Brown Brothers Media

The Portfolio

Publications with real histories, run by real editors.

These are the notable titles in a wider portfolio of specialist publications. Some we founded; most we acquired — sites with long histories of expertise and authority — and then invested in: modernising the editorial focus, expanding the readership, and growing the team behind each masthead. Where the existing editors and direction are working, we keep them; more often, we bring in more people.

Silicon Canals

Founded
2014, Amsterdam
Beat
Technology, politics, mind
Joined the house
November 2025
Cadence
Daily
Visit siliconcanals.com

Founded in Amsterdam in 2014 to document the rise of the European technology ecosystem, Silicon Canals has been the continent's startup record for over a decade.

The publication built its reputation on funding rounds, ecosystem reporting, and the unglamorous mechanics of building companies in Europe — from Amsterdam and London to the smaller hubs that rarely make the international press. European startup news remains the foundation of its coverage, and Amsterdam remains its heritage anchor.

Brown Brothers Media acquired Silicon Canals in November 2025 and has invested in it since: a larger editorial team, an expanded remit beyond the daily technology desk — politics, cities, and the ideas shaping how technology and power interact — and a long reads section for readers who want more than the news cycle. It is the largest publication in the house by readership.

VegOut

Founded
2016, Los Angeles
Beat
Plant-based food & conscious living
Formats
Monthly magazine, recipes, video
Cadence
Daily + monthly issue
Visit vegoutmag.com

VegOut has been writing about plant-based living since 2016, and a decade in has arrived at a simple conviction: what we eat is inseparable from how we live.

What began as a Los Angeles city guide for vegan food has grown into the magazine of conscious living. VegOut publishes across three editorial pillars — Eat Better, Live Lighter, Think Deeper — spanning food culture, sustainability, and the bigger questions behind both. Its audience runs from committed vegans to the curiously conscious, and the magazine is deliberately unpreachy about the difference: millions of people doing this imperfectly matters more than a handful doing it perfectly.

Alongside daily reporting and essays, VegOut publishes a monthly long-form magazine issue, a growing recipe library, and a YouTube channel of food-systems video essays.

Science Blog

Beat
Research, health, brain, earth, space
Editor-in-Chief
Lachlan Brown
Motto
Clear science for curious people
Cadence
Daily
Visit scienceblog.com

Science Blog turns hard research into stories you can actually finish: the finding, the mechanism, and why it matters.

The publication covers three broad territories. Body & Mind takes in health, medicine, brain science, and behavior — the studies that change how you understand attention, memory, sleep, and the body you carry around. Living World covers earth, climate, energy, and life beyond humans. Matter & Machines follows physics, mathematics, engineering, and space — discoveries that rewrite what is possible to build, measure, or explore.

Every piece is editorially directed and reviewed before it goes live, with claims sourced to the original research rather than to someone else's summary of it. Alongside the daily desk, Science Blog publishes named feature columns from the house's own editors.

Space Daily

Founded
1995, Tokyo
Beat
Space industry, science, frontier psychology
Heritage
30 years of continuous publishing
Cadence
Daily
Visit spacedaily.com

Space Daily has been reporting on the people, missions, and ideas pushing humanity outward since 1995 — making it the oldest masthead in the house by a quarter century.

Founded in Tokyo in the era of dial-up, the publication predates most of the commercial space industry it now covers. Its three connected beats are the space industry itself — launches, contracts, policy, and the economics of orbit — the science behind it, and something rarer: the psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extreme conditions, from mission crews to the frontier mindset itself.

Space Daily anchors a family of specialist science and technology titles within the house, including Terra Daily and a constellation of sister sites covering energy, defense, and planetary science. It is a good example of how we work with heritage titles: the archive and the beat stay, and a new generation of editors builds on three decades of authority rather than starting over.

Terra Daily

Beat
Climate, hazards, water, ecosystems
Family
Sister title to Space Daily
Cadence
Daily
Visit terradaily.com

Terra Daily treats planet Earth as a news beat.

The publication covers natural hazards, water systems, ecosystems, climate impacts, and the environmental forces reshaping how and where people live. Where much environmental coverage is either advocacy or despair, Terra Daily's register is the news desk: what happened, what the science says, and what it means for the systems we all depend on.

Terra Daily comes from the same newsroom family as Space Daily, and shares its long-view sensibility — the story of Earth's systems is told in decades, not news cycles.

Hack Spirit

Founded
2016, by Lachlan Brown
Beat
Mindfulness, psychology, practical wisdom
Readership
Read by millions
Cadence
Daily
Visit hackspirit.com

Hack Spirit is where ancient wisdom meets modern life — and where Brown Brothers Media began.

Founded by Lachlan Brown out of a personal interest in Buddhism and Eastern philosophy, Hack Spirit grew into one of the world's most-read self-development sites. Its territory is the practical end of psychology: mindfulness, compassion, resilience, and calm living, written for readers who want useful ideas rather than mysticism.

The site's book imprint — including The Art of Resilience and Hidden Secrets of Buddhism — extends the same approach into long form. Hack Spirit's success provided the founding playbook for the house: a clear beat, a consistent voice, and respect for the reader's intelligence.

The Vessel

Beat
Psychology, identity, self-exploration
Creative Director
Rudá Iandê
Formats
Essays, journeys, workshops
Visit thevessel.io

The Vessel is the house's home for psychology, identity, and the inner life — and its most experimental title.

Alongside essays on human behavior, The Vessel produces immersive guided journeys created with Rudá Iandê, the Brazilian shaman who serves as the house's creative director. Programs like Out of the Box and Ybytu combine breathwork, self-inquiry, and structured exercises — taking the subjects the rest of the network writes about and turning them into something readers do rather than just read.

It is the clearest expression of a belief that runs through the whole portfolio: media should change how you see things, not just fill your time.

Artful Parent

Founded
2008
Beat
Children's creativity & family life
Joined the house
2025
Formats
Guides, printables, YouTube
Visit artfulparent.com

Artful Parent has been helping families raise creative children since 2008, built on a simple idea: every child is born creative, and every family can nurture that with a little guidance.

The site's founder shaped a movement around process art — exploration, messiness, and joy over perfection — and built one of the web's most trusted libraries of children's art activities, organised by age, season, and material. When Artful Parent joined the house in 2025, the brief was stewardship first: protect that legacy and keep its spirit intact.

Then we invested. Lachlan Brown, himself a new parent, leads the current chapter, and the editorial focus has widened from art activities into mindful parenting, emotional development, and modern family life. The biggest expansion is video: a growing YouTube studio of hands-on creative demonstrations families can follow along with in real time.

Global English Editing

Founded
2014, by Brendan Brown
Beat
Language, writing, communication
Formats
Editing practice + editorial
Featured in
Business Insider, Writer's Digest
Visit geediting.com

Global English Editing is where the house's editing DNA lives: a working professional editing practice with an editorial publication attached.

Founded in 2014 by Brendan Brown as the international sister to his Melbourne editing practice The Expert Editor, the company has edited theses, dissertations, books, and business documents for clients worldwide, with PhD- and Masters-level editors on staff. Its editorial work has been featured in Business Insider, The Australian Financial Review, Writer's Digest, and Lifehacker.

Alongside the practice, Global English Editing publishes considered writing on language, communication, and the reader's mind — the craft knowledge of a decade of professional editing, turned outward for anyone who writes.

…and the wider portfolio

Beyond the titles profiled here, the house operates dozens of specialist publications across space science, energy, defense, environment, technology, and lifestyle.

Many joined us the same way: a site with years of accumulated expertise and a loyal readership, acquired and then invested in — refreshed editorial direction, a modernised product, and more people behind the masthead. We don’t list every title here, but every one of them runs on the same standard: named editors, sourced claims, corrections in the open, and independence from advertisers.