Commerce media network connecting brands with consumers across omnichannel touchpoints
Fluent operates a performance marketing network built on AWS infrastructure with heavy investment in security posture—VPC architecture, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Security Hub, and Wiz adoption signal a company scaling compliance and incident response capabilities. Hiring momentum centers on marketing and sales leadership (5 director roles), alongside security and product work, indicating expansion of advertiser relationships and platform hardening rather than engineering build-out.
Notable leadership hires: Sales Director, Advertiser Development Director
Fluent (NASDAQ: FLNT) is a commerce media solutions provider that connects brands with consumers through proprietary ad inventory, first-party data, and machine learning. The company operates as an advertising network and marketplace, monetizing publisher inventory while enabling advertisers to acquire customers across omnichannel journeys. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, Fluent serves mid-market and enterprise brands in performance marketing and retail media, with operations spanning the United States and Canada.
Fluent runs on AWS, with services including RDS, EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, WAF, and identity/security services (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Config, Security Hub, IAM, Identity Center, VPC).
Fluent's security stack includes Okta for identity, Wiz for cloud security, AWS security services (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Security Hub, Config, WAF), and is actively implementing VPC security architecture and incident response playbooks.
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