Lightbeam
Stephanie Sharis is the Co-CEO and President of Good News Network, a media company founded in 1997 to share positive news stories. Stephanie is also a Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at Lightbeam, a social enterprise start-up focused on inspirational storytelling. Stephanie works as a Strategy and Business Development Consultant at WRiTE BRAiN WORLD and is an Independent Producer for various projects. With a background in digital media, Stephanie has served as Principal at Athena Media Consulting and Executive Strategist at Vaudeville Ventures. Previously, Stephanie held leadership roles at Cricket Media, DailyClout, SnagFilms, and AOL. Stephanie holds a Master of Public Policy in Media Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in English from Wesleyan University.
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Lightbeam
Lightbeam is multi-channel platform for premium content that serves avalues-driven economy by celebrating humanity at its bestLightbeam is a content studio and streaming service solely focused on empathy-sparking programming that boosts mental wellness and inspire us to be better people. With today’s toxic media hurting us all, our companypurpose is to harness the power of storytelling to help heal, not harm. We serve a values-aligned economy where consumers increasingly back brands that share their values. With so many of us suffering from the adverse effects of negative media (anxiety, depression, insomnia, etc.), consumers are seeking out positive media but, while there are many family-friendly or faith-based options, no home for “Sundance-quality” uplifting content exists.Lightbeam’s audience comes to us to reboot their faith in humanity: we appeal to “conscious consumers,” the very demo that brands have a hard time connecting with. Lightbeam helps brand create purposeful content and distribute it “authentically” to these coveted mindful consumers. Lightbeam taps an exploding free streaming industry: in 2022 AVOD is growing faster than SVOD (29% versus 21%, Comscore), and we are also trailblazing with Web3. Lightbeam is powered by a hybrid business model: branded video-on-demand (BVOD) and tokenized video-on-demand (TVOD). With BVOD, brands no longer disrupt the entertainment they become it, and with TVOD, viewers binge-to-impactTM special assets, privileges and experiences.