Keynote Speakers
Ally Love
CEO/Founder of Love Squad, a Peloton Instructor, and a Today Show On-Air Contributor
Ally Love is a multi-hyphenate trailblazer of the slash generation, serving as founder & CEO of Love Squad, renowned Peloton instructor, Today Show on-air contributor, host of Netflix’s Dance 100, and former NBA host. In 2015, Love established the Love Squad community to empower women through motivational and educational conversations.
As an entrepreneur, host, motivational speaker, fitness instructor, and boss, Love is driven by the belief that "Small changes have a big impact." Her ultimate unwavering goal is to position those around her to step into their power through the convergence of articulation and conversation, demonstrating that even the smallest adjustments can lead to the greatest impact.
Jaclyn Ranere
CMO, Evertune
Jaclyn Ranere is a marketing leader with over 20 years of experience across entertainment, technology, and media. She is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Evertune, the AI marketing platform that helps brands understand and optimize their presence across major AI models like ChatGPT and Claude through comprehensive brand tracking, analytics, and data-driven content strategies designed to improve visibility in AI search.
Panelists
Navigating the Future Together with Mediavine Executives
Eric Hochberger
CEO & Co-Founder, Mediavine
Eric co-founded Mediavine in 2004 to build websites that would drive traffic via search engine optimization and monetize that traffic. Leading their technological innovations and evolving their data analysis to allow them to scale the business, Eric helped Mediavine blossom into the number one ad management service for content creators.
Since co-founding Mediavine, he has pioneered significant advancements in programmatic advertising, such as lazy-loading advertising — which helps provide faster websites for readers, and highly-viewed ads for advertisers.
Amanda Martin
CRO, Mediavine
Amanda Martin currently serves as Chief Revenue Officer at Mediavine. In this role, she oversees all revenue-related activity, including Sales, Social Impact, Marketing, Publisher Development, and Partnerships & Commercial Data Strategy, while leading Mediavine's growing DSP and SSP relationships.
With over a decade of experience on the buy side, Amanda helps Mediavine evaluate the current market and competitive intelligence to identify strategic collaborations and growth opportunities.
Heather Tullos
SVP of Publisher Success, Mediavine
Heather Tullos is the Senior Vice President of Client Experience at Mediavine, and has been working with content creators to grow, scale, and successfully monetize businesses since 2016.
Her focus is on sharing data-driven strategies pointed at success in the face of industry change, advocating for community-building and collaboration, and helping creative people turn passions into full time careers.
Scaling Your Business
Dorothy Kern
Founder, Crazy for Crust
Dorothy Kern is the founder of Crazy for Crust. She's a sugar enthusiast and loves creating easy dessert recipes that work every time.
Don Miner
CEO, Space Cow Media
Founder, EDHREC
Don is founder and CEO of Space Cow Media, a company building tools for the Magic: The Gathering community. Our portfolio includes EDHREC a meta ranking site, Cardsphere a collectible card marketplace, and Archidekt a collection management system. These online platforms used by hundreds of thousands of players to build decks, trade cards, and track collections.
I build and grow companies that have a good financial foundation, authentic organic revenue growth, happy employees.... and somehow turn out to be actually profitable. To do this, I use approaches such as trust, transparency, and respect. In niche-based businesses like SCM, I believe that if you just truly care about providing value to users and treat them well, everything else in business will fall in place.
Previously, Don built, scaled, as sold an AI and data science consulting company called Miner & Kasch.
The Pivot
Paul Gowder
Powwows.com
Paul helps creators design their dream lifestyle by growing their business through community and email. He’s the founder of PowWows.com, a platform that has connected millions with Native culture for nearly 30 years.
After retiring from a state government career, Paul went full-time as a creator and entrepreneur. Today, he shares his experience in building community, live streaming, and email marketing to help others grow with simple, effective strategies.
Tanya Harris
My Forking Life
Tanya Harris is the founder of My Forking Life, a food blog where she shares bold, flavorful recipes inspired by her Caribbean roots, Southern traditions, and love for approachable meals.
After leaving her career in law to blog full-time in 2019, Tanya has built a thriving brand that spans her website, YouTube channel, and social media, where she connects with home cooks through approachable, flavor-packed dishes. She is passionate about helping others feel confident in the kitchen while navigating the challenges and opportunities of building a creative business in today’s ever-changing digital landscape.
Anne Moss
Moss Digital Publishing
Anne Moss is the CEO and founder of Moss Digital Publishing, where she has built and grown websites that have reached hundreds of millions of readers over the past two decades. She has extensive experience in digital publishing and has successfully navigated the industry’s constant changes.
Alongside her husband and business partner, and with the support of a talented team, Anne leads strategy across content, monetization, and long-term growth. Her portfolio includes TheCatSite.com, a thriving 25-year-old online community. Anne is passionate about innovation and sustainability in publishing and brings a wealth of practical insight into building resilient businesses in today’s rapidly evolving online environment.
Breakout Sessions
How I “Vibe Coded” a WordPress Plugin That Writes My Daily Email Newsletter for Me
Jake Cain
Wild Bird Scoop
Jake Cain is an entrepreneur from Cincinnati, Ohio. He builds and buys websites for a living. He spends his free time driving around the country in his late 90’s conversion van, affectionately known as the “Monster Van” with his wife and 3 boys.
Leveraging Facebook To Drive Traffic
April Lee Wiencek
The Tipsy Housewife
The Tipsy Housewife AKA April Lee Wiencek is a chef, recipe blogger, newspaper columnist, and social media influencer in Chicago. She has a passion for creating the kinds of recipes that bring people together and especially loves putting new twists on retro classics.
Her recipes are meant to be enjoyed, and prepared, with a cocktail or glass of wine in hand as her name would suggest. She has made regular appearances on WGN Chicago, writes a regular Border Bulletin column for an audience of 20,000, and has been a community cook for Taste of Home Magazine for over nine years.
Blog Smarter, Not Harder: Thriving in the Modern Blogosphere with Purpose, People, and Practical Strategy
Dennis Littley
Ask Chef Dennis
Chef Dennis Littley is a classically trained chef, food blogger, and digital entrepreneur with over 45 years of professional culinary experience. Through his website, Ask Chef Dennis, he has built a global audience by blending restaurant-quality recipes with approachable instruction, making cooking more enjoyable for millions of home cooks.
Beyond the kitchen, Dennis has become a trusted voice in the blogging community, helping creators navigate the ever-changing digital landscape. From surviving countless Google updates to embracing AI responsibly, he shares practical strategies for building sustainable online businesses. His passion lies in teaching fellow bloggers how to do what they love, hire the right people for the rest, and create websites that thrive in today’s competitive blogosphere.
How I Replaced Google Revenue Loss with 5 New Income Streams
Paul Gowder
PowWows.com
Paul helps creators design their dream lifestyle by growing their business through community and email. He’s the founder of PowWows.com, a platform that has connected millions with Native culture for nearly 30 years.
After retiring from a state government career, Paul went full-time as a creator and entrepreneur. Today, he shares his experience in building community, live streaming, and email marketing to help others grow with simple, effective strategies.
Rewriting the Creator’s Blueprint - From Hustle to Building Balance, Joy, and Longevity with the Food and Wellness Equity Collective
Sonja Overhiser
Food + Wellness Equity Collective
Sonja Overhiser is co-creator of the award-winning website A Couple Cooks with her husband Alex, and author of two cookbooks (A Couple Cooks: 100 Recipes to Cook Together and Pretty Simple Cooking) with a third cookbook on the way, Mediterranean Every Night. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, TODAY Show, Food & Wine, and more.
She’s a fan of dark chocolate, being a mama to two active kids, and making the world a better place through creativity, connection, and good food. Follow her cooking adventures at @acouplecooks and acouplecooks.com.
Yoli Ouiya
Food + Wellness Equity Collective
Yoli Ouiya is an award-winning wellness strategist and cultural innovator recognized as the “Queen of Green”. A dedicated champion of organic agriculture and sustainable CPG innovation, she bridges wellness, culture, and equity as a speaker, consultant, and creator.
As co-founder of the Food + Wellness Equity Collective, she leads a community of 400+ creators and entrepreneurs shaping the future of food and wellness.
Always Think of your Readers
Andrew Wilder
NerdPress
Andrew Wilder is the founder and CEO of NerdPress, a Certified B Corporation that provides human-centered WordPress support, optimization, and maintenance for independent publishers and small businesses.
He’s been building, (occasionally) breaking, and then fixing websites since 1998 and is known for making technical topics easy to understand—without jargon or ego.
The New Era of Search: How Publishers Can Thrive in Google’s Evolving Ecosystem
Arsen Rabinovich
TopHatRank
Arsen is an award-winning digital marketer, SEO expert, and international speaker, and he started TopHatRank in 2009. TopHatRank is a digital agency specializing in SEO. Arsen is the creator and a key contributor to the SEO For Bloggers webinar
7 Common Email Marketing Mistakes that Even The Pros Make (And How to Fix Them!
Allea Grummert
CEO and Email Strategist of Duett
Owner of Duett, Allea Grummert is an email marketing strategist, copywriter and tech expert who helps bloggers and content creators make a lasting first impression through automated welcome & nurture sequences. Since 2018, she has been helping her clients build intentional email strategies that engage readers, build brand loyalty and optimize conversions for sales and site traffic.
Allea is the host of the Happy Subscribers podcast, holds the coveted spot as the email marketing industry expert for the Food Blogger Pro membership community, is a Recommended Expert through NerdPress, and recognized as a Kit Approved Expert.
NotebookLM/NLM for Digital Publishers
Iain Christie
Business Analyst, Google News Initiative
With 20 years of experience in digital marketing, publishing and tech, Iain Christie is now a Business Analyst for the Google News Initiative. Since spring 2022 he has instructed publishers in North America on leveraging Google tools for business sustainability, growing audience engagement, strengthening reader/advertising revenue and leveraging the potential of AI.
*Speakers are subject to change