The network: many systems, one market.
Written for the people who would build one with us.
Pick a market you know deeply. The people in it already share an audience. They go to the same events, follow the same voices, read the same letters, buy from the same handful of brands. One market, one crowd.
Every company in that market pays, separately, to reach people another one already serves. Attraction is the most expensive stage of any relationship, and everyone rebuilds it from scratch, side by side, for the same crowd.
The trust already exists. It is just scattered, held in pieces by the creators and brands who earned it, each carrying a relationship that stops at their own walls.
A market full of separate systems is one network, unbuilt.
Connect the systems and the market gets a place of its own. Many relationship systems, one shared audience across a whole market. The audience, and the understanding of who is in it, are shared. Every voice stays its own, and every brand keeps its relationships. This is a vertically integrated relationship network.
The audience of a network is everyone with a stake in the market: the people who buy, the people who make, the people who fund it, regulate it, and write about it. The infrastructure is built so that each of them has a better relationship with the others than any could build alone.
How one gets built
We start by finding the people and the problems. Who already holds trust in this market, who is doing real work, and what keeps going wrong for them.
We build the relationship system for one or two businesses in it. The work pays for itself, and it shows us the market from the inside.
Once the people and the proof are in place, we build a central platform and staff it: production, a way of turning every conversation into many pieces, distribution, owned channels and lists, and people who sell sponsorship.
Then the rest of the market comes in. Creators, companies, and researchers, each with their own show or channel on shared infrastructure. Fifteen, twenty, thirty of them, with one audience among them.
Then the network meets in a room. An event built for the right few hundred people to find each other.
What a member gets
A member keeps their voice and their name. The network takes production, distribution, and sponsorship sales off their hands, and what the work earns is shared. They get a place in the room, and a first look at what comes through it: guests, research, introductions, deals.
Why the whole is worth more
A sponsor who works with one show reaches one audience. A sponsor who works with a network is present everywhere a particular group of people looks: the shows they follow, the pages they read, the emails they open, the event they attend. That presence is worth more than the same number of views scattered across strangers, and it is priced that way.
The same holds for the members. When any one of them reaches a wider audience, the whole network is lifted with them.
The networks we have built sit where groups who rarely talk share an interest: scientists and popular storytellers, ranchers and energy companies and conservationists.
Who builds these with us
The people who build these with us tend to have one thing in common. They have been the relationship in their industry: the person the clients call, the name the market trusts.
What lasts
Each network is its own venture, built with a small number of partners who know their market deeply and want to own what gets built. Companies grow around a network: products its audience wants, services its market needs. Some we start, some we join, and some may be sold one day. The network stays, as the channel they all reach the market through.
The Titan Network is the first: nature and deep history, from zero to billions of impressions a year in two years, built with the creators who carry that world. A second is forming around nature markets, including conservation and agriculture. Health, spirituality, energy, and innovative technology are next.
We build networks in markets that create a high and increasing degree of freedom for people.
Three questions, for the market you know best.
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Thank you for answering honestly. A person will write back.