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Jul 21, 2015

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A programmatic content solution for brand marketers.

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Loyal Audience

ELEVATOR PITCH

Further PubMarketers

Optimizing Owned Media for Brands.Our on-demand publishing solutions help content strategists

build loyal audiences with hyper-targeted news coverage.

+ =Branded Content Editorial Newsfeeds Brand Authenticity

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MARKET CHALLENGE

Social Channels Are Increasingly Paid Media.

PaidMedia

EarnedMedia

You’ve got to boost each post to reach your audience.

STRANGERS CUSTOMERS FANS

OwnedMedia

Promotions Social accounts + publications Buzz

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Where would you rather send your audience?

11.5K Likes

Lacks context & generates little loyalty. Authentic editorial that brings readers back.

A Better Home for Your Content.OUR SOLUTION

OwnedMedia

PaidMedia

PaidMedia

PAGE PUB

EarnedMedia

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Content Strategy, Meet Publishing Strategy.Our publishing hubs, or Pubs, are collaborative digital exchanges.

PROGRAMMATIC NEWSROOMS

Pub

Pubs turn content management into newsroom management, providing strategists with simple tools to manage authentic owned media.

Syndicates

Build dynamic, on-demand coverage that contextualizes your brand stories.

Social Filing

Contributing is easy & social tagging introduces human targeting.

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Syndicates

Publishers embed their ad solutions with their content & referrals, growing

audience & revenues.

Food Business

Science Travel

Mobilizing The Sharing Economy.We eliminate payment headaches with page-sharing.

Pubs

HOW IT WORKS

We manage & monetize category feeds, which eliminates SaaS fees.

Marketers manage & monetize pubs, organizing syndicates

into collective reach.

Innovation Health

Networks

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For a subscription fee, which we distribute to authenticating syndicates, IBM owns the /digits promotion stream.

Syndicates monetize referral fees, original posts and click-throughs to their site, blending big and small media into an authentic editorial experience.

Paid media, syndicate referrals & WOM grow audience at social scale.

USE CASE

Sponsored Pub

OwnedMedia

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IBM gets: • Brand authenticity, • Marketing efficiency, and • Customer loyalty.

Syndicates get: • New revenues, • Extended audience, and • Enhanced social

distribution.

Readers get: • Smart, targeted news, • Localized content, and • An authentic brand

experience.

USE CASE

Sponsored Pub

PaidMedia

The end result: More efficient spending.

Facebook, AdWords

Audience acquisition Audience retention

OwnedMedia

EarnedMedia

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Branded content: • Organic foods • Health & lifestyle brands

Target audience: • 5% of the US population

USE CASE

SharedPub

Branded content: • Local companies • National brands

Target audience: • Local technology market

USE CASE

Local Pub

Branded content: • Pharma companies • Health & lifestyle brands

Target audience: • 3M Americans + families

USE CASE

Cause Pub

Programmatic newsrooms

Major media Specialty media Pro blogger Community blogger

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Content needs a better distribution model.WHY NOW

TRADITIONAL MEDIA

1450 - ?

SOCIAL MEDIA

2002 - now

SYNDICATED MEDIA

2010 - now

PROGRAMMATIC MEDIA

2015 —>

As readership coalesces around digitally optimized platforms, we’ve automated all but media’s most essential task: telling great stories.

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WHY NOW REALLY

Your Facebook page isn’t working.Brands spend $40B+ producing & distributing content. Per Forrester, now that “Facebook has finally announced the end of organic social marketing …two of the most important things brands can do are… • Add social relationship tools to

your own site… • Stop making Facebook the center

of relationship marketing.” (Click here for report)

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An Untapped Publishing ResourceWHY CONTENT STRATEGISTS?

54,000Newspaper & magazine jobs

lost from 2003 - 2013

Content strategists oversee the branded content marketplace, can organize more comprehensive coverage than traditional publishers and

provide a working revenue engine for hyper-targeted content.

$40B+Branded content

marketplaceAnnual billings for agencies where former

journalists now drive content strategy

$340B

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The Next Generation in Content.With $80K in accelerator funding, we’ve designed & tested a full-stack

network powered by page-sharing, automated aggregation & local filtering.

PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY

Fully responsive front-end, with adaptive river-view newsfeeds.

A cloud-based suite of newsroom management & promotion tools.

An easy-to-personalize news reader that scales.