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Our Media Company Continues To Grow [$40M/Year]

Matt Paulson
Founder, MarketBeat
$3.42M
revenue/mo
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Founders
18
Employees
MarketBeat
from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
started January 2011
$3,416,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
18
Employees
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MarketBeat had an exceptional year. In 2024, we redesigned our website and updated our brand design for the first time in five years. We revamped the back-end system that powers MarketBeat called the “Web Admin.” We doubled down on our YouTube channel, which now has more than 140,000 subscribers. We worked to develop new advertising relationships and dial in our media-buying efforts that have allowed MarketBeat to grow to 5.2 million email subscribers. We brought on four new employees and several new contractors. These efforts allowed us to top more than $40 million in top-line revenue in 2024, which is up about 35% year over year. While some of the results we achieved were the result of election-year excitement, we really think we are firing on all cylinders.

One of the bigger changes we made at MarketBeat this year is that we learned to love advertising agencies. Historically, we have shied away from them because there are a lot of mediocre agencies that make big promises that they ultimately can’t deliver on. However, we knew there were areas we needed to improve on (such as Search Engine Optimization) and we just weren’t getting the...

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