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Conversant and the art of remembering you
One shopper. Several screens. A very expensive case of mistaken identity. Conversant built its advertising business around joining the dots - and making the resulting sales count.
Yellow Stone and the art of the second visit
Getting a player to click is one job. Yellow Stone brings payments, marketing, analytics and customer care into the much longer business of getting them to return.
Warrior Plus and the price of a click
A digital product needs someone to sell it. Warrior Plus built a marketplace around that simple problem - and a system for deciding who gets paid, how much, and when.
CJ and the price of a recommendation
A sale has many helpers. CJ connects brands with the publishers and creators who influence a purchase, then tackles the awkward business of deciding who gets paid.
ClickBank made the sale. Who gets the money?
A product, an audience, and a very particular split of the proceeds. Inside the Boise company that turns other people’s selling skills into an e-commerce business.
Dub makes every link accountable.
A short link is easy. Knowing what it earned is harder. Dub connects the click, the customer and the commission - and turns a small piece of the web into a working business tool.
Hotmart made knowledge a business.
A tiny ebook sale in Belo Horizonte exposed a much bigger problem: getting paid for what you know. Hotmart built the machinery around that moment.
The playbook changed. So did they.
The Authority Hacker Podcast made its name teaching people to win at search. Its next act asks a harder question: which parts of your business can AI actually run?
Niche Pursuits makes the experiment the business
Spencer Haws turned his online business experiments into a publishing company. Its most useful lessons begin where the easy-money story falls apart.
Aspire makes influencer marketing less of a juggling act
A creator can sell your product, supply your next ad, and become a long-term partner. Aspire builds the machinery that lets a small marketing team manage all three.
The Game Day turns the group chat into a business
Sports fans arrive for the jokes. Sportsbooks pay for the introductions. Inside the media company that puts entertainment, betting tools and advertiser-funded production on the same team.
Purch: the publisher that put a price on indecision
A product review is a small intervention in a large shopping bill. Purch built a business around that moment, then sold its consumer operation to Future for an announced $132.5 million.
Affinity Global finds money in the overlooked click
A browser shortcut. A misspelled address. A broken shopping link. Affinity Global has built a business around the small moments that advertising tends to overlook.
Later and the distance between a like and a sale
A tool born to schedule Instagram posts now wants to follow influence all the way to checkout. Its acquisitions tell a story about the awkward gap between being admired and getting paid.
Adteractive and the Price of Free
Adteractive turned online attention into customers for advertisers. Its history exposes the awkward distance between a lead that can be counted and a customer who actually wants to be there.
Become.com Built a Better Shopping Engine. Distribution Sent the Bill.
It crawled billions of pages to separate shopping research from shopping itself. Then Become.com learned the less romantic law of comparison engines: the best answer is worthless until someone can afford to put it in front of a buyer.
The Napkin That Became a Network
LinkUnite began with a list of women written at a hotel bar. Its wager is that a smaller room, a useful introduction and a reason to return can outperform the conference badge.
The Influencer Agency That Put the Whole Feed Under One Roof
The creator business grew up in pieces: agents here, media buyers there, events somewhere else. The Digital Dept. is Dolphin Entertainment's bet that the useful advantage is no longer another specialist - it is one room where all the specialists can actually talk.
Gen3 Marketing and the Sale That Was Going to Happen Anyway
Affiliate marketing has always had a small philosophical problem: who deserves credit for a purchase? Gen3 built a global agency by turning that argument into an operating discipline.
Push The Envelope PR and the Press Clipping With a Sales Receipt
A boutique agency spent two decades learning that a press hit is not the finish line. Its wager now is that the useful part of PR begins when somebody clicks, searches - or buys.
The Gear Whisperers Who Learned to Speak Algorithm
Verde spent nearly 25 years learning that a good gear story cannot stop at a magazine review. It must survive the shop floor, the creator feed, the affiliate link, the search box - and now the machine answering the question.
The Agency That Treats Every Growth Problem Like a Rubik’s Cube
Rubix Agency built its reputation by refusing to confuse a marketing channel with a growth strategy. Its most interesting work begins when the obvious lever stops working.
The Booking Desk That Learned to Sell Attention
Pace Public Relations began with a producer who knew why pitches get deleted. Sixteen years later, that newsroom instinct has become a compact agency built to put credible people into the conversation while the conversation is still happening.
Crafted Communications Put PR on the Income Statement
The Los Angeles agency built its pitch around a blunt idea: earned media should carry trust, then prove what that trust did for the business.
Dreamday Put a Cash Register Behind the Press Clipping
Lauren Kleinman saw two agencies chasing the same editor and asking different questions. Dreamday’s answer was to make a press hit carry both a story and a sales receipt.
The Influencer Agency That Put 50,000 Creators Through a Filter
Hello There Collective built an agency around a useful suspicion: a large following is not the same thing as influence. Its answer is part talent network, part content studio and part performance-marketing lab.
The PR Firm Named for a Woman and Her Chocolate Labrador
Brown + Dutch has spent three decades making unfamiliar products legible. Its method begins with a buyer, a vivid phrase and a stubborn belief that publicity should show its arithmetic.
Maven PR Wants the Press Hit to Ring the Register
Most small brands buy publicity too soon and measure it too vaguely. Jess Windell built Maven around a sharper question: can a story earn trust and help sell the thing?
ECHOS takes the press release outside
A camping chair can belong in a fashion story. A bike launch can become a field test. ECHOS builds the encounters that help outdoor brands escape their usual audience.
OutsidePR knows the story starts before the starting gun
A missing bicycle, a three-year podcast pitch, and a running brand’s 17-month entrance. Inside the outdoor PR agency that makes preparation part of the publicity.