Our clients include design agencies, creative studios, developers, indie game companies, musicians,
media based companies, and arts related nonprofits, among others.
Inevitably, most
media based companies are trying to drum up comparisons of both these devices against the Apple iPad.
Not exact matches
What it does: Builds cloud -
based platforms that transmit live videos for
media companies
German
media giant Axel Springer is acquiring a controlling stake in
media startup Business Insider for $ 343 million, which values the New York -
based company at about $ 450 million.
That means a certain amount of compensation is
based on the two staying with the German
media company to run the Business Insider unit for the next decade.
The
company's other
media offerings even diverged from the magazine's adult content; it produced movies such as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different, and The Naked Ape,
based on the classic sociobiology book of the same name.
The Toronto -
based company has an enthusiastic body of support on social
media, and whenever a customer posts a picture of a Victoria Emerson product, the brand reposts or shares the image.
Most recently, social marketing
company Buddy
Media was bought for $ 689 million by Salesforce.com, which also snatched up a similar, New Brunswick —
based firm called Radian6 for $ 326 million in 2011.
Toronto -
based Nicholas Kusmich is the Facebook ninja for many high - profile clients and
companies and creates ad campaigns for that social -
media platform.
Her Toronto -
based company, Creative Niche, specializes in employment opportunities in technology,
media and marketing — fast - evolving sectors that increasingly rely on a broad range of digital skills.
He's the new chief technology officer of London Trust
Media, a Denver -
based company that boasts the world's largest paid virtual private network (VPN) service.
Richard Stokes is the founder and CEO of AdGooroo, a Chicago -
based Kantar
Media company and a provider of digital marketing intelligence.
• Ctrip.com International, a China -
based travel - booking website, is considering a bid for Germany -
based media company ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE's (XTRA: PSM) online travel business, according to Bloom
media company ProSiebenSat.1
Media SE's (XTRA: PSM) online travel business, according to Bloom
Media SE's (XTRA: PSM) online travel business, according to Bloomberg.
«People are spending less time navigating the Internet on their own and are now navigating the Internet
based on their friends» recommendations or their friends» activities,» Dave Yovanno, chief executive of social
media service
company Gigya, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Dubai -
based company has raised $ 150 million from investors like New York -
based investment firm Tiger Global Management and Naspers, a South African mass
media corporation.
Online
media company BuzzFeed, best known for its list -
based articles and quizzes, said Comcast «s NBCUniversal had invested an additional $ 200 million in the
company.
«Some may object to the EU moving so aggressively against U.S. -
based companies, but these authorities are at least trying to deal with some of the new competitive challenges facing our economy,» said the News
Media Alliance.
• Access Intelligence, which is backed by Veronis Suhler Stevenson, acquired AdExchanger, a New York -
based integrated
media and events
company.
Baltimore -
based web developer Brian Razzaque knew he wanted to create a platform that would facilitate social
media marketing for
companies, but he was vague on the details.
Instead, they are morally opposed to the site's mission, and demanded that its Toronto -
based parent
company Avid Life
Media take Ashley Madison and «sugar daddy» dating site Established Men offline.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), a New York -
based media and merchandising
company where Stewart is the chief creative officer, has done well over the last 12 - months — it's up 62 % — but it's dropped 26 % since February 28.
«So many
companies are on social
media without any return,» says Marc Gordon, a Thornhill, Ont. -
based marketing expert and public speaker.
Banjo, a California -
based company founded by Damien Patton, combs through public social
media posts and uses algorithms to identify deviations from the normal activity at a given location.
Led by Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and India, Asia was the fastest growing region for Twitter in summer 2010, according to Semiocast, a Paris -
based social
media research
company.
Social
media platform and app developer Thred has enjoyed a steady first day on the ASX, while two other Perth -
based companies have made progress on their respective reverse takeovers.
Expanding the lifestyle element is an important part of its positioning, according to Molly Cashman, director of marketing for Pure Barre Corporate, and the
company recently hired New York -
based Likeable
Media to amplify its reach and online efforts.
According to Reggie Bradford, CEO of social
media management
company Vitrue, which is
based in Atlanta, «It gives the consumer the ability to engage with that content.
The NYC -
based media company, co-founded by Shane Smith in 1994, is now valued at up to $ 4.5 billion.
If you bought Apple, a
company founded around the same time but ultimately
based on the goal of
media ubiquity rather than quality, you would be very, very rich.
On Wednesday, some details of those arrangements finally came to light, when Reuters reported that the
company has committed to buy or license both short - form and longer - form video programming from a number of players — including BuzzFeed, Vox
Media, ATTN, and Group Nine
Media, a New York -
based outfit that owns short - form video producer NowThis.
The MCNs behind some of YouTube's biggest stars have grown to become quite valuable to major
media and entertainment companies: in just the last year, Disney bought Maker Studios for $ 500 million, German - based broadcaster Prosieben invested in Collective Digital Studio, Otter Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in Style
media and entertainment
companies: in just the last year, Disney bought Maker Studios for $ 500 million, German -
based broadcaster Prosieben invested in Collective Digital Studio, Otter
Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in Style
Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in StyleHaul.
The Brooklyn -
based media company already counts Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox as minority owners, and Disney's most recent investment valued Vice at more than $ 4 billion, in 2015.
In five years, Kunal Gupta has built Toronto -
based Polar Mobile into one of the world's leading digital -
media software developers, creating mobile sites for clients like Condé Nast, The Wall Street Journal, CBS and every major Canadian
media company.
But the launch didn't get quite the fanfare the brand had hoped for as many customers turned to social
media to express disdain for the collection, claiming it was far too similar to some of the products sold at Outdoor Voices, an outdoor clothing
company based in Austin.
My
company, Market Domination
Media, is constantly adjusting SEO strategies for our clients
based on a number of factors.
Not only has its online traffic expanded to the point where it is neck - and - neck with the New York Times, but the Post recently said that it is profitable, which puts it in a very select group of print -
based media companies.
Intellifusion, a Shenzhen -
based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social
media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the
company's director of marketing solutions.
For example, if you take responsibility for checking your
company blog for comments on a weekly
basis, analyzing web visitor traffic, and posting something new on social
media every day, you can consolidate these micro-tasks into one daily 10 - minute session.
Mochi
Media is a San Francisco -
based company founded in 2005 that created a gaming platform at www.mochigames.com and distributes developers» Flash games across the Web.
«Apple Inc. has suspended plans to offer a live Internet -
based television service and is instead focusing on being a platform for
media companies to sell directly to customers through its App Store, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.»
«Your staff, clients and corporations are already on social
media and will more than likely be talking about your
company,» says Katrina Collier, founder and director of Winning Impression LTD, a London
based firm that helps
companies with social recruitment.
• Thrive Global, a New York City -
based behavior change
media and technology
company, raised $ 30 million in Series B funding.
After more than a decade's absence, Halifax -
based children's programming
company DHX
Media Ltd. plans to resurrect the series that was once a sensation with preschoolers.
«Their profile is very robust,» says Maciej Fita, founder of Brandignity, an SEO optimization and social
media marketing
company based in Naples Fla..
According to data compiled by Wishpond, a maker of social
media marketing applications
based in Vancouver, British Columbia, 27 million brands have a LinkedIn
company page.
«Markus is one of those engineers who is just more comfortable sitting in front of a computer than he is talking to someone face to face,» says Noel Biderman, the co-founder of Avid Life
Media, a Toronto -
based company that owns several dating sites.
Douyin, an app that allows users to create and publish short videos, is owned by Beijing -
based new
media company Bytedance.
In going global, Damir Slogar, CEO of London, Ont. -
based mobile gaming
company Big Blue Bubble (No. 112), has used social
media attention to court avid followings in multiple emerging markets around the world, including Russia and Brazil.
«Have the exec learn social
media while the Millennial learns leadership and management skills,» suggests Jeanne Meister, founding partner of New York -
based consultancy Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative
Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today.
Created in 2007 out of the venture capital arm of BCE Inc., Summerhill Venture Partners earned a huge payday last spring with the sale of Fredericton, N.B. -
based Radian6, a
company that monitors social
media habits, to Salesforce.com for US$ 326 million.