Curated category
Companies based in New York City
- Vintage BooksVintage Books began life in 1954 as an idea inside Alfred A. Knopf, one of American publishing's most prestigious houses.
- MTVMTV launched at 12:01 a.m. on the 1st of August 1981, with a single video: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. It was a fitting prophecy.
- Warner Bros. DiscoveryThe Warner brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack opened their film studio on the 4th of April 1923 in Hollywood. They built an empire that would eventually…
- Mercury RecordsMercury Records was born in Chicago in 1945, founded by Irving Green, Berle Adams, Ray Greenberg, and Arthur Talmadge. It was not a company that played by…
- Nielsen Media ResearchNielsen Media Research holds a quiet but decisive power over American television. Every autumn, when networks decide which shows live and which die, the…
- Warner Music GroupWarner Music Group traces its origins to a problem a film studio did not know it had. In 1957, Tab Hunter, one of Warner Bros.' contracted actors, scored a…
- Standard OilStandard Oil began as a single company founded in Cleveland in 1870, and within forty years it would come to control nearly all of the refined oil flowing…
- Sony Pictures ClassicsSony Pictures Classics has released films that have won 38 Academy Awards across more than three decades of operation. That number alone says something…
- VML (agency)John Valentine, Scott McCormick, and Craig Ligibel launched VML in 1992. Their initials formed the name of this new Kansas City advertising agency.
- VenmoVenmo is a mobile payment service that in 2021 processed US$230 billion in transactions and generated US$850 million in revenue.
- Vox MediaVox Media began not as a media empire but as a fan blog about baseball. In 2003, Tyler Bleszinski, a freelance writer, launched Athletics Nation to cover the…