Top Media Startups in 2027

Grocery TV is a digital advertising network that helps brands reach their audience using point-of-sale and kiosk displays across multiple in-store locations and high-traffic retail categories such as grocery, home improvement, convenience, and pharmacy. Our long-term vision is to make it easy for advertisers to reach their audience at key points along the in-store shopping journey. Learn more about how we've helped brands connect in over 6,000 locations across the U.S. at grocerytv.com.

Magellan AI empowers publishers, agencies and brands to succeed in the rapidly changing world of podcast advertising. Using machine learning, Magellan AI analyzes ads read by hosts of over 30,000 podcasts. We help connect leading brands such as SimpliSafe and Babbel with leading publishers such as The New York Times and ESPN by providing visibility into the market.

Orange Logic is an international software company. We develop a web application called Cortex that manages and licenses large-scale media libraries for multinational organizations across all industry sectors (United Nations, BBC, Greenpeace, Etsy, etc). Cortex is one of the best DAM (Digital Asset Management) tools on the market today.

SkyGrid is your very own custom news, on iPad, iPhone and Android. With over 20k 4.5 star reviews in the App Store the product speaks for itself. SkyGrid uses semantic based search with sentiment analysis to determine the best content for you. The only real custom news source on the web that uses over 100k sources to provide you with great content with no human intervention.

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.

Curacity has built a content and data driven marketplace serving the travel industry. Using proprietary technology, its products help hotels reach and monetize travelers at the critical point of inspiration, while enabling publishers to earn OTA-like commissions for hotel bookings catalyzed by their content within a 12-month window. Surface Hotels is an online hotel booking platform committed to curating hotels that match the interests of members of the art & design community.

Fancam is an extreme high resolution, interactive, 360º image that allows fans at sport and entertainment events to find and tag themselves in the crowd. Fans love pictures of themselves at events they care about. Brands love to be associated with content loved by fans.

As an integral member of the Canadian broadcast and advertising industry, we employ rigorous methodologies to provide broadcasters, agencies, advertisers, and other professionals with essential audience insights and have long been recognized for providing the gold standard in audience intelligence.

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.

Smart AdServer is the only independent full-stack ad technology platform in programmatic and direct sales dedicated to the sell side. Our unique holistic approach gives control back to publishers allowing them to innovate and optimize all their monetization channels across all formats -- display, rich media, native and video -- and on all screens.