Who owns it
IMC Report is an independent publication, privately owned by its founder. It is not part of any platform, agency, network or industry body it covers, and it owns no platform, agency or service listed here.
How it is funded
Today IMC Report is funded by its owner. It carries no advertising and no sponsored content, and it earns nothing from the companies it covers: no listing fees, no affiliate commissions, no paid placement, no sponsored rankings. Members never pay to read, list or contribute.
What we do not do
- No products of our own IMC Report owns no platform, agency or service listed here.
- No partnerships We have no partnership, reseller, referral or integration-for-fee relationship with anyone listed.
- No affiliate income Links to vendor sites are plain links. Nobody is paid when you click, sign up or buy.
- No paid placement Nobody can pay to be listed, featured, scored, ranked, reviewed or removed. Nothing in the directory is pinned; the default order is alphabetical.
- No sponsored rankings The landscape lists are built from published third-party rankings by the rule printed on each list. Nobody can pay or ask to enter one, move up or leave.
- No sponsored content Learn pieces are written or republished for their usefulness, with sources. Republished pieces are labelled and attributed.
How it is enforced
- The directory filters by policy Only independent listings can reach a public page, Find your stack, the public API, the sitemap, search or the language-model index. A record with any other relationship stays in the editorial system and cannot be published.
- The engine cannot read relationships The ranking reads your answers and each listing's recorded facts, nothing else. Ties break on how much of a listing has been checked, then alphabetically.
- A test proves it The automated tests relabel every listing with every possible relationship and fail if a single ranking changes.
- Every claim has a source Listings and articles carry their sources. A fact we could not source is left out rather than estimated.
How we choose, source and check what we publish is set out in the editorial standards; how listings and landscape lists are made, in the listing methodology.
If this ever changes
If the ownership changes, or a partnership, affiliation, sponsorship or other commercial arrangement ever starts, it will be documented on this page before it takes effect, labelled on every affected listing and piece, and kept out of every ranking.