Maven Debuts Digital Media Coalition and Unveils New Tech Platform at Founders’ Summit
Prominent journalists, elite independent publishers, inspiring causes and community leaders from around the globe recently came
together to unify behind Maven’s new digital media coalition. Channels are now rolling out on Maven’s innovative new tech platform,
which was unveiled at the Founders’ Summit, hosted by major-media veteran executives and digital pioneers James Heckman, Ross
Levinsohn and Josh Jacobs.
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Hosts of Maven's Founders' Summit: Former Yahoo! CEO Ross Levinsohn (left); former News Corp and Yahoo! senior
executive James Heckman (center); and former Accuen CEO Josh Jacobs. Levinsohn is a Maven director; Heckman is CEO and Jacobs is
executive co-chairman. (Photo: Business Wire)
Maven’s first Founders’ Summit took place at Heckman’s beach-front home on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. “Our technology is
fueled by relationships, authentic talent and human inspiration,” said Heckman, Maven’s CEO and Founder. “Today’s major-media model
is clearly broken, favoring click-bait arbitrage over actual journalism, and our platform built for inspired experts definitely
solves this issue.”
Levinsohn, a major media digital pioneer and long-time business partner with Heckman, offered a similar perspective: “The entire
coalition launched as co-founders – and the entrepreneurial energy combined with real media talent was obvious. Maven is
legitimately offering a new vision; something different, something new and refreshing and I think incredibly valuable to major
brands. Consumers will get it instantly.”
Josh Jacobs joined the company recently as Executive Co-Chairman and explained Maven’s unique strategy:
“Our software empowers efficient human content creation and distribution. We believe real experts and real communities create
real engagement. Our content partners are inspirational storytellers, proven by their loyal and passionate audiences. The Maven
platform offers these leaders a sustainable distribution, technology and advertising coalition. Members get new ways to discover
and interact with experts whose passions they share. For Marketers the fusion of large organic audiences and broad contextual
relevance, creates unique opportunities for brands to participate with scale and engagement.”
Insights about Maven’s coalition and technological platform – through the eyes of co-founding channel partners – can be viewed
in the attached video or streamed here.
Head to themaven.net for a photo gallery of the event.
The Preview Channels: Eight coalition partners are previewing the new platform, now in beta, with another several dozen to debut
in the coming month.
Human Rights Foundation (https://www.themaven.net/humanrightsfoundation)
The Global Lead (https://www.themaven.net/globallead)
The Black Wealth Channel (https://www.themaven.net/blackwealthchannel)
iREIT Investor (https://www.themaven.net/ireit-investor)
On the Road with Scotty (https://www.themaven.net/ontheroadwithscotty)
Being Liberal (https://www.themaven.net/beingliberal)
The Chocolate Life (https://www.themaven.net/TheChocolateLife)
The Fathers’ Rights Movement (https://www.themaven.net/TFRM)
Maven is an expert-driven, group media network, whose innovative platform serves, by invitation-only, a coalition of
professional, independent channel partners. By providing broader distribution, greater community engagement and efficient
advertising and membership programs, Maven enables partners to focus on the key drivers of their business: creating, informing,
sharing, discovering, leading and interacting with the communities and constituencies they serve.
Based in Seattle, Maven is publicly traded under the ticker symbol MVEN. The executive team and operational board members include digital media pioneers James Heckman, Josh Jacobs
and Ross Levinsohn and technology innovators Bill Sornsin and Ben Joldersma.
For more information, click to themaven.net.
Maven Network Inc.
Gretchen Bakamis, 206-715-6660
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