Press Overview

Brendan and his endeavors have been written about by a variety of publications including The New York Times, Fast Company, The Guardian, Boston Globe, Inc. Magazine, PC Magazine, and more.

Cuseum

• WIRED - “Augmented Reality is Transforming Museums” (2018)

• TIME - “Is Instagram Ruining Art? One Museum Is Trying 'Photo Free' Hours” (2018)

• TechRadar - “Modern history: how the heritage business is embracing mobile tech” (2018)

• The Art Newspaper - “Dealers turn to digital apps to help close sales” (2018)

• Boston Business Journal - “Tiny Boston startup works with Amazon on White House tour app” (2018)

• WGBH - “Nine Person Startup In Boston Teamed Up With Amazon To Create An App For The White House” (2018)

• VR Focus - “Vienna’s Pioneers Festival Welcomes New App Celebrating The Work Of Gustav Klimt” (2018)

• Bilan - “Les technologies augmentent l’art... et son audience” (2018)

• Boston Magazine - “This Local Company Gets Museum Technology Down to a Fine Art” (2018)

• VentureFizz - "Cuseum: Providing Engagement to Museum Attendees Through Technology" (2017)

• Invaluable - "The Future of Art Museums" (2016)

• Built In Boston - "Meet 9 companies that paved the way for Boston tech" (2016)

• Startup Stir - "6 Boston Startsup That Are Killing It" (2016)

• SuperbCrew - "Startup Cuseum – Transforms The Way We Interact With Art" (2016)

• New York Times - "Museums Turn to Technology to Boost Attendance by Millennials" (2015)

• The Guardian - "Tech talk: Brendan Ciecko, founder and CEO, Cuseum" (2015)

• WGBH / NPR - "The Museums of 2035" (2015)

• The Week - "The high-tech museums of the future" (2015)

• BostInno - "Techstars Boston Names 12 Startups for Its Summer 2015 Session" (2015)

• Boston Globe - "Art tech startup Cuseum, formerly Spotzer, raises $1.2 million in seed funding" (2015)

• Boston Business Journal - "Museum tech startup Spotzer raises $1.2M, changes name to Cuseum" (2015)

• Boston Globe - "Spotzer, deploying tech to enhance museum visits, raises first funding" (2015)

• FastCompany - "The Internet of Things Plan To Make Libraries and Museums Awesomer" (2015)

• BostInno - "The Boston Startup Trying to Socialize the Museum Experience" (2014)

• Boston Globe - "PayPal’s Start Tank opens its doors to six more startups " (2014)

Press Spotlight

• Artnet News - “The New Innovators: Cuseum Founder Brendan Ciecko on How Museums Can Up Their Digital Game Without Paying an Arm and a Leg” (2020)

• WeWork Creator - "Young Innovators: Brendan Ciecko of Cuseum" (2017)

• Boston Magazine - "Young Gun: Would You Let this Kid Save Your Town?" (2009)

• BMW Magazine - "21-year-old digital agency founder Brendan Ciecko" (2009)

• Boston Herald - "We Hear: Ben Affleck, Brendan Ciecko, Greg Biffle and more..." (2009)

• Boston Globe - "He Sets His Sites on Holyoke" (2009)

• Alternative Press - "It's Called the Music Business" (2009)

• Mass.gov - "Who's making Massachusetts strong?" (2009)

• Pulse Magazine (internal publication for VIBE) - "Megabyte Moves" (2009)

• Inc. Magazine - "Cool, Determined, Under 30 - Meet the brains behind America's smartest new companies" (2008)

• FastCompany - "Bigger is Bigger, Not Better" (2008)

• NPR / WFCR - "Young Holyoke entrepreneur makes magazine cover" (2008)

• Entrepreneur Magazine - "Making It Big" (2007)

• PC Magazine - "Viral Media-Tracking Guru" (2007)

Fontly

Featured in FastCompany, The Next Web, BBC, Guardian, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic Cities, Publico, BostInno, Xconomy ,Stuff, Gizmodo, CreativeBloq, GovTech, PSFK, ReadWriteWeb

Press (continued.)

• AppMasters - "Embracing Focus, Feedback, and Failure with Brendan Ciecko" (2017)

• Meno - "Meno Mistakes with Brendan Ciecko" (2016)

• BostInno - "Q&A with Ten Minute Media's Brendan Ciecko" (2011)

• Dziennik Internautów - "Wywiad: Brendan Ciecko tworzy strony dla celebrytów" (2011)

• Mediafun - "Dzieciak który pracuje dla największych gwiazd muzyki pop i rock" (2011)

• ABC40 - "Loyal to His Soil" (2009)

• Western MA EDC - "Brendan Ciecko featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine Ten Minute Media named one of "America's smartest new companies" (2008)

• BusinessWest - "A Collection of Hits: Web Master Brendan Ciecko Is Moving Up the Charts" (2008)

• The Reminder - "Holyoke businessman receives national recognition" (2008)

• Hampshire College News - "Entrepreneurs Recognized" (2008)

• Local Buzz / MassLive - "Brendan Ciecko Featured in Inc. Magazine" (2008)

• BusinessWest - "Forty Under 40: Brendan Ciecko" (2008)

• Springfield Sunday Republican - "Web entrepreneur kicks off 'TeenStyle'" (2008)

• BusinessWest - "People On The Move" (2008)

• PBS / WGBY - "Making It Here: TeenStyle" (2008)

• Ad Club of Western MA - "What Was Your Job As A Teenager?" (2008)

• Rock102 WAQY - "Bax & O'Brien Mornings" (2008)

• BusinessWest - "Picture This" (2008)

• Springfield Sunday Republican - "How Cool is This?" (2008)

• The Wistariahurst Vine - "Creating Holyoke" (2008)

• HGCF Entrepreneurship Initiative - "Brendan Ciecko recognized for Entrepreneurial spirit" (2008)

• iBerkshires.com - "WBGY Teen Program Returns for 4th Season" (2008)

• PV Local First - "Google, renewable energy, potential new business in Holyoke" (2008)

• Academy Hill Newsletter - "On the Road to Springfield City Hall" (2008)

• PRNewsWire - "Undergrad Students Compete for Mentorship and Prestigious Award" (2007)

• Springfield Sunday Republican - "Caught in the Web of success" (2007)

• Local Buzz / MassLive - "I, for one, welcome our New Media Overlords" (2007)

• GSEA - "The Circus is in town... and so is the GSEA" (2007)

• Suffolk Business Magazine - "Center for Entrepreneurial Studies Hosts Events for Student Entrepreneurs" (2007)

• Daily Hampshire Gazette - "Pioneer Valley Business" (2007)

• BusinessWest - "Ciecko Wins Holyoke Design Contest" (2007)

Guest Column

• “Artnet News - The Surging Demand for Digital Collectibles Could Offer a Lifeline for Cash-Strapped Museums—Here’s How” (2021)

• American Alliance of Museums - “Museopreneur: How Museums are Leaping into New Business Models with Entrepreneurial Spirit” (2019)

• VentureBeat - “AR is Going to Kill the Map's Blue Dot” (2019)

• VentureBeat - “Museums are the Best Place to Find Innovation in AR” (2018)

• American Alliance of Museums - “Attack of the 100-Year Old Startup” (2018)

• TechCrunch - "Museums, Startups and Accelerators… Oh, My!" (2017)

• Americans for the Arts - “Skin In The Game In the Fight for Arts Funding” (2017)

• Xconomy - "High Tech for a Historic City—A 21-Year-Old Web Entrepreneur’s View of the Big Computing Center Planned for His Home Town" (2009)

Press Mentions / Quotes

• Verizon - “Can you print history in 3-D?” (2020)

• Dell - “Can Studying Social Sciences and the Arts Help Technologists Close the ‘Soft Skills Gap’?” (2019)

• BetterTeam - "How to Post to AngelList and Get the Best Startup Talent" (2016)

• BostInno - "This Kickass Startup Recruiting Tool Is Free—and You've Already Heard of It" (2016)

• Inc - "Want to Know the Future of Retail? Meet Estimote" (2014)

• Pioneer - "Upscale dining pops up in Holyoke" (2012)

• Springfield Republican - "Pop-up restaurant treats Holyoke diners to Boston cooking" (2012)

• Nowiny 24 - "Dziś w Rzeszowie rozpoczyna się InternetBeta 2011" (2011)

• Springfield Republican - "Could Holyoke produce the next Steve Jobs?" (2011)

• BusinessWest - "Wired and Weird" (2011)

• Springfield Republican - "Holyoke, old mill town, hosts Idea Mill, featuring robot-maker and other innovators" (2011)

• Springfield Republican - "Idea Mill seminar at Open Square explores whether new industries will create a 'new' Holyoke" (2011)

• CBS News - "Should You Drop Out of College to Start a Business?" (2010)

• Digitale Degio Kortrijk - "Howest pakt op Multi-Mania 2010" (2010)

• Mass High Tech / Boston Business Journal - "Young entrepreneurs lead charge to build Mass. tech growth" (2009)

• Springfield Republican - "Creativity popping in Holyoke" (2009)

• MassTech- "Innovate Holyoke" (2009)

• Xconomy - "Patrick Details Plans for Holyoke Computing Center" (2009)

• Governor to pick site for center by new year (2009)

• Local Buzz / MassLive - "High Performance Computing as the Future of Holyoke's E-conomy, Part II" (2009)

• Local Buzz / MassLive - "Twittering Holyoke's Future" (2009)

• Local Buzz / MassLive - "High Performance Computing as the Future of Holyoke's E-conomy, Part I" (2009)

• Springfield Republican - "Holyoke to be site of high performance computer center, Gov. Deval Patrick, presidents of UMass, MIT and BU announce" (2009)

• BusinessWest - "Mill Power: Conversion Projects Are Just Part of a Resurgence for the Paper City" (2009)

• Local Buzz / MassLive - "OMG, what just happened? Resolution for 2009" (2009)

• Springfield Republican - "Holyoke seeks to boost arts" (2008)

Book Mentions / Chapters

• "Convergence: How The World Will Be Painted With Data" by Charlie Fink (2019)

• "Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities: Manufacturing a (Different) Scene” by Myrna Breitbart (2013)

• "Upstarts!: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business..." by Donna Fenn (2009)

• "Student Entrepreneurs: Mentors Matter" by Michael McMyne (2009)

Album Credits / Mentions

• "A Santa Cause, Vol. 2" released by Immortal Records (2006)

• The Modern Day Saint - "....And Tomorrow We Will Have Nothing" released by Eyeball Records (2006)

• "In Honor: A Compilation to Beat Cancer" released by Vagrant Records (2004)

• Slick Shoes - "Far From Nowhere" released by SideOneDummy Records (2003)

• Slick Shoes - "Slick Shoes" released by Tooth and Nail Records (2002)

TV Appearances

• “Museums of the World: the New Reality Online and Offline” on Rossiya Segodnya (2020)

• "There Goes The Motherhood" on Bravo TV (Season 1, Episode 8 | 2016)

• “Making It Here: TeenStyle” on PBS WGBY (2008)