Move over 007, Agent 16 has a license to brand. The privately-held advertising agency offers a slew of services, including creative development, direct marketing, social media marketing, event management, public relations, retail merchandising, sales promotion, and Web site design. The firm specializes in non-traditional marketing that targets young adults. Agent 16 has worked with such clients as Atari, General Cigar, New York State Department of Transportation, and Zappos.com. Founded in 1991 as Mezzina Brown & Partners, the agency reorganized and renamed itself in 2003. The agency is still led by one of its founders, industry veteran Chairman Bill Brown.

Beacon Press is a non-profit publisher of nonfiction and fiction books, many of which have a focus on subjects such as diversity, independence, and religion. The company has published titles that include James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Sun and Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man. Its books are distributed in the US by Houghton Mifflin Company. The publisher is a division of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Beacon Press was established in 1854.

Initiative Media Worldwide is one of the world's leading media planning and buying agencies, operating through 90 offices in nearly 70 countries. Doing business simply as Initiative, the company offers strategic planning services to help its advertising clients reach their intended audiences through the proper mix of radio, television, print, outdoor, and interactive media and purchases the required airtime or publication space. Major clients have included AOL, Bayer, Gateway, The Home Depot, LucasArts, and Showtime. Initiative is a unit of global advertising and marketing services conglomerate Interpublic Group.

Austereo is Australia's largest radio broadcaster, with stations in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, and Sydney. (In Canberra and Newcastle, it has joint ventures with Australian Radio Network and RG Capital Radio, respectively.) The group, which features sports programming, as well as music and entertainment, has several stations on its Triple M Network format, and is revamping another format, Today Network, at other stations. Austereo Group also has radio operations in Greece and Malaysia. Village Roadshow owns about 60% of the company.

The Cramer Production Company, Inc. became New England's largest production company in 1999 The Cramer Production Company, or simply Cramer, aims to produce results that enable businesses to trust it. The specialty marketing company offers brand development, internal communications, meeting and event planning, product launches, and sales training. It specializes in creating television commercials and helping its clients built more effective Web sites. Cramer caters to clients residing in the consumer, health care, financial services, professional services, and technology sectors. CEO and owner Tom Martin founded Cramer Production company in 1982 as Cramer Productions when he bought the video production business of his employer Cramer Electronics.

The Cobalt Group's websites and services come fully loaded. Cobalt provides Web-based marketing services to auto manufacturers and dealers to help them manage their businesses online. Services include website hosting, e-commerce applications, Web-based customer relationship management applications, data management, and best practices training and consulting. The company also provides automotive Internet marketing through its Dealix subsidiary, and its IntegraLink subsidiary collects automotive data from dealerships for manufacturers, direct-marketing firms, and others who work in the automotive industry. In mid-2010, Cobalt was acquired by payroll processing giant ADP for $400 million.

The Lacek Group opened for business in 1993, the company scored its first triumphs among clients who could easily appreciate the strengths, benefits and rewards of loyalty marketing counsel. Airlines, hoteliers and rental car companies were the first industries to be represented on Lacek's client roster, and those companies continue to be key clients today. Growing our core competencies and our reputation for innovation, The Lacek Group soon had offices and success stories across North America as well as in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. By 1997, Neodata (subsequently acquired by EDS and reorganized as Centrobe in 1998) sought The Lacek Group's loyalty marketing expertise and the two entities developed a partnership that rounded out Neodata's customer relationship marketing offering. By 2000, our growing one-to-one marketing savvy drew the attention of the world's leading marketing agencies and in August of that year, Ogilvy & Mather invited Lacek to join its group of agencies as a division of OgilvyOne Worldwide. Today, in partnership with Ogilvy — the world's most respected agency network — The Lacek Group continues to break new ground with loyalty solutions for travel, health sciences, retail, gaming, automotive, business-to-business, entertainment, broadcasting and a host of other categories.

Nexstar Broadcasting Group is a leading television station operator with more than 50 stations serving 30 small and midsized markets in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southwest; Nexstar has duopolies (two or more stations) in about half its markets. Its portfolio includes more than a dozen affiliates each of the FOX and NBC networks, as well as stations affiliated with ABC, CBS, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. More than 15 of its TV stations are operated through local service agreements with Mission Broadcasting, which owns those broadcast licenses. Private investment firm ABRY Partners has majority control in the company.

PointRoll, Inc. provides media technology solutions for advertisements. It develops and supports media campaigns, and connects and converts target audiences into consumers. The company offers AdPortal that is a media ad creation, delivery, and measurement solution; FatBoy, a mouse-over activated expanding banner that exposes multiple message panels; TomBoy that is an attention-grabbing scrapper on Webpage; TowelBoy, which greets users with a snapping flash of brilliance and advertising heroics; FoldOver that attracts users to fold open the corner to expand a message behind the content page; In-Stream video solution that enables publishers and advertisers to place ads before, during, and after online streaming video; and PaperBoy local delivery that brings the power of a circular with its ability to offer local promotions. It has a strategic partnership with AdMarvel Inc.

Big Idea is a family-oriented media company best known for its award-winning VeggieTales video series, which is made available mostly on DVD and video tape sold through Christian retail stores. The VeggieTales has also spawned a host of other products, including music, books, and games. Big Idea also creates 3-2-1 Penguins!, which is broadcast Saturday mornings on NBC. Animator and CEO Phil Vischer developed VeggieTales in 1993. Big Idea is a subsidiary of Classic Media, itself a unit of Boomerang Media.

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