IP Democracy: Ad Age's Media Family Trees for 2005

Ad Age has published its annual revenue report for the top 100 media companies and, no surprise, finds that Internet and cable were the growth engines powering a 6.6% increase in 2005 U.S. media revenue, which totaled $268.48 billion.

The biggest media company, using AdAge’s definition of what constitutes a media company, is Time Warner, which posted $33.73 billion in revenue for 2005. Comcast is number two, with $22.08 billion in revenue, followed by Walt Disney Co. ($17.15 billion), News Corp. ($12.56 billion) and NBC Universal ($12.44 billion).

The best part, however, is Ad Age’s “flow chart” which graphically depicts the properties owned by the biggest 15 (plus Liberty Media, not in the top 15) media players. This chart is available in poster format (download here) and well worth printing out as a guide to the increasingly diversified, inter-linked media giant landscape.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on October 3, 2006 9:56 AM to IP Democracy