About
Building the island's largest audience.
It started as a food blog and a video page. Today it's the island's largest owned audience — and the full-service agency built around it.
Our Story
From two pages to the whole island.
- 2018
The beginning.
It started with two platforms — Guam Food Blog and Guam Videos — and a simple bet: Guam's audience was online and underserved. Both are still anchor properties of the network today.
- 2020
Guam News is born.
Launched during the pandemic, Guam News grew into the island's most-watched digital news source. That same year, the team ran Guam's federal Census outreach campaign.
- 2023–2025
Becoming a company.
Thrive Media Group came together as a company alongside co-founder Tre Blas — building the production crew, scaling the agency, and establishing the exclusive Regal Cinemas partnership.
- Today
A full-service agency.
Strategy, a full production crew, website and AI capability, and the island's largest owned-media network — active across Guam's commercial, public, and civic sectors.
Everything under one roof.
Most of the work other agencies hand off, we keep — concept, production, distribution, web, and the data behind it. With the added tech depth of MacTech Guam, you get one team, one timeline, and one partner accountable for the result.
The Team
The people behind the work.
A 17-person team across leadership, production, creative, and content.
Leadership
David Macapinlac
Managing Partner & President
Leads Thrive's strategy, partnerships, and growth across the agency and the network.
Tre Blas
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Leads creative direction across the agency's productions and brand work.
Francis Valencia
Director of Sales & Marketing
Leads sales and marketing partnerships, connecting Guam's brands to the network.
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