Gannett
VC Fund
Mclean, United States
Gannett is an international media and marketing solutions company and one of the largest, most geographically diverse local media companies in the U.S. Through its powerful network of broadcast, digital, mobile and print products, the company informs and engages more than 110 million people every month. The company’s portfolio of trusted brandsoffers marketers unmatched local-to-national reach and customizable, innovative marketing solutions across any platform. As a digital media leader, the company provides access to outstanding content on many different platforms and digital marketing services to businesses that help them use digital technology more effectively.Gannett’s iconic national brands, such as USA TODAY and CareerBuilder, as well as its unique local brands serving nearly 120 communities, set the company apart and provide a strong brand advantage. Gannett’s properties cover a wide range of geographies, demographics and content areas, which combine to form a uniquely powerful and comprehensive portfolio of offerings for consumers and commercial clients alike.Gannett owns or services through shared service agreements or other similar agreements 46 television stations. Excluding owner-operators, Gannett is the No. 1 NBC affiliate group; No. 1 CBS affiliate group; and the No. 4 ABC affiliate group. These stations cover 30% of the U.S. population in markets with nearly 35 million households.Following the acquisition of Belo Corp. in December 2013, Gannett became the largest independent TV station group of major network affiliates in the top 25 U.S. markets, with a strong, diversified portfolio. Each TV station also has a robust digital presence, including mobile, to reach consumers wherever they are.Overall, Gannett reaches more than 65 million unique visitors monthly or about 29 percent of the U.S. Internet audience via digital platforms, including CareerBuilder.com, USATODAY.com, USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties and digital platforms affiliated with its local media organizations across the country. USA TODAY is one of the most popular news sites and the USA TODAY app is a top news app with more than 19 million downloads to date across iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows and Kindle Fire. USA TODAY mobile traffic continues to grow as monthly visitors are now approximately 24 million.The company operates 82 U.S. daily publications, including USA TODAY, and 443 non-daily local publications in 30 states and Guam. USA TODAY ranks No. 1 in the industry in total daily circulation, according to the Alliance for Audited Media.Affiliated digital products of the company’s U.S. publications, including USA TODAY, reach more than 39 million unique visitors monthly. The print products reach more than 10 million readers every weekday and more than 12 million readers every Sunday. Together they provide critical news and information from neighborhoods, the nation and the globe.Gannett’s deeply rooted understanding of its communities and its local market relationships, many of which have spanned decades, provide access to content on more than 500 local mobile and tablet products and leading applications for iPad, iPhone, Kindle and Android. Through key acquisitions and partnerships, Gannett continues to accelerate its digital strategy.Gannett also helps businesses grow by providing marketing solutions that reach and engage their customers across the company’s diverse platforms. G/O Digital, Gannett’s digital marketing services organization, is a full-service media and marketing solutions company with a suite of best-in-class digital products. G/O Digital offers a one-stop shop of localized marketing solutions to national and small to medium-sized businesses. G/O Digital comprises Gannett’s full suite of digital marketing services, including marketing leaders Shoplocal, Key Ring, Deal Chicken and BLiNQ - and puts them to work in an integrated, complementary way to transform local marketing and connect advertisers with local consumers.In addition, Gannett subsidiary Newsquest is one of the United Kingdom’s leading regional community news providers with 17 daily paid-for titles, more than 200 weekly print products, magazines and trade publications, and a network of web sites. More than 15 million unique users access Newsquest’s network of news web sites each month.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- News 3 (38%)
- E-Commerce 2 (25%)
- Publishing 2 (25%)
- Advertising 2 (25%)
- Media and Entertainment 2 (25%)
Stage
- Funding Round 3 (38%)
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
- Private Equity 1 (13%)
Team
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Victoria D. Harker
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Amy Wu
Government and agriculture reporter
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Government and agriculture reporter | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Frank Gannett
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Garren Givens
Manager Business Operations, Social Commerce
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Manager Business Operations, Social Commerce | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Joanne Lipman
Chief Content Officer
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Chief Content Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
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Move This World is a proactive and preventative mental health platform for students, staff, and families in PreK-12. Its easy-to-implement and MTSS aligned programs deliver thousands of engaging and participatory multimedia experiences that create a common language, support social emotional development, and build stronger school communities wherelearning thrives. Move This World’s evidence-based results have impacted the lives of over 4 million students across 45 states and 9 countries. | $1.5M / Series B / Feb 10, 2022 | |
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Topix is a technology company focusing on entertainment and news media. Every month, more than 18 million highly engaged users spend an average of 13 minutes per session browsing Topix's growing collection of high quality content about celebrities, pop culture, the offbeat, health, current events, and more.The site links news from 74,000sources to more than 450,000 user-generated forums. Topix also works with some of the nation's major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums and RSS feeds.Topix is an technology enabled audience discovery platform for premium content in a variety of lifestyle and entertainment categories:http://Stars.topix.com Entertainment http://Pawsome.topix.com Pets & animalshttp://Offbeat.topix.com Lifestyle http://Parenthood.topix.com Parentinghttp://Sideline.topix.com Sports http://www.topix.com/topstoriesstars.topix.com Classic Topix News & forumshttps://vimeo.com/191536593 | $15M / Series B / Nov 06, 2016 | |
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Digg Inc. operates a website that enables its users to find, read, and share the most interesting and talked about stories on the internet. It is an editorially driven front page, aiming to select stories related to science, politics, and viral internet issues. It also enables users to find stories on their iOS or Android devices through itsmobile apps; and delivers stories via daily emails. Digg Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of News.me, Inc. | Series C / Sep 13, 2016 | |
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Rant, Inc. and its expanding internet property lineup have established itself as an innovator in online media consumption. Known for the well-established brand RantSports, Rant, Inc. has recently launched RantLifestyle and RantChic to expand its reach towards the areas of lifestyle, fitness, exercise, entertainment, and celebrities.Co-foundersBrett Rosin and Grant Brown founded the company in 2010 in Winfield, Illinois and began to build and manage a rich collection of 155 sports team blogs that would eventually blossom into one centralized hub known today as RantSports. In 2012, RantSports expanded its operations to offices in Downers Grove, Illinois and San Francisco, CA and in 2013, the San Francisco, CA office expanded and moved to Laguna Beach, CA where it launched new web properties. In January 2014, the company moved to a new office in Irvine, CA where its 24 full-time employees complement its expansive writing staff. | $4M / Jun 20, 2014 | |
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Wanderful Media is a retail-focused mobile media company – engaging 160MM US consumers via their shopping apps, mobile and regional networks. Wanderful Media owns and operates Find&Save, CoffeeTable, the Wanderful Mobile Network and the Wanderful Regional Network.Wanderful Media is an independent company financed by a powerful group ofmedia companies, including Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Community Newspaper Holdings, Cox Media Group, The E. W. Scripps Company, Gannett Co., GateHouse Media, Graham Holdings Company, Hearst Corporation, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group, and The McClatchy Company. | $14.5M / Apr 28, 2014 | |
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Wanderful Media is a retail-focused mobile media company – engaging 160MM US consumers via their shopping apps, mobile and regional networks. Wanderful Media owns and operates Find&Save, CoffeeTable, the Wanderful Mobile Network and the Wanderful Regional Network.Wanderful Media is an independent company financed by a powerful group ofmedia companies, including Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Community Newspaper Holdings, Cox Media Group, The E. W. Scripps Company, Gannett Co., GateHouse Media, Graham Holdings Company, Hearst Corporation, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group, and The McClatchy Company. | $22M / Sep 25, 2012 | |
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Ongo is a premium, one-stop destination for news. The site compiles some of the most trusted, best news brands today - such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, USA Today and Associated Press - in one comprehensive online destination. Ongo is ad-free to improve user experience, and it combines a relevance engine withactual human editors in order to highlight both the top news stories of the day and interesting pieces that readers might otherwise miss. In a basic subscription, viewers have access to roughly 800 stories per day. The site has published a total of over 1,000,000 stories since it launched in January of 2011.The Ongo website also has easy tools for users to customize their experiences. Users can create news playlists with the "My Topics" feature, which highlights all the news about one topic on a single page. Readers can also share and discuss stories via email, Facebook, Twitter or through private groups called Clubs. (Members of Clubs do not necessarily need to subscribe to Ongo.) And readers who are on the go can "clip" stories in order to read them later.In only a basic subscription, viewers have access to roughly 800 stories per day. The site has published a total of over 1,000,000 stories since it launched in January of 2011.Since its launch, Ongo has more than doubled the number of publication options available on the site. It now offers over 50 publication options, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Slate and the Boston Globe. It also underwent a redesign of its homepage in June of 2011, introducing new navigation and features such as "The Day in Photos," ""The Must Reads," "Top News" and "The Watercooler."Unlike news aggregates like Google News, the Huffington Post, Flipboard or Zite, Ongo has finance- and content-based partnerships with established media companies. Ongo received its a total of $12 million in first-round funding from the New York Times Company, the Washington Post Company and the Gannett Company. It is also the only one of these aggregates to contain no advertisements.In addition to a website, Ongo currently has an iPad app and a mobile site available. The iPad app was favorably reviewed by USA Today in July of 2011, with the review complimenting the app's sleek, user-friendly interface and the variety of publications available. | $12M / Sep 29, 2010 | |
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USA Digital Radio is a developer of digital audio broadcast technology or iDABTM. | $41M / Private Equity / May 02, 2000 |
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What does Gannett invest in?
Gannett invests primarily in News, E-Commerce and Publishing startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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