4³ Content-Publishing · Summer cohort 2026
Your content needs more impact
You have already invested in strong content. Most of it only reaches people who know you already. We activate that content as an ongoing reach channel: refined, AI-SEO- and GEO-optimised, republished across our trade magazines with a verified readership.
The 4³ logic
4articles a monthrefined and republished
4B2B trade magazinesone environment per decision-maker
4newsletter editionsyour article is featured in
More than 120 brands trust our network
The principle
Good content costs money. Using it only once is effort thrown away
An article, a whitepaper, a case study costs time and budget. Once published on your own domain, it usually reaches only the small circle that visits the site anyway. At the same time, how your audience does research is shifting: the first step now happens in search, in trade media and increasingly in the AI answer. Visible is whoever stands where people search, not whoever only publishes on their own site.
Our trade media are open to AI and it is verifiable: every title explicitly allows the relevant AI crawlers. Your content becomes discoverable where your own domain cannot reach.
Open to ChatGPT
Open to Perplexity
Open to Google AI
The shift is measurable
The search moved elsewhere. Visible is who stands there.
Your audience's research is moving into search, trade media and the AI answer. That is exactly where your content plays from month one.
56 %
of IT buyers name AI chatbots as their top source for vendor research.
G2, 2025
44 %
of citations in Google AI Overviews come from recent 2025 content.
Seer Interactive, 2025
60 %
of major publishers block AI crawlers. Their content appears in no AI answer.
arXiv-Studie, 2025
Four trade magazines, open to AI crawlers, in one network
How it works
From archive to impact in three steps
1
Kick-off workshop
We review your existing content and define a topic roadmap and goals. One session, and you know which content goes to which magazine and what impact it should have.
2
We refine and republish
Your personal One Voice Manager turns the archive into four publication-ready articles a month, AI-SEO- and GEO-optimised, editorially tailored to each magazine. You approve every article before it goes live.
3
Monthly reporting
You see transparently what the reach delivers: verified readers, newsletter performance, the strongest articles and which companies in the B2B space read your content. What you get is a list of companies showing real interest: leads for your sales team.
What's included
Refinement, reach and proof. One package.
The package bundles refinement, distribution and proof. No rebuild, no editorial workload on your side.
Republished across four trade magazines
Four refined articles a month from your archive, AI-SEO- and GEO-optimised for Google, Google News and AI search engines. The core product.
Verified Reads, not impressions
At least 1,200 verified trade readers a month as a guaranteed baseline, results typically run higher. Only counted is whoever reads for 30 seconds or reaches more than 50 percent scroll depth. If a month falls short of the baseline, we deliver additional reach free of charge until it is met.
See which companies read
You see which companies in the B2B space read your articles. Reach that feeds leads, not just click counts.
Your personal One Voice Manager
One dedicated contact orchestrates the topic plan, approvals and reporting. A monthly sync, no admin overhead on your side.
Placement in the MBF Media Newsletter
Your article also appears in the curated monthly briefing to more than 25,000 B2B subscribers. Reach beyond the magazine article.
Monthly reporting
Verified Reads, newsletter performance, top articles and the companies behind the visits in one clear monthly report. Your sales team turns those companies into concrete leads.
Reach
Visible in four decision-maker environments from month one
At least 1,200 verified trade readers a month, plus 25,000 newsletter subscribers in the DACH list.
235.000+
Visits / month
25,000+
Newsletter
120+
Media clients
7
Magazines
Publisher network
Four B2B trade magazines, one clear environment per decision-maker
Each title owns its own decision-making environment. Your One Voice Manager picks the right title per article. The screenshots show current desktop and mobile views.
cloudmagazin
CIO
Cloud, infrastructure, SaaS and IT architecture.
MyBusinessFuture
C-Level
Digitalisation, AI, business and transformation.
SecurityToday
CISO
Cybersecurity, compliance and security operations.
Digital Chiefs
CDO
Leadership, digital organisation and change.
MBF Media Newsletter
Your article reaches 25,000 B2B subscribers
As a fixed building block, your article also appears in the curated monthly briefing for IT and business decision-makers. No form, no list building, just guaranteed extra distribution for every placement.
25,000Subscribers DACH
>9%Click rate (June 2026)
Open rate above 26 percent, click rate above 9 percent - many times the B2B average. Placement is editorially matched to topic and timing.
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A co-creation approach, transparent reporting, goal-oriented, with real drive. Collaboration as equals.
Nils Lühe
Head of Communications & Marketing, VINCI Energies / Axians
Fixed price
A publishing channel at a fixed price
Content marketing at an agency usually runs 8,000 to 15,000 euros a month, for production you already partly do yourself. We start earlier: no rebuild, just maximum use of what is already there.
Founding price · Summer cohort 2026
4³ Content-Publishing
For the first cohort, price locked for six months. Limited to eight brands, allocated in order of request.
€3,000/ month net
Regular €4,900 / month from cohort 2
- 4 refined articles a month, AI-SEO- and GEO-optimised
- At least 1,200 verified trade readers a month guaranteed, results typically run higher
- Personal One Voice Manager as dedicated support
- Placement in the MBF Media Newsletter: 25,000 subscribers, over 9% click rate
- Monthly reporting with company signals: leads for your sales team
The terms, plainly
- Monthly cancellationFrom month 2, any time to the end of the month, no long lock-in.
- Founding price fixed for 6 monthsYour entry price of 3,000 euros stays guaranteed for six months.
- You keep controlEvery article goes through your approval before it is published.
- Fair content rightsA simple secondary-use licence for publication in our magazines. Your content stays your content.
The 4³ concept, ready to forward
All deliverables, terms and proof points on five pages, as a PDF for your team and your decision round.
Client voices
What partners say about working with us
Verified voices from projects and partnerships.
Deep immersion in the topic led to discussions as equals.
Always competent, on the pulse, technologically strong and with very deep market expertise (in our case IT).
Fast response times, quick to grasp changing conditions, high flexibility.
The team always had good ideas that helped us deliver our projects successfully.
4³ follows your audience
Three directions, one principle: your content becomes readable where your audience reads. The 360 and Lifestyle pages are currently available in German. Tell us in the form below which focus fits you - we tailor the proposal concept to it.
This page
4³ B2B
Four trade magazines plus the MBF Media Newsletter, for decision-makers in cloud, business, security and digitalisation.
For brands with two worlds
4³ 360
Trade decision-makers and consumers from one contract, with separate proof per world.
For consumer brands
4³ Lifestyle
Editorial stories in the IBS Publishing lifestyle magazines, for sports, music and gear audiences.
FAQ
What you want to know before you start
Short answers for decision-makers who want the model, the effort and the rights clearly.
What exactly happens to our content?
We take your existing content, edit it editorially, optimise it for SEO, Google News and AI search engines and publish it as standalone articles in our trade magazines. Four refined articles a month, each approved by you before publication.
Does republishing hurt our own SEO?
No. Each magazine gets its own version with its own angle, headline and structure. For Google these are independent publications with no duplicate-content risk. Your original on your domain stays untouched. No duplicate is created that competes with you. You gain visibility in trade contexts and AI search that your own domain alone does not reach.
How much effort does it take on our side?
Very little after the kick-off workshop. Your personal One Voice Manager runs the topic plan, production and reporting. From you it needs the content archive and approval of each article. A monthly sync is enough.
Can we cancel monthly?
After the first month you can cancel any time to the end of the month, without giving reasons. No long lock-in.
Who owns the optimised content?
Your content stays your content. You give us a simple secondary-use licence for editing and publication in our magazines. Nothing more is needed.
What counts as a verified reader?
Only counted is whoever actively reads for at least 30 seconds or reaches more than 50 percent scroll depth. What is measured is real engagement with the article, not mere impressions.
Why does an article reach more people with you than on our own channels?
The four trade magazines bring established domain authority, loyal readerships and open doors for AI crawlers. 60 percent of major media outlets block AI crawlers, our magazines are deliberately open. Add the push via the MBF Media Newsletter with 25,000 subscribers. Your article gets found, cited and read where your own domain alone does not reach.
Individual proposal concept
Tell us what you have. You get a concept.
Briefly describe your existing content and your goal. Within 24 hours on business days you receive an individual proposal concept covering the right magazines, your cohort terms and a concrete start date.
- Cancel monthly from the second month
- Founding price guaranteed for six months
- Every article passes your approval before publication
Thank you, we will be in touch.
We review your content and get back to you within 24 hours on business days with an individual proposal concept, by email or phone.
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Next step
We review your archive. You see what is in it.
On the call we clarify your archive, the right magazines and your start as a founding client of the summer cohort 2026.
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