Own your community. Grow your audience.

Forums is the only community platform purpose-built to help premium publishers own conversations directly on their domains, fully moderated by Aida, optimized for search, and designed to deliver incremental revenue.

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Community that works for you

Real Engagement

Host real-time, high-intent conversations

Editorial Presence

Strengthen your editorial voice through direct participation

Safer Communities

Ensure safety with best-in-class moderation

Lasting Loyalty

Drive loyalty, not just clicks

Effortless Start

Launch with minimal lift

Revenue Lift

Deliver incremental media revenue

Turn participation into ongoing community activity

Forums extends engagement beyond individual articles, moments, and news cycles

OpenWeb Forums community activity dashboard

Keep the conversation on your site. On your terms.

Ownership

You control the environment and the relationship
Visibility

Comments and conversations stay on your site
Community

Not just content, but connection

Turn conversations into incremental revenue

Forums unlock exclusive, contextually aligned ad experiences that command premium CPMs.

Offer brands exclusive media inventory, including contextually aligned display and video inside discussions, driving high engagement and premium CPMs.

We have had great success driving real-time conversations and surfacing relevant content to our audience leveraging OpenWeb’s platform, best-in-class moderation and seamless integration. We have also had the opportunity to be part of their innovative monetization initiatives that have significantly driven our revenue KPIs.

Matt Murphy

Chief of Staff, Home and Memberships

MarketWatch is constantly looking for innovative ways to engage with our readers and help all understand what the news of the day means for you and your money. OpenWeb has been a tremendous partner on this mission. They’ve demonstrated responsiveness, a strong sense of loyalty, and excellent performance from integration onward

Dan Shar

GM MarketWatch

We’ve been impressed by results from launching our new commenting system. We saw our comment volume double month over month after launching OpenWeb on our site. The product is slick and easy-to-use, and the results are stunning. It’s also the best tool we’ve seen for content moderation as it helped us squash the horrible spam problem on our site. Highly recommend.

Travis Bernard

Senior Director of Membership at TechCrunch

I’ve noticed since I started commenting more frequently, there has been more discussion and a little less judgment. Our moderating platform Spot.IM makes sure all comments are within our editorial policy.

Hannah Rimm

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