Top Digital Media Startups in 2026

Jellyvision helps companies explain their important (but maybe kind of complex) messages in a delightful way. We create virtual salespeople, brokers, guidance counselors, HR reps, and teachers, who have fun, personalized conversations with your customers and employees and help them understand confusing or snooze-inducing topics. Our most famous virtual helper is ALEX, America’s best-selling and most-trusted standalone benefits decision support tool. Used by hundreds of companies (including 30 in the Fortune 500), ALEX helps millions of employees make smarter decisions that save them—and their employers—surprising amounts of time and money.

Founded in 2013, MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning producer of educational media for the digital generation. The company's flagship product, MarcoPolo World School, is an Emmy-nominated STEAM + literacy learning program that features a robust library of over 500 video lessons and thousands of learning activities for children ages 3-7. The characters in MarcoPolo World School, The Polos, were designed to engage children in early learning subjects and critical 21st century skills development. The Polos television series is also broadcast globally on leading channels such as Discovery Family (USA), BT TV (UK), NatGeo Kids (LatAm), Viacom (India), YouKu (China), reaching over 500 millions households. The company is headquartered in London with offices in New York and Shanghai.

We combine expert curation and unmatched value to connect readers with books they’ll love. We believe that discovering, buying, marketing, and selling books online should always be an easy, joyful experience. We lean into two key concepts – expert curation and unmatched value – to build innovative products and tools that get the right books into the right hands. Our teams at BookBub and Chirp have helped the publishing industry drive hundreds of millions of dollars in ebook and audiobook sales worldwide – and every day, millions of readers turn to us for help finding books they’ll love.

TextNow is based around a simple idea: Communication belongs to everyone. We work hard to help people stay connected with free phone service. textnow.com

Everyone sees the world in different ways. That’s what makes the world worth exploring. Learning and thinking differences, like dyslexia, ADHD, and dysgraphia, affect 1 in 5 people in the U.S. But resources and support are scarce and life can feel like it’s set up for a normal that doesn’t exist. People get left behind without the right opportunities, and when that happens we all miss out. We offer tools, support, and community to people who learn and think differently, and the people around them. Our focus is making real, positive impact at important moments in someone’s journey. We aim to empower as many people as possible: at home, at school, and at work. Founded in 2014, Understood’s mission is to support the 1 in 5 children with learning and thinking differences. Understood remains a free resource that aims to help everyone - regardless of difference - thrive.

Having a baby is one of the biggest life changes people face. Babylist makes this journey to parenthood less overwhelming. We empower new parents and connect them to their village. Our baby registry is used by 20% of expecting families in the United States (and growing). In 2016 there were $100,000,000 of gifts given of of our registries. Our users love Babylist. We are continuing to create useful content and tools that help our users through pregnancy to parenthood.

ATTN: is an issues-driven media company. Our mission is to deliver engaging content to a mobile-first audience. Every day we produce videos, articles and commentary telling stories worth your attention. At our core, we believe in informing people to make a social impact. Through compelling, issue-driven content, we strive to engender greater participation in communities, the political process and the world around us.

So, what is Storyblocks? Put simply, Storyblocks is your one-stop-shop for high quality stock media at a fraction of the cost. We’re the same artist-friendly company that we’ve always been, but now we have even more to offer the creative community. With unique video, image, and audio Member Libraries—plus Marketplace content for both footage and photos—all the building blocks for amazing stories are right here.

Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) operates the leading real estate and home-related information marketplaces on mobile and the Web, with a complementary portfolio of brands and products that help people find vital information about homes, and connect with the best local professionals. Zillow's brands serve the full lifecycle of owning and living in a home: buying, selling, renting, financing, remodeling and more. In addition, Zillow offers a suite of tools and services to help local real estate, mortgage, rental and home improvement professionals manage and market their businesses. Welcoming nearly 79 million unique users in April 2014, the Zillow, Inc. portfolio includes Zillow.com®, Zillow Mobile, Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, Zillow Rentals, Zillow Digs®, Postlets®, Diverse Solutions®, Agentfolio®, Mortech®, HotPads™ and StreetEasy®.The company is headquartered in Seattle.

Stacker is a data-driven newsroom creating and distributing engaging, research-based journalism to thousands of news outlets across the country. Stacker focuses on storytelling through data, using authoritative research and expert analysis to contextualize the news. Our Studio offers a newsroom service and turn-key content marketing solution for companies, natively producing and distributing unique, data-driven stories on their behalf. Today, Stacker stories are read by millions of users each month, both on Stacker.com and across our growing syndication network of world-class news outlets, including Newsweek, MSN, Hearst, Tribune Publishing, and Lee Enterprises.