What We Do

We bring together the best designers, technologists and multimedia producers of a generation from around the world and let them do what they do best: solve your problems.

Our clients are public servants, non-profits, and civically-minded corporations who are passionate about building media together with us that connects them with their customers, audiences, friends, and constituents through a genuine, commonly shared experience.

IB5k: Big Ideas Made Simple

Flagship Products

It’s exciting when a project becomes a product. Our flagship products — Correlate and Aware — came out of lengthy consulting projects with clients. And sometimes a solution to a problem is so useful or cool or novel that we have to share it with the world.

Correlate is a tool that lets you listen to direct online communication. What are your customers, audience, constituency saying to you? Where are they, who are they, what are they most interested in? Are they pleased, upset, nonplussed? Correlate is an analytics platform and sentiment analysis system for direct communication — suitable for any entity with a large email inbox or boxes. Correlate was created to address the constituent communications challenges of the U.S. House of Representatives. Read our case study or contact us to see Correlate in action.

Aware helps you understand the conversation around your company, brand and products. It monitors indirect communication, statuses, earned and owned media and influencers. It lets you create a dashboard that is a starting point for managing and engaging this never-ending conversation. Aware is more than a complete social media analytics package, it’s the starting point for an effective social media strategy.

Aware and Correlate together provide a complete digital communications analysis package. Contact us today to find out more.

The Video Distributor and the Producer

IB5k Network curates a high volume transparent network of publishers with an engaged audience and offers advertisers unique content opportunities that will make an impression. We offer all industry standard Video ad delivery targeting and trafficking options, and all IAB ad formats. Our in-house ad server and trafficking software and aggressive use of leading edge open source solutions wherever possible allows us to provide extremely competitive pricing.

Rich Media Ad Infrastructure built from Scratch

Our proprietary adserver TADD leverages dynamic languages and no-sql key value stores to allow us to provide reliable ad delivery without costly overhead. Our simple, full featured trafficking system allows an agile trafficking and accounting staff to work to manage large campaigns efficiently. Our use of virtual infrastructure ensures we can scale up or down quickly along with demand.

IB5k’s proprietary video player and ad integration stack allows us to build custom ad integrations quickly and to specification. It also ensures that our player is optimized for ad delivery as opposed to many of the competing players on the market. We support VAST/VPAID 2.0 flash integrations and HTML5 for non flash devices.

Transparency

Ad networks have been in the news recently and the news hasn’t been all good. Here’s the good news: IB5kNetwork is about transparency. Most networks put up a wall between the advertiser and publisher delivery data. We break down the wall.

We have proprietary tracking technology that proactively stops unauthorized ad delivery. We act aggressively to protect advertiser value and have a zero tolerance for publisher fraud. When you run a campaign with IB5kNetwork you get completely transparent realtime analytics.

You see what sites your campaign is running on and when it is running there. You get what you pay for. Always. Your ads run where you want them to run. Always.

At IB5k, we bring you original videos from the actual makers of that content. We devote resources towards the encouragement of creative producers to do what they do best: take chances, create, and feel free in doing so. Creative work and freedom with our art is what binds us.

Does the world need another network?

I can hear the yawns across the room…the truth is, that’s the wrong question to be asking. At IB5k we like to ask, “why do we need the established networks we have?”

IB5k is not like all your other social networks by design — we build things. In fact, “Together We Build Media.” We are a closed-community of the best creative producers who cooperatively seek the independence of freelance work, yet wish to collaborate on creative development and production. We seek full and flexible, on-demand employment for all producers wherever they find themselves plugged into our network.

We are the Studio

With the best creatives of a generation positioned throughout the United States and around the world who know every aspect of production, why do we need all the buildings, gate keepers, tastemakers, lunch takers, and money wasters?

Our creatives are always working on something. And when they work with IB5k, they’re able to turn their ideas into reality. We work to find grants whenever possible to encourage a creative environment beyond producing the daily work that may be our bread and butter, but is not the cream we all strive for in our creative lives.

IB5k deploys a central team working with IB5k’s distributed network of producers, under client direction, in collaboration with client’s other media strategists/consultants.

Producers around the world

Over the past few years, IB5k’s curators have traveled the globe in search of not only the best multimedia producers of a generation, but also the most civically committed. We take social media in the media production sense to mean this is a team effort. Our network thrives on creative work and our process entails connecting the right mix of creative people together in order to build the right media for the job. That’s why we spend so much time connecting creative people in every state in the union and on almost every continent in the world. In this sense, we not only build social media, we are a living, breathing, social community.

Our productions are different than those of standard, day hire camera crews, because each of our locally-sourced producers are not only active on our in-house social network for creative types Schmooru.com, they are active in their communities. Schmooru.com is not linkedin for the creative class, nor is it Facebook for Filmakers — with us it’s more personal. We’ve all been through the battles of doing meaningful production together and know each other on a first-name basis and now we’re ready to do work to help your cause too.

In addition to our production hubs in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Chicago, our extended network consists of producers in markets touching all 50 states and in 15 countries around the world.