Creston company provides marketing services, primarily in the UK, through its group of marketing and communications units. Creston's subsidiaries provide market research, direct marketing, customer relationship marketing (CRM), public relations, advertising, and channel marketing services. Customers have included General Motors, eBay, Burger King, and Financial Times. In mid-2010, Creston sold its DLKW unit to advertising giant Inter-public Group for about $40 million. It plans to pay down debt and focus more on its digital advertising operations as a result of the divestiture.

Middleberg Communications, a public relations firm, offers services that, among other things, help its clients build and keep their reputations. Serving consumer, financial services, media, technology, and corporate clients, the company offers services like media and investor relations, strategic planning and research, brand development, and crisis communication. Middleberg also helps companies create blogs, podcasts, and other digitally-based social media. Its clients have included Henderson Global Investors, Hollander, Mimeo.com, and Virtus Investment Partners.

Outta The Box Dispensers as a subsidiary of Shumsky Enterprises, a provider of promotional products and services, Outta The Box Dispensers makes a variety of POS (point-of-sale) dispensers for promotional advertisers. Its products include all manner of coupon dispensers, disposable sweepstakes kiosks, and various custom advertising products. The company extends its reach by partnering with advertising and marketing agencies to present Outta The Box products to their clients, domestically as well as in about 15 other countries.

President Jonathan Poneman and partner Bruce Pavitt started Sub Pop in 1988. Warner Music Group acquired a 49% stake in the label in 1995. This company patrols the depths of the music world. One of the best-known independent rock record labels in the US, Sub Pop promotes a roster of artists bubbling under the surface of mainstream success, including Jennifer Gentle, Low, The Postal Service, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, and The Thermals. Sub Pop company distributes CDs as well as digital audio and video media, but it also continues to distribute vinyl LPs and 12" singles.

iN DEMAND L.L.C. is the pioneer and world leader in providing exciting transactional entertainment delivered through television’s most innovative technologies. iN DEMAND creates and delivers programming through cable Pay-Per-View (PPV), Video-On-Demand (VOD) as well as on digital platforms. PPV programming includes movies, boxing and mixed martial arts events and the digital out-of-market subscription professional sports packages for MLB, the NBA, the NHL and MLS. The company also offers a range of VOD products including first-run movies and serves as the exclusive TV home of Howard Stern via its Howard TV On Demand offering. Content is delivered in both SD and HD.iN DEMAND’s owners are Comcast iN DEMAND Holdings, Inc., Cox Communications Holdings, Inc., and Time Warner Entertainment - Advance/Newhouse Partnership.

Cornerstone Promotion operates from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Cornerstone Promotion is a marketing and branding firm that serves the music, film, technology, and fashion industries by specializing in urban and alternative lifestyles. The firm uses viral marketing and other nontraditional marketing disciplines to influence the cool trendsetters and early adopters. Cornerstone Promotion has provided brand consulting, radio promotion, field marketing, digital marketing, and event marketing services for such clients as Levi Strauss & Co., Coca-Cola, Converse, and Proctor & Gamble. Music industry veterans Rob Stone and Jon Cohen launched the firm in 1996, with Sprite as a major customer.

Granite Broadcasting owns, jointly operates, or provides programming to more than 20 TV stations in about a dozen markets in about half a dozen states. Several of its stations are affiliated with major broadcast networks NBC and CBS, while others are affiliated with smaller networks The CW and MyNetworkTV. Granite Broadcasting also operates a number of independent stations, as well as online news and information portals serving its stations' viewers. Founded by former CEO W. Don Cornwell in 1988, the company is owned by private equity firm Silver Point Capital.

Owner and CEO John Metzger founded the firm in 1991. Metzger Associates keeps its clients in communion with the world. The firm handles public and investor relations for a host of technology and telecommunication clients across the US. Metzger Associates offers media relations (press releases and tours), financial communications (annual reports, corporate profiles), and strategic planning and specializes in finance and transaction communications.

EMI's business is keeping music fans entertained. The #4 record company in terms of market share (behind Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group) houses recorded music segment EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing. EMI Music distributes CDs, videos, and other formats primarily through imprints and divisions such as Capitol Records and Virgin, and sports a roster of artists such as The Beastie Boys, Norah Jones, and Lenny Kravitz. EMI Music Publishing, the world's largest music publisher, handles the rights to more than a million songs. EMI Music operates through regional divisions (EMI Music North America, International, and UK & Ireland). Private equity firm Terra Firma owns EMI.

CRT/Tanaka (formerly Carter Ryley Thomas) specializes in a broad range of corporate, consumer, and health science areas of practice. The agency's services include media relations, product launch support, crisis communications, direct marketing, and advertising. Its clients include Air New Zealand, Charles Schwab, Girl Scouts of the USA, HoMedics, and Performance Food Group. Carter Ryley Thomas' 2005 acquisition of Patrice Tanaka & Company bolstered the firm's consumer portfolio and added a New York outpost to the firm's regional offices, located in Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as in Los Angeles.

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