Mediavine

This year’s Premiere Publisher Retreat landed us in Palm Springs, California. We invited Mediavine’s top-performing publishers to spend a few days with us at the Ritz-Carlton Rancho Mirage, attending educational sessions on the top topics of 2025, fostering new relationships through peer networking, booking 1-on-1 time with industry experts, and experiencing entertainment found only in Palm Springs. This year’s event strengthened business ideas, inspired new growth, and celebrated successes as we move into 2025.

Kicking off our week in Palm Springs at IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting. If you’re attending ALM, let’s connect!

At the beginning of this week, members of the Mediavine team spent time volunteering on MLK Day to make a positive impact in their communities. From volunteering at our local libraries, sorting food donations at our community food banks, to participating in city gardening, clothing drives, or gathering supplies for donations, we saw involvement from our team members across the country. We are thankful for our team members who volunteered, and for their action in their communities. #MLKDay

At the beginning of this week, members of the Mediavine team spent time volunteering on MLK Day to make a positive impact in their communities. From volunteering at our local libraries, sorting food donations at our community food banks, to participating in city gardening, clothing drives, or gathering supplies for donations, we saw involvement from our team members across the country. We are thankful for our team members who volunteered, and for their action in their communities. #MLKDay

That's a wrap for Tastemaker 2025— we’re thankful to spend invaluable time with our publishers in the food blogging industry. Whether you’re one of the 5,000+ Journey publishers or publishing at our highest Mediavine level – wherever you’re at in your career, we're grateful for every opportunity to spend time with you!

We’ve landed in Vegas to kick things off for the 2025 Tastemaker Conference. This year, the Mediavine Lounge transforms into The Creator’s Table, a gathering place that honors the creativity and individuality of every creator and your business. Schedule 1:1 meetings with account managers, enter our cookbook raffle, or stop by to say hello and grab a tasty treat! Make sure to attend our micro-learning sessions hosted by industry experts. We'll hear from ContentYum's Head of Content Ashley Segura on conducting your own content performance reviews, Mediavine CRO Amanda Martin to divulge buy-side industry updates, SEO Strategist Arsen Rabinovich of TopHatRank will share his checklist for optimizing recipe content in 2025, and Mediavine SVP of Publisher Success Heather Tullos to discuss a reader's journey to your top-performing content. On the main stage, don’t miss Mediavine CEO Eric Hochberger’s keynote discussing 2025 Industry trends- everything from a shifting privacy landscape to search algorithms, with actionable insights as we dive into the new year. We hope to see you there!

Join us in Las Vegas for this year’s Tastemaker Conference on January 19-21st. Hundreds of publishers in the food industry will gather to swap industry tips and tricks, attend informational sessions, and expand their network of fellow creators. Visit the Mediavine Lounge for our own micro-learning sessions and helpful 1:1s with account managers. See you there!

This week members of our team are in Las Vegas, attending Consumer Technology Association's Consumer Electronics Show. We’re meeting with new faces and catching up with industry friends to learn more about the latest and greatest advancements in tech. If you’re at CES, we’d love to say hello!

Mediavine has been recognized as one of Jounce Media's Bellwether portfolios in their latest January 2025 report. To be awarded Jounce Media’s Bellwether portfolio status upholds what we're always striving for – we exemplify the highest quality standards in the marketplace. We are honored by this recognition as we continue our commitment to the programmatic advertising industry.

Happy New Year! 🎆 We hope you had a wonderful holiday season. Thank you for sharing the past year with us, we can't wait to see what 2025 has in store! As a reminder, we will return from our break tomorrow Thursday, January 2nd.