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Hiring now
4
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Abry Partners, Garage Capital
Momentum
35/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
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a posting or a news item
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Oct 2026 Formerly Free Star (freestar.io) Jul 15, 2025 Partnership Freestar Announces Strategic Partnership with Fortune Media to Power the Publishers · The Manila Times Aug 16, 2022 Recognition Freestar Named to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies in the US for the Fourth Year in a Row · globenewswire
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Overview

Freestar is a company that delivers comprehensive ad monetization solutions tailored for publishers, retailers, and app developers. Specializing in programmatic ad strategies, Freestar emphasizes long-term business growth and revenue optimization through their proprietary technology and expert team. Their offerings include advanced header bidding, customized ad serving solutions, and insightful data analytics for real-time performance monitoring.

News

News YahooFinance 25 days ago
FreeStar Financial Credit Union generates $1.2 million in new deposits in 30 days with Psympl and Experian
NEW YORK, September 22, 2026--FreeStar Financial Credit Union generated $1.2M in new deposits in 30 days using Psympl Psychographic AI and Experian consumer intelligence.
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Blog 1 month ago
High Tech, High Touch: How AI Buys Us Time to Get Closer to Real Problems
There's a common misconception that AI distances us from the work by automating human touchpoints. In my experience, the opposite is true: AI enables boots-on-the-ground leadership. My approach: Player-coach My background in consulting first showed me the
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Blog 2 months ago
Publisher Acceptance Requirements: Are you ready to Monetize With Freestar?
The publisher landscape is being rebuilt in real time by AI-driven discovery, shifting traffic referral trends, and buyers who are more selective than ever about where their budgets go. At Freestar, that shift is exactly why we've sharpened how we evaluat
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Blog 2 months ago
How Publisher Support Keeps Revenue Moving
Publisher support can look like a continual stream of tickets, alerts, code changes, and urgent messages, but I see something more human underneath all of that. Behind every request is a publisher team trying to protect revenue, keep people employed, and
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Blog 2 months ago
For Publishers, the Cost of Getting Content Moderation Wrong Can Be Significant
Content moderation isn't about being the bad-word police or overreacting to known user behavior. It's risk management, brand protection, audience retention and the ability to scale rolled into one. Publishers who treat content moderation as core infrastru
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News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
Boston Globe Media Taps Freestar to Manage Programmatic Advertising Monetization Across The Boston Globe, Boston.com, and Boston Magazine
PHOENIX, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freestar, the leading publisher services and monetization partner for the world
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Blog 3 months ago
Beyond the Auction: How Freestar Protects Your Revenue So You Can Focus on Content
When people discuss publisher revenue, they typically focus on demand, pricing, or optimization. While valuable, those factors only tell half the story. At Freestar, we believe the most critical work happens behind the scenes-the rigorous monitoring and f
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Blog 3 months ago
Your Content Is Feeding AI. Here's How To Fight Back.
The AI industry runs on publisher content. Every article, review, guide, and recipe ever published is exactly the kind of high-quality, human-generated text that large language models (LLMs) need to train on. And right now, most publishers aren't seeing a
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Blog 3 months ago
Recent CIPA Dismissals Provide a Major Winning Defense for the Digital Publishing Industry
Navigating the evolving privacy landscape shouldn't be something publishers do alone. Freestar is a true extension of your team and we are committed to keeping you informed of industry trends that impact your monetization strategy, including developments
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Blog 4 months ago
5 Ways to Turn Summer Into a Revenue Accelerator
Summer often gets dismissed as a "slow season" in digital publishing, but that mindset leaves money on the table. For publishers, Q3 is a pivotal period as traffic patterns shift, advertiser budgets recalibrate, and user behavior becomes more predictable.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Freestar over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
JavaScript
TypeScript
Databases
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
Cloud & platforms
GCP
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Google GKE
Kubernetes
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
4
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 36% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Frontend
67% ▲
Sales
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Phoenix Oct 2026
New location: Canada Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
7
Hiring now
0
Countries
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São Paulo Brazil
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London United Kingdom
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Austin United States
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Austin
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Phoenix United States
Regional office
Phoenix, AZ
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Kitchener Canada
Regional office
Canada
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Varna Bulgaria
Regional office
Bulgaria
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Scottsdale United States
Regional office
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