect for sending Arcades to customers in their native language.
• Arcades in Collections now fill more space (less tiny, more immersive).‍
• Mobile editing is smoother: proper autoplay behavior, background support, and button logic.

Really Nice Bug Fixes

• Replay button no longer overlaps the viewer layout.
• Hotspots no longer get stuck to the top of the stage.
• Player controls only appear on hover — as intended.
• Adding a button to a mobile step now disables autoplay automatically (just like hotspots and callouts).
• Chrome mic input bugs are fixed — audio now records reliably when switching devices.
• Downloading a screenshot from a split video now works as expected.
• Company logos hosted via Clearbit now appear consistently.
• Access issues with domain-restricted Arcades are fixed — no more looping redirects.

So many fun things to share this week!

Share Panel, Redesigned

We’ve fully redesigned the Share panel to make it faster, clearer, and easier to manage who sees what. It’s now much easier to see what’s been shared externally vs. internally — and stay tuned,  more granular controls are on the way.

Huge thanks to Aleks for the clean new look and logic!

Chapter Buttons, Hotspots, and Callouts Linking to New Places

You can now link directly from one Arcade to another via chapter buttons. Build tours across products, stack use cases together, or just give your users a deeper dive.

Also: hotspots and callouts can now link to any URL — no more markdown fiddling required!

More eng work led by Aleks (who is usually a designer, but crushing engineering!)

Smarter AI Voiceovers

Need voiceovers across multiple steps? Now you can generate or remove them all at once — no more step-by-step clicking. We’ve also improved syncing, polished the UI, and made it easier to manage long Arcades. 

Massive improvement thanks to Simon!

Bugs & Improvements

• Player controls (fullscreen, CC, etc.) now only show on hover for a cleaner viewing experience.
• Cursor visibility in preview and editor now exactly matches your toggle settings.
• Arcade thumbnails no longer appear darker than the actual content.
• Translated voiceovers now generate automatically when you add a new language — no more clicking "AI Translate" step-by-step.
• Logos and buttons now reliably appear in Collections (they were disappearing for some users).
• Removed extra spacing in the /upload page header.

Nothing big this week, just continuous improvements to your Arcade experience!

No more stretched GIFs or videos

We fixed a rendering issue where videos and GIFs appeared stretched after the first step, even when previews looked perfect. This bug was tied to how Cover vs. Fit settings were handled during export.
Big thanks to Ben for the fix!

Better control over Pan & Zoom (PZ) layers

You can now drag PZ layers by clicking anywhere, not just on the tiny icon (and we removed that icon altogether for a cleaner timeline). This also applies to other timeline layers like camera recordings.
Shoutout to Lucy for the smoother interaction!

More intuitive video trimming

When your voiceover is longer than your video, the timeline still works perfectly — no more frozen tracks or missed clicks.
Another great upgrade from Lucy.

Improvements

• Admins can now delete any Arcade, even if they weren’t the original creator.
• In Enterprise workspaces, admins can now see each team member’s last login to make usage tracking easier.
  Both of these were shipped by Simon, his first week on the team!

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where headers, tooltips, and previews on mobile were overlapping or behaving inconsistently.
• Private collections and embedded Arcades now load with proper layout and margins.
• Exported GIFs now support both 720p and 4K, giving you sharper outputs.

We're back with another round of updates to make Arcade even more powerful for your team. This month brings some exciting improvements to how you create, customize, and share your content — plus several behind-the-scenes enhancements that'll make everything run smoother.

Mobile: Better recording, better viewing

You can now record your mobile screen using Arcade Desktop — just plug in your device and start capturing. We also refreshed the mobile viewing experience, with cleaner layouts and animations that make mobile Arcades feel polished and easy to follow.

Thank you Liisa for the amazing work here!

Video editing: Now smoother and more intuitive

Trimming clips feels more natural thanks to a smarter playhead, precise controls, and better post-trim behavior. These updates bring Arcade's video editor closer to the tools you already know (and we've got even more upgrades on the way).

Thank you to Lucy for taking on this on, and extra kudos for doing it as your first project at Arcade!

AI: Smarter tone, sharper output

Arcade's AI now skips irrelevant steps, writes better copy, and tailors CTAs and forms based on the tone you choose. The Sales tone will help you create the perfect Arcade for sales (with a form at the end for your prospects); the Marketing tone will automatically add a CTA. Whether you're in marketing or sales mode, Avery's gotten sharper, and your Arcades will feel more on-brand out of the box.

Thank you to Alex for this smart, helpful build!

Desktop Look Back: A huge leap forward

We posted about this (a lot), but Arcade Desktop is now much stronger: It supports video + mobile recording, area selection, and in-app AI to generate your hotspot copy. It's fast, reliable, and a great way to record Arcades outside of the browser.

Feature Improvements

Desktop & Mobile

• The Desktop app now remembers your last screen selection, so you can start recording even faster.
• You can now pause, restart, or abandon a recording mid-session on Desktop — more control, fewer do-overs.

Video Editing

• A new larger timeline mode lets you focus while editing without distraction.
• After trimming, your timeline now stays where you left it — no more unexpected jumps or zoom resets.
• You can now use a keyboard shortcut (CMD+B) to split video steps in the editor.

AI & Accessibility

• Translated captions from Mux are now fully supported — your videos will display in the right language automatically.
• Exported GIFs now render in both 720p and 4K.

Workspace & Sharing

• Workspace admins can now export a full list of team members.
• You'll now see member counts and visibility status in the Team Settings view.
• Enterprise customers can upload custom fonts to better match their brand.
• Users can now hide the header entirely on public share pages — for a cleaner, more focused viewer experience.

Infrastructure Improvements

As part of our mission to hit 100% upload reliability:

• Failed uploads in the Desktop app can now be retried manually.
• If needed, recordings are saved locally and can be uploaded later.
• We added automatic fallback logic to retry failed sessions.
• The upload flow now consistently reaches 100% success under normal conditions.

Bug Fixes

Video

• Arcades made up of only video steps will now play through correctly — no more skipping.
• Pan & Zoom layers can now be dragged and trimmed as expected.
• Fixed issue where double-clicking to trim would fail on video steps.
• Timeline no longer jumps when a voiceover is longer than the video.

Mobile

• Fixed issue where chapter preview images covered mobile text.
• On small screens, the mobile frame no longer overlaps your content.
• Tooltips now fit inside mobile demos built via the Figma integration.

Other

• Wrong voiceovers no longer play when switching languages.
• Private collections now display and load reliably.
• Collection item order now sticks when dragging and reordering.
• Step renaming is now applied more consistently.
• The Daily Leads Report has no more broken links anymore.
• Fixed awkward embed margins when Arcades are shared on external sites.

Highlight: Smoother editing, smarter trimming

We’re investing heavily in making Arcade’s video editing feel intuitive, precise, and frustration-free. This week brings two major upgrades to trimming!

While trimming:

• The playhead now stays in place while you adjust the trim handles, giving you more precise control.
• We added snap-to-playhead behavior to help you trim cleanly to key moments.
• These changes apply to all trimmable elements — steps, layers, and beyond.

After trimming:

• When you finish trimming, we no longer scroll you somewhere random or zoom out your entire timeline.
• Trimmed-off content is visually hidden, so your view stays clean. You can drag the trim handles to reveal trimmed off content.

These small changes add up to a dramatically better editing experience — and we’re not done yet. Thank you to Lucy for leading the charge on this work!

Improvements

• Desktop upload retries
  If a video upload fails in the Desktop app (which should only happen in rare exceptions), you can now click to retry it manually.
• Synthetic audio UX upgrade
  We fixed an issue where the play button didn’t appear correctly over generated audio text. Now, it’s clear where to click.

Bug Fixes

• Mobile: Safari background repeat
  Backgrounds were repeating unexpectedly on Safari mobile. That’s been fixed.
• “Hide from Nav” bug
  When using autoplay + hide from navigation, you couldn’t toggle a step back into the nav unless autoplay was disabled. That logic’s been untangled.
• Figma integration: Tooltip overflow on mobile
  Tooltips were spilling offscreen in mobile demos created via the Figma integration. We cleaned that up so they fit snugly, and you can keep syncing Figma mockups directly to Arcade.
• Video-only Arcades skipping steps
  Arcades with only video steps and no hotspots were skipping over steps unintentionally. That’s now fixed — all steps will play as expected.