Milestones Mike Driscoll and I founded Metamarkets in 2009 to provide large scale analytics to media companies, and I’m very gratified we have reached our objectives. Over the past 18 months, Metamarkets has built and shipped some of the most scalable, cutting-edge data analytics infrastructure in the marketplace. Our engineering and product teams have designed, built and deployed from scratch ...

Over recent years, global media companies—themselves among the highest profile brands of recent decades, companies responsible for creation of much of the world’s high-quality proprietary content—have seen their core businesses assailed. Cashflows have come under pressure. Many companies have either supplemented or fully replaced professional content-creation with lower-quality automated or user-generated content. The century-old contract between consumer, publisher and advertiser ...