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MEDIA MOMENTUM 2008 AWARDS
LOVEFILM
KING.COM 5 PLAYER X 6 INTRERNATIONAL 7
COMPOUND GROWTH: 707.2% COMPOUND GROWTH: 702.4% COMPOUND GROWTH: 692.8%
LOCATION: LONDON LOCATION: LONDON LOCATION: LONDON
WEBSITE: KING.COM WEBSITE: PLAYERX.COM WEBSITE: LOVEFILM.COM
Founded in 2003 by Toby Rowland Player X is a mobile media Founded fi ve years ago, LoveFilm
and Riccardo Zacconi, King.com company that specialises in is Europe’s fastest growing home
is the world’s largest skill games games, video and TV. It was entertainment subscription service,
site with 80m games played founded in early 2004 by Tony including online DVD rental, digital
in the month of January 2007. Pearce and Ari Honka, both active download services, rent games, buy
King offers some 60 games and in mobile content industry since its cinema tickets and search cinema
is available in eight languages inception. The company develops, listings. Operating in the UK, Sweden,
and seven currencies. It offers publishes and distributes mobile Norway, Denmark and Germany, it
skill-based games, tournaments entertainment content across rents over 2m DVDs per month and
and an international community of an international distribution represents over 25% of the DVD
for card, puzzle, sports, action network of global operators, portals rental market. The company launched
and word games. The players and handset manufacturers. It the fi rst UK mass-market movie
back themselves to win with small has direct deals with more than download service in December 2005.
stakes and the winner takes the 95 global operators enabling a With its acquisition of Amazon’s UK
pot. King is the exclusive provider potential audience of 1.8bn people and German DVD rental business, its
of skill games for brands such as via 140 channels. The company subscriber base will exceed 900,000
American Idol, Deal or No Deal, operates in all fi ve continents and from 500,000 today. LoveFilm operates
and 1 vs 100. King.com was has offi ces in key territories in white-label services for Tesco,
ranked as number one in Media Europe, Asia and North & South easyGroup, Guardian Newspapers,
Momentum 2007. America. Odeon, CD Wow! and WHSmith.
REDTRAY 8 MAGICALIA 9 TMN GROUP 12
COMPOUND GROWTH: 599.2% COMPOUND GROWTH: 545.5% COMPOUND GROWTH: 422.7%
LOCATION: WEYBRIDGE LOCATION: LONDON LOCATION: LONDON
WEBSITE: REDTRAY.CO.UK WEBSITE: MAGICALIA.COM WEBSITE: TMNPLC.COM
Redtray delivers e-learning and Founded in 1999, Magicalia is an TMN Group operates as an online
blended learning solutions, bespoke online and cross-media special direct marketing company. The
training content, technology, interest publisher with the approach company operates in three divisions:
and consulting services in the to bring content, community and TMN Media, EDR Agency and iD
UK. Its solutions include content commerce together. The company Factor. The TMN Media division
development and delivery, such as operates in excess of 50 special provides rewarded shopping portals;
e-learning solutions; technology and interest community websites and manages email sales for various
infrastructure that includes learning associated ecommerce operations. partners with approximately 10m
management system; training The company owns a portfolio of email addresses; and offers online
management system; knowledge market-leading own-brand sites and advertising solutions. The EDR Agency
management system; metrics and magazines, as well as publishing division offers planning and buying
analytics; hosting and ASP solutions; community websites for a blue-chip marketing requirements for various
and consulting and services. The list of media clients. It also operates blue-chip companies, and operates
company serves a wide range of an ecommerce platform for as an email buying agency. The iD
sectors and clients include BAE specialist mail-order retail clients. Factor division operates as an online
Systems, Orange and CSC Computer marketing research agency that
Science Corporation. Redtray was delivers online surveys and market
founded in 2001 by a team that research panels to the market research
includes CEO Bob Woodland. sector. The company was founded in
1999 as themutual.net and changed to
TMN Group in 2006.
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