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Column Five (Column Five Media)

columnfivemedia.com · Costa Mesa, CA, USA

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Category
Content marketing agencies — B2B content and creative agency (content strategy systems + visual storytelling; SaaS focus; infographic-era pioneer)
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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)
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Pricing
public on own site: Foundation Sprint $25K (4 weeks); Content System Implementation $60K-$150K (8-16 weeks); ongoing operation $15K-$45K/mo
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Minimum engagement
$25K sprint entry point
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Founded
2009 (January; cofounders worked together since 2007)
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Team signal
not publicly available
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Named practitioners
  • Jason Lankow — Co-founder & CEO
  • Ross Crooks — Co-founder
  • Josh Ritchie — Co-founder
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Named clients
Instacart · Dropbox · Databricks · Vercel · Uber · Zendesk · Intuit · J.P. Morgan Payments · HubSpot Ventures
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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

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  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)