Type | Private |
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Industry | Digital marketing |
Headquarters | New York City , New York |
Website | conductor |
Conductor was founded in 2006 as a marketing services company, and launched its SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, Conductor Searchlight, in 2010.[1][2] The company’s primary product is Conductor Searchlight, a cloud-based SEO & Content Marketing platform.[3][4] Conductor also provides recommended actions for optimizing digital marketing metrics and increasing revenue.[5]
On March 6, 2018, it was announced that WeWork would acquire Conductor.[6][7] On December 12, 2019, it was announced that Conductor was spinning off from WeWork to form an independent employee-owned company, turning its 250+ current employees into co-founders.[8][9][10][11]
In 2016, Conductor introduced Insight Stream, a technology that aggregates multiple marketing technologies such as Deepcrawl, Dragon Metrics, and Google Search Console into one stream.[12]
Conductor’s charitable arm, the Conductor Foundation, offers free access to the company’s technology and support in the form of a yearly grant to mission-based organizations, with the goal of helping them improve their digital marketing activities.[13][14]
Conductor was founded by Jeremy Duboys and Seth Besmertnik in New York City in 2006.[15][16]
In 2012, the company ranked at number thirty-eight on the Inc. 500 list of US companies ranked by highest growth percentage, and received $20 million in financing.[17][18] Conductor has been ranked as a best place to work (small/medium-sized category) in the state of New York by the Crain organization for 8 years running. The company added an office in San Francisco in 2014.[19] In February 2015 Conductor raised $27 million in Series D round funding.[20] The CEO of the company is Seth Besmertnik.[21]
In March 2018, WeWork announced it would be acquiring Conductor. [22][23]
On December 12, 2019, it was announced that Conductor was spinning off from WeWork to form an independent employee-owned company.[8][9][10][24]
On February 16, 2022, Conductor acquired ContentKing (Real-time SEO Monitoring platform) after raising $150M in funding.[25]