Top Media Startups in 2024

Making television content more engaging by adding a comprehensive digital layer that allow television producers, anchors, and content creators to engage with their audiences while making the television experience truly dynamic and in real-time. Engagement takes place on the first screen, second screen and every screen via second screen apps, Facebook applications, Twitter, web applications, SMS and IVR support (ability to engage viewers through texting or calling a dedicated number). All from one centralized dashboard that integrates with on-air graphic software in real-time.

Wonderbly is a unique, award winning startup that lives on the intersection of storytelling, engineering, digital and print. We are building a new class of global publishing business that brings millions of people into our superbly high quality products - as co-creators and audiences - and in doing so empower them to build connections with each other. We’re calling it Personal Publishing and we believe it’s going to be massive. Our focus in the near future is with the children market where it all started - creating stunning, uncompromisingly high quality and technically ambitious personalised books for kids. You see, we’re not in the children’s book business. We’re in the business of sparking kids’ imaginations and inspiring boundless self-belief. That might sound a bit over the top, but we truly believe that imaginatively personalised stories are one of the greatest ways to make a child feel loved, unique and capable of anything.

Prose Media is a content writing service for businesses, helping to usher in the future of branded journalism. These days, every brand needs to be a publisher—but not everyone has the time to write. Prose Media can help. Powered by an industry-leading process and platform, a passionate editorial staff, and a network of 1,000+ elite, handpicked journalists and copywriters, Prose makes it easy for innovative brands to get professionally-crafted content—from blog posts and articles to white papers and social media. Content creation, solved. Learn how the process works for our clients: prosemedia.com/how-it-works

The Athletic Coup was born out of a desire to uncover the hidden gems of the sports world, including motivational amateur athlete stories and niche sports. Through the lens of cinema, the film festival brings to life the passion, dedication and triumphs of athletes from all walks of life, inspiring audiences to dream big and strive for greatness.

The Tangent-Bound Media Network is developing a new streaming series and is looking for producers. The Tangent-Bound Media Network is growing into a media network that includes services such as commercials, voice over work, digital content creation and some new and upcoming web series. We are a very close-knit organization that strives to grow through our passions and partnerships.

Node is a mobile platform that allows consumer brands to outsource custom video and photo production while compensating creators for the licensing rights to their content. Our technology profiles brands and creators to automate matching and streamline the content-creation workflow. The result, a content engine that produces a wide array of high-quality branded photos and videos.

ScalePost.ai is building a next-generation platform to connect LLMs and AI Agents directly with content owners to use their content or data. We facilitate partnerships between content owners and GenAI companies, transforming how content is licensed, monetized, and deployed. We work with over 100 leading publishers including Time, Entrepreneur, Texas Tribune and others. We’re working with Fortune 10 AI companies, as well as AI agents (including our exclusive partnership with Perplexity.ai) to help them seamlessly access content. We are backed by top-tier investors and advisors from E14 Fund, Quiet Capital, Tenacity Ventures, the Ex-CEO of Fast Company & Inc. Magazine, ex. Chief Data Officer of Hulu and co-founders of transformative AI technologies like Siri.

Word on the Block is the leading influencer marketing platform, connecting brands with the world's top social media influencers on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and more. We offer a suite of services to help brands identify, connect with, and activate influencers to create authentic, engaging content that drives results for a fraction of the cost. Brands can filter their selection across dozens of filters with thousands of creators already signed up and an acquisition team that will ensure we find the creators you need. The platform that propels your brand across the social sphere.

OTT - Over The Top Internet

Elsewhere is a tool and an inspiration engine built for saving and sharing places. The product is modeled around existing behaviors performed when sourcing where to go. The initial offering is an invite-only iOS app that aggregates places into bespoke lists from trusted editorial, brands and creators. We galvanize the creating, curating and sharing of map points by transforming geotags into a trusted social graph, making them valuable, inspiring and rewarding.