SMooth CREATIVE HOLDINGS

A media company that represents top knowledge creators and owns and operates business brands.

THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS MEDIA

Across our portfolio, there’s a unifying goal: engaging, educating, and empowering professional audiences. Through our work with both knowledge creators and trusted media brands, we're helping audiences grow in their careers, find meaningful community, and advance in their industries.

We drive revenue by delivering marketing services to brands. We connect brands to our portfolio of niche, engaged audiences by providing content creation, creator talent partnerships, media distribution, and events—all while ensuring a smooth, results-driven experience.

Our PORTFOLIO

Smooth Media is our agency, started in 2021, focuses on representing knowledge creators and building brand partnerships revenue.

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Founded in partnership with Colin and Samir, The Publish Press is the leading media brand for the creator economy.

Acquired by Smooth in the summer of 2024, Energy Central is a leading media company for professionals in the electric power industry.

OUR TEAM

The founding team at Smooth Creative Holdings were early employees at Morning Brew, where they learned the ropes of modern media by building and scaling a newsletter company into a full-fledged multimedia juggernaut that notched a $75 million exit in 2020.

We started Smooth together in 2021, believing that our experience in building a successful media business could help shape this new, creator-first era of media.

Josh Kaplan

COFOUNDER & CEO
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Jenny Rothenberg

COFOUNDER & CEO
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Kinsey Grant

COFOUNDER & HEAD OF EDITORIAL
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We’re always exploring our next portfolio investment and eager to grow our team. If you’re interested or have ideas, we’d love to connect. Reach us at hi@smoothmedia.co.