Our Clients

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Developed and launched a Minimum Viable Product for a platform that connects Arab professionals with community services and events.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Developed and launched a newsletter product, achieving a 60% open rate and securing its first sponsorship.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Monetized its existing newsletter, securing 5 paid clients.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Enhanced operations and internal processes as a startup by developing a content library, outreach strategies and structured workflows.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Launched a newsletter targeting Evanston parents, establishing 10,000 subscribers, and integrated the publication’s advertising pipelines.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Improved Austin Weekly News to better serve its audience, generating a 10% increase in newsletter subscribers.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Increased pickup rate from 50% to 75% while streamlining distribution from 200+ sites to 40 high-priority locations.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Aligned podcast content with researched audience news consumption habits, resulting in over 300 unique podcast downloads in the 90 days following these changes.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Leaned into the publication’s established YouTube presence, refining and integrating its content strategies across platforms to better serve its local audience.

Our Clients | 2025

Success: Expanded coverage to include Highland Park, gaining 80 new paid annual subscribers and 720 free newsletter subscribers, which allowed the publication to hire a dedicated Highland Park reporter.

Our Clients | 2024

Success: Utilized the outlet’s new field canvassing program to more than double monthly subscribers.

Our Clients | 2024

Success: Grew loyal readers in Illinois between the ages of 18 to 24 by 45%, and its social presence in this same age group by 22%. Acquired 2,000 new subscribers for a pilot-text messaging program.

Our Clients | 2024

Success: Analyzed street-level distribution of magazines to establish target-neighborhoods in need of increased magazine boxes. Placed 30 additional boxes, and increased copies distributed by 43%, within the seven identified target neighborhoods on the South and West Sides of Chicago.

Our Clients | 2024

Success: Developed the outlet’s first-ever media kit and sold its first sponsorship as a part of the Madrino/Padrino Program that serves to connect Cicero Independiente with local businesses to form a mutually beneficial partnership.

Our Clients | 2024

Success: Went from a years-long trend of losing subscribers to consecutive quarters of subscriber growth and made strides toward establishing papers under the Shaw umbrella as a must-have resource rather than simply a casual read.

Our Clients | 2024

Success: Continued to grow the reach of its recently launched LGBTQ events-focused newsletter, Chicago Social Butterflies, The outlet exceeded all its goals for the project, including subscribers (22% over projection), open rate (exceeded by 10%) and Instagram followers (over 57% over goal).

Our Clients | 2024

Success: Launched a new digital product, The Daily Chicagoan newsletter, through which the outlet grew its mailing list by 29% and increased open rates by 28%.

Our Clients | 2023

Success: Now have more comprehensive data about potential audiences that has allowed for more specific profiles of discrete audience segments the news organization can serve.

Our Clients | 2023

Success: Gained invaluable insight into the organization’s audience that allowed Crain’s to craft a more strategic vision for the site’s Data Center.

Our Clients | 2023

Success: Added two new sports columns and a Suburban Families newsletter that had a 47 percent open rate and gained over 600 subscribers by the end of the Accelerator.

Our Clients | 2023

Success: Reimagined the outlet’s existing impact tracker to be more user-friendly and efficient, with a more concise list of impact types based on researched industry standards.

Our Clients | 2023

Success: Revamped newsletter to appeal to a larger portion of the outlet’s digital audience via more engaging content and compelling photos.