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3BL Bought the Neighborhood. Now It Wants to Measure the Conversation.
The Northampton company spent years assembling the specialist outlets of responsible business. Its next wager is that corporate reputation can be distributed, benchmarked and even read through the eyes of an AI.
The Press Release Learned to Buy Its Own Audience
iCrowdNewswire took the vaguest number in public relations - potential reach - and replaced it with an ad campaign you can count. The bet is simple: a press release should not merely exist online; it should find the people who might care.
The $70 Promise to Put a Small Company Everywhere at Once
Pinion Newswire sells a wonderfully concrete answer to an abstract problem: one announcement, hundreds of placements, and a report showing where every copy landed. The interesting part is what its guarantee does - and does not - buy.
EveryoneSocial Spent 14 Years Turning the Employee Repost Into an Enterprise Growth Channel
Corporate social posts are easy to ignore. EveryoneSocial built a business on the wager that employees can travel farther - if companies give them useful content, room for a human voice and numbers the CFO can inspect.
Roku Sold the Box Cheap - Then Bought the Most Valuable Seat in Your Living Room
Roku won television by treating the streaming player as a ticket, not the show. Its cheap hardware bought a place on more than 100 million home screens - and turned a canceled Netflix project into an advertising and distribution machine Fox now wants to own.
The Cincinnati Company Betting That Your Employee Newsletter Should Read Like a Feed, Not a Blast
Cerkl Broadcast turns the corporate all-staff email into a personalized feed - one AI-curated digest per employee. Here's how a self-taught coder from Cincinnati built it, who's buying it, and where the whole bet could break.
The Red 18: How Reliance's Newsroom Empire Prints, Broadcasts and Streams a Billion People
It started as a scrappy business-TV outfit in 1993. Three decades and one Reliance takeover later, Network18 runs the newsrooms, markets terminals and regional screens that a large share of India wakes up to.
NBCUniversal’s Second Century Runs Through the Fandom Machine
The company that helped teach America to watch television now has to make broadcast, streaming, cinema and theme parks behave like one business. Its advantage is not a single screen - it is the loop between them.
ScorePlay
ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset management platform built specifically for the sports industry. It centralizes photos, videos and live broadcast content into one system, then uses computer vision and facial recognition to automatically tag athletes, sponsors and moments so teams, leagues and federations can find and distribute content in seconds instead of hours. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, ScorePlay is used by 200+ sports organizations worldwide and raised a $13M Series A in February 2025.
Matador Network
Matador Network is a San Francisco-based travel media company founded in 2006 that publishes original stories, videos, and city guides for modern, adventure-minded travelers. Bootstrapped from an $11,000 start into one of the world's largest independent travel brands, its content reaches well over 100 million people a month across web and social. In 2023 it launched GuideGeek, a free OpenAI-powered travel assistant that answers questions inside Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger, and now licenses white-label versions of that AI to tourism boards and destination marketing organizations worldwide.
ManageXR
ManageXR is a San Francisco device management platform built specifically for virtual and augmented reality hardware. It lets organizations enroll, lock down, distribute apps to, monitor, and remotely control fleets of headsets - Meta Quest, PICO, HTC Vive, and more - from a single console. Born out of a Stanford children's-hospital VR deployment, it now serves 2,000+ organizations across 120+ countries in education, healthcare, enterprise training, and beyond.
Rizzle
Rizzle is an AI video creation, distribution, and monetization platform that turns written content - articles, blogs, newsletters and scripts - into polished, brand-safe videos in minutes. Built for publishers, media companies and content creators, it pairs generative AI drafting with human editorial refinement and pre-licensed assets from Getty Images, ElevenLabs and Soundstripe, then syndicates the finished videos across platforms like MSN, Yahoo and NewsBreak. Founded in 2019 by Vidya Narayanan and Lakshminath Dondeti, Rizzle began as a consumer short-video social app that grew to tens of millions of users before pivoting to an enterprise SaaS model for video-first content at scale.
NewForm
NewForm is a New York-based creative intelligence company that pairs an in-house creative studio with proprietary software called Framework. It makes paid social ads at scale - roughly 2,500 assets a month written, shot, and edited by people - runs them in market, and turns every result into a living map of what works for a brand. Founded by Hamza Alsamraee, Andrew Presser, and Alec Velikanov, NewForm puts strategists, producers, and engineers under one roof to close the gap between creative and media for performance teams.
ODK Media
ODK Media is a Fullerton, California-based media group that brings Asian entertainment to global audiences. Founded in 2011, it began as OnDemandKorea, the first legal Korean streaming service for North America, and has grown into a multi-platform operator running OnDemandKorea, OnDemandChina, OnDemandViet and the pan-Asian FAST service Amasian TV. The company licenses, localizes and distributes Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese dramas, movies, variety shows, news and live sports to viewers across more than 36 countries, blending AVOD, SVOD and free ad-supported TV with its own ODX back-end technology and AI-powered subtitling and dubbing.