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Jake Jorgovan

How to Choose a B2B Content Marketing Agency: 15 Firms Compared

By , founder of Content Allies, one of the fifteen firms below, and a partner in Fieldtrip, the agency group, which this article mentions

Published Updated 17 min read

Content marketing asks a lot of a B2B team. Someone has to understand the product well enough to explain it, get time with the experts who know the market, write for buyers who already know their field, and publish steadily for months before the results are clear. If your team has the strategy but not the hours or the writers, an agency can fill the gap.

This guide helps you make that decision. It explains when an agency makes sense, how a content specialist differs from a full B2B marketing agency, and what to test before you sign. It then compares 15 agencies that sell content as a core service, with the client proof and pricing each one publishes.

Do you need an agency, and what kind?

An agency is worth considering when you know what content has to achieve but lack the capacity or the specialist skills to produce it. Typical signs are a strategy without the writers to carry it out, experts who never find time to write, or a program that has published for a year without bringing in buyers. An agency can also bridge the months it takes to hire and train an in-house team.

Content programs also fail for reasons that are not about writing. There is no written strategy, or the budget is too thin to publish consistently. Nobody promotes what is published, the content says nothing a buyer could not find elsewhere, or the team stops before results have had time to arrive. If strategy is the gap, make research and a written plan the agency's first engagement. Your team still has to supply clear business goals, access to its experts and a budget for publishing and distribution.

Then decide which kind of firm you need:

  • A content specialist sells content as a core service: strategy, research, writing and distribution, often combined with search and AI-search visibility. Choose one when content is the channel you want to build and you already run the rest of your marketing.
  • An integrated B2B agency offers content beside brand, demand generation, paid media, websites or PR. Choose one when content is part of a wider campaign and you want one firm to coordinate it. Ironpaper, The MX Group and Walker Sands are examples: each offers content inside a broader B2B program. Integrated agencies are compared in the guide to B2B marketing agencies by the job you need.

Whichever you choose, give it a narrow first job. In 2021 I said on my podcast that most successful companies have one or two marketing channels that work really well for them. My advice was to test two or three channels at a time and spend about three months looking for early results, or signs that a test is moving in the right direction. Then double down on the one that works and build a system around it.

I'd brief a content agency the same way. Name the channel content has to win, such as search for buying-intent topics, an executive's LinkedIn presence, research reports for sales conversations or a podcast, and judge the agency on that before you widen the scope.

Agree which early signs you will review, and when business results should follow: Grow and Convert, for example, says its SEO work takes at least six months.

Compare 15 B2B content marketing agencies

Each firm sells content as a core service to B2B, SaaS or technology companies: content marketing, search and AI-search programs built on content it writes, thought leadership or podcasts. Some describe themselves as SEO, AI-visibility or growth-systems agencies, and their entries say so. Each publishes named clients, case studies or attributed testimonials. The firms are grouped by the work they lead with, and the groups overlap: most also offer search optimization, and several produce thought leadership. The list is not ranked, and other agencies also sell B2B content.

Fifteen B2B content marketing agencies, grouped by the work they lead with and A to Z within each group, as their own pages described them on October 7, 2026. Results and client names come from the firms' sites.
FirmMain content offerWho its site says it servesProof it publishes
Content and search programs for software companies7 of 15 firms
AnimalzContent strategy, creation, SEO and AI-search optimization, executive LinkedIn contentB2B SaaS, venture capital and other tech companiesNamed customer stories, including Amplitude, Unit21 and Frontify
CodelessContent operations and search systems built in the client's accounts, then handed overSaaS and enterprise brands; also travel and hospitalitymonday.com, Remote, Robinhood and Freshworks results; a named client testimonial
Content GuppyContent, link building and AI-search work aimed at trials and revenueB2B SaaS companiesKickbox results, with a quote from its CEO
FoundationContent strategy and distribution for search, AI answers and communitiesB2B tech and SaaSA Bitly case study and a named client testimonial
Grow and ConvertSEO and AI-search content focused on conversionsB2B and B2C brandsCase results and client logos on its homepage
Omniscient DigitalSEO, AI-search and content programsB2B software companiesNamed case studies, including Smartling and SpotDraft
OptimistContent marketing, SEO and AI-search optimizationB2B SaaS and technology companiesNamed case studies, including Glide and Stampli
Expert interviews and thought leadership5 of 15 firms
BEAMContent built from interviews with your experts, customers and partnersB2B SaaS marketers selling to mid-market and enterprise buyersA Dooly case study and a named Groundswell testimonial
Considered ContentThought leadership: research reports, ebooks, videoTechnology, manufacturing and professional servicesNamed clients, including Munich Re, Sony and Acquia
Goodman LanternResearch-driven B2B content and writingB2B companies; it cites 100+ global brandsCase studies, including a white paper for AFH Wealth Management
MegawattTechnical B2B content, as part of LaunchSquad's content studioTechnology companies in cybersecurity, deep tech, climate tech and other complex B2B marketsNamed clients in LaunchSquad's announcement, including Snyk and Brightcove
Uplift ContentCase studies, ebooks, white papers and blog postsB2B SaaS companiesCustomer stories from LeanData, WalkMe and Author-it
Enterprise content programs2 of 15 firms
BraftonContent strategy, creation and a content platformEnterprises and growth-focused SMBsNamed B2B case studies and client testimonials
SkywordEnterprise content programs drawing on vetted subject matter expertsEnterprise marketersResults for Samsung, IBM and GE Healthcare content hubs
Podcast-led content1 of 15 firms
Content AlliesB2B podcast strategy, production and promotionB2B companies, including enterprisesA Meta podcast case study and other named stories

Content and search programs for software companies

7 of 15 firms

These firms build content programs meant to rank in search and appear in AI-generated answers, and most report results as traffic, sign-ups or pipeline. They suit a software or technology company that wants content to become a reliable source of buyers. Grow and Convert also works with B2C brands.

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Animalz website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Animalz website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A SaaS or technology company that wants content strategy, SEO and executive content from one team
Evidence
customer stories (opens in a new tab)

Animalz's Amplitude case study (opens in a new tab), published in June 2026, describes a partnership from 2015 to 2025 that ended when Amplitude took the program in-house. It reports organic traffic growing from about 7,000 monthly visits in 2015 to more than 150,000 by the end of 2024, and 200,000 a month by the time of writing. Its customer stories also include Unit21, where it says a printed book helped generate millions in pipeline, and Frontify, with 550 leads.

The firm describes itself as a content marketing and SEO agency for B2B SaaS brands. Beyond articles and SEO, it produces research reports, white papers and books. Its LinkedIn program (opens in a new tab) for executives offers 12 or more posts a month and asks for about two hours of the executive's time each month (October 2026).

Sources
Animalz, website (opens in a new tab)
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Codeless website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Codeless website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A company that wants help building its own content operation, then running it in-house
Evidence
case studies (opens in a new tab)

Codeless reports building content and search systems for monday.com, Remote, Robinhood and Freshworks: 600 articles for Robinhood, and more than 300 articles in 12 months for Freshworks, which it says contributed to 61% year-over-year growth. Its case studies page says it has helped more than 200 SaaS brands treat content as a strategic function. Sam Shepler, CEO at Testimonial Hero, says Codeless helped launch a content program "without really having to take a lot of time or energy from us internally".

Its homepage describes a "Diagnose. Build. Transfer." model. Codeless sets up the writer recruitment, editorial calendars, quality checks and production workflows inside the client's own accounts, then hands them to the internal team, and offers full-service, consulting or coaching engagements. It also builds paid, analytics and lifecycle systems, and has a separate travel and hospitality line.

Sources
Codeless, website (opens in a new tab)
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Content Guppy website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Content Guppy website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B SaaS company that measures content by trials and revenue
Evidence
SaaS content marketing page (opens in a new tab)

For Kickbox, Content Guppy's SaaS content marketing page says it rebuilt a page as the type of content search was rewarding, then built links to it. It reports that the post brings in 22 new customers and $2,500 in new monthly recurring revenue each month. Its case studies (opens in a new tab) separately credit a link-building program with moving a Kickbox sales page to first place within two months, which Kickbox's CEO, Matthew Rathbone, confirms in a quote. The founder, Greg Digneo, joined Time Doctor in 2015 as its second marketing hire, where he built a content program measured by trials.

Its homepage presents a B2B SaaS SEO agency that combines content, link building and AI-search work, and its content is aimed at buyers who are already comparing products, such as "alternatives" and "best software" articles. Its case studies are written by the people who ran them.

Sources
Content Guppy, website (opens in a new tab)
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Foundation website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Foundation website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B SaaS company that wants content distributed for search, AI answers and online communities
Evidence
case studies (opens in a new tab)

Foundation's case studies open with Bitly (opens in a new tab): a Reddit-first program, supported by on-site content and YouTube, during which Bitly's citation share in AI answers about link shorteners grew to 11.7% over 12 months. Another (opens in a new tab) reports a 107% year-over-year increase in blog performance for a construction software company in Q3 2024. Micah Strand, Head of Marketing at Sitetracker, praises its combination of "strategic thinking with execution".

It presents itself as an AI visibility and generative engine optimization agency. Its content strategy page (opens in a new tab) says it has built content strategies for B2B SaaS since 2014, and its founder wrote Create Once, Distribute Forever. Distribution is its distinguishing emphasis: what to create, where it should appear and how it turns into revenue.

Sources
Foundation, website (opens in a new tab)

Grow and Convert

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Grow and Convert website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Grow and Convert website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A company that wants content judged by conversions and can wait six months or more for search results
Evidence
service and pricing page (opens in a new tab)
Published pricing
a base package of $10k a month (October 2026), scaling with the number of keywords or articles

Grow and Convert's homepage reports results such as 600+ new monthly sign-ups and top-three rankings for 25+ high-intent keywords, mostly without naming the client, and shows client logos including Avoma, Bigtincan and Clearscope. It calls itself the creator of "Pain Point SEO", which targets topics with buying intent ahead of traffic volume.

Its service page describes a GEO and SEO-focused content agency for B2B and B2C brands that interviews product and sales experts, writes and promotes the content, and reports the conversions each article brings in. It says SEO takes "6+ months minimum", does not require a 6- or 12-month contract and offers a discount for a yearly one.

Sources
Grow and Convert, website (opens in a new tab)

Omniscient Digital

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Omniscient Digital website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Omniscient Digital website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B software company that wants content and SEO measured in pipeline
Evidence
case studies (opens in a new tab)
Published pricing
full-service engagements start at $10,000 a month (October 2026)

Omniscient's case studies report $3.7M of qualified pipeline for Smartling and $2.94M of pipeline for SpotDraft, both from organic search, and 39 times as many blog conversions for Order.co. Dave Gerhardt, founder of Exit Five and a former CMO at Drift, says the team captured his voice while scaling his content.

The agency works with B2B software companies on SEO, AI-search visibility and content. Its content production service (opens in a new tab) starts from interviews with subject matter experts and product demos before briefs are written.

Sources
Omniscient Digital, website (opens in a new tab)
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Optimist website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Optimist website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B SaaS team that wants to start small, with an advisory or month-to-month plan
Evidence
content marketing case studies (opens in a new tab)
Published pricing
homepage tiers of $7,500 for a one-time roadmap, advisory from $3,000 a month and full service from $4,000 a month (October 2026); its B2B content page says plans start at $2,500 a month

After 12 months of content marketing for Glide, Optimist reports 14 times as many leads in its case studies, which also cover Stampli (five times the inbound pipeline) and Plytix. Ana Camarena of Semrush is quoted on its homepage, and Claire Murdough, Content Marketing Manager at HelloSign, on its contact page.

Its homepage leads with SEO and AEO consulting for B2B tech, and its B2B content marketing page (opens in a new tab) covers campaign content, sales assets and thought leadership as well as search content. The two pages give different starting prices, so confirm which plan applies to your scope.

Sources
Optimist, website (opens in a new tab)

Expert interviews and thought leadership

5 of 15 firms

These firms build content from what your experts, customers and partners know: research reports, white papers, case studies and articles that need subject knowledge. They suit a team whose buyers are specialists and whose experts have the ideas but not the time to write.

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BEAM website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

BEAM website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B SaaS company selling to mid-market or enterprise buyers that wants content from its own experts
Evidence
named client testimonials (opens in a new tab)
Published pricing
customers typically spend $10,000 to $12,000 a month, with a $5,000 monthly minimum (October 2026)

Brendan Short, co-founder and CEO of Groundswell, says on BEAM's work-with-us page that his blog's subscribers doubled. Its Dooly case study (opens in a new tab) quotes Camille Trent, Head of Content, saying that with BEAM's social support Dooly gained more than 14,000 LinkedIn followers in three months, and that case studies played a part in journeys to demo requests. Its work page (opens in a new tab) also includes Typeform.

BEAM interviews your experts, customers and partners, then turns the material into long-form guides, reports, case studies and articles, and repurposes them for social channels. It also runs 12-week campaign content sprints. Its fee is all-inclusive, covering interviews, project management, writing, editing and design. BEAM says it sends a proposed plan within a week of the first call and can often start within a month (October 2026).

Sources
BEAM, website (opens in a new tab)

Considered Content

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Considered Content website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Considered Content website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A technology, manufacturing or professional services firm that wants research-led thought leadership
Evidence
client work (opens in a new tab)

Considered Content's client work names Eloomi, Munich Re, Intelex, Acquia, Sony and Yale among its projects. For Munich Re (opens in a new tab), it analyzed the market's messaging on automated underwriting, then produced a library of assets, from a manifesto on business agility to how-to guides for insurers.

The agency describes itself as a B2B thought leadership agency. Its services (opens in a new tab) include "Mapping & Gapping", which shows where a market's content is crowded and where it is open, as well as research reports, ebooks and video. It also sells thought leadership as a subscription (opens in a new tab): a 12-month plan whose agreed cost is spread across the year (October 2026). That subscription page does not publish a price.

Sources
Considered Content, website (opens in a new tab)

Goodman Lantern

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Goodman Lantern website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Goodman Lantern website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B company that needs research-backed white papers and articles written by native English writers
Evidence
case studies (opens in a new tab)

Goodman Lantern wrote a white paper on the acquisition market in UK wealth management for AFH Wealth Management, one of the projects on its case studies page. Another names ETC Consult, an Irish consulting firm; others, such as a white paper on embedded lending for a financial services firm, leave the client unnamed. The page says it has produced content for thousands of projects since 2014.

Its B2B content marketing page (opens in a new tab) describes a team of native English-speaking writers, editors and SEO specialists, and its homepage says it combines primary research, persona insights and SEO. In October 2026, its pricing page (opens in a new tab) gave terms but no subscription fee: a six-month subscription as standard, a penalty-free break clause at the end of the first month, and a free writing trial of up to 300 words. Access to its discoverability tool requires a minimum monthly spend of $3,000.

Sources
Goodman Lantern, website (opens in a new tab)
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Megawatt website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Megawatt website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B technology company that needs content about complex technical products
Evidence
LaunchSquad's announcement (opens in a new tab)

LaunchSquad's announcement that Megawatt has joined it names Snyk, Arcadia, AtScale, Opal and Brightcove among Megawatt's clients. It describes Megawatt as a Boston-based content agency known for technical content for companies in cybersecurity, deep tech, climate tech and other complex B2B industries, and says the team has joined the LaunchSquad Content Studio.

Megawatt's own site presents a B2B content marketing agency for tech companies that is part of LaunchSquad, a communications and digital marketing agency. Ask which team would deliver your engagement and which company you would contract with.

Sources
Megawatt, website (opens in a new tab)
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Uplift Content website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Uplift Content website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A SaaS marketing team that needs case studies, ebooks and white papers from specialist writers
Evidence
customer stories (opens in a new tab)

Uplift's customer stories include LeanData, for which it writes case studies and reports 129% traffic growth, WalkMe and Author-it. Its SaaS content page (opens in a new tab) names ClickUp, WalkMe and Okta among the software companies it works with.

It calls itself a "small but mighty" SaaS content marketing agency, with writers who have journalism backgrounds, and its homepage says clients are not locked into a contract (October 2026). It suits a team that already has a strategy and needs reliable writing for the sales-supporting formats more than one that needs an agency to run the whole program.

Sources
Uplift Content, website (opens in a new tab)

Enterprise content programs

2 of 15 firms

These firms run large content programs with their own platforms and production teams. They suit an enterprise marketing department that needs volume across divisions, formats or markets.

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Brafton website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Brafton website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A company that wants one provider for content strategy, writing, design, video and a content platform
Evidence
case studies (opens in a new tab)

For ManagedMethods, a K-12 cybersecurity company, Brafton's case studies report that 14 blog posts brought page-one rankings and more than 200 backlinks. For Beca, eight blog posts earned 31 citations in Google's AI Overviews. Its testimonials (opens in a new tab) include Claire Weber, Communications Manager at AIG Travel Guard.

The firm says it has done inbound marketing since 2008 and serves "enterprises & growth-focused SMBs". It is not B2B-only: its case studies also cover consumer brands. Its services combine strategy, content production and its own content marketing software.

Sources
Brafton, website (opens in a new tab)
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Skyword website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Skyword website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
An enterprise that needs content from qualified subject matter experts across several divisions
Evidence
client results (opens in a new tab)

Skyword's client results attribute more than 12,000 annual enterprise leads to Samsung's Business Insights content, which it says drives a quarter of Samsung's B2B site traffic. The same page credits IBM's Security Intelligence content as the security division's top source of qualified leads, and GE Healthcare's Clinical View content with $71.5M of pipeline for a new product line.

It describes itself as an enterprise content marketing agency. Its expert content service (opens in a new tab) draws on a network of 12,000 vetted subject matter experts, such as practitioners, former executives, clinicians and engineers, and interviews the client's own experts. It also offers its own content software, Accelerator360.

Sources
Skyword, website (opens in a new tab)

Podcast-led content

1 of 15 firms

A podcast is a different content channel: interviews with the people you want to reach, repurposed into articles, video and social posts. It suits a company that sells through relationships with senior buyers.

Founded by Jake Jorgovan, the author

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Content Allies website, captured October 2026.View source (opens in a new tab)

Content Allies website, captured October 2026.

Potential fit
A B2B company that wants a podcast run end to end, from strategy and guests to promotion
Evidence
Meta podcast case study (opens in a new tab)

Content Allies' Meta case study describes the Meta Business, Innovation, and Technology podcast, which began regular publishing in August 2021 and reached about 170,000 downloads in its first six months with the firm. Its success stories (opens in a new tab) include Tonkean's operations podcast and Sagemark HR, which it credits with nine new clients in the podcast's first year.

The firm is a B2B podcast agency. Its services (opens in a new tab) cover strategy, production, guest scheduling, promotion and advertising, scoped to the client's goals, and include repurposing episodes into written articles and quarterly reporting.

Sources
Content Allies, website (opens in a new tab)

What these agencies publish about price

On the pages read, four of the 15 firms publish package or retainer prices, and each states them differently. These are their own figures in October 2026, not a market range:

Published prices from four content agencies, read October 7, 2026
FirmWhat the site saysWhat the figure covers
Content and search programs for software companies3 of 4 firms
Grow and ConvertBase package of $10k a month; no 6- or 12-month contract required; discount for a yearly contractStrategy, writing, promotion, link building and conversion reporting
Omniscient DigitalFull-service engagements start at $10,000 a monthIts full-service program
OptimistOne-time roadmap $7,500; advisory from $3,000 a month; full service from $4,000 a monthMonth-to-month retainers; its B2B content page says plans start at $2,500 a month
Expert interviews and thought leadership1 of 4 firms
BEAMCustomers typically spend $10,000 to $12,000 a month; $5,000 monthly minimumInterviews, project management, writing, editing and design

The other eleven firms do not publish a content price on the pages read. Considered Content sells a subscription without stating the price, and Goodman Lantern quotes subscription fees individually while publishing its contract terms and the spending condition in its entry. When proposals arrive, compare the same points: what the monthly fee includes, how many pieces or hours it buys, the minimum term and notice period, who owns the content and accounts, and how results will be reported.

How to test an agency before you sign

  1. Write down what content must do

    Name the buyer, the decision you want content to influence and the one channel it must win first. Set a first-quarter checkpoint for delivery and early signs, then agree a timetable for qualified conversations, sign-ups or other business results that fits the channel. Decide too whether content only has to generate leads or must serve the whole funnel, including onboarding and retention: the second needs more formats and a larger scope.

  2. Test its knowledge of your market

    B2B buyers notice when a writer does not understand the product. Ask how the agency learns a technical subject and who it interviews. For a SaaS company, ask whether its strategists understand recurring revenue, churn, free trials and how your funding model shapes growth targets, and whether anyone on the team has worked inside a software company.

  3. Read the proof critically

    The case results above are the agencies' own summaries. Ask what changed, over what period and how the agency connected its work to the result. Ask peers in your network which agencies they have used, ask each agency for a reference from a client in a market like yours, and ask how it measured the figure it shows you.

  4. Watch for the usual warning signs

    Be wary of a promise of fast results from a secret method: content builds over months. An agency that asks you few questions about your buyers and goals is likely to produce generic work. An agency's own search rankings say little about the work it does for clients. If a first conversation leaves you frustrated, expect the working relationship to do the same.

  5. Agree terms and measurement in writing

    Settle the scope, the price basis, the minimum term, ownership of the content and accounts, and the reporting you will receive before work begins. Confirm who publishes the work, who checks factual and technical accuracy, and how revisions are handled.

  • Which clients like us have you worked with, and can we speak to one?
  • Who will write our content, and how will they learn from our experts?
  • What do you need from our team each month, and how much of our experts' time?
  • What will you report, how often, and how do you connect content to pipeline?
  • What does the monthly fee include, and what costs extra?
  • What is the minimum term, and what happens to the content and accounts if we stop?
  • Who manages our account, and how are feedback, approvals and missed deadlines handled?

Sources and method

How this list was made

Candidates came from this guide's original list of firms and two related lists merged into it. A firm is listed when it sells content as a core service to B2B, SaaS or technology companies (content marketing, search programs built on content it writes, thought leadership or podcasts) and its site publishes named client proof. Pages were read on October 7, 2026; figures and client names are the firms' own claims.

Jake's record

  • Working Without Pants: Episode 208, How to think about marketing, November 30, 2021, 03:11, 08:06 and 10:12

Firm pages read October 7, 2026

Jake Jorgovan

Jake works with enterprise leaders on marketing strategy and executive talent. He co-founded Alpha Apex Group, founded Content Allies, owns Listen Network and is a partner in Fieldtrip, a group of marketing agencies. He founded Lead Cookie and later sold it.

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