A curated, advisor-only booking platform with hundreds of thousands of professionally managed properties, transparent commissions, and direct deposits gives travel professionals a vacation rental channel of their own.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Signature Stay Collection today announced the launch of its advisor-exclusive vacation rental platform, offering travel advisors access to one of the largest curated selections of professionally managed homes available anywhere in the trade. Built from the ground up for travel professionals, the platform gives advisors hundreds of thousands of properties to book on behalf of their clients, paired with the commission structure, payment reliability, and pricing control they expect from the rest of their supplier relationships.

For years, vacation rentals have been one of the fastest-growing segments of leisure travel, yet advisors have largely been left out. Most rental marketplaces are built for direct consumers, with no commission model, no client-versus-advisor pricing controls, and no straightforward way to earn on a booking. Signature Stay Collection was created to close that gap. While the platform is new, it comes from a team with more than eight years of experience in the short-term vacation rental industry and longstanding relationships with the property managers behind the collection.

A curated collection, not an open marketplace
Every property in the collection comes from a professionally managed portfolio. Unlike consumer rental sites that list individual owners, Signature Stay Collection includes only professional property managers with an established track record, so advisors can book with confidence that their clients are in reliable hands.

Built around how advisors actually work
The platform gives advisors control over the parts of a booking that matter most to their business:

Transparent, adjustable commissions. Advisors earn a default commission on every booking and can adjust their own markup to fit each client and trip.Three pricing views. Advisors see the full commission breakdown, clients see only their total price, and the public sees no pricing at all, so advisors stay in control of the conversation.Automatic direct deposits. Commissions are paid directly and automatically, with no invoicing or chasing.VIP booking confirmations. Every advisor booking is personally confirmed with the property manager, adding a layer of human accountability that protects clients against booking errors.

Designed for trust
Reliability is central to the platform’s design. Because advisor bookings are personally confirmed with each property manager, clients are protected against the booking glitches that can leave travelers without a place to stay. Properties listed across multiple platforms are connected through shared property management calendars, keeping availability synced in real time and making cross-platform conflicts rare.

Availability
Signature Stay Collection is available now to travel advisors. Advisors can learn more, view the collection, and enroll at signaturestaycollection.com.

About Signature Stay Collection
Signature Stay Collection is a vacation rental booking platform built exclusively for travel advisors, offering one of the largest curated selections of professionally managed properties in the trade. Backed by a team with more than eight years of experience in the short-term vacation rental industry, the platform combines a vetted, advisor-only inventory with transparent and adjustable commissions, automatic direct deposits, and personalized booking support, giving travel professionals a vacation rental channel designed entirely around their business.

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Partnership combines GoTraveler’s category leadership and an iconic travel programming library with Ionic’s operating apparatus, audience platform, and direct buyer access, sharpening one of CTV’s most engaged genres into a destination environment for travel advertisers.

NEW YORK, June 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ionic Studios LLC (“Ionic”) and Questar Entertainment Group, Inc. (“Questar”) today announced the formation of Ionic Questar Holdings, LLC, a joint venture to operate, monetize, and grow GoTraveler, North America’s largest travel channel on free ad-supported streaming television. Under the partnership, Ionic serves as Publisher of Record and brings its full operating apparatus to the channel, while Questar contributes the GoTraveler brand and a content library built over more than four decades. Both companies are equally invested in establishing GoTraveler as the definitive travel destination on connected television.

GoTraveler is one of the most established channels in the FAST ecosystem, distributed across DIRECTV, LG Channels, VIZIO WatchFree+, Xumo, Sling TV, Dish Network, Plex, and additional connected television platforms across the United States. The channel runs 24/7 programming spanning destinations on six continents, with a content slate that balances destination guides, culinary travel, cultural immersion, and adventure programming. It is, by design, a lean-back, aspirational, brand-safe environment built to keep travel-engaged viewers on the screen.

What sets GoTraveler apart is the library behind it. Questar has been building travel and lifestyle programming since 1985, and the channel draws from a catalog that includes some of the most recognizable franchises in the category, among them Anthony Bourdain’s A Cook’s Tour, Rick Steves’ Europe, Exploring Mexico’s Kitchen with Rick Bayless, Smart Travels with Rudy Maxa, Curious Traveler, Dream of Italy, and America’s National Parks. The result is a channel with a clear editorial identity and a viewer who comes back to it intentionally, in a market where most travel inventory in FAST is recycled, thinly packaged, or sold against broad demographics.

Ionic brings the operating apparatus of a modern connected television publisher: ad operations and demand integration, agentic ad serving, SSP and DSP relationships, direct sales execution, and platform-level distribution expansion. Audience identification across GoTraveler runs on Ionic’s behavioral and contextual platform, surfacing high-intent travel viewers, both active travelers and those in the planning window, without relying on demographic assumptions alone. Buys can be structured through Ionic’s iX Access framework, giving travel brands, hospitality companies, online travel agencies, destinations, and financial services advertisers direct and transparent access to GoTraveler inventory rather than navigating opaque exchange supply.

The partnership comes as FAST audiences in the United States are projected to reach 131.4 million in 2026, accounting for 54% of all connected television users (eMarketer), while U.S. travel industry digital ad spend is on pace to approach $9.4 billion this year, nearly double its 2021 level. Travel as a category has the audience curve and the advertiser curve, but FAST has largely treated it as filler rather than a genre worth building. Ionic and Questar are taking the opposite view, and putting the operating investment behind it.

“GoTraveler has built something genuinely rare in FAST: a channel with a clear editorial identity and a viewer who comes back for it intentionally,” said Shafi Mustafa, Managing Director of Ionic Studios. “That is the kind of supply that deserves better than open-auction CPMs and broad-stroke demographics. With this partnership, we are putting GoTraveler in front of advertisers who understand the difference between reaching someone and reaching someone in the right moment, and we are building the channel into the destination the travel category has been missing in connected television.”

“GoTraveler is the connected television expression of a travel content business we have been building since 1985,” said Jonathan Plowman, Chief Executive Officer of Questar Entertainment. “Partnering with Ionic gives us the monetization, distribution, and commercial execution to scale that work the way it deserves, in front of the travel advertisers who should be in this environment. We are aligned with the Ionic team on what GoTraveler can become in CTV, and on the path to get there.”

The joint venture begins immediate work across three fronts: platform distribution expansion into additional FAST endpoints, content investment to deepen and refresh the GoTraveler programming slate, and direct advertiser activation across the 2026 and 2027 commercial cycles. Both parties are invested in the long-term growth of the channel as a category-defining destination on connected television.

About Ionic Studios

Ionic Studios is the studio for the open streaming ecosystem. The company assembles a scaled portfolio of exclusively represented, brand-safe FAST channels into a single, unified buying system, bringing the consistency, reach, and activation standards advertisers expect from premium walled gardens to the open CTV market. Ionic builds the portfolio through three paths: channels it owns and operates, joint ventures with content partners, and exclusive strategic partnerships with leading independent studios. The portfolio today reaches more than 100 million U.S. households across 94 exclusively represented channels, with over 250 million hours streamed monthly and 5.2 billion monthly ad impressions. For more information, visit ionic.tv.

About Questar Entertainment

Questar Entertainment, founded in 1985 in Chicago, is a media company specializing in travel and lifestyle content. Its flagship asset, GoTraveler, is the largest travel channel on free ad-supported streaming television in North America, distributed across the major FAST platforms in the United States. GoTraveler’s programming spans destinations on six continents and draws from a library of iconic travel franchises developed across four-plus decades of category-defining production. For more information, visit questarentertainment.com.

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Partnership Will Accelerate and Support Rapid Expansion of AI Adoption and Data Modernization Capabilities Across Regulated Industries and Public Sector

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Computomic, the leading global Databricks delivery partner, today announced a strategic growth investment from Washington Harbour Partners LP, a mission-first defense tech accelerator and force multiplier for U.S. and allied defense companies, during the Databricks Data + AI Summit. Computomic has established itself as a trusted partner for enterprise data modernization, large-scale legacy migrations, and AI transformation initiatives across some of the world’s most complex and highly regulated industries.

Computomic is one of Databricks’ fastest growing and most experienced delivery partners and has delivered 250+ Databricks projects across Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Public Sector and Manufacturing. During its longstanding partnership with Databricks, Computomic has built a reputation for on time, on budget, no drama delivery and a consistent track record of completing some of Databricks most complex and strategic Enterprise engagements.

This partnership will help Computomic scale its Databricks practice, expand capacity for customers, and pursue larger, more strategic engagements while preserving the leadership, culture, delivery model, and Databricks-first focus that have defined the company’s success.

Organizations across every sector are racing to deploy AI, but many remain constrained by legacy architectures that were never designed to support modern analytics, machine learning, or agentic systems. Establishing AI-ready data platforms has become one of the most urgent priorities facing enterprise leaders today. Computomic addresses this challenge through deep expertise in legacy-to-Databricks modernization, helping organizations transform mission-critical data environments and create the foundation required for enterprise-scale AI adoption. Computomic’s experience spans large-scale modernization programs involving thousands of legacy objects, hundreds of ETL workflows, and highly complex enterprise data environments where governance, security, and reliability are critical.

“Enterprises in the world’s most demanding, regulated industries and the public sector are rebuilding around modern data and agentic AI, and Computomic has emerged as the indispensable partner guiding that transformation on Databricks,” said Mina Faltas, Founder and CEO at Washington Harbour Partners. “We are proud to partner with Computomic, the top-ranked Databricks delivery partner globally and a trusted name across financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries. The team has built something exceptional, and we look forward to accelerating its next phase of growth.”

Through the partnership with Washington Harbour Partners, Computomic will deepen its presence within the rapidly growing Databricks ecosystem while supporting continued investment in talent, innovation, and industry-leading solutions built on the Databricks Data Intelligence platform. It will also enable the company to expand its capabilities in enterprise modernizations, AI adoption, and next-generation data architecture transformation.

“This partnership allows us to accelerate everything we’re already doing well without fundamentally changing who we are or how we serve our customers,” said Sanjeev Agarwalla, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Computomic. “With Washington Harbour Partners behind us, we can scale our Databricks practice more quickly across regulated industries, invest in industry-leading solutions built on the Databricks platform, and help our customers modernize their data foundation to unlock AI at scale. The opportunity in front of us is enormous, and we’re excited to build on our momentum while remaining focused on delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers.”

Today’s announcement marks an important milestone in Computomic’s growth and strengthens its ability to meet increasing demand for specialized Databricks expertise. Together, Computomic and Washington Harbour Partners will expand access to new markets, broaden the company’s customer solution portfolio, and help more organizations realize greater value from their data and AI investments.

About Computomic
Computomic, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is a Databricks Gold Partner with operations in the US, EMEA, and India. At its core, Computomic is built on technical superiority, deep Databricks expertise, and a relentless focus on outcomes. We bring together exceptional engineers, architects, and problem solvers who thrive on tackling complex challenges, pushing boundaries, and delivering meaningful transformation for clients in regulated industries.

Computomic fosters a culture where talented people come to do the best work of their careers. Through innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and high standards of execution, we empower our teams to move with agility, challenge conventions, and create measurable impact. With partnership, integrity, and technical excellence at the center, Computomic helps customers accelerate their Databricks Data and AI modernization journeys with confidence.

About Washington Harbour Partners
Washington Harbour Partners, based in Washington DC, is a private investment firm that brings a fresh approach to investors and founders, providing flexibility and deep operational expertise at all stages of the investment cycle – from growth equity to control buyouts to public markets. The firm has deep domain expertise in the areas of national security, defense technologies, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and technology-enabled services. In 2026, Washington Harbour Partners ranked sixth among all defense technology investors, and the highest ranked non-government affiliated firm to also fund private equity investments, in the Silicon Valley Defense Group’s NatSec100 report, investing in 16 of the companies named to the list.
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Clearsight Advisors, Inc. served as the exclusive financial advisor to Computomic. Terms were not disclosed.

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