Alloy, Inc., under the banner of Alloy Media + Marketing (AM+M), is a widely recognized pioneer in nontraditional marketing. Working with AM+M, marketers reach consumers through a host of programs incorporating Alloy’s diverse array of media and marketing assets and expertise in direct mail, college and high school media, interactive, display media, college guides, promotional and social network marketing.
Advo is the nation’s leading direct mail media company. Serving 17,000 leading national, regional and local retailers, the company reaches 114 million mailboxes, or 90 percent of the nation’s households, with its ShopWise shared mail advertising. At the same time, the company’s industryleading targeting technology, coupled with its unparalleled logistics capabilities, enable retailers seeking superior ROI to target, version and deliver their print advertising directly to consumers most likely to respond.
8×8, Inc., originator of the Packet8 Broadband Phone Service, is one of the industry’s leading VoIP (voice over internet protocol) and videophone communications service providers. Since its establishment, 8×8 has contributed to the advancement of voice and video communications on both technology and service provision levels. The company currently holds 49 United States patents with additional patents pending.
WebEx is the leading provider of Web communications services that enable greater productivity and cost-efficiency across the enterprise. The online meeting services are powered by the industry’s only globally distributed information-switching network specifically designed for the delivery of multimedia Web communications. This advanced technology enables carrier-class services that integrate voice, video, and data to offer true interactivity and Web communications across multiple geographies and platforms. WebEx’s powerful features make it possible to instantly increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a wide range of business activities, including sales, marketing, training, and support.
Sycamore Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of intelligent optical switching products for telecommunications service providers worldwide. The Company’s products form the reliable foundation for some of the world’s most respected and innovative communications networks. Sycamore’s fully integrated edge-to-core optical switching solutions enable network operators to efficiently and cost-effectively provision and manage optical network capacity to support a wide range of voice, video, and data services.
Polycom is the only company delivering end-to-end rich media collaborative applications for voice, video, data and the web from desktop and mobile personal systems to room systems to the network core. In addition to being the worldwide leader in market share for best in class group and personal video systems, video and voice collaboration infrastructures and conference phones, Polycom also has the only solution for delivering Unified Collaborative Communications – the convergence of voice, video, data and web – known as The Polycom Office. It is at the center of the industry shift to broadband networks.
Paradyne Networks Incorporated develops, manufactures and distributes broadband network access products for network service providers and business customers. The Group offers solutions that enable high-speed connectivity over the existing telephone network infrastructure and provide for cost-effective access speeds of up to 45 megabits per second, or Mbps. Network service providers use broadband products to enable high-speed connections from the central office to the customer premise. The customers of the Paradyne Networks include Choice One Communications, Cavalier Telephone, TDS Telecom, Shanghai Telecom, Concord Telephone and Verizon.
Quantum is a global leader in storage, delivering highly reliable backup, recovery and archive solutions that meet demanding requirements for data integrity and availability with superior price/performance and comprehensive service and support. It offers businesses of all sizes an unparalleled range of solutions, from leading tape drives and media technologies, autoloaders and libraries to disk-based backup systems. Quantum Global Services assists Value Added Resellers (VARs), integrators and customers in assessing, designing, implementing, maintaining and optimizing data storage solutions.
Globix is a provider of managed services, Internet infrastructure and media services to business clients. Globix provides the technical skills and services that clients need to manage and enhance their Internet applications and infrastructure in order to grow their business. By managing complex applications and technologies, Globix allows its clients to focus on their own core businesses. Globix’s clients are companies that use the Internet as a way to provide business benefits and sustain a competitive advantage in their markets.
Critical Path, Inc. has a strong history of delivering messaging solutions for mobile, broadband and fixed-line service providers. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices around the globe, Critical Path’s messaging solutions are deployed by more than 200 service providers throughout the world, including Vodafone, T-Mobile International, mmO2, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Tiscali, SK Telecom, and Virgin.net.
Brooktrout is a leading supplier of media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing products that enable the development of applications, systems and services for both TDM and IP networks. and service providers.
Launched in 1991 with five television channels, Star pioneered satellite television in Asia and in the process catalysed explosive growth in the media industry across the entire region. Star controls over 20,000 hours of Indian and Chinese programming and also owns the world’s largest contemporary Chinese film library, with more than 600 titles, featuring superstars including Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and Bruce Lee. In partnership with leading companies in Asia, Star businesses extend to filmed entertainment, television production, cable systems and wireless and digital services.
New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV Ltd.) is India’s first and largest private producer of news, current affairs and entertainment television. NDTV is home to the country’s best and brightest reporters, anchors and producers; 23 offices and studios across the country host India’s most modern and sophisticated production and newsgathering facilities.
Zee Telefilms Limited is India’s largest vertically integrated media and entertainment company. It has an integrated range of businesses, encompassing the content-to-consumer value chain of media and entertainment business. It is the largest producer and aggregator of Hindi programming in the world with an extensive library housing television content, movie titles and news content. Zee is also India’s largest cable distributor through its wholly owned subsidiary, Siticable. Zee’s channels are widely distributed across many countries, especially for South Asian audiences. It is a significant player in the film production, music publishing and education business.
24/7 Real Media, a pioneer in interactive marketing and technology, targets and delivers audiences for publishers and marketers. Its customers generate increased revenue and profits through media and search services, coupled with one seamless platform of serving, targeting, tracking and analytics technologies. Whether you’re a publisher or a marketer, 24/7 Real Media strives to offer valuable audiences and innovative technology solutions designed to maximize revenue opportunities and increase advertising operations efficiency.
SpectraLink, the leader in workplace wireless telephony, delivers the power of mobile voice and messaging applications to businesses worldwide. Seamlessly integrating with VoIP and traditional telephony platforms, SpectraLink’s scalable technology provides instant access to people and business-critical information. It designs, manufactures, and markets wireless telephone systems that integrate with an enterprise’s existing telephone system to provide communication access anywhere in the workplace. This enables greater workplace mobility, higher productivity, and rapid response to customers.
XM Satellite Radio Inc., is the leader in satellite-delivered entertainment and data services for the automobile market through partnerships with General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan and Volkswagen/Audi. XM’s industry-leading products from manufacturers such as Delphi, Pioneer, Audiovox and Yamaha, among others, are available at electronics retailers nationwide including Walmart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears and participating independent dealers.
Operating from its corporate headquarters in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, Sirius broadcasts over 120 digital-quality channels, including 65 channels of 100% commercial-free music, plus over 55 channels of sports, news and talk. The unique listening experience is available to more than 10 million DISH Network, satellite TV users, and Sirius Satellite Radio subscribers from coast-to-coast. The service can be used in cars, trucks, RVs, homes, offices, stores, and even outdoors.
Dex Media is the exclusive publisher of white and yellow page directories in the 14 states where Qwest Communications provides local service, and will continue to do so under a 50-year agreement.
Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy Award-winning computer animation studio with the technical, creative and production capabilities to create a new generation of animated feature films, merchandise and other related products. Pixar’s objective is to combine proprietary technology and world-class creative talent to develop computer-animated feature films with memorable characters and heartwarming stories that appeal to audiences of all ages.
Emap plc is a media company whose purpose is to create ‘must-have’ entertainment and information which can be delivered to every home and business within defined communities. Emap’s business activities focus around three main areas:
-Over 150 top selling consumer magazines in the UK, France and around the world
-Over 200 business to business events, magazines and conferences
-19 UK local analogue radio stations and eight digital music TV channels
Shaw Communications Inc. is a diversified Canadian communications company whose core business is providing broadband cable television, High Speed Internet, Digital Phone, telecommunications services (through Big Pipe Inc.) and satellite direct-to-home services (through Star Choice Communications Inc.) to approximately 3.0 million customers.
Yell is a leading international directories business operating in the classified advertising market in the United Kingdom and the United States. Yell creates value by putting buyers in touch with sellers through an integrated portfolio of simple to use, cost-effective advertising products available as printed, online and telephone media.
U.S. Tech is a monthly national hi-tech newspaper that reaches over 50,000 design engineers, manufacturing and production managers, product specifiers, purchasing agents and corporate managers. It focuses on new innovations in the fields of surface mount technology, PCB design and fabrication, contract assembly, test equipment, components and distribution.
Axel Springer is Germany’s biggest newspaper publishing house. With over 150 newspapers and magazines in 27 countries, 10,700 employees, consolidated sales of 2,402m euro, a net profit of 147.5m euro for the year, Axel Springer is one of the leading media enterprises on the international level.
Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) is one of the largest and most successful media companies in the UK and has interests around the world in national and regional newspapers, television, radio, exhibitions and information publishing.
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) is the leading newspaper and magazine publisher in Singapore, with one of the region’s most advanced printing assets. It is licensed to publish 13 newspapers in the four official languages, and over 70 periodicals.
Nippon Television Network (NTV) is active in international television production and broadcasting through its US-based NTV International. NTV also owns the Tokyo Verdy soccer team and offers motion picture and video production, as well as video licensing. In addition, the company offers direct marketing services and operates Japan’s largest mail-order business.
The E.W. Scripps Company is a diversified media concern with interests in newspapers, broadcast television stations, cable television networks and other media-related enterprises.Twenty-one daily Scripps newspapers are read by nearly 1.4 million Americans, making the company the ninth largest newspaper publisher in the country.
Charter Communications is a broadband communications company providing a full range of advanced broadband services to the home, including cable television on an advanced digital video programming platform via Charter Digital and Charter High-Speed Internet Service. Charter also provides business to business video, data and Internet protocol (IP) solutions through Charter Business Division.
Liberty Global owns interests primarily in broadband distribution and content companies operating outside the continental U.S., principally in Europe, Asia, and The Americas. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, Liberty Global is one of the largest cable television operators in terms of subscribers outside the United States.
Knight Ridder is a communications company engaged primarily in newspaper and Internet publishing. It is the nation’s second-largest newspaper publisher in terms of circulation, with papers in more large cities than any other company. In 2003, it produced revenue of more than $2.9 billion.
The New York Times Company is a leading media company with 2004 revenues of $3.3 billion, publishes The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and 16 other newspapers; owns eight network-affiliated television stations and two New York radio stations; and has more than 40 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. In 2005 the Company was ranked No. 1 in the publishing industry in Fortune’s list of “America’s Most Admired Companies,” for the fifth consecutive year.
Quebecor is a major diversified corporation. Its operations are organized into two major segments:
The industrial segment spearheaded by Quebecor World, one of the world’s largest print media services companies, with plants in 17 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
The media segment, organized under Quebecor Media Inc, with operations concentrated in Québec and the rest of Canada. Most Quebecor Media companies are industry leaders.
Publishing & Broadcasting Limited (PBL) is one of Australia’s largest diversified media and entertainment companies. PBL’s market capitalisation of more than AU$8 billion places it among the top 25 companies in Australia.PBL’s core businesses are television production and broadcasting; magazine publishing and distribution; and gaming and entertainment.
The Washington Post Company is a diversified media and education company whose principal operations include newspaper and magazine publishing, television broadcasting, cable television systems, electronic information services, and educational and career services.
The company owns The Washington Post, The Gazette Newspapers (Maryland), The Herald (Everett, Washington), Newsweek, television stations in Detroit, Houston, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Jacksonville, and cable systems serving subscribers in midwestern, western and southern states.
Univision Communications, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate as a Spanish-language media company in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Television, Radio, Music, and Internet. The Television segment consists primarily of the Univision, TeleFutura, and Galavisión television networks, which are owned and operated broadcast television stations of the Univision Television Group (UTG), as well as the TeleFutura Television Group (TTG) owned-and-operated broadcast television stations. The UTG includes one station in Salt Lake City, Utah that is owned by the company.
TTG includes six stations in Boston, Massachusetts; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Denver, Colorado; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Washington D.C. that are owned by the company. The Radio segment owns and operates 68 radio stations in 17 of the 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and operates 4 radio stations in Puerto Rico. The Music segment owns and operates the Univision Records label and the Fonovisa Records label.
Founded in 1961, Interpublic Group is comprised of hundreds of communication agencies around the world that deliver custom marketing solutions on behalf of its clients. The agencies in the group cover the spectrum of marketing disciplines and specialties.
Interpublic companies also deliver the full range of communications services, reaching consumers at every moment of their lives. From embedded content developed by the programming group at Magna Global, to Internet newsletters that help the clients of Draft stay in touch with their customers, the companies craft marketing solutions based on transformational ideas.
Fuji Television is one of Japan’s top-rated commercial TV networks. Part of media conglomerate Fujisankei Communications Group, the company reaches 98% of the Japanese population through 28 TV stations. Its productions include It’s Kanta!, Water Boys, and “Tokyo Love Cinema.” (Fuji Television’s “Iron Chef” cook-off show — no longer broadcast in Japan — is now a popular program in the US.) In addition, the company produces motion pictures, owns a 30% stake in interactive broadcasting venture Satellite Service, and participates in a venture to use the Web to relay entertainment programs.
SES Global is the world’s leader in global satellite communications.It is a group management company that operates through its 100 percent-owned companies SES ASTRA and SES AMERICOM, and through the network of partners, in which SES GLOBAL holds interests: AsiaSat, Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB), Nahuelsat, Star One and SATLYNX.
This network of established operators, who enjoy strong leadership positions in their respective markets, enables SES GLOBAL to provide the highest quality global broadband connectivity at the service of customers.
Agfa develops, manufactures and distributes analogue and digital products and systems for the making, processing and reproduction of images. Images that matter, sometimes even save lives. Images for healthcare, the printing industry and many other areas such as micrography and motion pictures.
Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation’s leading telecommunications and entertainment companies. Its portfolio of operations ranges from high-speed Internet access and robust digital cable television offerings to professional sports teams, world-renowned entertainment venues and national television program networks. Central to Cablevision’s mission is a commitment to enrich customers’ lives by providing the greatest possible choice of entertainment, sports, information, digital and telecommunications services utilizing state-of-the-art technology.
Grupo Televisa is Mexico’s #1 TV broadcaster with four networks and almost 260 affiliated stations (about 225 are wholly or partially company-owned). It also has a 51% stake in cable joint venture CablevisiСn and a 60% stake in Innova, which operates the SKY direct-to-home satellite system (of which Televisa owns 30%). The company’s publishing unit, Editorial Televisa, is a leading producer of Spanish-language magazines. Televisa also owns three soccer teams, a sports stadium, and 50% of 17 Mexican radio stations.
The Pearson Publishing Group and its associated organisations offer publications, technology-based services, advice, training and support using print, fixed electronic media plus online and face-to-face delivery.
The Group works extensively with local authorities, school associations and individual institutions, as well as other organisations including commercial companies. Within schools and colleges, it offers resources and development programmes to teachers, managers and support staff at foundation, primary, secondary and post-16 level.
The Group’s customer base includes over 30,000 educational institutions and has been directly involved in professional development programmes for more than 60,000 teachers and support staff. It continues to focus on the effective application of technology in the provision of educational solutions.
The Dutch group VNU is specialized in publishing for both the general public and for businesses, with a market that focuses mainly on Europe and the United States.It mainly produces telephone directories (a total of 125), school textbooks and magazines (140 titles in 8 different countries).These comprise titles in the professional sector such as Adweek, Commercial Property.VNU also provides information to companies concerning their products and consumers, through its subsidiary Nielsen Media Research in the United States. To this end it carries out market studies and surveys, among other activities.VNU has recently begun branching out: it has developed an Internet site management service and organizes trade fairs in the United States.
Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, EchoStar Communications Corporation is a public company with approximately 20,000 employees. The Company and its subsidiaries deliver Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) television products and services to customers worldwide.
Publicis today has a presence over all the continents and is the world’s 4th largest communication group. Its campaigns are more than just famous: Perrier, Coca Cola, Renault, L’Oreal - and many others.Not content with its stranglehold on the traditional advertising sector, Publicis has gradually diversified its activities. It has done so through subsidiaries such as Publicis Dialog, centered on relational communication and Optimedia, which specializes in consultancy and space buying (a segment where it is in the process of becoming world No.3 via its partnership, concluded with British company Cordiant).Note the March 2002 acquisition of the American Bcom3, with whom it was supposed to merge. This acquisition will enable the French group to occupy world 4th place for the advertising sector.
R.R. Donnelley & Sons prints advertising inserts, telephone directories, financial reports, business forms, labels, magazines such as “TV Guide” and “Sports Illustrated”, and about a third of the textbooks used in the US. It also offers related photography, graphics, prepress, premedia (digital), and translation services. In addition, R.R. Donnelley develops software that clients use to manage printing, advertising, and mailing needs. In 2004 the company bought printer Moore Wallace, a leader in forms and labels, making it the largest commercial printer in the US.
ITV operates in one main market niche-television. The British company have enjoyed success in this niche and has established itself as a specialist of the small screen on all levels. Firstly there is traditional broadcasting, otherwise known as a terrestrial programmes. Then we have the promotion and management of digital television, in other words cable channels broadcast via satellite.And that is not all. The company produces various types of programmes (specialised programmes, series) and is also active in television advertising and film-making, generating substantial profits in the process. They also have interest in diverse broadcasting companies, as well as the famous soccer club, Arsenal.
Mediaset, the TV empire of Silvio Berlusconi.Canale 5, Italia 1, Rete 4 are three television channels drawing more than 45% of Italian viewers and making up the biggest private television network in Italy. It is a gamble that paid off for Silvio Berlusconi, in the combat against the state-owned television monopoly, the RAI.Mediaset does not content itself with these three channels. It is also involved in the pay television sector (Pay Per View) via Mediaset TV Holding, with the channels Comedy Life, Duel TV and Happy Channel.Mediaset is also involved in distribution and production with Mediatrade, and in digital television with Mediadigit.And it does not stop there. The group now has interests in the telecommunications sector with a stakeholding in Albacom.
