Dick Grove, whose background includes top posts for such companies as Burson-Marsteller, ITT and Itel, formed his own agency in 1997. His experience and frustrations with traditional firms drove him to start INK inc., with the idea that firms should share the financial risk of the client by providing a more accountable method of compensation based on actual media results. Companies from all variety of industries have signed on for this unique agency model, which says that clients should pay first and foremost for actual results — not for the hours spent "trying" for those elusive hits.

Interbrand is a leading provider of integrated marketing and advertising services focused on brand development. It offers research and identity consulting along with creative design services to extend the brand experience through packaging, logos, and marketing collateral (Interbrand Design Forum acts as its retail branding specialist). Interbrand also provides brand valuation and alignment services, as well as creative services aimed at interactive marketing efforts. The agency has almost 40 offices in 20 countries. Founded in 1974, it operates as part of the Diversified Agency Services division of advertising conglomerate Omnicom Group.

Founded by Wilfred Broderick Doner in 1937, the firm has created classic campaigns for such customers as Timex ("Takes a licking and keeps on ticking") and Klondike Bar ("What would you do for a Klondike Bar?"). Doner has four offices in the US and serves international clients in Toronto and London, where it operates under the banner Doner Cardwell Hawkins. Doner knows how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop. W. B. Doner & Company, doing business as Doner, is one of the largest independent advertising agencies in the US. Responsible for the famous Tootsie Roll Pop owl campaign, it provides creative ad development and campaign management services, along with media planning and buying.

Since 1981, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates has helped Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and other clients impact public policy as Washington’s top full service government affairs firm. We are bi-partisan consultants who bring years of hands-on experience as former Members of Congress, senior White House and agency officials, and senior Congressional staff. The services we provide include direct lobbying, coalition building, strategic planning, and government marketing and procurement.

Eric Frank and Jeff Shelstad, former employees of textbook publisher Prentice Hall, formed Flat World Knowledge in 2007. College students who don't want to get knocked flat by the cost of textbooks should learn about Flat World Knowledge. The online publisher offers students the ability to read texts online for free at its Web site, which also offers full-color printouts and audio books for about a third of the usual cost. In addition, professors can adopt books as they are, or customize texts by pulling from other sources and their own work. Students can use the site to take and share digital notes, pose questions, and order a variety of study aids.

SIRIUS XM Radio operates satellite radio systems under the SIRIUS and XM brands that together boast more than 19.5 million subscribers. Each service offers more than 135 channels of CD-quality music, news, and talk shows; about 100 channels are available on both networks. Programming includes National Football League, Major League Baseball, and college games, as well as talk shows featuring hosts Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, and Oprah Winfrey. The company has equipment alliances with several automakers; it also sells satellite radio equipment through its Web site and through such retail outlets as Best Buy, RadioShack, and Wal-Mart.

UBM Global Trade, formerly Commonwealth Business Media, Inc., has been the leading provider of proprietary data, news, business intelligence and analytical content supporting commercial maritime, rail, trucking, warehousing and logistics industries worldwide since 1827. The company’s portfolio of more than 100 online, print and interactive workflow business solutions includes The Journal of Commerce, The Journal of Commerce Conferences, PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions and an array of international trade and transportation databases and directories. UBM Global Trade, a subsidiary of United Business Media Limited, is headquartered in East Windsor, NJ, with offices throughout the United States and in Canada and Hong Kong.

MindBlazer is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. We've been in business since 1999. Early in our history we worked with Yahoo Broadcast, creating content for their webcasts. We also served several Fortune 1000 clients. MindBlazer was right there helping online video and interactive new media take their first baby steps.Over the years we improved and refined our process. Today, MindBlazer provides sales, marketing and corporate communications solutions. We also provide the technology that makes those solutions possible. We do it by leveraging video, interactive content and new media with our education-based approach.The Golden Rule of Education-Based Marketing is similar to the plain old Golden Rule: treat people the way you would like to be treated. With customers, teach them what they want to know, not what you want to sell. Do that, and you'll have a sale that comes from trust. And that customer will keep coming back.

The Phoenix Media/Communications Group is a family of companies that work together to reach people who share a similar lifestyle. Cooperatively, they create a unique atmosphere for our readers. Our company reflects a commitment to new ideas rooted in a solid and broadly cooperative business model. Put simply, we think this is the way new media works.

TV Guide Magazine is glued to the tube. The company publishes the weekly TV-focused print publication TV Guide. Formerly a digest, the publication was re-formatted to a full-sized, full-color magazine in 2005. TV Guide earns money through subscriptions and advertising, and has a circulation of about 2 million readers. TV Guide Magazine is owned by private-equity firm OpenGate Capital, who purchased the company from Macrovision Solutions Corporation (which later became Rovi Corporation) for $1 in 2008. Macrovision agreed to lend OpenGate $9.5 million to finance the magazine. (Other TV Guide holdings, including Internet and cable TV assets, were sold to Lionsgate.)

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