What Clear Digital Media does

Clear Digital Media, LLC is a privately held US company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dripping Springs, Texas, with an additional Illinois office. The company operates a cloud-based digital signage platform, CDM TV, that streams curated specialty video content to screens in healthcare waiting rooms via a proprietary Citadel media player. Content libraries are organized by healthcare vertical — hearing care, dental, ENT, pediatric, vision, physical therapy, and functional medicine — and include voiceover and closed captioning for accessibility, with CDM holding a stated WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility commitment. Supporting brands include Hearing News Network (content network), MDEmails (physician referral email), PatientPoll (in-clinic tablet surveys), SmartFencing (geofenced mobile advertising), and SocialVideos2Go (social-ready video library).

Revenue is generated primarily through monthly subscriptions: Basic at $89.95 per location and Premium at $99.99 per location, with no long-term contracts and an optional $575 one-time professional installation fee. Hardware (the Citadel media player) is bundled into subscriptions, and customers can either self-install via plug-and-play setup or pay for on-site installation. Distribution is a hybrid of self-serve Stripe checkout and consultative 15-minute strategy calls, and the company maintains co-marketing relationships with major hearing aid manufacturers whose logos appear on the site (Starkey, Beltone, Cochlear, GN ReSound, among others). A 2018 API integration with Hearing Tracker pulls patient review data onto waiting room screens, and the company is led by President Michele Ahlman. The company is bootstrapped with no disclosed institutional funding rounds and targets a long tail of SMB healthcare clinics across the United States.

Name

Clear Digital Media

Legal name

Clear Digital Media, LLC

Website

https://cleardigitalmedia.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Clear Digital Media operates CDM TV, a cloud-based digital signage platform that streams specialty healthcare video content to waiting room screens via a proprietary media player, serving SMB clinics across hearing, dental, and other medical verticals on a monthly subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Digital Signage

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (5162)

SIC

Cable & Other Pay Television Services (4841), Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Distribution (7822)

akta.pro primary industry

Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Network/Studio Streaming Channels (MPABAHAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Media Processing at the Edge (Transcoding, Packaging, DRM at Edge) (HDABAGAD)

Keywords

• Healthcare digital signage
• Waiting room media
• Patient engagement displays
• Medical practice marketing
• Cloud content streaming

Headquarters

HQ city

Dripping Springs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: Monthly recurring subscription for CDM TV digital signage service. Two tiers available: Basic at $89.95/month and Premium at $99.99/month per location. No contracts required.
2. Hardware Sales: Sale of media player hardware required for CDM TV service. Media player included with subscription packages.
3. Professional Installation: Optional on-site installation services for players and TV setup at $575 one-time fee.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Clear Digital Media provides CDM TV, a cloud-based digital signage system that streams curated healthcare-specialty video content to waiting room screens via proprietary Citadel media players. The offering includes monthly subscription tiers (Basic at $89.95/month and Premium at $99.99/month per location), bundled media player hardware, optional on-site installation, and ancillary services such as Hearing News Network content channels, MDEmails physician outreach, PatientPoll surveys, and SmartFencing mobile ads.

Product overview

Clear Digital Media offers CDM TV, a cloud-based digital signage platform for healthcare waiting rooms. The core CDM TV system includes a Citadel media player, content management, and subscription tiers (Basic at $89.95/month and Premium at $99.99/month). Supplementary services include Hearing News Network (HNN) content channels, MDEmails physician outreach, PatientPoll surveys, SmartFencing mobile ads, and SocialVideos2Go video library. The Citadel Platform manages scheduling and content delivery to the media player.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CDM TV: Cloud-based digital signage solution delivering patient-focused video content to healthcare waiting rooms.
• Hearing News Network (HNN)
• MDEmails
• PatientPoll
• SmartFencing

Products and services

• CDM TV Cloud-based digital signage solution delivering curated healthcare specialty video content to waiting room screens. Includes a Citadel media player, cloud-based content management, and automated scheduling. Designed for healthcare clinics and specialty medical practices to educate, engage, and inspire patients while reducing perceived wait times.
• CDM TV Clinic Premium Package Premium subscription tier of CDM TV at $99.99/month per location. Includes everything in the Basic package plus a Referral Engine playlist and three custom motion graphic videos branded with the clinic logo. No upfront costs or long-term contracts; cancel anytime.
• CDM TV On-Site Installation Service Optional on-site professional installation service for CDM TV at a $575 one-time fee. Includes on-site player and TV setup; requires the clinic to provide a TV on-site and an internet connection.
• Hearing News Network (HNN) Digital waiting room video content network featuring educational and entertainment programming in healthcare specialty categories such as hearing, dental, ENT, and others. Delivered via CDM TV screens in healthcare clinics.
• MDEmails Physician email marketing service that uses the AMA database to send personalized emails to local referring physicians, educating them about hearing loss and treatment benefits to generate patient referrals for clinics.
• PatientPoll Tablet-based patient satisfaction survey system that enables healthcare clinics to collect real-time patient feedback in the waiting room, designed to deliver higher response rates than traditional mail or email survey methods.
• SmartFencing Mobile ad targeting service that delivers advertisements to users based on demographics, location, interests, or hobbies, enabling healthcare practices to reach target patients on mobile devices.
• SocialVideos2Go Library of customizable hearing-related videos for use on social media platforms. Enables hearing care practices to maintain an active social media presence with professionally produced, ready-to-publish video content.

Quantifiable outcome

• Patient referral engine: CDM TV helps turn waiting room visitors into referral sources through education and engagement
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Hearing TrackercoreTechnology or Integration · 19 October 2018Clear Digital Media integrated Hearing Tracker's API to bring patient review data to Hearing News Network TV screens across the US. This collaboration unifies web reviews with TV content in waiting rooms, building online presence while educating and engaging patients during wait times.
• American Heart AssociationminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Hearing News Network collaborated with American Heart Association on health education content related to the connection between hearing loss and cardiovascular health.
• Hearing News Network (HNN)coreOthers · 1 January 2018HNN is the core branded content network delivered via CDM TV. Provides curated video content to healthcare waiting rooms nationwide.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Yodeck: Yodeck is a digital signage platform offering cloud-based screen management with media player hardware, similar in approach to CDM's Citadel media player + cloud model. It competes for SMB customers across verticals including healthcare.
• ScreenCloud: ScreenCloud is a cloud-based digital signage SaaS serving SMB and enterprise customers across multiple verticals. While not healthcare-specialized, it competes for the same waiting-room screen budget with a broader content app ecosystem and lower entry pricing.
• Rise Vision: Rise Vision offers cloud-based digital signage solutions, with notable presence in healthcare and education verticals. It competes with CDM TV for the same waiting-room and clinic screen installations via subscription SaaS.
• Enplug: Enplug provides digital signage displays and content management software for businesses including healthcare settings. It overlaps with CDM TV on cloud-based content delivery to in-clinic screens and competing SMB subscription pricing.

Direct peers

• Healthwise: Healthwise develops patient education and health content used by hospitals, clinics, and health systems, including video and digital materials. It overlaps with CDM TV in supplying healthcare-specific educational content for waiting rooms and clinical settings.
• Outcome Health: Outcome Health (formerly ContextMedia) delivers digital health content and waiting room media to physician offices across specialties, overlapping directly with CDM TV's healthcare waiting room use case. It focuses on point-of-care patient education and engagement screens in clinics.
• Loop TV: Loop TV provides short-form, ad-supported video programming for waiting rooms and businesses, directly targeting the same healthcare and service-business use case as CDM TV. Its free, ad-supported model competes on price for clinic customers.
• Staywell: Staywell provides patient education, engagement, and health content solutions to healthcare organizations and providers, including digital content delivered in care settings. It competes with CDM's specialty-specific content libraries and patient education value proposition.
• PatientPoint: PatientPoint is a leading provider of digital patient engagement and waiting room signage for healthcare practices, directly competing with CDM TV across physician offices and specialty clinics. It offers similar in-office educational content, screen-based engagement, and condition-specific programming.

Broad incumbents

• Sonic Foundry: Sonic Foundry (Mediasite) provides enterprise video content management and live streaming solutions used by healthcare and education institutions. It overlaps with CDM TV at the video-delivery and content-management layer, though typically serving larger enterprise customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

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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