Alliance Review

What Alliance Review does

The Alliance Review is a local daily newspaper serving Alliance, Ohio, and the surrounding Stark County community. It functions as a community-oriented news outlet covering local news, politics, crime, high school and professional sports (including Cleveland Guardians coverage), community events such as the Carnation Festival, obituaries, real estate listings, public notices, classifieds, and lifestyle content. The publication reaches readers through a multi-channel platform comprising a website (the-review.com), a Facebook presence, email newsletters, a print edition, and an eNewspaper digital replica of the print product. Content syndication from the USA Today Network supplements local reporting with national and regional stories.

The underlying technology stack is a conventional digital news publishing platform with web, mobile, and digital-edition delivery layers, hosted and operated under Gannett's centralized infrastructure. There are no disclosed proprietary technology products, APIs, integrations beyond standard content syndication, or mobile applications; the publication is positioned as a single unified local news service rather than a multi-product technology offering.

The business model combines subscription revenue (print and digital editions) with advertising sales (display, classifieds, obituaries, and public notice legals) and resale of LocaliQ digital marketing solutions from USA Today Network to local businesses. Customer segmentation splits between consumer readers in the Alliance/Stark County geography and local business advertisers seeking regional reach. As a Gannett subsidiary, the Alliance Review operates within the corporate governance, sales technology, and shared-services framework of one of the largest U.S. newspaper companies, with ownership effectively distributed among Gannett's public shareholders.

Name

Alliance Review

Legal name

The Alliance Review

Website

https://the-review.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Alliance Review is a local daily newspaper serving Alliance, Ohio, and Stark County, providing news, sports, obituaries, and community event coverage through print, website, eNewspaper, and social channels as a subsidiary of Gannett within the USA Today Network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Newspaper

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

Keywords

• Local newspaper publishing
• Daily news coverage
• Digital news subscription
• Classified advertising
• Community journalism

Headquarters

HQ city

Alliance

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Alliance Review publishes a daily local newspaper and operates a regional digital news platform delivering news, sports, obituaries, lifestyle content, real estate listings, public notices, and classifieds to Alliance, Ohio and Stark County residents. It monetizes this content through consumer subscriptions (print and eNewspaper) and through advertising and obituaries sold to local businesses, while leveraging Gannett's USA Today Network for syndicated content and LocaliQ digital marketing services.

Product overview

Alliance Review is a local digital news publication serving Alliance, Ohio, and surrounding Stark County communities. The website operates as a content platform offering news, sports, lifestyle features, real estate listings, obituaries, public notices, and an eNewspaper digital edition. It functions as a single, unified local news service rather than a multi-module product portfolio with distinct commercial products or technology offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Alliance Review (daily newspaper, print edition) A weekly print newspaper delivering news, sports, opinion, obituaries, classifieds, public notices, and lifestyle content to subscribers in Alliance, Ohio and Stark County.
• eNewspaper digital edition A digital replica of the print newspaper delivered to subscribers via the-review.com user portal, providing the same editorial content as the print edition in a digital format.
• the-review.com news website The Alliance Review's primary digital platform offering 24/7 access to local news articles, sports coverage, lifestyle features, obituaries, real estate listings, public notices, and classifieds for Alliance, Ohio and Stark County readers.
• Display advertising and classifieds Advertising placements across the print edition, website, and digital edition sold to local businesses seeking reach among Alliance and Stark County consumers.
• Obituary placement service Obituary submission and placement service for families and funeral homes, publishing paid obituaries in the print edition and on the Alliance Review website.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• USA Today: Flagship national publication of Gannett's USA Today Network. While operating at a much larger scale, it is the corporate platform through which Alliance Review's content is syndicated and the brand under which the publication's digital marketing solutions are sold.
• The Toledo Blade: Independent family-owned daily newspaper serving Toledo and northwest Ohio. Comparable as a larger-scale Ohio daily in the same regional market, providing a useful independent-operator benchmark versus Gannett's network model.
• The Akron Beacon Journal: Gannett-owned daily newspaper serving the Akron metro, geographically adjacent to Alliance Review's Stark County market. Operates the same USA Today Network / LocaliQ playbook at a larger scale, providing a useful regional benchmark.
• The Columbus Dispatch: Gannett's flagship Ohio newspaper, serving the Columbus metro. While larger in scale, it operates the same USA Today Network subscription, advertising, and LocaliQ model and is relevant for benchmarking Gannett's Ohio digital strategy and the broader Ohio local-ad market.

Others

• Lee Enterprises: Publicly traded operator of a large portfolio of local newspapers across the U.S. While not a single comparable newspaper, Lee is a relevant industry peer in terms of the small/mid-market local newspaper business model that Alliance Review operates within.

Direct peers

• The Repository (Canton Repository): Gannett-owned daily newspaper serving Canton and Stark County, the same primary market as Alliance Review. It is the most direct geographic and operational comparable, sharing the same corporate parent, USA Today Network affiliation, and LocaliQ digital ad platform.
• The Daily Record (Wooster): Gannett-owned daily newspaper serving Wayne County, Ohio. Operates the same business model (print + digital subscriptions, classifieds, local advertising) and benefits from the same USA Today Network infrastructure as Alliance Review, making it a near-perfect operational peer in a similarly sized Ohio small city.
• The Times-Reporter: Gannett-owned daily newspaper serving New Philadelphia and Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Comparable in scale, format, and product mix to Alliance Review and part of the same USA Today Network, serving as a strong like-for-like operational benchmark.
• The Vindicator (Youngstown): Independent daily newspaper serving Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley in northeastern Ohio. Comparable in audience profile (legacy industrial small/mid-sized Ohio metro), format, and revenue mix, providing a useful non-Gannett benchmark for Alliance Review's economics.
• The Independent (Massillon): Gannett-owned local newspaper serving Massillon and western Stark County. Directly overlaps Alliance Review's geography and competes for the same local advertisers and readers, while operating under the same USA Today Network umbrella.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/alliancereview
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Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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