What Summit Daily does

Summit Daily is a local news publication serving Summit County, Colorado, covering the communities of Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon, Silverthorne, Keystone, and Copper Mountain. It is owned and operated by Swift Communications, LLC, a privately held regional media conglomerate, and is part of the Colorado Mountain News Media network, which shares printing facilities in Gypsum, CO, and a classifieds marketplace (cmnm.org) with sister publications such as Steamboat Pilot & Today and Summit County Journal. The publication's product portfolio centers on a daily news website (summitdaily.com) with sections spanning business, public safety, education, environment, government, health, travel, real estate, weather, and sports, complemented by four specialty magazines (Best of Summit, Explore Summit, Summit County Home, Trail Guide), an E-Edition digital replica of the print paper via PageSuite, an Events Calendar powered by CitySpark, email newsletters, Mountain Cams (live webcams), the La Voz de Summit Spanish-language section, and a classifieds marketplace for jobs, rentals, real estate, autos, and services.

The underlying technology is a conventional web-based digital publishing platform layered with third-party integrations: PageSuite for the E-Edition, CitySpark for events, DoubleClick for ad serving, Google Analytics for traffic analysis, and Termly for privacy and DSAR compliance. There are no proprietary AI/ML systems disclosed; the technology stack is functional rather than differentiating. Summit Daily generates revenue through three streams: recurring digital and print subscriptions (daily newsletters and e-edition access), advertising (display, preprint, and digital governed by a Publisher Rate Card with frequency/annual Service Agreement levels and monthly billing), and classifieds (transaction-fee listings through cmnm.org and legal-ad placement via Column.us). The publication's go-to-market is direct-to-consumer, reaching readers through its website, email, social media (notably Facebook community groups), and the E-Edition, with a customer base concentrated in Summit County residents and visitors; no named enterprise advertisers or subscriber logos are disclosed.

Name

Summit Daily

Legal name

Swift Communications, LLC

Website

https://summitdaily.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Summit Daily is a local digital and print news publication serving Summit County, Colorado, covering Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon, Silverthorne, Keystone, and Copper Mountain. It is owned by Swift Communications, LLC and monetizes via subscriptions, advertising, classifieds, and specialty magazines.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Frisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Digital and Print Subscriptions: The publication generates revenue through digital and print subscription models, offering daily newsletters and e-edition access to readers.
2. Advertising: The publication sells display advertising, preprint advertisements, and digital advertising across its website and print products. Rates are governed by rate cards with terms and conditions for ad placement, positioning, and error handling.
3. Classifieds: The publication operates a classifieds marketplace for jobs, rentals, real estate, autos, service directory, and merchandise in partnership with Colorado Mountain News Media.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Summit Daily is a local news publisher serving Summit County, Colorado, distributing community journalism via a news website, e-edition, print newspaper, and specialty magazines. Revenue is generated through subscriptions, advertising sales, and a classifieds marketplace operated with Colorado Mountain News Media.

Product overview

Summit Daily is a local news website serving Summit County, Colorado, operated by Swift Communications, LLC. The primary product is the Summit Daily News Website providing comprehensive local news coverage across multiple sections including business, public safety, education, environment, government, health, real estate, weather, and sports. The product portfolio includes four magazine publications (Best of Summit Magazine, Explore Summit Magazine, Summit County Home Magazine, and Trail Guide) available in both print and digital E-Edition formats. Additional offerings include a Classifieds Marketplace for local jobs, rentals, real estate, and merchandise; an Events Calendar with location-based filtering; newsletter subscriptions for daily and breaking news; and Mountain Cams providing live webcam feeds of Summit County conditions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Summit Daily News: The news operation of Summit Daily serving local community news
• Explore Summit Magazine
• Best of Summit Magazine
• Summit County Home Magazine
• Trail Guide
• La Voz de Summit
• Summit County Journal

Products and services

• Summit Daily News Website

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Colorado Mountain News MediacoreOthersSummit Daily is owned and operated by Swift Communications and is part of the Colorado Mountain News Media network, which includes printing facilities in Gypsum, CO and shared classifieds marketplace infrastructure.
• Swift CommunicationscoreOthersSummit Daily is owned by Swift Communications, LLC, a media company that provides content management infrastructure, advertising terms and conditions, privacy policies, and terms of use governing the publication's operations.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Vail Daily: Vail Daily is a community newspaper serving Eagle County, Colorado — adjacent to Summit County with overlapping ski-resort readership and similar local news, advertising and lifestyle coverage. Closest direct geographic and product analog, also part of the broader Swift Communications / Colorado Mountain News Media network.
• Steamboat Pilot & Today: Sister publication under Swift Communications serving the Steamboat Springs ski resort community in Colorado. Operates with identical business model (local news, e-edition, magazines, classifieds, advertising), shares back-office infrastructure, and is the most operationally comparable peer to Summit Daily.
• Aspen Daily News: Independent local daily newspaper serving Aspen and Pitkin County, Colorado — a high-income mountain resort market with comparable ski-town audience, resort-driven advertising base and local-news subscription model.
• The Aspen Times: Long-established weekly community newspaper serving Aspen and surrounding mountain communities. Operates print, digital and magazine products with similar resort-area advertising and real-estate coverage as Summit Daily.
• Park Record: Local newspaper serving Park City, Utah — a comparable ski-resort community with similar demographic profile, real-estate driven advertisers and tourism-dependent ad revenue mix. Closest Utah analog to Summit Daily's market.
• Sky-Hi News: Community newspaper covering Grand County, Colorado (Winter Park/Fraser area). Targets a similar mountain-resort audience with news, real estate, outdoor recreation and classified advertising verticals.
• Crested Butte News: Local newspaper serving Crested Butte and Gunnison Valley, Colorado. Small-market mountain community newspaper with overlapping ski, real estate and outdoor recreation coverage, comparable in scale and business model.
• Glenwood Springs Post Independent: Community newspaper serving Glenwood Springs and Garfield County, Colorado — part of the Swift Communications / Colorado Mountain News Media network. Operates with same publishing model and shared classifieds infrastructure as Summit Daily.

Broad incumbents

• USA Today Network / Gannett Local: Gannett is the largest U.S. local newspaper operator with hundreds of community dailies and a national digital platform. Represents the broader-incumbent competitive and consolidator benchmark for community-newspaper business models.

Regional players

• Daily Camera (Boulder): Long-standing Colorado daily newspaper based in Boulder covering the Front Range. Same statewide market but different sub-region; provides a comparable benchmark for Colorado local-news subscription and digital advertising economics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SummitDailyNews

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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