Simpli.fi provides digital advertising management through a programmatic platform aimed at helping marketers improve relevance and results. It uses automated buying technology to place ads across multiple channels, including Streaming TV/CTV, mobile, video, display, and native formats. The platform targets specific audiences and optimizes campaigns to drive better performance, with revenue coming from service fees and subscriptions. Compared to competitors, Simpli.fi focuses on precise audience targeting across a range of formats within a single platform and emphasizes measurable performance to help clients maximize advertising impact. Its goal is to help businesses reach their intended audiences efficiently and achieve higher return on their ad spend.
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Founded
2010
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Simpli.fi, a real-world media platform, has named Sean McCaffrey as chief executive officer. The Fort Worth, Texas company runs more than 140,000 local and multi-location campaigns a month for over 40,000 advertisers. McCaffrey previously led GSTV as president and chief executive officer. He tripled revenue, grew the network to more than 30,000 locations, and oversaw its 2025 sale to MidOcean Partners. Before that, he spent 16 years at Clear Channel Outdoor and iHeartMedia, where he led North American commercial sales and revenue strategy for a $400M+ business. The appointment follows the launch of Simpli.Hub, a self-serve platform for multi-location brands, franchises, and regional agencies. Executive chairman Frost Prioleau called McCaffrey "the right leader to accelerate our products and our customers' growth.
Fort Worth's Simpli.fi Names Sean McCaffrey CEO. Oct. 20, 2026 12:01 p.m. Sean McCaffrey Fort Worth-based advertising technology company Simpli.fi has named Sean McCaffrey chief executive officer, bringing in a media executive who previously led digital video and retail media platform GSTV. The appointment, announced Tuesday, follows Simpli.fi's launch of Simpli.Hub, a self-service platform for brands with multiple locations, franchises and regional agencies. The platform supports advertising across search, display, connected television and digital out-of-home channels. Simpli.fi runs more than 140,000 local and multi-location campaigns monthly for more than 40,000 advertisers, according to the firm. Backed by private equity firms Blackstone and GTCR, the company combines information about digital activity and physical movement to help advertisers target audiences and measure campaign results. As president and CEO of GSTV, McCaffrey tripled revenue and expanded its convenience-store and fuel-station screen network to more than 30,000 locations, reaching more than 120 million monthly viewers, according to the announcement. He also more than doubled the workforce. His tenure culminated in GSTV's 2025 sale to MidOcean Partners. Before GSTV, McCaffrey spent 16 years at Clear Channel Outdoor and iHeartMedia. As Clear Channel's executive vice president of strategy and partnerships, he led North American commercial sales and revenue strategy for a business generating more than $400 million. At Simpli.fi, he will oversee continued expansion of products and measurement tools intended to demonstrate advertising's impact on consumer behavior. "Advertisers aren't asking anymore whether digital and physical belong in the same plan. It's one consumer experience, and they're asking who can prove it worked," McCaffrey said. Frost Prioleau, Simpli.fi's executive chairman, said McCaffrey's experience with agencies, advertisers, and data makes him suited to accelerate product development and customer growth. "Independent agencies and local media companies are the heart of our business, and they have to prove ROI on every dollar their clients spend," Prioleau said.
Simpli.fi has launched Simpli.Hub, a self-serve advertising portal designed for multi-location brands and franchise networks. The platform allows corporate teams to set campaign strategy and brand guidelines centrally, whilst enabling local operators to launch pre-approved campaigns without media buying expertise. The service addresses challenges in scaling localised advertising across multiple locations, which often creates operational bottlenecks and brand inconsistencies. According to Simpli.fi, 76% of smartphone users who search for nearby businesses visit within a day, making local relevance crucial for driving foot traffic. Simpli.Hub integrates with Simpli.fi's media platform, allowing campaigns across channels including search, display, CTV, and DOOH. Corporate teams maintain oversight through unified reporting across all locations. The platform is available following successful rollouts with multi-location brands managing campaigns across thousands of locations nationwide.
Simpli.fi and Freshpaint have launched a HIPAA-compliant programmatic advertising solution for healthcare providers. The partnership enables healthcare organisations to run targeted patient acquisition campaigns and measure foot traffic whilst maintaining regulatory compliance. Research shows 77% of patients search for healthcare providers online. However, healthcare marketers face challenges as tools like conversion tracking and audience targeting may expose protected health information under HIPAA regulations. The integration connects Freshpaint's privacy guardrails with Simpli.fi's advertising capabilities. Freshpaint removes protected health information at the source, allowing healthcare marketers to track patient journeys from online clicks to clinic visits without exposing sensitive data. The solution offers privacy-first conversion tracking, hyperlocal targeting at address level, and multi-location campaign management. Healthcare providers can now measure how advertising influences patient acquisition across markets whilst adhering to privacy standards. The capability is available now for Simpli.fi customers with Freshpaint subscriptions.
Simpli.fi and Freshpaint deliver hipaa-compliant programmatic advertising. Healthcare Organizations Can Run Targeted Patient Acquisition Campaigns and Measure Foot Traffic Results, All Within Regulatory Compliance FORT WORTH, TX (August 4, 2026) - Simpli.fi, the real-world media platform built for the age of immediacy, in a strategic partnership and technical integration with Freshpaint, a privacy-first healthcare marketing platform, today introduced an expansion of Simpli.fi's HIPAA-compliant programmatic advertising solution for healthcare providers. Patient acquisition in healthcare has fundamentally shifted, with research showing 77% of patients search for healthcare providers online as digital channels eclipse traditional media for both efficiency and scale. Healthcare organizations that don't use automated, data-driven programmatic buying risk missing potential new patients. However, healthcare marketers face a barrier that doesn't exist in other industries: the current tools required to run modern programmatic campaigns - conversion tracking, audience targeting, and performance measurement - may expose protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA. With this new solution, healthcare providers - from urgent care centers and dental support organizations to specialty practices and regional health systems - can confidently activate high-performing marketing campaigns, measure the patient journey with privacy-first conversion tracking, and prove how marketing influences growth, without exposing PHI. The integration allows healthcare organizations to safely act on consumer intent the moment it happens and measure impact all the way from high-intent digital actions to the clinician's door. "Healthcare happens locally, but strict privacy rules have made it hard for medical groups to see if their online ads actually lead to office visits," said Michael Schoen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Simpli.fi. "Our partnership with Freshpaint changes that. We've created a secure way to track a patient's journey from an online click to a clinic door. This helps marketers find new patients more effectively and finally prove that their ads are helping their businesses grow." The integration connects Freshpaint's privacy guardrail with Simpli.fi's advertising capabilities. Freshpaint converts patient engagement into privacy-aware marketing signals by removing PHI at the source, giving healthcare marketers a compliant foundation for campaign activation, optimization, and measurement in Simpli.fi. Healthcare marketers get a clear, privacy-driven view of how hyperlocal advertising influences patient acquisition, without relying on guesswork or risky tracking methods. Simpli.fi's advertising platform combined with Freshpaint's privacy-first healthcare marketing platform enables healthcare providers to run campaigns with: * Privacy-first conversion tracking: Determine which local campaigns drive patient appointments and high-intent actions across every market they run in while adhering to organizational privacy standards. * Hyperlocal acquisition strategies: Deliver address-level targeting tailored to each healthcare location, whether operating one site or hundreds. * Multi-location efficiency: Manage campaigns across hundreds of locations without multiplying operational complexity or compliance burden. "Healthcare marketers are under more pressure than ever to show what their media spend is actually driving," said Jason Powers, Vice President of Product at Freshpaint. "Clicks and impressions only tell part of the story. With Freshpaint and Simpli.fi's partnership, healthcare organizations can connect local campaign activity to downstream patient actions like appointment bookings and location engagement, so they can optimize marketing with confidence while protecting patient privacy." The capability is available now for Simpli.fi customers with Freshpaint subscriptions and can be activated by contacting their account manager. About Simpli.fi Simpli.fi is the real-world media platform built for the age of immediacy. By unifying digital behavior and real-world movement into a single actionable signal, Simpli.fi enables over 2,000 agencies, advertisers, and media groups to target, optimize, and measure campaigns precisely where consumer decisions happen. Built on the truth that people use digital to navigate the physical world, Simpli.fi is the only platform that connects these signals in real time - allowing brands to act on consumer intent the moment it occurs and measure the impact all the way to the door. Simplifi Holdings, Inc. thrive on innovation, data-driven results, and a culture of continuous improvement to make marketing more immediate, intelligent, and connected. Simpli.fi is backed by leading private equity firms Blackstone and GTCR. About Freshpaint Freshpaint is built for healthcare marketers to deliver measurable performance while safeguarding patient trust in a complex regulatory environment. Bringing privacy and performance together in one platform, Freshpaint enables healthcare organizations to securely connect and activate data across channels, connect marketing spend to outcomes, and confidently scale growth. Headquartered in San Francisco, Freshpaint partners with more than 250 healthcare organizations - including enterprise providers, payers, digital health companies, agencies, and consumer health brands - so that marketers are empowered to stretch fixed budgets, prove what's working, and turn privacy into a strategic advantage that fuels performance.
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Industries
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$22.8M
Headquarters
Fort Worth, TX
Founded
2010
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