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We spoke the language.
Our editors know the auto world from an enthusiast’s POV—the stories drivers actually click. We didn’t need a ramp-up to learn the beat and source great stories, so we were producing publishable, on-brand work from day one.
A small shop withnational reach.
RTNN is a team of veteran journalists who live and breathe trending news.
We find stories every big outlet missed—then get them in front of millions of readers. Platform fluency, newsroom instincts: That's how we help our clients win.
- Veteran Reporters
- Distribution Operators
- Independent Newsroom
- Credibility First
What sets us apart
We're not a content mill or a legacy giant.We're a newsroom first and an agency second.
Our reporters have bylines at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. We get scoops, we pick up the phone, and we make sure our stories are widely read. Everything we do for clients is based on hard data and a firm command of today's distribution tactics. Modern syndication platforms reward quality journalism, and our stories travel.
Other vendors own just one side of the operation: either content or partnerships. We offer both.
Fair Pricing
We win only when you win.
Our rev-share model is simple and transparent: when your numbers go up, so do ours. We don't work on heavy retainers or hidden fees. We want to build a true partnership with clients, with aligned incentives and results.
Year-one results
Real Time performance.
15Publisher clients
100%Client retention
$2MM+Publisher revenue driven
What month one looked like for four clients
- Pre-RTNN baseline
- Added in month one
By publisherMonth-one lift vs. baseline
- BroBible+64%1.6×
- InsideEVs+73%1.7×
- Motor1+332%4.3×
- The Mary Sue+423%5.2×
Case Study
How we grew an auto publisher's traffic 332% in a single month
A well-known automotive news site came to us with strong editorial and a familiar problem: great coverage that wasn't traveling past their own audience.
In 30 days, we more than quadrupled their traffic—100% organic, no ad spend.
- 100%Organic Traffic
- NoPaid Boost
- NoGimmicks
Traffic growth over 30 days: up 332 percent, rising from Day 1 to Day 30.
Traffic Growth
+0%How we did it
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We spoke the language.
Our editors know the auto world from an enthusiast’s POV—the stories drivers actually click. We didn’t need a ramp-up to learn the beat and source great stories, so we were producing publishable, on-brand work from day one.
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We led with trending news.
Instead of chasing evergreen SEO that takes months to rank, we built a publication plan around what was breaking and rising right now—the stories with social media momentum but no competing press.
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We packaged stories to travel.
A great piece doesn’t spread on its own. We deliberately optimized each story, headline, and image for the publisher’s most-engaged platforms.
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We moved at the speed of the news.
Trending windows are short. Our team’s edge is turning a rising story into published, distributed, monetizable content before the window closes.
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Every story carried a human byline.
The volume was real, but so was the judgment behind it. Real reporters, real editing, work a publisher could put their name on.
The result: a 332% traffic lift in month one—and proof that the ceiling on a good newsroom usually isn’t the reporting. It’s the distribution.
More Readers
Reaching new audiences where they already are.
Stronger Signals
Momentum that compounds across platforms.
Sustainable Growth
Built on process, not short-term tricks.
The Team
Veteran journalists.Proven operators.
Our leadership team worked side-by-side for years, producing hard-hitting, multilingual, traffic-driving journalism.
We built RTNN to put those skills to work for you.
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ramón Ramirez
A journalist from Austin, Texas. For 10 years he served as an editor at The Daily Dot, most recently as its managing editor. His work has appeared in the Austin American-Statesman, Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Grantland, and more. At the peak of his Dot tenure, his newsroom enjoyed a high of 166 million monthly pageviews across platforms such as Google Discover and Apple News. A bilingual UT Austin grad, he coaches youth soccer at FC Westlake six nights a week.
Recent client result
7M+
Pageviews on Yahoo in a client's first month with RTNN. One story engine, one month, one platform.
How it works
A no-risk partnership.
A typical engagement requires no upfront investment and no retainer. We generally work on revenue share, and we take a cut from RTNN stories only. That means you keep 100% of everything your existing newsroom earns.
Onboarding
We'll do a light audit of your coverage, audience, and ad stack so we can pinpoint what you do best and how we can scale it. From there, our team begins producing and distributing RTNN stories alongside your own.
What we need from you
We're your partners in success. Once we're in the CMS and able to publish, we're in business. We just ask for regular analytics and revenue reporting.
Our promise
No surprises, no fires, no mysterious line items to decode at the end of the month. Just mutual growth and aligned incentives.
FAQ
Nothing upfront. No retainer, no minimum, no setup fee. We work on revenue share, and only on the stories we produce. If our work doesn't perform, you don't pay for it. The risk sits on our side of the table.
No. You keep 100% of everything your current newsroom earns. We share revenue from only RTNN-produced stories, across your website and the aggregation platforms where we distribute them. We don't touch a dollar we didn't help create.
We agree on terms up front, before any work begins—no surprises, no line items to decode at the end of the month. The split reflects the scope of what we're producing and distributing for you, and once it's set, it's set.
Then it costs you nothing, which is the point. Because there's no upfront spend, a slow start doesn't put you in the red. And because our pay is tied to performance, we're motivated to fix what isn't working faster than any retainer-based vendor would be. And if either party decides it's not working, no hard feelings.
No. Every RTNN story is reported, written, and edited by a working journalist, and every byline belongs to a real person. If the scale or velocity requires it, we have tools at our disposal to take the grind out of production—research, formatting, the mechanical work—so our reporters spend their time finding and reporting the story. Our AI philosophy: The tools handle scale; people handle judgment.
Our work runs alongside your own and is built to fit your voice and standards, not override them. We start every engagement by studying your coverage so what we produce reads as a natural extension of your publication. We ask for a little faith as we optimize content for news platforms and get the balance right—we know what types of trending news and headlines perform beautifully.
The work lives on your site under your masthead—it's your publication's content. We build the engine; you own what comes off it. We'll spell out the specifics in the agreement so there's never a question.
We pair strong reporting with a command of how modern distribution and syndication platforms reward quality journalism—knowing which stories travel, how to format them, and how to get them in front of the right audience at scale. It's a craft we've spent years sharpening, and it's the reason our clients' pageviews look the way they do. We submit content on news syndication platforms like NewsBreak, MSN, and Yahoo.
A typical engagement starts with a look under the hood—your coverage, your audience, your ad stack—so we can pinpoint what you do best and how we can scale it. From there, our team begins producing and distributing RTNN stories alongside your own, and we split the revenue we generate together on the terms we set at the outset.
With one chat. We'll meet for a half hour, hear your goals, show you where we'd focus first, and walk you through exactly how the partnership would work—at no cost and no obligation.
