PIQSTAR INC. PBC is a civic media company helping businesses, organizations, educators, municipalities, and community leaders reach people beyond social media.
We provide the structure needed to turn valuable information, programs, events, and video content into organized media assets that can be scheduled, distributed, archived, and presented across television, streaming, mobile, and web environments.
PIQSTAR operates and expands the civic media infrastructure built on Exposure Plus TV, an established streaming platform originally released in 2019. Through this infrastructure, we help clients strengthen their visibility, communicate with their communities, distribute public-facing content, and build a media presence that continues working after a social media post disappears.
As a Wisconsin public benefit corporation, PIQSTAR is committed to supporting local voices, increasing access to useful information, strengthening community communication, and helping organizations receive meaningful visibility for the work they are already doing.
PIQSTAR INC. grew from a simple realization: valuable community information, local stories, educational programs, and business expertise were being lost in short-lived social media posts instead of being organized as lasting media assets.
Exposure Plus TV was originally released in March 2019 by Aart & Kingsley LLC to provide independent creators and organizations with broader access to streaming distribution. As the platform’s public-interest purpose expanded, it became clear that it needed a stronger institutional structure to support local newsrooms, civic communication, education, workforce development, and community programming.
PIQSTAR INC. was incorporated in Wisconsin as a public benefit corporation in January 2026. Effective January 20, 2026, Aart & Kingsley LLC transferred full ownership and operations of Exposure Plus TV to PIQSTAR.
Today, PIQSTAR is building on that established media foundation to help businesses, organizations, municipalities, educators, and community l
