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Home / Company News / Ignite Visibility News: Company Updates, Awards, Acquisitions & Announcements

Ignite Visibility News: Company Updates, Awards, Acquisitions & Announcements

August 17, 2026 By Ignite Visibility

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Welcome to the official Ignite Visibility news hub. This page highlights the latest company announcements, acquisitions, awards, industry recognition, leadership updates, product developments, and major milestones. Check back regularly for the newest updates from Ignite Visibility and the broader Ignite family of brands.

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  • August 2026
    • Rallio Expands With New Revenue Intelligence Capabilities
  • July 2026
    • Ignite Visibility Strengthens Executive Leadership Team with Executive CFO Appointment
  • June 2026
    • Ignite Visibility Celebrates Industry Recognition for AI Innovation, Leadership, and Marketing Excellence
  • 2025
    • Ignite Visibility Acquires Rallio, Building On National-to-Local Capabilities
    • Ignite Visibility Acquires Outliant, Elevating Our Service Offering and Digital Capabilities

Rallio Expands With New Revenue Intelligence Capabilities

We’re excited to share the continued evolution of Rallio, our AI-powered marketing platform built for franchise and multi-location brands.

While social media management remains a core part of Rallio, the platform has expanded into a comprehensive local marketing and revenue intelligence solution that helps brands connect marketing performance to real business outcomes.

Introducing RevIntel

A key addition is RevIntel, Rallio’s revenue intelligence capability, which connects first-party CRM outcomes back to the campaigns, locations, and markets that generated them. This gives brands greater visibility into which marketing efforts are driving qualified leads, appointments, pipeline activity, and revenue.

AI-Powered Local Marketing at Scale

Rallio also uses AI agents to help teams scale marketing execution by generating localized social content, review responses, SEO content, performance reports, and recommended actions based on brand guidelines and performance data.

As our CEO, Krish Coughran, explains:

“The next generation of software should not require customers to spend more time inside a platform to receive more value. It should understand what they are trying to accomplish, connect marketing activity to business performance, and give their teams the insights and deliverables they need to make better decisions.”

This evolution represents a shift from software that simply provides data to software that actively helps drive results.

Looking Ahead

As we continue to expand the platform, our focus remains the same: helping franchise and multi-location brands better connect local marketing performance to measurable business outcomes.

Read the full press release for additional details about the platform expansion and RevIntel capabilities.

Ignite Visibility Strengthens Executive Leadership Team with Executive CFO Appointment

We are excited to announce that Ignite Visibility has officially welcomed Raj Singhal as Chief Financial Officer, adding a veteran finance and business leader to our executive team as the agency continues its growth trajectory.

Raj brings more than two decades of experience leading finance, operations, and business strategy for some of the world’s largest technology, digital, and media organizations. His background includes executive leadership roles at Interpublic Group, Publicis Groupe, and Huge, where he helped drive growth, improve profitability, and lead major business transformation initiatives.

In his new role, Raj will oversee Ignite Visibility’s financial strategy, corporate development, and operational planning, while partnering closely with MountainGate Capital to support the company’s next phase of growth.

Commenting on the appointment, CEO Krish Coughran said, “Raj is a world-class finance and business leader with an impressive track record of helping organizations scale, improve profitability, and navigate transformational growth. His combination of strategic financial leadership, operational expertise, and executive experience makes him an outstanding addition to our leadership team. We are excited to welcome Raj as we continue building the industry’s leading digital marketing agency.”

Congratulations to Raj on joining the team, and we’re excited to see what’s next for Ignite Visibility.

Ignite Visibility Celebrates Industry Recognition for AI Innovation, Leadership, and Marketing Excellence

The marketing industry is evolving faster than ever, driven by advances in artificial intelligence, changing consumer behavior, and the growing demand for scalable digital solutions.

At Ignite Visibility, our mission has always been to help businesses stay ahead of that evolution. Today, we’re proud to celebrate several milestones that reflect that commitment.

Rallio AI, our AI-powered multi-location marketing platform, has been shortlisted for Best AI-Powered SaaS Solution in the 2026 SaaS Awards. On another note, Ignite Visibility’s VP of AI SEO, Karen Devlin, was named Trailblazer of the Year at the San Diego AMA Sandie Awards. Adding to these achievements, Ignite Visibility was also recognized as a 2026 Clutch Global Winner across seven categories, including AI Search Engine Optimization (AI SEO), Local SEO, Content Creation, and Digital Marketing.

Together, these honors highlight a common theme: innovation that creates measurable results.

Rallio AI Earns Global Recognition

This year, Rallio AI was shortlisted for Best AI-Powered SaaS Solution, placing the platform among a select group of technology leaders from around the world.

The recognition reflects years of investment in solving one of the most persistent challenges facing franchises, multi-location businesses, and local brands: how to empower local teams while maintaining centralized brand control.

Marketing leaders often face a difficult balancing act. They need every location to maintain a strong online presence, engage with customers, manage reviews, and publish content consistently. At the same time, they must ensure brand standards remain intact across dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of locations.

Rallio AI was built to solve that challenge.

Today, the platform combines AI-powered content creation, reputation management, local marketing tools, employee advocacy, listings management, and centralized reporting into a single solution designed specifically for multi-location organizations. By helping businesses streamline execution while maintaining oversight, Rallio AI enables brands to scale local marketing more effectively.

Since Ignite Visibility’s acquisition of Rallio, the platform has become an increasingly important part of our vision for the future of marketing: combining world-class strategy, execution, and software to help businesses grow more efficiently in an AI-driven landscape.

Celebrating Leadership in AI SEO

Innovation isn’t only about technology. It’s also about the people helping shape the future of the industry.

This year, Karen Devlin, VP of AI SEO at Ignite Visibility, was honored with the Trailblazer of the Year Award at the San Diego AMA Sandie Awards. The recognition celebrates Karen’s leadership in helping businesses navigate the rapidly changing search landscape and adopt emerging AI SEO strategies.

As search engines continue integrating AI-generated experiences and new discovery methods, Karen has played a key role in developing frameworks that help brands remain visible, competitive, and prepared for what’s next.

Her work reflects Ignite Visibility’s broader commitment to helping clients understand and capitalize on the opportunities created by AI-powered search.

Seven Clutch Global Awards Reinforce Our Commitment to Excellence

In addition to these achievements, Ignite Visibility was named a 2026 Clutch Global Winner across seven service categories.

These awards recognize top-performing agencies worldwide based on verified client reviews, market presence, and demonstrated results. The recognition reinforces what matters most to us: delivering meaningful business outcomes for our clients.

Whether through advanced SEO strategies, AI SEO, paid media, local marketing, or AI-powered solutions, our focus remains on helping businesses grow revenue and achieve long-term success.

Looking Ahead

The future of marketing will be defined by organizations that successfully combine innovation, technology, and human expertise.

Rallio AI’s SaaS Awards recognition, Karen Devlin’s Trailblazer of the Year honor, and Ignite Visibility’s Clutch Global Awards all reflect the progress we’re making toward that future.

Most importantly, they reinforce our belief that AI should be practical, accessible, and results-driven. Technology is only valuable when it helps businesses operate more efficiently, connect with customers more effectively, and achieve measurable growth.

As we continue investing in AI-powered marketing solutions and industry-leading talent, we’re excited about what comes next and grateful to our clients, partners, and team members who continue to make these achievements possible.

Ignite Visibility Acquires Rallio, Building On National-to-Local Capabilities

We’re excited to announce Ignite Visibility has officially acquired Rallio, a premier provider of software that supports both franchise and multi-location businesses manage their social media, employee advocacy and online reputation management. 

Delivering More Comprehensive Digital Marketing Solutions

Our new partnership with Rallio marks a step towards providing more integrated services to our franchise and multi-location clients. Rallio’s platform gives our clients the power to drive meaningful interactions with their customers at the local and individual levels. By integrating Rallio’s capabilities into our service offerings, we’re positioned to provide more powerful local SEO and social media solutions, strengthening us as a top ‘national-to-local’ digital marketing agency.

John Lincoln, CEO and Co-founder of Ignite Visibility, shared, “We are thrilled to welcome Rallio into the Ignite Visibility offering. Rallio has built an impressive platform and by bringing it into our ecosystem, we’re expanding our technology capabilities and how we can provide value to our clients.”

Chuck Goetschel, CEO of Rallio, added “Joining forces with Ignite Visibility marks an exciting new chapter for Rallio. Our mission has always been to help businesses manage their social media footprint at scale, while providing tools to increase efficiency and drive brand integrity. Partnering with Ignite creates exciting new opportunities for our clients and team members. We’re looking forward to scaling our impact together.”

New Features to Improve Your Multi-Location Marketing

  1. Post Library & Intuitive Scheduling System – The addition of Rallio allows our clients to effortlessly manage their social media content with the Post Library & Scheduling System. It acts as a central hub for pre-approved contents, made for easy personalization and customization, maintaining brand consistency, and improving audience interaction.
  2. Employee Advocacy – This platform enables staff to share branded and local content through the Employee Advocacy feature. Automated rewards will encourage participation while increasing brand authenticity and driving real engagement, all building your brand’s local reach.
  3. Directory Listings Management – With Rallio’s Directory Listings Management, we’re making it easier for your customers to find and engage with your brand. We’ll ensure accurate and consistent business information across all online directories, enhancing your Local SEO and providing a smoother experience for your customers.

Keeping Innovation at the Forefront of Our Solutions

Acquiring Rallio keeps our commitment to innovation in digital marketing at the center of our service offerings. Krishnan Coughran, President and co-founder of Ignite Visibility explained: “As AI-driven tools continue to transform the digital marketing landscape, we are excited to integrate Rallio’s advanced technology into our suite of solutions. This partnership allows us to empower brands with smarter, more efficient ways to engage their audiences and optimize their online presence.”

Looking Ahead: What’s Next?

The acquisition of Rallio marks Ignite Visibility’s third acquisition since partnering with Mountaingate Capital in February 2023. As we continue to grow our service offerings, we can’t wait to bring this new, powerful tool to our clients. We’re able to deliver enhanced, integrated digital marketing solutions to help multi-location and franchise businesses thrive. 

Ready to take your digital marketing to the next level? Learn more about our multi-location marketing and franchise marketing services here, or contact us to speak with a digital marketing expert today.  

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Read the full press release here. 

About Ignite Visibility

Ignite Visibility is an award-winning digital marketing agency specialized in serving multi-location service providers with a need for local discoverability and lead generation. Through its ‘national-to-local’ execution model, Ignite’s capabilities include search engine optimization, content, digital PR, paid media, social media advertising, and web development. For more information on Ignite, please visit https://ignitevisibility.com/.

About Rallio

Rallio is a social media, listings, and reputation management platform purpose built for multi-location brands and franchises. The Rallio platform enables its clients to maintain brand consistency while driving relevancy at the local level through connectivity to key social media platforms. To learn more about Rallio, please visit https://www.rallio.com/.

About Moutaingate Capital

Mountaingate Capital is a Colorado-based, growth-focused private equity investment firm that partners with founders and entrepreneurial companies to accelerate growth and build industry leaders. Mountaingate’s focus on organic growth, coupled with its customer-centric buy-and-build approach and shared equity ownership with management, creates more value for the end customer while forging stronger, more collaborative, and more successful partnerships with management teams. Mountaingate invests in the marketing services, business services, specialty distribution, and specialty manufacturing sectors. For more information on Mountaingate, please visit www.mountaingate.com/.

Ignite Visibility Acquires Outliant, Elevating Our Service Offering and Digital Capabilities

We are thrilled to announce that Ignite Visibility has officially acquired Outliant, a leading web development and digital marketing agency known for its expertise in complex, multi-location client needs. This acquisition is a strategic move to strengthen our ability to support enterprise brands, franchises, and multi-location businesses with advanced digital solutions.

A Stronger, More Integrated Agency

This acquisition significantly enhances Ignite Visibility’s ability to provide more comprehensive digital services to our clients. Outliant brings deep technical expertise in web development, software engineering, and digital marketing, which will allow us to better address the evolving needs of businesses that require specialized solutions. By integrating Outliant’s capabilities into our service offering, we are now even better equipped to manage the complex digital infrastructure and website builds that multi-location businesses often require.

John Lincoln, CEO and Co-founder of Ignite Visibility, shared:

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What This Means for You

1. Advanced Web Development Expertise

The addition of Outliant strengthens our technical capabilities, especially in supporting highly complex websites and digital infrastructure at scale. Whether you’re managing multiple locations or running an enterprise brand, our new combined team can now tackle larger, more sophisticated digital projects that go beyond basic website solutions.

2. Stronger Branding & Design

With Outliant’s team on board, we can now offer stronger branding and design solutions. Their expertise in building high-performance websites ensures that businesses maintain a consistent brand presence across all locations and platforms. Whether it’s creating a seamless user experience or ensuring that branding is cohesive across a network of sites, we are now even better equipped to help businesses maintain a unified, professional image.

3. A Bigger, More Experienced Team

With the addition of Outliant’s talented professionals, Ignite Visibility’s team now grows to over 350 experts. This expanded team allows us to deliver even smarter digital strategies and create more impactful marketing campaigns. Together, we are equipped to address more complex challenges and deliver smarter, more effective solutions for all of our clients.

Outliant’s Leadership on the Move

As part of this acquisition, Erwan Lent, Co-founder of Outliant, will now serve as Senior Vice President of Technology at Ignite Visibility. Erwan expressed his enthusiasm for the integration:
“For our clients and team members, there are huge benefits of joining forces with Ignite Visibility. With Ignite’s scale and suite of digital marketing capabilities, we can support our clients at every stage of their customer acquisition journey. Ignite’s culture and values perfectly align with the standards that we have held ourselves to at Outliant since our beginning.”

Meeting the Growing Demand for Specialized Web Solutions

The decision to acquire Outliant comes as a direct response to the increasing demand from our clients for more sophisticated support for their web properties. As Krishnan Coughran, President and Co-founder of Ignite Visibility, explained:

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By bringing Outliant’s technical expertise under the Ignite Visibility umbrella, we can now provide a full range of services that include not only innovative web development but also ongoing digital marketing optimization. This enables us to offer integrated solutions that address both the technical and strategic needs of multi-location businesses.

Looking Ahead: What’s Next?

As we continue to grow and enhance our service offerings, we are excited to see how this acquisition will impact our clients. Together with Outliant, we’re better positioned than ever to help businesses thrive in today’s digital-first world. By integrating web development, SEO, digital PR, paid media and more, we now offer a seamless, all-in-one solution for businesses of all sizes.

We are excited to put these enhanced capabilities to work for your business, whether you’re looking to improve your website infrastructure, optimize your digital marketing strategy, or expand your local presence.

Let’s Get Started!

Ready to take your digital presence to the next level? Learn more about our advanced website development services here, or contact us to speak with one of our experts today. We can’t wait to help you achieve your digital goals with our expanded capabilities.

Thank you for your continued trust and partnership as we embark on this exciting new chapter. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to grow and enhance our services to better serve you.

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Read the full press release here

About Ignite Visibility

Ignite Visibility is an award-winning digital marketing agency specializing in serving multi-location businesses with a focus on local discoverability and lead generation. From SEO to paid media, social media advertising, and digital PR, we offer a comprehensive suite of services to help brands grow in competitive markets. For more information, visit ignitevisibility.com.

About Outliant

Outliant is a leading web development and digital marketing agency known for its expertise in managing complex website builds and ongoing optimizations for multi-location businesses. For more information, visit outliant.com.

About Mountaingate Capital

Mountaingate Capital is a growth-focused private equity firm that partners with entrepreneurial companies to accelerate growth and build industry leaders. For more information, visit mountaingate.com.

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