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Column Five (Column Five Media)

columnfivemedia.com · Costa Mesa, CA, USA

Source dates: 2026-08-31

Explore Column Five (Column Five Media)'s services, available pricing and client experience, then compare the details against your project. Use the source links to check the scope and date of reported results.

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When to shortlist Column Five (Column Five Media)

Brand story, design and a repeatable content program

Sixth because its broader remit suits a different budget and problem. Consider it when inconsistent messaging is holding back all your content, rather than when you simply need more articles.

Column Five combines brand narrative, content systems and ongoing operation. Its services page lists brand messaging, visual identity, videos, interactive web work, data visualization, sales enablement and executive thought leadership. This is a broader creative brief than a writing-only retainer.

Relevant published work

Its portfolio includes HubSpot Ventures, Fieldguide and J.P. Morgan Payments.

Pricing and scope

Four-week sprint; implementation $60,000–$150,000 over 8–16 weeks; ongoing operation $15,000–$45,000/month. These are separate stages.

Before you choose

Ask what the sprint delivers and whether you can use the work with another production team. For ongoing work, agree on asset types and quantities, interview time, revision rounds, ownership of source files and the approval process. A monthly budget alone does not tell you how much content you will receive.

Sources reviewed 2026-10-05. Client results are provider-reported, not independently audited.

Compare Column Five (Column Five Media) with other B2B content marketing agencies
What to ask Column Five (Column Five Media) before hiring
  • Can you share a recent project with a similar scope, industry and budget to ours?
  • What does the quote include, who will deliver the work, and what costs extra?
  • Which outcomes will you measure, and when should we expect the first deliverables?
Category
Content marketing agencies — B2B content and creative agency (content strategy systems + visual storytelling; SaaS focus; infographic-era pioneer)
SOURCE RECORDED
Services
Story development and brand positioning, narrative gap analysis with AI-enabled roadmaps, content system building and brand codification, scaled content operations (in-house or collaborative)
SOURCE RECORDED
Pricing
Foundation Sprint: $25,000. Four-week sprint; implementation $60,000–$150,000 over 8–16 weeks; ongoing operation $15,000–$45,000/month. These are separate stages.
SOURCE RECORDED
Minimum engagement
$25K sprint entry point
SOURCE RECORDED
Founded
2009 (January; cofounders worked together since 2007)
SOURCE RECORDED
Team signal
not publicly available
NOT VERIFIED
Named practitioners
  • Jason Lankow — Co-founder & CEO
  • Ross Crooks — Co-founder
  • Josh Ritchie — Co-founder
SOURCE RECORDED
Named clients
Instacart · Dropbox · Databricks · Vercel · Uber · Zendesk · Intuit · J.P. Morgan Payments · HubSpot Ventures
PROVIDER REPORTED
Case-study claims
  • Instacart: 115+ consumer assets in two weeks
  • Dropbox: lifted brand perception 19%
PROVIDER REPORTEDnumbers are the provider’s own; not independently verified

Source register

Dates below describe individual source checks. A profile update is not a fresh check of every field. Spot an error? Submit a correction — substantive corrections are recorded in our public log.

  1. https://www.columnfivemedia.com/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  2. https://www.columnfivemedia.com/best-b2b-content-marketing-agencies/ (accessed 2026-08-31)
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_Five (accessed 2026-08-31)