founded boston massachusetts u.s. december 16 2010 ; 5 years ago 2010 12 16 founder tom gerace headquarters boston massachusetts u.s. website http www.skyword.com skyword inc. skyword is an american saas technology and content marketing services corporation with headquarters in boston massachusetts united states . the corporation specializes in content marketing . the skyword content marketing platform was built to help companies that wish to produce and disseminate their own content for the purpose of new customer acquisition . 1 2 skyword also provides services to brands wishing to produce their own content . 3 skyword also maintains an digital publication on the topic of content marketing it calls the content standard . 4 contents 1 history 2 offices 3 awards 4 references history edit since incorporating as skyword the company has raised multiple rounds of funding from cox media group . 5 6 the corporation was founded by tom gerace who serves as ceo of the company . 7 8 jim manzi former chairman and ceo of lotus development corporation currently serves as chairman of the board of skyword . 9 in 2013 robert j. murray joined the company as president . 10 in june 2016 skyword announced a partnership with robert mckee in order to help marketers enact the core principles of story in marketing and business . 11 offices edit skyword is headquartered in boston . 12 skyword technology is developed from offices in pittsburgh pennsylvania . 13 in the summer of 2015 its pittsburgh offices will move to one ppg place . 14 the organization acquired vidaao a new york startup with a video content creation platform along with its freelance network of videographers and editors in september 2014 . skyword now maintains an office in new york city . 15 16 17 it acquired palo alto california based clear content marketing in july 2014 . subsequently palo alto became the organization s base of operations on the west coast . 18 awards edit in 2014 the organization was named as a top marketing and advertising company in boston by bostinno . 19 skyword has been awarded a u.s. patent for identifying and ranking influencers as well as a patent for a technique for content categorization search and discovery by a community of users . 20 21 references edit elliott stuart 23 may 2013 . content marketing beckons to an executive from a digital agency . the new york time . retrieved 16 february 2015 . borchers callum . content marketing blurring the line between advertising news . the boston globe . retrieved 10 august 2015 . sebastian michael . uber wants to hire an editorial director to produce branded content . advertising age . retrieved 28 june 2015 . pollitt chad . the line between media and brands is blurring fast . the huffington post . retrieved 28 june 2015 . alspach kyle 17 may 2013 . skyword raises 6.7 m to expand marketing content biz . boston business journal . retrieved 16 february 2015 . harris david 8 september 2014 . skyword raises 11m acquires new york city based video production marketplace vidaao . boston business journal . retrieved 16 february 2015 . tom gerace the storyteller . startout.org . retrieved 3 march 2015 . skyword board of directors . skyword.com . retrieved 16 february 2015 . jim p. manzi executive profile & biography businessweek . bloomberg business . retrieved 16 february 2015 . elliott stuart 23 may 2013 . robert murray of iprospect joins skyword as president nytimes.com . the new york times . retrieved 16 february 2015 . the secret to marketing in the age of ad blockers a dose of hollywood the boston globe . retrieved 2016 07 15 . castellanos sarah . another tech company is moving to downtown crossing . boston business journal . retrieved 28 june 2015 . tascarella patty 9 july 2014 . boston firm s growth means more hires in pittsburgh . pittsburgh business times . retrieved 16 february 2015 . tascarella patty . exclusive skyword.com hiring moving to one ppg . pittsburgh business times . flamm matthew 8 september 2014 . boston marketer snaps up nyc startup . crain s new york business . retrieved 16 february 2015 . elliott stuart 8 september 2014 . news from the advertising industry . the new york times . retrieved 16 february 2015 . keohane dennis . skyword s growth moves acquires vidaao and gets 11 million in funding . betaboston . the boston globe . retrieved 28 june 2015 . elliott stuart 14 july 2014 . news from the advertising industry . the new york times . retrieved 16 february 2015 . kolb maggie . announcing this year s 50 on fire winners . streetwise media . bostinno . mihalik john l. ; gerace thomas a. ; barbour russell g. ; meyer richard a. ; sandborg david a. ; bostick james e. ; wescoe kurt f. ; hann jennifer r. ; tresch timothy r. february 2 2016 united states patent 9251279 methods and systems for using community defined facets or facet values in computer networks retrieved 2016 07 15 mihalik john l. ; gerace thomas a. ; sandborg david a. ; feder helen ; meyer richard a. june 14 2016 united states patent 9367823 computer method and system for ranking users in a network community of users retrieved 2016 07 15 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title skyword & oldid 743301838 categories companies based in bostonmarketing analyticshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 01 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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