The World’s 10 Largest Global Media Owners

May 6, 2014

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Media & Entertainment | Top Brands

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    Source: ZenithOptimedia

      Notes: Google remains the largest media company around the world in ZenithOptimedia’s rankings, which rely on a definition of media revenue as “all revenues deriving from businesses that support advertising, not just the advertising revenue itself.” The top 30 list covers the financial year 2012 – Google was also tops the year before. In this latest edition, Google widened its lead over the second-ranked media owner (DirectTV) to 47%, while two Chinese companies (CCTV and Baidu) joined the top 30. The 5 internet pure-play companies in the top 30 (Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Baidu and Microsoft) comprise 21% of the list’s total media revenue, while the 22 companies that are traditional content producers control 64% of the revenue.

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          About the Data: ZenithOptimedia defines media revenue as all revenues deriving from businesses that support advertising ”“ television broadcasting, newspaper publishing, internet search, social media, and so on. This includes not only advertising revenues but also other monies earned from these businesses, such as circulation revenues for newspapers or magazines, or subscription revenues for pay-TV. For publicly listed companies, the revenue figures are taken from their annual report and accounts; for the privately held companies on the list, the revenue figures are ZenithOptimedia estimates.

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