"After more than 20 years working with media publishers, I and my team understand what they want: engaging content, a new and/or improved revenue stream and an easy-to-use system" – Dan Hammond
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New Revenue Compels Community Media Group to extend the CuratorCrowd® Platform across all Digital Properties
American Hometown Media continues Aggressive Growth
NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — American Hometown Media (AHM), a top 15 Inc. 5000 honoree in the digital media, food content and technology category, has partnered with Community Media Group (CMG) of West Frankfort, Illinois to expand the CuratorCrowd® Traffic & Engagement Platform across all their digital sites.
Built specifically to help digital website’s drive audience engagement, increase traffic and earn new, additional revenue, the Trending Content feature of CuratorCrowd® is a turn-key solution. It generates high-quality recipe content and video through a proprietary platform.
“We tested the platform on our Shoreline Media properties and based on performance are pleased to now extend it across all of our digital sites,” said Chuck Schading, Director of Digital Content for CMG. “Not only has the content & engagement been well received by our readers as expected, but the new revenues for our digital platform have been fantastic.”
“The featured content is from the award-winning and largest collection of user-submitted recipes to AHM’s Just A Pinch Recipes,” stated Jerry Lyles, Chief Development Officer for AHM. “And the revenues associated with the display of this highly desirable content is significant.”
The growth of CuratorCrowd® follows on the heels of AHM’s introduction of the Recipe Box Plugin™, a powerful cloud-based recipe storage solution for food publisher and blogger websites that increases user engagement and creates an onsite central hub for saved recipes from around the web. That proven technology, based on 8 years of development, already powers over 2 million online recipe boxes with more than 24 million saved recipes from over 24,000 different food sites and blogs.
Contact:
L. Daniel Hammond (615)599-8751 x101
Jerry Lyles (615)599-8751 x105
About American Hometown Media:
American Hometown Media (AHM) is the parent company to Just A Pinch Recipes (JustAPinch.com), one of the largest non-major media owned food sites and the largest repository of user-posted recipes on the internet, the Just A Pinch Food Group, a Premium Publisher Group (PPG) for a select group of food-only bloggers, the AHM Ad Management Platform which delivers programmatic monetization of websites for a wide range of verticals including food, lifestyle, tech, and beauty, and CuratorCrowd® cloud-based technology offerings that increase revenue by driving new traffic, expanding reach, increasing user engagement, enhancing SEO, and growing email lists.
About Community Media Group:
Community Media Group is a privately held multimedia company started in 1996 which owns and operates daily and weekly newspapers, shoppers, and other print distribution products in six states.
CNHI to Add CuratorCrowd® to Digital Properties
Growth Accelerates at American Hometown Media
NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — American Hometown Media (AHM), a top 15 Inc. 5000 honoree in the digital media, food content and technology category, has partnered with CNHI out of Montgomery, Alabama in the deployment of the CuratorCrowd® Traffic & Engagement Platform.
Built specifically to help digital website’s drive audience engagement, increase traffic and earn new, additional revenue, the Trending Content feature of CuratorCrowd® is a turn-key solution. It generates high-quality recipe content and video through a proprietary platform.
“Partnering with an increasingly growing list of news media publishers, like CNHI, is really expanding the reach of providing local readers with superior impactful digital content, stated Mike Meyers,” President and Chief Revenue Officer with AHM. “We have found that local home cook recipe content ranks extremely high with community newspaper readers and the revenue component makes this even more impactful given the priority of revenue generation for news digital operations.”
“The featured content, including trending recipes, video and even a syndicated editorial platform, is from the award-winning and largest collection of user-submitted recipes to AHM’s Just A Pinch Recipes,” stated Jerry Lyles, Chief Development Officer for AHM. “Revenues associated with the display of this highly desirable content is significant.”
This expansion of CuratorCrowd® follows on the heels of AHM’s introduction of the Recipe Box Plugin™, a powerful cloud-based recipe storage solution for food publisher and blogger websites that increases user engagement and creates an onsite central hub for saved recipes from around the web. That proven technology, based on 8 years of development, already powers over 2 million online recipe boxes with more than 24 million saved recipes from over 24,000 different food sites and blogs.
Contact:
L. Daniel Hammond (615)599-8751 x101
Jerry Lyles (615)599-8751 x105
About American Hometown Media:
American Hometown Media (AHM) is the parent company to Just A Pinch Recipes (JustAPinch.com), one of the largest non-major media owned food sites and the largest repository of user-posted recipes on the internet, the Just A Pinch Food Group, a Premium Publisher Group (PPG) for a select group of food-only bloggers, the AHM Ad Management Platform which delivers programmatic monetization of websites for a wide range of verticals including food, lifestyle, tech, and beauty, and CuratorCrowd® cloud-based technology offerings that increase revenue by driving new traffic, expanding reach, increasing user engagement, enhancing SEO, and growing email lists.
About CNHI:
CNHI, LLC is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a leading provider of local news and information, offering a wide array of print and digital products, in 20 states.
AIM Media Deploys CuratorCrowd® onto all Digital Properties
American Hometown Media continues Aggressive Growth
NASHVILLE, Tenn., September 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — American Hometown Media (AHM), a top 15 Inc. 5000 honoree in the digital media, food content and technology category, has partnered with AIM Media out of Dallas, Texas and Champion Media out of Mooresville, North Caroline in the rollout of the CuratorCrowd® Traffic & Engagement Platform.
Built specifically to help digital website’s drive audience engagement, increase traffic and earn new, additional revenue, the Trending Content feature of CuratorCrowd® is a turn-key solution. It generates high-quality recipe content and video through a proprietary platform.
Stephan Wingert, Regional Vice President/Publisher AIM Media, stated “These CuratorCrowd® recipes and videos have proven to be a big hit with our readers. On our websites people get to see recipes from their neighbors alongside submissions from around the globe. Not only has this partnership increased our website traffic and engagement, we also receive revenue. Launching the program was easy and we are pleased with the results.”
“The featured content is from the award-winning and largest collection of user-submitted recipes to AHM’s Just A Pinch Recipes,” said Jerry Lyles, Chief Development Officer for AHM. “And the revenues associated with the display of this highly desirable content is significant.”
This expansion of CuratorCrowd® follows on the heels of AHM’s introduction of the Recipe Box Plugin™, a powerful cloud-based recipe storage solution for food publisher and blogger websites that increases user engagement and creates an onsite central hub for saved recipes from around the web. That proven technology, based on 8 years of development, already powers over 2 million online recipe boxes with more than 24 million saved recipes from over 24,000 different food sites and blogs.
Contact:
L. Daniel Hammond (615)599-8751 x101
Jerry Lyles (615)599-8751 x105
About American Hometown Media:
American Hometown Media (AHM) is the parent company to Just A Pinch Recipes (JustAPinch.com), one of the largest non-major media owned food sites and the largest repository of user-posted recipes on the internet, the Just A Pinch Food Group, a Premium Publisher Group (PPG) for a select group of food-only bloggers, the AHM Ad Management Platform which delivers programmatic monetization of websites for a wide range of verticals including food, lifestyle, tech, and beauty, and CuratorCrowd® cloud-based technology offerings that increase revenue by driving new traffic, expanding reach, increasing user engagement, enhancing SEO, and growing email lists.
About AIM Media:
AIM Media Texas, LLC was formed in 2012 by Jeremy L. Halbreich and Rick Starks for the purpose of acquiring Freedom Communications’ Texas-based newspapers. In 2015 they formed AIM Media Indiana, LLC, and in 2017 AIM Media Midwest, LLC. These two veterans of the publishing industry of more than 40 years each have focused on local content across all forms of media, including print, digital, direct mail and video.
Today AIM Media groups combined owns and operates 29 daily newspapers and 21 weekly publications along with their corresponding websites with properties in Texas, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia.
Under their leadership — with Halbreich serving as Chairman and CEO, and Starks as President and COO — these companies have kept local communities well informed while also serving the business needs in these regional markets. In all cases, the focus is on local news and information, advertising and marketing services, and commitment to the local communities.
We are the leading information source in our communities. Through our demonstrated integrity and our dedicated and comprehensive approach to balanced and credible journalism, we earn the trust and support of local readers, viewers, businesses and advertisers.
For more information, please contact Halbreich at 214-697-9779 or halbreich@aimmediamgt.com.
Champion Media, Coastal Bend Publishing, Shoreline Media and Avant Publications add CuratorCrowd® to Digital Properties
American Hometown Media continues Aggressive Growth
NASHVILLE, Tenn., September 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — American Hometown Media (AHM), a top 15 Inc. 5000 honoree in the digital media, food content and technology category, has partnered with Coastal Bend Publishing in Houston, Texas, Shoreline Media Group in Ludington, Michigan and Avant Publications in Wiles-Barre, Pennsylvania with the expansion of the CuratorCrowd® Traffic & Engagement Platform.
Built specifically to help digital website’s drive audience engagement, increase traffic and earn new, additional revenue, the Trending Content feature of CuratorCrowd® is a turn-key solution. It generates high-quality recipe content and video through a proprietary platform.
“I remember well when the founders of AHM and this offering brought us American Profile Magazine about twenty years ago. They took the community newspaper industry by storm then,” said Scott Champion, CEO of Champion Media, LLC. “There’s little doubt they are doing it again…these guys really understand the needs of community newspapers with today’s digital operations.”
“The featured content is from the award-winning and largest collection of user-submitted recipes to AHM’s Just A Pinch Recipes,” stated Jerry Lyles, Chief Development Officer for AHM. “And the revenues associated with the display of this highly desirable content is significant.”
“We are thrilled to have such high quality content to offer to our readers. This is first class stuff,” said Dennis Wade, VP of operations for Coastal Bend Publishing.
The growth of CuratorCrowd® follows on the heels of AHM’s introduction of the Recipe Box Plugin™, a powerful cloud-based recipe storage solution for food publisher and blogger websites that increases user engagement and creates an onsite central hub for saved recipes from around the web. That proven technology, based on 8 years of development, already powers over 2 million online recipe boxes with more than 24 million saved recipes from over 24,000 different food sites and blogs.
Contact:
L. Daniel Hammond (615)599-8751 x101
Jerry Lyles (615)599-8751 x105
About American Hometown Media:
American Hometown Media (AHM) is the parent company to Just A Pinch Recipes (JustAPinch.com), one of the largest non-major media owned food sites and the largest repository of user-posted recipes on the internet, the Just A Pinch Food Group, a Premium Publisher Group (PPG) for a select group of food-only bloggers, the AHM Ad Management Platform which delivers programmatic monetization of websites for a wide range of verticals including food, lifestyle, tech, and beauty, and CuratorCrowd® cloud-based technology offerings that increase revenue by driving new traffic, expanding reach, increasing user engagement, enhancing SEO, and growing email lists.
About Champion Media:
Champion Media comprises five dailies and 21 weeklies in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Minnesota and Virginia, with a combined weekly circulation of approximately 225,000 and a monthly digital reach of more than four million unique visitors with most newspapers serving their communities for well over 100 years.
About Coastal Bend Publishing:
Coastal Bend Publishing is an affiliate of McElvy Media Group which began in 2012 with one community newspaper and eight employees. Today, the company employs more than 100 people and publishes 25 print editions weekly.
About Shoreline Media Group:
Shoreline Media Group is a division of CMG/Community Media Group, a privately held multimedia company started in 1996 and which owns and operates daily and weekly newspapers, shoppers, and other print distribution products in six states.
About Avant Publications:
Avant Publications LLC is a partnership between MIDTC and Champion Media originally formed as a collaboration between cutting edge technology and traditional community news to bring decades of media and technology expertise together to accelerate community news and leverage technology.
AHM Makes the Inc. 5000 List
Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual List of
America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000
American Hometown Media Ranks on the 2020 Inc. 5000
With Three-Year Revenue Growth of 245.24 Percent
NEW YORK, August 12, 2020 – Inc. magazine today revealed that American Hometown Media is No.1742 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses.
“This recognition is a real testament to the unbelievable dedication our team has brought to the table for American Hometown Media…they are a group of over-achievers and I am just so proud of them,” said Dan Hammond, Founder, Chairman & CEO.
Not only have the companies on the 2020 Inc. 5000 been very competitive within their markets, but the list as a whole shows staggering growth compared with prior lists. The 2020 Inc. 5000 achieved an incredible three-year average growth of over 500 percent, and a median rate of 165 percent. The Inc. 5000’s aggregate revenue was $209 billion in 2019, accounting for over 1 million jobs.
“The companies on this year’s Inc. 5000 come from nearly every realm of business,” says Inc. editor-in-chief Scott Omelianuk. “From health and software to media and hospitality, the 2020 list proves that no matter the sector, incredible growth is based on the foundations of tenacity and opportunism.”
Mike Meyers, President & CRO for American Hometown Media stated, “We actually placed in the Top 15 when compared within our sector of media. That means our platform to empower online publishers and influencers with a suite of next-generation products and services focused on content, monetization, and technology is really taking shape.”
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are also being featured in the September issue of Inc., available on newsstands August 12.
CONTACT:
L. Daniel Hammond
(615) 599-8751 x101
dhammond@americanhometownmedia.com
About American Hometown Media
American Hometown Media (AHM) is the parent company to Just A Pinch Recipes (JustAPinch.com), one of the largest non-major media owned food sites and the largest repository of user-posted recipes on the internet, the Just A Pinch Food Group, a Premium Publisher Group (PPG) for a select group of food-only bloggers, the AHM Ad Management Platform which delivers programmatic monetization of websites for a wide range of verticals including food, lifestyle, tech, and beauty, and CuratorCrowd® cloud-based technology offerings that increase revenue by driving new traffic, expanding reach, increasing user engagement, enhancing SEO, and growing email lists.
More about Inc. and the Inc. 5000
Methodology
The 2020 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2016 and 2019. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2016. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2019.
About Inc. Media
The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses.