Curated playlist
Companies based in New York City
- Vintage BooksVintage Books publishes both Toni Morrison and Haruki Murakami. It began in 1954 as a paperback line inside Knopf.
- MTVMTV's first image was Moon landing footage with its logo on the flag.
- Warner Bros. DiscoveryWarner Bros. Discovery borrowed its tagline from a 1941 film.
- Mercury RecordsMercury Records sold its new releases through jukeboxes instead of radio. Irving Green's bet cut promotion costs.
- Nielsen Media ResearchA TV show can record a 0.0 rating even with a real audience. Nielsen's sample-based system made that possible.
- Warner Music GroupWarner Music Group began because a Warner Bros. actor made money for a rival.
- Standard OilIn 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Standard Oil broken into 39 companies.
- Sony Pictures ClassicsThe Lives of Others was rejected by four major film festivals before Sony Pictures Classics took it on.
- VML (agency)WPP merged two of its agencies on October 17, 2023 to create VML. The pair were VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson.
- VenmoVenmo shows every payment on a public feed by default. Anyone who opens the app can see it, even non-users.
- Vox MediaVox Media began as a fan blog about the Oakland Athletics baseball team. Athletics Nation launched in 2003.