About
Team & leadership
Real review media is run by real people. Here are the leadership and editorial functions behind Type 5 Marketing — and how to reach them.
Who's behind the work
Leadership & editorial functions
We attribute our work to named people and defined roles — never an anonymous byline. As the portfolio grows, this page grows with it.
Stephen V.
Founder
Stephen founded Type 5 Marketing LLC and brings a background in the information technology space, including building Built For Rank (builtforrank.com), a platform for producing SEO-optimized websites. He sets the company's editorial-independence policy and oversees how each brand in the portfolio operates.
Editorial & Review Team
Research, testing & verdicts
Named editors and product researchers apply our public six-metric rubric, gather and cite evidence, and write the verdicts published across our brands. Every recommendation is traceable to a person and to the evidence behind it.
Performance & Operations
Audience growth & compliance
This function manages analytics, audience growth, and the shared compliance infrastructure — affiliate disclosures, privacy practices, and data handling — that every property in the portfolio inherits.
How we work together
Type 5 Marketing operates each brand under one set of standards. The leadership team owns the company's independence policy; the editorial team applies the review methodology and writes the verdicts; and the performance team grows each audience while keeping affiliate disclosure and privacy practices consistent across the portfolio.
This structure is deliberately transparent. An affiliate-network reviewer should be able to see that there are accountable people behind the brands, that authorship is clear, and that the same editorial standards apply everywhere we publish. If you need to verify a specific role or speak with someone directly, our contact page reaches a real person.
Want to reach the team directly?
Partnership inquiries, press, and program due-diligence questions all reach a real person on our team.