Bright Mountain Media

What Bright Mountain Media does

Bright Mountain Media is a publicly traded integrated marketing services platform (OTCQB: BMTM) headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, that operates through four wholly-owned subsidiaries: Big Village (consumer insights, audience analytics, and decision intelligence), BrightStream (proprietary supply-side platform / SSP technology for media delivery and publisher monetization), Deep Focus (full-service creative and media execution), and Wild Sky Media (digital publishing focused on motherhood and family audiences). The company serves enterprise brands and advertising agencies with a B2B enterprise sales motion, marketing the value proposition that audience data, media activation, and creative execution are delivered through one connected platform, eliminating the fragmentation and data-fidelity loss typical of working across multiple vendors. Notable technology assets include the Big Village Audience Intelligence platform, the BrightStream SSP, and a portfolio of more than 3,000 kids' game apps supporting COPPA-compliant advertising.

The company's revenue model is anchored in advertising technology and marketing technology services, with revenue streams spanning AdTech (connected TV, programmatic, and SSP), MarTech (integrated marketing services and audience insights), and digital publishing (through Wild Sky Media). In February 2026 the company entered a strategic partnership with AI services firm NeuIQ to embed AI-driven consumer decision intelligence into Big Village's 80-year data heritage, and it added a Preferred Partner channel through Indie Agency News plus an exclusive SSP arrangement with TotallyKidz in the kids' media vertical. Reported financials include FY2025 revenue of $59.2M (+4% YoY), Q1 2026 revenue of $14.0M (-2% YoY), Q1 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $2.4M (+189% YoY), and a Q1 2026 net loss of $1.3M (narrowed 60%). G&A expenses were reduced 43%.

Material risks include an OTCQB continued-eligibility notice received in December 2025 after the stock closed below $0.01 for more than 30 consecutive days, a market capitalization of approximately $1.09M as of April 2026, persistent net losses on a multi-year basis, customer concentration unmitigated by disclosed revenue mix, and execution risk on the AI pivot given that core AI capability is currently sourced through the NeuIQ partnership rather than in-house IP.

Name

Bright Mountain Media

Legal name

Bright Mountain Media, Inc.

Website

https://brightmountainmedia.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Bright Mountain Media is a publicly traded integrated marketing services platform operating four subsidiaries — Big Village (audience insights), BrightStream (SSP technology), Deep Focus (creative), and Wild Sky Media (publishing) — that deliver data-connected marketing services to enterprise brands and advertising agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Integrated Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (541810), Media Buying Agencies (54183), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

Integrated Full-Service Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAA)

Keywords

• Integrated marketing services
• Audience intelligence platform
• Supply-side platform
• Digital advertising technology
• Consumer decision intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

Boca Raton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Advertising Technology (AdTech): Digital advertising technology services including Connected TV, programmatic advertising, and SSP technology through BrightStream. Revenue increased 4% driven by advertising technology division growth.
2. Marketing Technology (MarTech): Integrated marketing services including audience insights, creative services, and media execution through Big Village, Deep Focus, and Wild Sky Media subsidiaries.
3. Digital Publishing: Digital publishing operations through Wild Sky Media subsidiary targeting specific demographics including women, mothers, and families.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Bright Mountain Media operates an integrated marketing services platform that combines advertising technology (AdTech) and marketing technology (MarTech) with AI-driven decision intelligence. The company delivers end-to-end marketing execution spanning audience insights, programmatic media, creative services, and publisher monetization through four wholly owned subsidiaries: Big Village (insights and analytics), BrightStream (SSP technology), Deep Focus (creative agency), and Wild Sky Media (family and motherhood digital content).

Product overview

Bright Mountain Media operates as an integrated marketing services platform comprising four subsidiaries: Big Village (audience insights and analytics), BrightStream (SSP technology for targeted media delivery), Deep Focus (full-service creative and media execution), and Wild Sky Media (flagship brands and motherhood creator community). The platform combines insights, media, and creative capabilities with AI precision to deliver end-to-end marketing execution from targeting through activation, measurement and optimization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Big Village: Consumer insights and analytics platform providing audience intelligence, decision intelligence, and data-driven targeting capabilities.
• BrightStream
• Deep Focus
• Wild Sky Media

Quantifiable outcome

• 60% improvement in net loss narrowing
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• NeuIQcoreTechnology or Integration · 23 February 2026Strategic partnership between Bright Mountain subsidiary Big Village and NeuIQ to advance AI-driven consumer decision intelligence. Combines Big Village's 80-year track record in decision intelligence with NeuIQ's AI capabilities to modernize data pipelines and operations to be AI-ready by design. Enables brands and agencies to access continuously delivered, immediately actionable insights rather than episodic research.
• Indie Agency NewsflagshipGTM or Marketing Partner · 18 February 2026Big Village was selected as a Preferred Data and Insights Partner in Indie Agency News' Preferred Partner Program. Provides independent advertising agencies access to Big Village's Audience Intelligence platform offering audience segmentation and behavioral insights. Helps independent agencies compete with Big 5 agency holding companies through thought leadership and tailored resources.
• TotallyKidzcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 30 October 2025TotallyKidz selected Bright Mountain as its exclusive SSP partner to enhance kids' advertising campaigns. Leverages Bright Mountain's portfolio of over 3,000 kids' game apps and audience insights to improve targeting and safety through COPPA-compliant inventory. Aims to strengthen digital advertising strategies for children's media platforms targeting Generation Alpha.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Magnite: Largest independent SSP (NASDAQ: MGNI) with CTV and omnichannel programmatic supply. Competes head-to-head with BrightStream in publisher monetization and audience targeting.
• QuinStreet: Public performance-marketing and digital media services company (NASDAQ: QNST) operating an integrated platform of audiences, media, and performance marketing — most directly comparable business-model analogue to Bright Mountain among small-cap public peers.
• Integral Ad Science: Public ad-verification and analytics company (NASDAQ: IAS) overlapping with Big Village's audience-intelligence and decision-intelligence analytics. Bright Mountain director Joseph Pergola was CFO during IAS's IPO.
• PubMatic: Public SSP (NASDAQ: PUBM) supplying programmatic ad infrastructure to publishers and buyers. Jeff Hirsch, a Bright Mountain director, was CCO at PubMatic through its 2020 IPO, making the supply-side platform business model a direct comparable to BrightStream.

Emerging players

• Ziff Davis: Public digital-media and internet-information company (NASDAQ: ZD) operating vertical digital publications and performance-marketing assets — a relevant comparable for the Wild Sky Media digital-publishing and audience-monetization segment.
• DoubleVerify: Public ad-measurement and analytics platform (NYSE: DV) that competes with the verification/measurement layer of Big Village's insights offering, particularly for brand-safety and campaign-optimization use cases.

Broad incumbents

• The Trade Desk: Independent demand-side platform (NASDAQ: TTD) that competes with Bright Mountain in audience-data-driven programmatic buying, but at vastly greater scale and on the buy side rather than Bright Mountain's sell-side focus.
• Criteo: Public ad-tech company (NASDAQ: CRTO) operating a commerce-media and audience-retargeting platform. Overlaps with BrightStream's programmatic and audience-data capabilities; board member Thomas Triscari was a former Criteo director.
• Omnicom Group: One of the Big 5 global advertising holding companies (NYSE: OMC) that Bright Mountain's value proposition explicitly targets as the competitor for independent agencies — a structural incumbent benchmark for the integrated marketing services category.
• Stagwell: Public marketing services holding company (NASDAQ: STGW) that aggregates creative, media, data, and technology agencies — directly comparable to Bright Mountain's four-subsidiary integrated platform thesis but at materially greater scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-bright
• TikToktwitter.com/bmtmmedia
• Xx.com/brightmmedia

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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

M&A17 records

Investments

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

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