Top Media Startups in 2024

We have built the first automated exchange for digital place-based media. Agencies can plan, execute, and optimize media buys through a single interface.

GlobalWebIndex is a data company headquartered in London that provides audience profiling data across 42 countries to the world's largest brands, marketing agencies and media organizations. We maintain a global panel of more than 18 million connected consumers which we leverage to create 20000 data points to profile internet users around the world. Our industry-leading clients including Twitter, Google, Spotify, WPP, IPG and Omnicom Group can gather in-depth insights into audience behaviours, perceptions and interests through a combination of survey and analytics data using the GlobalWebIndex platform. Since launching in 2009, GlobalWebIndex has become one of the UK’s fastest-growing data technology companies, renewing 97%+ of our client base and doubling in size and revenue year on year. As we continue to innovate and expand, we are always on the lookout for the best talent to help us re-engineer data-driven marketing for the digital age.

Tatari is the leading technology platform for utilizing data and analytics to measure and buy ads across linear and connected TV. We understand the complexities that come with getting starting in TV advertising and we give brand marketers the transparency and ability optimize just like they would with a digital campaign. Tatari utilizes a proprietary data science methodology to show the true incremental lift from an ad campaign which helps brands better attribute their sales and invest in high performing inventory sources. Hundreds of brands, old and new to TV advertising, use Tatari’s measurement and media buying technology. Our team includes founders or leaders from other fast-rising companies, like Shazam, TrueCar, Crunchyroll, Vizify, LiveRail, LKQD as well as from more established large companies like Google, Facebook, and Stripe. We are not comprised of agency folks—most of us are engineers and data scientists by training, and we’re building the best solution in the industry. We have been recognized with awards for "best places to work" by both AdAge and Inc Magazine for 2020.

Flatlay is the end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, creatives & customers. We provide publishing tools that help anyone start a digital storefront in seconds codelessly while empowering brands and retailers to activate community and content loyalty programs. The platform has automation processes around product annotation and content delivery through a publishing scheduler helping both ends monetize the relationship. By aligning incentives with customers, fans and followers - we help to instill a Content Loyalty Program for brands to become digitally native and own the DTC relationship. Flatlay provides a suite of publishing tools allowing users to codelessly create a digital storefront in seconds. Through content driven commerce, the social marketplace network further empowers the creator economy. Users build shop-able collections to generate revenue from affiliate sales with the ability to be sponsored directly by brands for customized content. This is all done through an automated SaaS platform where brands & retailers tap into the campaign work-flow system. Clients effectively match with the right creative brand advocates at scale using the power of machine learning in a self-serve custom relationship management portal. Our vision is to evolve the way commerce is conducted online by removing intermediaries cutting into margins while empowering brands and retailers the most streamlined way to go direct to consumer. By building a social commerce marketplace, we evolve the way that e-commerce is done by placing content at the forefront and eliminating many of the headaches associated with logistics.

ZoomInfo is a leading business information provider offering real-time, in-depth profiles of 65 million businesspeople and six million businesses as well as the most powerful tools for searching and targeting.

50% of Americans believe news media is actively trying to mislead them. Two out of three report being worn out by the news. And while people enjoy the convenience of getting news from social media, almost half complain that the news they find there is inaccurate. At Nuprizm, our mission is to power the search for truth by dissecting bias in the news through the fusion of AI-powered insights and public sentiment. We aim to guide users from curiosity to understanding by providing a cohesive journey from fast, accurate summaries to deep, data-driven insights from both our media insight engine and other high information citizens. Our platform deconstructs source material, analyzing media bias, propaganda, misinformation, narrative generation, contested language, framing, factual consistency, and millions of other parameters across the broader media ecosystem. We’re creating a space for users to measure their own knowledge, engage with other informed citizens, and hold media organizations accountable in an effort to foster transparency in the news ecosystem. We are a lean, remote-first organization using the latest technologies to build an ambitious roadmap. If you're excited about this space and believe you have the experience and discipline to excel at an early stage start-up, we'd love to hear from you! Note: we can not sponsor work visas for job applicants at this time.

At AKQA we are trusted to work on prestigious assignments for many of the world’s most respected companies, families and institutions. At the same time, we are fortunate to receive industry-leading endorsement for the quality of our work, innovation and thinking. Our consistent track record of results achieved for clients have set our firm apart. While the clients we serve and the recognition we receive is a privilege and an honour, there is a responsibility on each of us to ensure our intentions and everyday actions are representative of our Purpose and Values. Many of us joined AKQA inspired by the potential our values envision and the behaviours we uphold and respect. Our founding purpose and values guide our work and the philosophy of our firm.

Jaxon dramatically increases AI project success rates, fosters collaboration, increases staff efficiency, and continuously learns what works and when. Through R&D efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, Jaxon has created a way of simulating model system performance and getting the design right the first time. By formalizing the AI design process, design tradeoffs are able to be explored. It allows all talent levels to quickly and easily create, test, and iterate on AI system designs without the need for extensive coding or data preparation. It uses an AI-powered ‘Fact Checker’ to address the hallucination problem and bring trust into the output of large language models (LLMs). As a pre-trained Data Science Agent, Jaxon makes decisions based on established conventions and guides users to the right design. Rather than requiring the developer to specify every detail of how the application should work, this approach makes it much easier and faster to build applications.

Melodia is a music search platform for content creators. We want to make it easier for the over 200 million content creators worldwide, whether they’re YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagram users, game developers, or film producers, to find the song that best fits their content.

Scribie is AI for audio/video transcription. We convert recordings of interviews, meetings, calls, webinars, podcasts, etc. to text with very high accuracy. Our service is used mostly by market researchers, videographers, podcasters, journalists, authors, etc. The big problem with audio/video transcription is that majority of the work is done manually as computers are not very good at conversational speech, yet. We have built a online system where we crowdsource the transcripts from home based freelancers and use a 4-step process to achieve high accuracy. We also use AI based tools to increase the productivity of our transcribers. We are faster, better and more efficient than our competitors.