Conductor (company)


Conductor was founded in 2006 as a marketing services company, and launched its SaaS platform, Conductor Searchlight, in 2010. The company’s primary product is Conductor Searchlight, a cloud-based SEO & Content Marketing platform. Conductor also provides recommended actions for optimizing digital marketing metrics and increasing revenue.
On March 6, 2018, it was announced that WeWork would acquire Conductor. On December 12, 2019, it was announced that Conductor was spinning off from WeWork to form an independent employee-owned company, .

Insight Stream

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. It has since become a foundational part of Conductor’s software platform.

The Conductor Foundation

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. Past and present beneficiaries include the 9/11 Memorial, March of Dimes, Teach for America, and the World Wildlife Foundation.

History

Conductor was founded by Jeremy Duboys and Seth Besmertnik in New York City in 2006. 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. Conductor has been ranked as a best place to work in the state of New York by the Crain organization for 8 years running. The company added an office in San Francisco in 2014. In February 2015 Conductor raised $27 million in Series D round funding. The CEO of the company is Seth Besmertnik.
In March 2018, WeWork announced it would be acquiring Conductor.
On December 12, 2019, it was announced that Conductor was spinning off from WeWork to form an independent employee-owned company.