Ben Santucci is the co-founder and CEO of Showcase Books, an audience intelligence platform for publishers. Showcase tracks every major reader audience on social media across six countries and counting. By monitoring thousands of bookshops, influencers, authors, imprints, and libraries, publishers unlock real-time insights on reader growth, engagement, and trends. The music industry has used real-time fan data to guide its acquisition and commercial strategies for a decade. Showcase is helping the book industry catch up. Before founding Showcase, Ben was a strategy consultant in London and Milan working on legacy industry transformations powered by consumer data. Showcase is based in London and Paris and works with publishers across the US, UK, and Europe.