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Get Me Media

Get Me Media, which trades as Getmemedia.com, is an online directory of marketing and media spend ideas. The company helps marketers and their agencies find relevant and up to date marketing opportunities for their brands. The company serves two needs: 1) for media owners, it gives them a shop window to promote their inventory of media opportunities to advertisers and their agencies, from whom the media owners hope to attract a share of marketing spend; and 2) for advertisers and their agencies, it gives them an easily navigable and searchable database of alternative media and ideas for their marketing campaigns.

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Riva Digital Media

Riva Digital Media’s core activity is the design, production and distribution of Epacs. Each Epac is a bundled collection of premium content which is digitally wrapped in a unique branded skin and is downloadable to a customer’s personal computer. The components of an Epac can include video clips, MP3 files, ring tones, digital wall paper and customised information.

 

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Skive Creative

Skive Group is a creative digital marketing agency, which trades in the market through two companies Skive Creative and Soup Digital. Their businesses deliver websites and interactive content for a wide range of clients, including Nestle, Sky, Vodafone, Publicis Modem and TBWA. Skive has a particular strength and reputation for high quality interactive ‘desktop’ games produced on a bespoke basis for client marketing campaigns. Soup Digital was acquired in July 2009 and is a complementary digital creative agency.

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Freshwater UK

Freshwater is a public relations led marketing group with teams operating in the UK and Ireland across five specialist areas. The company has four support divisions offering: marketing, graphic design and media buying; conferences; training and coaching; and, interactive and online media. In July 2009, Freshwater announced the acquisition of Life Communications, which extended the group’s reach to Ireland. Recently Freshwater has also acquired an established Edinburgh based PR agency called Profile Plus (UK) Ltd, which has extended the group’s presence in Scotland.

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Steel River Media being the holding company of Contagious

Contagious, which was launched in 2004, is a respected global intelligence resource reporting on innovative marketing techniques and the impact of emerging technologies on brands. Contagious’ clients include some of the world’s leading advertisers such as Diageo, Nestle, Nokia, Microsoft, Toyota and P&G as well as range of advertising agencies including Leo Burnett Worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather, Y&R, and Lowe Worldwide. Contagious’ offering includes a magazine, DVD and online resource, covering topics such as: branded content, mobile marketing, social networking, user-generated content, video games and emerging technologies. Contagious complements its core offering with a bespoke online intelligence resource and alerts service for advertisers and agencies. Separately, Contagious also provides interactive workshops and briefings on developments in the wider communications sector. The overall proposition of the business is to identify ideas, trends and innovation behind the world’s most revolutionary marketing strategies.

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Masher

Masher produces an online video editing and messaging tool designed to be used in conjunction with online social networking communities; it is a B2C widget and application with simple and intuitive drag and drop functionality. Masher is a spin-off from BBC Worldwide. Through a content licensing agreement with the BBC, it offers its users access to a catalogue of video and audio content.

 

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GinxTV

 

Ginx, which was founded in 2007 by Udi Shapira and Cosmo Spens, produces a 24/7 video games TV channel as well as individual review and insight programmes on the latest in video games. The TV shows are targeted at an international audience typically ranging in age between 8 and 35 and have been aired in the UK, Spain, South Africa, Israel and the Middle East. The 24/7 channel was launched on the back of the success of the individual TV shows and is now available in Turkey and Indonesia.

Futurelex

Futurelex, which was launched in 2006, has three principal strands to its business: the European Lawyer magazine, legal reference books and online legal procurement services. The reference books cover specialist legal topics and are also sold principally to European legal firms.

The online platform operates in two areas: the consumer search and comparison site takelegaladvice.com and the recently launched procurelaw.com, which provides a legal tendering and briefing platform for corporate legal services. The consumer site, takelegaladvice.com generates income from providing business leads to legal firms. Procurelaw.com provides a platform for the general counsel of a corporation to manage, wholly online, the tendering process for new legal instructions.

 

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Heritage House Media

 

Heritage House Media was created through three acquisitions in 2007: Hudson’s Historic Houses and Gardens, the UK’s only annually updated guide to historic houses; the assets of Heritage House Group’s publishing and souvenir businesses; and, the purchase of the Jarrold contract publishing business from NPI Media. Following the completion of these acquisitions the company launched a number of new initiatives including the publication of the Visit Britain accommodation guides and the launch of Open Britain, which provides directories for disabled access across the UK.

Investments not held within the IBIS VCT Portfolio

 

 

Third Millennium Information

Third Millennium Information (TMI) is a publisher of high quality books and multimedia content for the international education, heritage, military, museum, gallery and business communities. Specifically for the education market, TMI has developed a subscription publishing model which has enabled schools, Oxbridge colleges, universities and other similar institutions to develop stronger and more profitable relationships with their alumni or constituent membership.

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Mama Group plc (Now exited)

MAMA Group Plc, which was founded in 2002, is a public company focused on music and media businesses. The Group is comprised of three divisions: Live Music, Artists Services and Consumer. The Live Music division includes the Barfly network of live music venues, the Hammersmith Apollo, the Jazz Cafe, the Forum and the Borderline in London and also holds interests in live music events including the Lovebox festival. Artist Services includes artist and producer management, music publishing, merchandising and investments in recording businesses. The Consumer division includes The Fly, one of the UK's widest distributed music magazines and Campus Group, a collection of specialist media and marketing agencies working for clients interested in the student and wider youth audiences and a ticketing business. MAMA Group plc was acquired by HMV Group plc in March 2010 for £39.3m.

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