AI BDR for Media & Publishing Companies — Autonomous Outbound
Strides Agent helps media companies and publishers reach advertisers, content partners, and platform decision-makers. Autonomous B2B outreach for media industry pipeline.
Media and publishing B2B sales requires reaching the right brand advertiser, platform partner, or distribution deal at the exact right moment. Strides monitors brand spending shifts, platform launches, and content strategy signals to get you there first.
By the Numbers
- 4.8× — More advertiser and partner meetings booked
- 0 — Sales headcount for outreach
- 24/7 — Advertiser pipeline motion
- 48h — From brand signal to first outreach
Built for Media and Publishing B2B Sales.
Brand advertiser signals, platform partner targeting, and autonomous outreach for media companies and publishers.
Prospect Research
Finds, scores, and qualifies your ideal customers from 6 live data sources — hiring signals, funding rounds, intent data, and more.
Personalized Outreach
Writes and sends emails that reference the prospect's specific context. Not templates with merge fields — genuinely unique messages for every person.
AI Phone Calls
Real phone conversations with real objection handling. The AI books meetings on the call, detects voicemail in 2 seconds, and leaves a perfect message every time.
Inbound Handling
Responds to every inbound inquiry in under 60 seconds, qualifies them against your ICP, and books a meeting before your team even opens their laptop.
Autonomous Pipeline
Stranger to booked meeting without a single human touchpoint. The full outbound motion runs on its own, 24/7, across every timezone.
CRM Sync & Reporting
Every interaction logged to your CRM automatically. Calls transcribed, scored, and summarized. Full pipeline visibility without any manual data entry.
Media and Publishing B2B Sales Requires Attention to Brand and Platform Signals
Media and publishing companies have multiple B2B revenue streams, each requiring distinct outreach: direct advertiser relationships (brand and agency buyers), platform distribution partnerships, content licensing, and increasingly, data and audience partnerships. Each buyer type has different motivations, different procurement processes, and different seasonal patterns.
Advertiser outreach is highly timing-dependent. Brands set advertising budgets on annual and quarterly cycles, and CMO transitions frequently reset agency and publisher relationships. Strides monitors these signals — brand spending shifts, CMO appointments, campaign planning windows — to trigger outreach at the highest-value moments.
Media companies using Strides see the most impact in two areas: systematic direct advertiser development (identifying brands that should be advertising on a property but aren't) and new platform partnership outreach (approaching streaming services, aggregators, and distribution platforms at key expansion moments).
What Customers Say
We were spending 3 hours a day on list building. Strides does it overnight while we sleep. We wake up to 200 verified, signal-qualified leads every morning.
Daniel Frey, Head of Sales at Paigo — 200 signal-qualified leads delivered every morning
Our previous tool sent the same email with the name swapped. Strides writes something different for every single person. Prospects actually respond saying they were impressed.
Jordan Lee, Director of Sales at Resend — Reply rate up 3.7× in the first 30 days
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can Strides help with both direct advertiser and programmatic advertising sales?
Yes. Direct advertiser outreach targets brand CMOs and media buyers. Programmatic sales targets trading desk leads and agency programmatic directors. Each requires distinct messaging and timing.
What signals does Strides monitor for media industry outreach?
CMO appointments, brand advertising spend disclosures, platform partnership announcements, content licensing deal news, media company funding events, and brand category advertising shift signals.
Does Strides work for digital publishers, broadcasters, and audio/podcast companies?
Yes across all media formats. Digital publishers target display and sponsorship advertisers. Broadcasters target brand and agency buyers. Podcast and audio companies target host-read and programmatic advertisers.
How does Strides handle seasonal advertising budget cycles?
Strides intensifies outreach during budget planning windows (Q3 for annual budgets, early each quarter for quarterly) and de-prioritizes outreach during periods when brands have committed budgets and are focused on execution.
Can Strides help media companies with content partnership and licensing outreach?
Yes. Content licensing outreach targets streaming services, aggregators, and platform content acquisition teams. Distribution partnership outreach targets business development leads at new platforms seeking content supply.