|  MTV NETWORKS http://www.viacom.com/ourbrands/medianetworks/mtvnetworks/ Recognized throughout the world, MTV Networks’ diverse holdings include interests in television, digital media, publishing, home video, radio, recorded music, recreation, licensing and merchandising. With 150 channels worldwide, MTV Networks owns and operates favorites including MTV: Music Television, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, CMT, Logo, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, Spike TV, Atom, AddictingGames.com, Shockwave.com, GameTrailers.com, Harmonix, Neopets, Quizilla, Xfire, Y2M as well as MTVN International. MTV Networks continues to connect with its audiences through robust consumer products, joint ventures and approximately 300 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services—which allows all of the network’s programming services to be seen worldwide. |
|  NIELSEN BDS www.bdsonline.com Through custom research, consulting and the world's most comprehensive network of entertainment measurement systems and analysis, Nielsen Entertainment delivers Actionable Entertainment Intelligence to clients engaged in the business of selling entertainment and trading in the marketplace of our popular culture. Nielsen Entertainment's AEI products give clients unrivaled perspective from which to steer business decisions, providing the measure and the motivation in one package; comparing what the consumer says they do and what they actually do, in any given environment including film, television, music, books, and interactive media. Nielsen Entertainment is comprised of the following businesses: National Research Group (NRG), EDI and EDI International, Television Services, SoundScan, Broadcast Data Systems (BDS), Music Control, VideoScan, Market Navigator, BookScan, BookData, and Interactive Entertainment, and utilizes the full portfolio of sister companies including Nielsen Media Research (television ratings) and Nielsen Net Ratings (internet usage) to deliver a whole media point of view. Nielsen Entertainment is part of VNU (AEX:VNU), a global leader in information services for the media and entertainment industries. For more information on VNU please visit www.vnu.com. |
|  HORIZON MEDIA www.horizonmedia.com Founded in 1989, Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest U.S. independent media services company. Dedicated to helping clients sell products and build brands through insightful marketing counsel, media-neutral strategic planning and effective negotiation and placement. Horizon’s exceptional holistic approach to brand marketing and development has resulted in estimated billings of $2 billion and established the company as the fastest growing agency in the industry. Headquartered in New York City with a full service office in Los Angeles, Horizon also has offices in San Diego, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Horizon is also a founding member of Columbus Media International, a multi-national partnership of independent media agencies. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.horizonmedia.com. |
|  ADSTREAM www.adstream.com Adstream, headquartered in London England, provides digital asset management and distribution services to the global advertising community. Initially, Adstream focused on the post production editing, management and distribution of Television and Radio commercials. In March 2006 Adstream acquired Quickcut, the leading global provider of print advertising editing and distribution services, for $35 million dollars. Major shareholders of Adstream include: Telstra (AUS $40 billion dollar telecommunications company), Paul Ramsay Holdings (owner of Prime TV, the largest regional television operator in Australia, and the largest private hospital network in Australia), Publicitas (Swiss publishing and media group with revenue over SWF 2 billion), and Andy McKelvey (digital media entrepreneur, founder and majority shareholder of Monster.com and TMP Worldwide). |
|  BILLBOARD www.billboard.com Billboard Information Group is a unit of VNU Business Media, the world's leading provider of media and entertainment information. With Nielsen BDS and Soundscan, VNU measures audiences for television, motion pictures, radio, print, the Internet, and other major media; tracks CD, video, DVD and book sales, and monitors where and how advertising money is being spent. In the United States and Europe, VNU delivers news and vital information through trade publications, trade shows and websites. VNU employs 38,000 people worldwide, and is active in more than 100 countries. Approximately half of its US $5 billion in total revenues is generated in North America. |
|  FATHOM COMMUNICATIONS www.fathomcommunications.com Fathom is a full service marketing agency launched in 2001 in New York by a pair of advertising
executives - Peter Groome and Tres McCullough - who shared a unique vision; to create an
alternative marketing practice that would act as a “go-to” and “hands-on” business partner to
brands. Starting with just three people and two desks on Madison Ave., Fathom has grown to
over 50 employees and two full-service offices. The Chicago office opened in 2006. Fathom
Communications is part of the Diversified Agency Services division of Omnicom Group, Inc.
NYSE: OMC. For more information, visit www.fathomcommunications.com. |
|  FYI MUSIC www.fyimusic.ca FYIMusic is a website designed to communicate news and views about Canada’s music industry: The musicians, and the businesses that are involved in the complex chain of marketing and promoting Canadian music at home and abroad. |
|  THE GARY GROUP www.garygroup.com The Gary Group has had a successful 25+ year track record of providing fresh solutions for music industry and other entertainment and lifestyle clients. Gary Group campaigns have raised sales, attendance, funds, awareness and consciousness for a broad spectrum of advertisers from record labels, live entertainment attractions, concert promoters, radio and television stations and networks to ski areas, major retailers, professional associations and national charities. We are best known for our media planning and buying for nearly all of the major and independent labels. We believe that creativity in media selection is as vital as in the message itself, because if you're not talking to the right people, you're wasting your breath and your money. We know where to find your audience. |
|  MEDIAGUIDE www.mediaguide.com Mediaguide monitors music and advertising on over 2,700 college, non-commercial and commercial radio stations in 150 US markets; and over 3,500 internet stations in real-time, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We use this data & insight to provide business insight to record labels, broadcasters and advertisers; and to support a music discovery and advertising network that connects radio to digital outlets & mobile devices. |