Scopely is hiring to forecast "launch/IP halo" and organic demand and to take unannounced titles through announcement and launch. Those announcements will be published in a newsroom that machines cannot read: its script data holds 490 articles, but the HTML crawlers and AI assistants receive says "There are no articles." with no links, the sitemap has 12 URLs and no article pages, and each article page carries only its headline, sometimes garbled ("MONOPOLY GO. Turns to a record breaking Phenomenon"). Press wins like Best Publisher 2026 and the $5 billion MONOPOLY GO! milestone are invisible outside the browser.
First action
Fetch /en/news without JavaScript and list what a crawler sees.
How to measure it
News articles indexed in Google
- Now
- –
- Target
- 450 of 490
- By
- 60 days
Steps
Confirm the gap
Fetch the newsroom and three articles without JavaScript.
Web team (scopely.com) 1 hour
Server-render
List and article bodies in the HTML.
Web team (scopely.com) 1 week
Sitemaps
All articles plus a news sitemap; submit both.
Web team (scopely.com) 1 day
Structured data
NewsArticle with date, image and author.
Web team (scopely.com) 2 days
Fix titles
Rewrite garbled titles and descriptions.
Communications team 3 days
Share images
og:image on every article.
Web team (scopely.com) 2 days
Measure
Indexed pages, impressions and AI answers for announcements.
Performance Marketing Manager, Forecasting & Market Intelligence monthly
Why it works
Render the newsroom list and article bodies on the server (Next.js already supports it), add every article to the sitemap plus a news sitemap, give each article NewsArticle structured data, a correct title and description, and a share image. Then check what Google and AI assistants return for "Scopely news" and the last five announcements.
Announcements earn links, search results and AI citations only if their text is in the page. This is the free half of the launch halo the forecasting team is asked to model, and it needs one rendering change, not new content.
Ready to use
ChecklistNewsroom indexing fix
[ ] Newsroom list in server HTML with links [ ] Article bodies in server HTML [ ] All 490 articles in sitemap.xml [ ] News sitemap for the last 48 hours [ ] NewsArticle structured data [ ] Correct titles and descriptions [ ] og:image per article [ ] Search Console coverage check after 2 weeks
Risks and how to handle them
Rendering change slows pages
Use static generation for articles.
Old articles surface
Keep them; they show 15 years of history.
Evidence
- Your websiteNewsroom: the page's script data holds 490 article links, but the HTML served to crawlers shows "There are no articles." and no links to them, and the sitemap lists 12 URLs in all with no article pages. Article pages carry only the headline in their HTML, and some titles are garbled, e.g. "MONOPOLY GO. Turns to a record breaking Phenomenon | Scopely" for "$5 billion, millions of Tycoons ... MONOPOLY GO! turns two".Source
- HiringPerformance Marketing Manager, Forecasting & Market Intelligence (Canada, posted September 24, 2026): forecasts for "upcoming Slate titles" through "testing, soft launch, and global launch"; "Support organic forecasting by developing assumptions around baseline organic demand, paid-driven lift, launch/IP halo, virality, and organic-to-paid ratios"; "Track competitor UA investment, creative trends, app-store movement".Source
- HiringUnannounced titles: a Creative Marketing Manager (UK or Barcelona, posted September 8, 2026) to "Create and adapt marketing creatives for game launches and live operations"; a Director of Community (US, posted September 3) to build community "through announcement, closed beta, soft launch, and worldwide launch" and "a global player feedback loop"; a Director, Performance Marketing for "a new, unannounced ARPG mobile game based on a major IP" (posted June 8).Source
- Your websiteNewsroom headlines: MONOPOLY GO! passed "$5 billion" by its second birthday (May 2025); "Pokémon Go studio Niantic rebrands to Scopely Explore"; "Scopely wins Best Publisher at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2026"; Barcelona grew "From five employees to 750"; Scopely took a majority stake in Istanbul's Loom Games, maker of Pixel Flow!; MONOPOLY GO!'s first Pets Season partnered with the ASPCA and RSPCA.Source