Think
Every audience you have is borrowed. Every asset we build is yours. That single distinction is the entire firm.
A platform can revoke your reach on a Tuesday afternoon and owe you no explanation. Most of the largest audiences in the world sit on infrastructure their owners do not control, cannot audit, and will never be able to sell. We exist to correct that imbalance. Mullins & McGinn is a publishing firm that builds and operates owned media infrastructure inside businesses that have already earned an audience and have nothing durable to show for it. We currently steward 6,800+ publishing assets across 23 brands, and that portfolio compounds every month it stays under management.
We built this firm on a single conviction: attention that you rent depreciates, and media that you own appreciates. Everything we operate serves that conviction. Editorial architecture, production at volume, distribution across every surface where buying decisions actually happen, and an attribution system that tells you to the dollar what the asset produced. Our commercial structure is intentionally aligned with the long-term performance of the infrastructure we build. We are compensated for stewardship and measurable outcome, not for volume of activity.
Own it. Build it. Publish it. Prove it.
Four words on the wall, in that order, because order is the whole argument. You own the property before we build on it. We build the architecture before we publish into it. We publish at volume because volume is what produces a footprint. Then we prove it, in numbers, against a baseline documented the day we signed. Firms that skip the fourth step are asking for faith. We would rather hand you the ledger.
ownership
Before anything gets published, we establish what you actually own,
and it is usually less than the client expects. We inventory every asset the business has produced across every platform it has ever touched, then determine which of it can be converted into property the business holds title to. This is the least glamorous work we do and the most consequential. Nobody builds a portfolio on top of an unmapped one.
Ownership
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Position
architecture
A thousand pieces of content with no structure is a thousand orphans.
Structure is what turns them into a body of work. We design the editorial architecture before a single asset is produced: how the categories relate, what sits at the top of each one, how a reader and a machine both move through it. Architecture is why a portfolio this size performs like a reference library instead of an archive.
Editorial
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Structural
production
Volume is not a vanity metric. It is the mechanism.
A portfolio that publishes 375 to 600 assets a month behaves differently than one that publishes two. We produce at scale because scale is what creates a footprint large enough to be unavoidable. Full production runs through this firm: video, audio, editorial, design, print, and the finished properties they live on. Our clients hand us a source asset. We hand back a division's worth of output. When there is no source asset, we produce it first.
Production
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Creative
distribution
We put the work where the decision gets made,
which today means considerably more surfaces than it did five years ago. A buyer researching your category might never see your channel. They ask a machine, they read a page, they open an email, they see your name in print. We publish across all of it, on properties you own, so that presence in one place reinforces presence in every other.
Distribution
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Reach
intelligence
We measure the portfolio the way an operator measures a business,
against a documented baseline, in attributed dollars, on a fixed window, with the exclusions written down before the work starts. Every engagement contributes to one of the most detailed proprietary datasets on how owned publishing infrastructure performs. That dataset is how we know what to build next, and it is why our recommendations get sharper with every brand we take on.