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American City Business Journals

Ethyca partners with American City Business Journals to strengthen data governance across its portfolio of digital media properties, supporting responsible data practices at scale.

Company
American City Business Journals (ACBJ)
Founded
1982
Location
Charlotte, NC, United States
Industry
Publishing
The Business

Providing data contextualization at scale.
Delivering precision reporting to high-value markets.

Each ACBJ property operates as a local authority, delivering tailored business intelligence to readers whose expectations mirror those of institutional investors. Meeting that standard means orchestrating millions of data signals—from event attendance and email engagement to subscriber behavior and B2B account insights—across more than 40 independent editorial ecosystems.

The stakes are high: subscribers expect insight, advertisers demand targeting, and editorial independence must be preserved throughout. ACBJ’s data operations must reconcile decentralized newsrooms with centralized infrastructure. This enables compliant personalization and analytics that empower without compromising trust.

This is privacy infrastructure not just as compliance—it’s a lever of editorial relevance, business agility, and institutional integrity.

Our mission is to serve the collector-car enthusiast with the best products and services in the industry.

Jim Menneto, President, Hemmings

The Data Challenge

Precision reporting derived from precisely-managed data.

ACBJ operates a complex data environment where each newsroom needs localized insight, yet enterprise-grade governance must remain intact. Every article view, event registration, and subscription action produces behavioral data that drives strategy. But with over 40 semi-autonomous brands, enforcing centralized oversight without disrupting local speed is a serious technical hurdle.

This federated model complicates everything from consent to segmentation. As ACBJ shifts further into real-time personalization, its infrastructure must support both autonomy and trust. Scalable, enforceable data systems are now essential—not just for compliance, but for enabling ethical, insight-driven journalism at scale.

16.6m

Monthly Visitors

$764m

Annual Revenue

3.6m

Weekly Readers

44

Publications

Governance that drives growth.

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