What Mediagazer does

Mediagazer is a privately held media-industry news aggregation service, founded in 2010 and based in Austin, Texas, with a headcount of 1-10 employees. It presents the day's must-read media news on a single consolidated page, combining automated aggregation technologies with human editorial input to surface the key coverage driving the day's narrative across roughly 100 tracked media outlets. The platform's technology stack centers on automated crawl/aggregation combined with human editorial curation, and it publishes a leaderboard quantifying each source's presence by headline-share (led by Variety at 9.12%, Bloomberg at 7.18%, and the New York Times at 6.43%).

The product surface consists of the main web page (mediagazer.com), a smartphone-optimized variant (Mediagazer Mobile), a feature-phone variant (Mini-Mediagazer), a reverse-chronological timeline view (Mediagazer River), a top-100 source Leaderboard, and an RSS feed for third-party reader integration. Distribution channels include RSS, My Yahoo!, Google Fusion, plus social accounts on X (Twitter) and Mastodon. The service is offered free to end users and appears to monetize via advertising/sponsorship consistent with the broader aggregation-site model, including adjacent features such as a media-jobs board.

The customer base is horizontal across media industry professionals — journalists, editors, media executives, PR professionals, and industry observers — rather than enterprise accounts. No venture funding, M&A activity, parent company, or disclosed revenue is reported; the operator appears to share common ownership/branding with sister aggregation properties Techmeme (technology), memeorandum (political commentary), and WeSmirch (celebrity news). Geographic reach is global with no restrictions disclosed, and the site remained actively publishing as of July 2, 2026.

Name

Mediagazer

Website

https://mediagazer.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Mediagazer is a privately held, ad-supported news aggregation service founded in 2010 in Austin, TX that delivers curated, must-read media-industry news on a single page for journalists, editors, executives, PR professionals, and industry observers, combining automated aggregation with human editorial curation across roughly 100 tracked outlets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advertising/Sponsorship: The platform appears to be free for users and likely generates revenue through advertising and sponsorship, as evidenced by the job listings section and general media industry business models for aggregation platforms.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Mediagazer is a media news aggregation website that presents the day's must-read media news on a single page. The service combines sophisticated automated aggregation technologies with direct editorial input from human editors to deliver curated coverage of the media industry. It is offered to users free of charge, supported by advertising.

Product overview

Mediagazer is a media news aggregation platform that delivers the day's must-read media industry news on a single page. The service operates a single unified website as its core product, supplemented by two mobile variants: Mini-Mediagazer for basic feature phones and Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones. Additional sub-products include Mediagazer River (reverse chronological view) and the Mediagazer Leaderboard (top sources ranking). Content is distributed via an RSS feed for third-party feed readers. The platform combines automated aggregation technologies with human editorial curation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mediagazer Media news aggregation website that presents the day's must-read media news on a single page, combining automated aggregation technologies with direct editorial input from human editors. Aimed at journalists, editors, media executives, PR professionals, and media industry observers.
• Mini-Mediagazer A simplified mobile-friendly version of Mediagazer designed for basic mobile phones with minimal browsing capabilities.
• Mediagazer Mobile A mobile-optimized version of Mediagazer designed for modern smartphones with enhanced mobile browsing experience.
• Mediagazer River A reverse chronological version of Mediagazer showing news in chronological order from oldest to newest.
• Mediagazer Leaderboard A ranking of the top 100 media news sources most frequently posted to Mediagazer, ranked by presence (percentage of headline space occupied), with Variety (9.12%), Bloomberg (7.18%), and New York Times (6.43%) as top sources.
• Mediagazer RSS Feed An XML/RSS feed format of Mediagazer headlines for subscription and integration with third-party feed readers such as My Yahoo! and Google Fusion.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Integration2 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• TechmememinorOthersSister site under common ownership/network. Techmeme provides top news and commentary for technology's leaders.
• memeorandumminorOthersSister site under common ownership/network. Memeorandum covers what US political commentators are discussing online.
• WeSmirchminorOthersSister site under common ownership/network. WeSmirch covers top celebrity news from all around the web.
• My Yahoo!minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMediagazer RSS feed available for subscription through My Yahoo! platform, enabling users to add Mediagazer to their Yahoo feed aggregators.
• Google (via Fusion)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMediagazer RSS feed available for subscription through Google Reader/Fusion platform, enabling users to add to Google-based feed readers.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Techmeme: Sister site under the same operator's network. Techmeme applies the identical automated-aggregation-plus-editorial-curation model to the technology industry, making it the closest functional comparable to Mediagazer.
• AllTop: Guillermo Rauch's curated news aggregation site that organizes headlines by topic into a 'top stories' front page. Directly comparable to Mediagazer as a topic-based human-curated aggregator serving professional readers.
• Feedly: RSS-based news aggregation and reader platform that lets users subscribe to topic feeds. Comparable to Mediagazer's RSS-feed distribution and aggregation-of-sources approach, though Feedly is reader-side tooling while Mediagazer is publisher-side curation.
• Drudge Report: Pioneering single-page curated news aggregator serving a defined audience. Shares the editorial-curation-over-algorithm positioning and link-driven monetization model with Mediagazer.
• Flipboard: Magazine-style digital news aggregation platform that curates stories from publishers into topic feeds. Comparable to Mediagazer as a curated content-aggregation product serving engaged news consumers, though with a broader audience and richer product surface.
• RealClearPolitics: Long-running curated political news aggregator that consolidates coverage and commentary in a single-page format. Comparable to Mediagazer in single-page editorial aggregation model and professional audience targeting.
• Memeorandum: Sister site in the same aggregation network. Memeorandum curates political commentary using the same single-page editorial model as Mediagazer, and shares infrastructure, traffic patterns, and audience crossover.

Emerging players

• PressReader: Digital newsstand and aggregation platform that surfaces thousands of publisher feeds in a unified reading experience. Comparable to Mediagazer in the multi-source aggregation approach and in serving professional/news-focused readers, though centered on full publications rather than curated headlines.

Broad incumbents

• Google News: Google's algorithmic news aggregation surface reaching a general consumer audience. Overlaps with Mediagazer on aggregation-of-sources and topic-based curation, but operates at vastly greater scale and as part of Google's broader consumer portfolio.
• Apple News: Apple's curated news aggregation app preinstalled on iOS devices. Competes with Mediagazer for media-industry reader attention, with the scale advantages of Apple's device ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mediagazer
• Facebookfacebook.com/mediagazer

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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