Admiral is The Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) Company, helping thousands of publishers worldwide target, engage, and grow first-party relationships with users to increase average revenue per visit and prepare for post-cookie monetization. Our VRM platform offers publishers turn-key solutions to build registration walls, paid subscriptions and donations programs, run advanced adblock analytics and revenue recovery, manage GDPR/CCPA privacy consent, email acquisition, social growth and more.
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OpenWeb
There’s a crisis of toxicity online. The social platforms meant to bring us together are pushing us apart. It doesn’t have to be this way. OpenWeb creates trusted spaces for quality conversations that move our society forward, improving how—and where—we talk to each other online. We’re bringing power back to publishers and building an open, healthier web.
Neeva
Neeva is the world’s first ads-free, private subscription search engine. Neeva focuses entirely on the consumer, delivering only real, high quality, trustworthy results. Neeva blocks third-party website trackers, and will never sell or share customer data with any third party, especially advertisers. Neeva also makes it easy to search within personal email accounts, calendars, and cloud storage platforms surfacing the most important information from the same familiar search box. Neeva was founded by former executives from Google and YouTube.
House of Kaizen
House of Kaizen are product, marketing, and data experts who test and learn to delight and grow some of the world’s leading media brands with services specific to recurring revenue business models Subscriber growth professionals like yourself face recurring customer-centric challenges that aren’t met with e-Commerce strategies. That’s why partners like The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and HarperCollins lean on us to optimize their entire subscriber journey, from marketing to product experiences, for net growth and sustained recurring revenue. From in-house support to full outsourcing, your team can lean on ours for experimentation and optimization that delivers sustained subscription growth.
1plusX
1plusX is a global marketing technology company helping media companies and marketers to unlock the full value of their marketing data. 1plusX’s core product, our AI-driven marketing intelligence platform, takes in a client’s data, enriches it, turns it into precise customer and asset profiles in real-time and finally activates it on relevant online channels. With enhanced data quality, expanded reach, and increased targeting accuracy, users of the platform can substantially improve their bottom line. Our company’s name ‘1plusX’ is a formula for modern marketing success, where data plus AI-predictions create the stepping stone for a competitive edge. Today, 1plusX operates in Europe, Asia and the US.
Recurly
Recurly is a subscription management & billing platform that powers brands like Business of Fashion, TIME, and Tribune Publishing. With their platform you can easily experiment with new promotions and plans, automate all of your recurring billing & payments, and recover on average 70% of your failed transactions.
Bonsai
Bonsai is powering the secular shift to content-driven commerce. Leading publishers use Bonsai’s end-to-end solution to integrate shopping opportunities directly within your article–seamlessly bringing together publisher content with multi-merchant shopping, universal checkout, and wholly managed fulfillment. Publishers have complete control over their users’ journey, unprecedented visibility into shopping behavior, and full access to their customer’s first-party data, ad targeting, and data sales. We enable premium publishers like BuzzFeed, COMPLEX, Well+Good, VICE, Gallery Media, and Group Nine to think and act like retailers without the lift associated with setting up an e-commerce store. Bonsai offers payouts 2-3x higher, increased freedom from the dominant affiliate platforms, and solutions to grow meaningful reader relationships, improving lifetime value and loyalty.
Fewcents
Fewcents helps digital publishers and creators generate reader revenue from every visitor. Our paywall unbundles quality content and enables small payments across text, audio, or video formats in 50+ currencies across 65 countries. We offer a regulatory complaint payments solution for cross-border micropayments. With no upfront costs, our solution is easy to integrate, and provides a low-risk, high-yield, incremental revenue stream from your never-subscribers.
Publishers can evalue never-subscribers and control the placement of Fewcents Paywall by geo-fencing, traffic source, and users’ propensity to subscribe. Publishers can also offer differential pricing per content by geography or traffic source. The pay-per-content model feeds your subscriber funnel. Our analytics can tell you who is willing to pay, how much, for which content, and from which geography. This helps formulate micro-bundles for specific user segments while offering all-you- can-eat subscription packages only to select loyal users.
Vindicia
Vindicia, an Amdocs company, supports B2C businesses that rely on subscriptions and recurring revenue. Our SaaS-based platform helps fuel growth across the entire subscription management lifecycle, delivering higher revenue at every stage. Our clients acquire, bill, retain, and grow—as they deliver a frictionless experience to their customers. We provide flexibility and remove the stress from subscription management, so our clients can innovate without worrying that billing will hold them back.
Algolia
Algolia is a search and discovery solution that engages users by connecting their intent with the most relevant content, personalized for each user, and delivered in real-time on the device or platform of their choice. We fuel your digital strategy with sophisticated search technologies and AI technology. Our globally distributed infrastructure and flexibility to support any language makes it easy to extend a consistent search experience to every corner of the globe. Algolia helps over 10,000 companies, including NPR, France.tv, Medium, Politico, and The Times, drive engagement and increase loyalty with search and discovery
Zephr
Zephr is a leading subscription experience platform focused on accelerating digital growth for the world’s leading digital publishing and media companies. With a best-in-breed solution, Zephr combines an intuitive user interface and plug-&-play integrations to let commercial and technical teams develop powerful subscription relationships and deliver personalised experiences for every customer at the right time for the right price. Unlock your revenue potential with Zephr.
Alley
Alley is a team of strategists, researchers, designers, and developers who craft custom digital experiences for publishers, nonprofit institutions, museums, and brands. We provide industry-leading software development, user experience and visual design, data visualization, editorial workflow strategy, and accessibility consulting. We look at our work in terms of products, not projects. We collaborate with you for the long term to improve your product as we learn what your audience needs. We empower you to succeed in an ever-changing landscape of new technologies and distribution channels. Find out more at alley.co. Let’s do launch.
