# Stankevicius Group Expands Its Media Marketplace Push With Arcana Mace > Stankevicius Group has rebuilt around Arcana Mace, a self-serve marketplace spanning brokered media buying, pay-as-you-go publishing, and paid ad amplification through BAIUM.net. - Source: Foreign Time - Canonical URL: https://foreigntime.com/article/stankevicius-group-arcana-mace-media-marketplace - Author: Partner Content - Section: Trade - Published: 2026-10-16T21:43:29.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-16T21:43:29.000Z - Tags: Partner Content, Sponsored, Stankevicius Group, Arcana Mace, media buying --- Stankevicius Group has spent the past year rebuilding itself around a different kind of media business. After selling its original news portfolio of 11 operating sites to a Middle East–based private equity firm in mid-2025, the company shifted from running its own outlets to building the infrastructure other advertisers and publishers use to buy and distribute media. The result is Arcana Mace, a self-serve marketplace that launched in late May 2026 and has expanded steadily since. ## A marketplace model for media buying Arcana Mace works less like a traditional ad agency and more like a freelance marketplace: advertisers post briefs, and registered media-buying agencies compete to place campaigns across a network of international outlets. The pitch is speed and transparency over the slower, less predictable process of negotiating placements through individual publishers or retainer-based agencies. In the months after launch, Stankevicius built out two complementary products on top of that core marketplace. Media On Demand, introduced in late June 2026, lets businesses publish content directly to connected outlets on a pay-as-you-go basis, without contracts, retainers, or the administrative back-and-forth that typically comes with press release distribution. Users keep editorial control over their own content and decide exactly when it goes live. ## Adding paid amplification with BAIUM In early October 2026, the company rounded out the stack with BAIUM.net, a dedicated platform for image and video ad campaigns. BAIUM offers two ways to pay: a pay-per-click model starting at $1, or a fixed daily fee starting at $15 per channel, giving advertisers a predictable way to budget paid distribution alongside their brokered and self-published placements. Stankevicius Group chief executive Paulius Stankevicius has described the combination as a single, continuous pipeline rather than three separate tools: the platform, he said, "gives advertisers an end to end path from brokered placements to direct self publishing to paid amplification, all in one platform." Taken together, Arcana Mace, Media On Demand, and BAIUM.net represent Stankevicius Group's bet that the next phase of media buying belongs to advertisers who want to control placement, timing, and spend directly, rather than routing every campaign through a traditional agency relationship. --- Originally published by Foreign Time. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://foreigntime.com/article/stankevicius-group-arcana-mace-media-marketplace.