Media Data Base - International Media Corporations 2022

Media corporations have bigger budgets than some nation states. As agents and moderators of globalization they have economic and opinion-shaping power. They deal with the contemporary challenge of combining business segments belonging to the "Old Economy" with those of the "New Economy" by restructuring measures, cooperation or mergers with advertising agencies or social media platforms. It is technological progress and growing competition that force media corporations to expand their businesses on a national as well as an international level. To successfully compete, some media companies establish partnerships with financial investors, which in some cases have garnered considerable influence.

Who controls big media corporations? What kind of strategies do they apply?  What is the role of private equity investors? Based on the 2005 book "Who controls the Media" by Lutz Hachmeister and Günther Rager, the Institute of Media and Communication Policy established the media data base mediadb.eu in order to provide comprehensive and up-to-date structural data concerning international media corporations.

The annual ranking of the 100 world's biggest media corporations includes companies that have a strategic focus on the creation of content for print, television, film and online properties. Because some cable companies control the distribution of programming and produce content themselves, they are included in the ranking as well. Listed are parent companies (such as News Corp.) even if a subsidiary (e.g. BsykB) generates revenues that are higher than other parent companies. The size of a media corporation is based on the media revenues generated in the past financial year. All amounts of revenue are converted to Euros, applying the annual average exchange rates.

Top 100 - International Media Corporations 2022

1.Alphabet Inc. (Google) (Mountain View/US)€ 268.600 billion
2.Comcast Corporation (Philadelphia/US)€ 115.320 billion
3.Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook) (Menlo Park/US)€ 110.740 billion
4.The Walt Disney Company (Burbank/US)€ 79.530 billion
5.Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Shenzen/CN)€ 78.350 billion
6.Bytedance (Peking/CN)€ 75.970 billion
7.Apple Inc. (Cupertino/US)€ 74.200 billion
8.Amazon.com, Inc. (Seattle/US)€ 69.290 billion
9.Charter Communications Inc. (Stamford/US)€ 51.300 billion
10.Sony Corporation (Tokyo/JP)€ 46.330 billion
11.Microsoft Corporation (Redmond/US)€ 39.540 billion
12.Warner Bros. Discovery (New York/US)€ 32.120 billion
13.Netflix (Los Gatos/US)€ 30.000 billion
14.Paramount Global (New York/US)€ 28.640 billion
15.News Corp./New Fox (New York/US)€ 23.130 billion
16.Liberty/Qurate Retail, Inc. (Englewood/US)€ 23.050 billion
17.Altice Europe N.V./Altice USA, Inc. (Amsterdam/NL)€ 20.464 billion
18.Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (Gütersloh/DE)€ 20.245 billion
19.Baidu Inc. (Beijing/CN)€ 17.028 billion
20.Dish Network Corporation (Englewood/US)€ 15.840 billion
21.Kuaishou (Beijing/CN)€ 13.306 billion
22.Nintendo Company Ltd. (Kyoto/JP)€ 13.306 billion
23.NetEase (Beijing/CN)€ 13.290 billion
24.Spotify AB (Stockholm/SE)€ 11.730 billion
25.Bloomberg L.P. (New York/US)€ 11.590 billion
26.The Hearst Corporation (New York/US)€ 11.400 billion
27.S&P Global (New York/US)€ 10.620 billion
28.Universal Music Group (Santa Monica/US)€ 10.340 billion
29.RELX Group (London/GB)€ 10.030 billion
30.Vivendi S.A. (Paris/FR)€ 9.595 billion
31.London Stock Exchange Group plc (London/GB)€ 8.680 billion
32.beIN Media Group (Doha/QA)€ 8.300 billion
33.Access Industries (Warner Music, DAZN, Deezer) (New York/US)€ 8.250 billion
34.Activision Blizzard Inc. (Santa Monica/US)€ 7.150 billion
35.Yahoo! (ehem. Verizon Media) (Sunnyvale/US)€ 7.030 billion
36.ARD (München, Berlin/DE)€ 6.958 billion
37.Lagardère Media (Paris/FR)€ 6.929 billion
38.Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City/US)€ 6.640 billion
39.Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. (Tokyo/JP)€ 6.440 billion
40.Thomson Reuters Corporation (New York/US)€ 6.300 billion
41.BBC (London/GB)€ 6.250 billion
42.Wolters Kluwer nv (Alphen aan den Rijn/NL)€ 5.450 billion
43.ITV plc (London/GB)€ 5.095 billion
44.Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Tokyo/JP)€ 4.990 billion
45.IAC/InterActiveCorp. (New York/US)€ 4.970 billion
46.Nexstar Media Group (incl. Tribune Media) (Irving/US)€ 4.950 billion
47.Yomiuri Shimbun/Nippon Television (Tokyo/JP)€ 4.916 billion
48.Rogers Communications, Inc. (Toronto/CA)€ 4.635 billion
49.Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Hangzhou/CN)€ 4.560 billion
50.Pearson plc (London/GB)€ 4.504 billion
51.Asahi Shimbun Group/TV Asahi (Tokyo/JP)€ 4.485 billion
52.TelevisaUnivision (Mexico City/MX)€ 4.390 billion
53.Snap (Venice/US)€ 4.370 billion
54.Quebecor Inc. (Montreal/CA)€ 4.300 billion
55.X (Twitter) (San Francisco/US)€ 4.180 billion
56.ProSiebenSat.1 SE (Unterföhring/DE)€ 4.163 billion
57.Axel Springer SE (Berlin/DE)€ 3.900 billion
58.Fuji Media Holdings, Inc./Sankei Shimbun (Tokyo/JP)€ 3.800 billion
59.Sinclair Broadcast Group (Hunt Valley/US)€ 3.730 billion
60.iHeart Media (San Antonio/US)€ 3.710 billion
61.Fininvest (MFE, Mondadori) (Mailand/IT)€ 3.704 billion
62.Aristocrat Leisure (Sydney/AU)€ 3.675 billion
63.Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH (Stuttgart/DE)€ 3.600 billion
64.Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation (Santa Monica/US)€ 3.420 billion
65.Nielsen Holdings plc (New York/US)€ 3.350 billion
66.Take-Two Interactive, Inc. (New York/US)€ 3.328 billion
67.Multichoice (Randburg/ZA)€ 3.202 billion
68.Gray TV (Atlanta/US)€ 3.116 billion
69.TEGNA Inc. (Tysons/US)€ 3.115 billion
70.Bilibili (Shanghai/CN)€ 3.090 billion
71.Banijay Group (Paris/FR)€ 3.000 billion
72.China Media Group (Beijing/CN)€ 3.000 billion
73.France Télévisions S.A. (Paris/FR)€ 2.971 billion
74.AMC Networks (New York/US)€ 2.941 billion
75.Hubert Burda Media (Offenburg/DE)€ 2.920 billion
76.Gannett Co. Inc. (Virginia/US)€ 2.800 billion
77.Grupo Globo (Rio de Janeiro/BR)€ 2.770 billion
78.Pinterest (San Francisco/US)€ 2.660 billion
79.Informa (London/GB)€ 2.653 billion
80.Square Enix (Tokyo/JP)€ 2.650 billion
81.Nikkei, Inc. (Tokyo/JP)€ 2.597 billion
82.Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc. (Tokyo/JP)€ 2.596 billion
83.Nexon (Südkorea) (Tokyo/JP)€ 2.560 billion
84.RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Holding S.p.A. (Rome/IT)€ 2.539 billion
85.TF1 S.A. (Boulogne/FR)€ 2.507 billion
86.Shanghai Media Group (Shanghai/CN)€ 2.500 billion
87.Playtika (Herzliya/IL)€ 2.484 billion
88.Sega Sammy Holdings (Tokyo/JP)€ 2.468 billion
89.ZDF (Mainz/DE)€ 2.400 billion
90.Cox Media (Atlanta/US)€ 2.390 billion
91.Bell Media (Toronto/CA)€ 2.376 billion
92.E.W. Scripps Company (Cincinnati/US)€ 2.330 billion
93.Egmont Group (Copenhagen/DN)€ 2.300 billion
94.Bauer Media Group (Hamburg/DE)€ 2.200 billion
95.New York Times Company (New York/US)€ 2.190 billion
96.Phoenix Publishing & Media Group (Nanjing/CN)€ 2.175 billion
97.Konami Games (Tokyo/JP)€ 2.170 billion
98.Bonnier AB (Stockholm/SE)€ 2.129 billion
99.Ubisoft Entertainment (Montreuil sous Bois/FR)€ 2.128 billion
100.37 Interactive (Tokyo/JP)€ 2.126 billion

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