GCN Media Group

What GCN Media Group does

GCN Media Group (legal entity Global Career Networks, Inc.) is a privately held B2B marketing solutions company headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The company is built around a proprietary data platform of 700M+ business records, of which 70% carry business email addresses and 200M+ are validated emails, with the company claiming 95% deliverability and 99% accuracy rates that it states outperform ZoomInfo and Data Axel USA. The platform is organized as four core products (Data Solutions, Lead Generation, Targeted Webinars, Direct Newsletter Advertising) supported by five modular add-on services (On Demand CMO & CTO, On Demand Contact Center, On Demand Salespeople, SMS and Call Services, and Social Media Building), plus pre-configured Marketing Packages.

The technical stack integrates B2B data with multi-channel execution across email, SMS (covering 200+ countries), direct mail, LinkedIn messaging, webinar hosting, and a contact center operating on VOIP with predictive dialers and CRM integration (HubSpot). A global workforce described as 5,000+ professionals supports on-demand sales and contact center deployments across 50+ languages, with scale claimed within one month of engagement. The company holds stated compliance with COPPA, GDPR, and CCPA, and processes payments via Stripe.

GCN's business model combines one-time data licensing (3,000 to 200,000 record tiers), per-attendee webinar fees ($30 per attendee up to 500, $25 above, plus $250 setup), monthly on-demand sales subscriptions, and quote-based enterprise pricing. Go-to-market is sales-led with direct enterprise engagement via Get a Quote, Contact Us, and Schedule a Callback options, and the company operates without disclosed external funding or institutional investors under co-leaders Naton Wells (President) and Michael Woloshin (Strategic Investor). Named enterprise customers span cryptocurrency, healthcare, and electric vehicles.

Name

GCN Media Group

Legal name

Global Career Networks, Inc.

Website

https://gcnmediagroup.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GCN Media Group is a private B2B marketing solutions provider offering a 700M+ record proprietary database, multi-channel lead generation (email, SMS, direct mail, webinars), and on-demand sales and contact center services to enterprise clients across 150+ industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

B2B Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418), Advertising Agencies (541810)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

B2B Demand Generation & Lead Nurture Agencies (BPAFAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Newsletters & Email-Based News Publishers (B2B/B2C) (MPAJADAJ), Technology & B2B PR (MPAAADAC)

Keywords

• B2B data marketing
• Lead generation services
• Email marketing solutions
• B2B contact database
• Newsletter advertising

Headquarters

HQ city

Briarcliff Manor

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. B2B Data Solutions: Sale of targeted business data records including contact names, job titles, company information, and verified business email addresses. Data packages range from 3,000 to 200,000 records with various pricing tiers.
2. Lead Generation Services: Multi-channel lead generation including email campaigns, SMS text campaigns, LinkedIn messaging, call center lead generation, and telesales. Services include appointment setting and qualified lead delivery.
3. Targeted Webinars: Webinar hosting services with audience acquisition. Pricing includes $250 setup fee plus per-attendee charges ($30 per attendee up to 500, $25 per attendee over 500).
4. Direct Newsletter Advertising: Advertising spots across industry-specific newsletters delivered to senior and C-level executives weekly. Features featured and recommended ad options across 100+ business verticals.
5. Social Media Services: LinkedIn services including lead generation packages, C-level executive introductions, company page followers, and custom group building. Facebook and Instagram management services.
6. On-Demand Sales People: Dedicated salespeople services with fixed monthly rate. Essential plan includes 5 dedicated salespeople with specified daily outputs. Advanced plan adds lead closure and additional resources.
7. On-Demand CMO & CTO Services: C-level advisory services providing fractional CMO or CTO expertise. Strategic marketing plans, positioning enhancement, and technology alignment without full-time executive cost.
8. On-Demand Contact Center: Scalable contact center services supporting 1-5,000 people within 1 month. Services include inbound customer service, outbound sales, email/chat support, and market research.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

GCN Media Group provides B2B marketing solutions built around a proprietary database of 700M+ business records, offering targeted data licensing, multi-channel lead generation (email, SMS, LinkedIn, call center), targeted webinar hosting, and direct newsletter advertising to senior executives across 150+ industries. It supplements these core services with on-demand sales teams, contact center operations (1-5,000 agents), SMS marketing in 200+ countries, social media management, and fractional CMO/CTO advisory.

Product overview

GCN Media Group operates as a multi-channel marketing solutions provider built around a core data platform and four primary service lines. The unified platform consists of Data Solutions (the foundational asset providing 700M+ B2B records across 150+ industries), which powers Lead Generation, Targeted Webinars, and Direct Newsletter Advertising. Additional modular add-ons include On Demand CMO & CTO advisory services, On Demand Contact Center (scalable from 1 to 5,000 agents), On Demand Salespeople, SMS and Call Services, and Social Media Building. Marketing Packages bundle combinations of data, email campaigns, webinars, and newsletter advertising at four tiered levels. The architecture is platform-plus-modules, where data serves as the common denominator enabling cross-channel marketing execution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Gcnmediagroup.com: The company's primary website domain and brand identifier for marketing data and lead generation services.

Products and services

• Data Solutions B2B data platform providing targeted business contact records across 150+ industries with multi-channel deployment (email, SMS, direct mail). Database includes 700M+ business records (70% with business emails, 200M+ validated) searchable by job title, industry, geography, company, and employee headcount. Packages range from 3,000 to 200,000 records with premium email validation, real-time curation, and tracking.
• Lead Generation Multi-channel lead generation service combining email broadcast, SMS text campaigns, LinkedIn messaging, call center outreach, and telesales to deliver qualified leads with measurable ROI. Supports email, business phone, mailing data, and LinkedIn messaging capabilities.
• Targeted Webinars End-to-end webinar solution delivering registered prospects and attendees for online seminars. Includes speaker management, audience acquisition, social media management, logistics, analytics, post-event surveys, and content syndication. Priced at $250 setup fee plus $30 per attendee (up to 500) or $25 per attendee (over 500).
• Direct Newsletter Advertising Advertising placement service across industry-specific newsletters delivered weekly to senior and C-level executives across 100+ business verticals. Offers featured and recommended ad options targeting decision-makers by job title.
• On Demand CMO & CTO Services Fractional C-level advisory service providing CMO and CTO expertise on a subscription basis. Includes strategy development, positioning enhancement, brand awareness building, lead generation optimization, technology alignment, and analytics/reporting.
• On Demand Contact Center Scalable contact center services supporting 1 to 5,000 agents with deployment within one month. Provides inbound customer service, email/chat support, outbound sales, survey collection, and market research across 50+ languages, using predictive dialer, VOIP, in-house CRM, scripting, and full call recording.
• On Demand Salespeople Subscription-based dedicated sales team augmentation with vetted professionals deploying multi-channel outreach. Essential Plan includes 5 salespeople, 100 in-house messages daily, 500 emails daily, 1,000 webinar invitations weekly, social media engagement, and HubSpot CRM lead delivery. Advanced Plan adds lead closure resources, 5,000 weekly webinar invitations, and 100,000 targeted data records.
• SMS and Call Services SMS marketing platform enabling bulk messaging, polls, loyalty rewards, auto-responders, and contact management. Supports delivery to 200+ countries with unlimited keywords and subscribers.
• Social Media Building LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram management services including company page growth, group building, C-level executive connection generation, and social media advertising.
• Marketing Packages Pre-configured marketing bundles combining data records, email drip campaigns, webinar hosting, and newsletter advertising. Four tiers: Starter (5,000 records + 3-email drip campaign), Professional (includes 1 webinar), Booster (8,000 records + email drip + booster email + featured newsletter ad for 2 weeks), and Advanced (10,000 records + featured newsletter ad for 2 weeks).

Quantifiable outcome

• 700M+ business data records available with 70% containing business email addresses
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Demandbase: Demandbase is an enterprise B2B account-based marketing platform that, like GCN's multi-channel offering, combines data, advertising, and sales execution, though at the higher end of the market with deeper MarTech integrations.
• 6sense: 6sense provides predictive intent data and demand-generation orchestration for B2B sales and marketing teams, competing with GCN's lead generation and newsletter advertising use cases in the enterprise segment.
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator: LinkedIn Sales Navigator offers B2B decision-maker targeting and InMail outreach that overlaps with GCN's C-level lead generation, but is backed by LinkedIn's first-party professional graph.

Others

• Bombora: Bombora is a B2B intent data provider that complements rather than competes with GCN, often co-deployed alongside data and lead generation platforms to score account intent.

Direct peers

• Lusha: Lusha provides B2B contact data and browser-extensible prospecting for sales reps, overlapping directly with GCN's data-record sales and contact targeting capabilities.
• Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales intelligence and contact data provider with strong EMEA presence and phone-verified numbers, directly competing for multi-region lead generation clients like those served by GCN's contact center.
• Lead411: Lead411 provides B2B contact data, lead generation, and intent triggers for sales teams, operating at a similar SMB/mid-market tier as GCN Media Group with comparable multi-channel marketing packages.
• Apollo.io: Apollo.io combines a B2B contact database with email sequencing and sales engagement workflows, competing head-on with GCN's Data Solutions and Lead Generation services for SMB and mid-market sales teams.
• ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo is the dominant B2B contact and company data platform, with intent signals and sales-engagement tooling. GCN explicitly positions its 700M+ database against ZoomInfo on deliverability and accuracy, making it the closest direct peer in B2B data and lead generation.

Emerging players

• Salesloft: Salesloft is a sales engagement platform with cadence, email tracking and now integrated data, overlapping with GCN's On-Demand Salespeople and email broadcast offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gcnmediagroup

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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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