Media notes 10/09/19


Media
10/09/19

Company types

        Sectors                      Company                                
TV/Radio                     :  BBC News           :          
Film                             :  Lucasfilm             :
Games                        :  REspawn             :
Web and Online         :  Google                 :
Print and Publishing  :  Daily Telegraph  :
Music                          :  Spotify                 :


Conglomerates

Media conglomerates are large organisations made up of a business called SUBSIDIARIES. Many of the most well known companies in the media sectors are actually smaller parts of bigger conglomerates. For example:

Sky TV
21st Century Fox

Acordinh to Forbes Magazinr in 2014, the largest media conglomerates were: 

Comcast (universal studios) $100bn
21st Century Fox (Fox,Sky) $59.3bn
Walt Disney Company (Marvel, Lucasfilm, ABC TV) $104bn
CBS (CBS TV, Simon and Schuster) $29.5bn
Viacom (Paramount, MTV) $18bn
Time Warner (Warner bros, DC comics) $76.2bn
Sony (Columbia Tristar, Sony Music, Sony Computer Entertainment) $35.6bn
Facebook $31.6bn
Alphabet (Google) $59.62bn


Independent companies 

These are smaller organisations who, as the name suggests, work independently of the big conglomerates.

This allows then more creative and developmental freedom, but creates bigger financial challenges.

Independent companies will usually work with other companies in JOINT VENTURE projects, to get the financing and expertise needed.

Independent companies will usually specialise in ONE TYPE OF MEDIA, unlike the conglomerates.

One of the largest challenges for the independent companies is DISTRIBUTION. Getting this product out to a mass audience which may require them to sign to a bigger conglomerate.

This is sometimes done through LICENSING, where a larger company will pay to have the right to distribute the product and make profit.

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