About

Connect Media supports organizations in the United States and Canada across multiple sectors by delivering business intelligence and targeted lead generation. Industries served include commercial real estate, financial services, legal services, automated banking, self-service technology, food, restaurant, and retail.

We serve these sectors through our news and information, creative services, conferences, multifamily listing platform, and more.

From inspiration to execution, we develop ideas into projects and campaigns that empower our clients to successfully market their products, services, teams, and events. Connect Media brings together a closely coordinated, multi-disciplined team of experts, featuring world-class experience and skills in media, news, marketing, creative, branding, events, technology, email deliverability, and PR and communications strategies.

As a fully integrated marketing agency with extensive and diverse expertise, we are uniquely positioned to provide a thoroughly synergistic, creative approach — all with a commitment to best-in-class service.

At our core, we support the industries we serve by delivering the information needed to make better, more confident business decisions.

Our values

We understand the industries we serve

We understand the businesses of commercial real estate, financial services, legal, automated banking, self-service technology, food, restaurant, and retail industries, and closely follow evolving market trends to better serve and advise our clients.

We know the businesses of commercial real estate, financial services and law

We know the businesses of commercial real estate, financial services and law and stay on top of the changing trends so that we can better serve and advise our clients.

We are passionate about what we do

We love what we do and every day we strive to be even better.

We take a client-centric approach

What matters most to us is our relationship with our clients and our goal is to truly be an extension of your team. We take the time to learn and understand your business and the people who make up your team. In order for us to be successful, we have to help you be successful.

We make connections

Staying true to our name, we connect people, content, information and places.

We produce excellence

We do not accept “good enough,” we pursue excellence.

We value creativity and adventure

We create a place for independent thinkers to collaborate. We love to challenge ourselves and expand boundaries through content and design.

We overcome adversity

We overcome challenges as a team and learn from our failures. We take every experience – good and bad – as a way to grow and be better going forward.

We bring out the best in our clients

We understand it is a process – baby steps and big steps – and we make our clients part of the creative process. We give our clients the tools they need to succeed. In order for us to be successful, we need to make our clients successful.

Diversity by the numbers

Minority Split

36%

Gender Split

History

Connect Media is a full-service marketing and strategic media company. The Connect team brings together a multi-disciplined group of experts featuring best-in-class service and a unique collection of experience in reporting, events, marketing, branding, creative, and digital services.

2015

Connect Media was established in 2015 in Los Angeles, California. We hit the ground running with a focus on Commercial Real Estate, starting in California with daily news; four events in Los Angeles, Orange County, West Los Angeles and the Inland Empire; and client marketing videos and creative projects.

2016 to 2019

Real estate is a regional business and as our news coverage and offerings grew market to market, so did our team. First expanding with a National daily news email in 2016, we grew quickly over the next few years with the addition of Texas, New York, Chicago, Boston and New England, Phoenix and the Southwest, Washington DC, Florida and the Gulf Coast, Atlanta and the South East, and Seattle and Northwest daily emails and events and advertising to complement.

In 2019 we were named to the Inc. 5000 list for the first time, and began celebrating being one of the nation’s fastest growing privately owned companies.

2020

During the pandemic, Connect pivoted and helped our clients across all sectors pivot as well. We worked with clients across the nation to help them go digital – creating websites, improving SEO, creating and executing social media and PPC campaigns, sending out targeted emails and putting together holistic digital marketing strategies. We shifted from live events to digital events and webcasts and curated and promoted over 400 webinars from 2020 to 2022.

In 2020 we were certified by the NMSDC (National Minority Supplier Diversity Council) as a Minority Owned Business, and named to the Financial Times Fastest Growing Companies in North America list (right next to Tesla).

2022

Connect has made a strong return to live events in 2022. We continue to expand with the launch of Connect Classroom, CRE Insider and the CRE Ad & Event Shop. We have also expanded our reach into the financial services industry with the launch of Connect Money, bringing you the information you need to better serve your customers and run your business.

2023

Connect acquires ApartmentBuildings.com, an industry-leading multifamily online sales platform, serving the needs of investors, brokers, REITs, private equity firms, developers and family offices. The platform offers an updated, intuitive interface, enhanced search functionality, and an easy-to-use loan calculator designed to help users efficiently identify investment opportunities and increase visibility for listings.

2026

Connect acquires Networld Media Group, a leading business media company with more than 25 years of experience serving executives and decision-makers across the restaurant, retail, banking, technology, and related industries. The acquisition doubles the size of the Connect team and adds a dynamic group of seasoned professionals, expanding the company’s ability to deliver trusted content and services across new industry sectors.

Today & Beyond

Today Connect Media serves b2b clients across commercial real estate, financial services, restaurant, retail, banking and technology sectors. Every day we strive to positively impact these industries nationwide by better serving the people and places that we touch. Our innovative and integrated approach provides our clients with a platform to tell their stories and share their experience and success through written, digital and creative channels. We believe in a world where people come together so that true connections can be made. We live by our name in its most simplistic form: we connect people, places, content, and ideas.

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