Top Manchester News + Entertainment Companies (8)
Innovation is in the DNA of The Walt Disney Company. We not only embrace it, we translate it into experiences you can see and feel. From our groundbreaking work in advanced audio-animatronic robots featured in the Disney theme parks, to streaming services that are redefining entertainment, to inventing tools to create new worlds in our films — The Walt Disney Company has spent nearly 100 years immersing audiences in new and stunning experiences using groundbreaking technology. When next generation technology meets talented people ready to tackle challenges still to be imagined, anything can happen.
TickX was founded in 2015 as the one-stop hassle free way to book tickets. Over the next few years we discovered that the tech we'd built could also help our network of partners meet their online challenges so they could sell more tickets and make more bookings. We believe that a killer customer experience and data driven marketing are the secret to selling online - and that’s where we focus 100% of our energy. We integrate with ticketing and booking providers, so our partners can quickly transform their customer’s experience and marketing strategy. We take learnings across all our partners and keep evolving so our tech is always cutting-edge. But our platform is also completely customisable, to every partner’s individual brand, goals and requirements. Proudly supporting The Book Of Mormon, Immersive Van Gogh, Come From Away, To Kill A Mockingbird and more
Brown Bag Films® is one of the world’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studios. With studio locations in Dublin, Toronto, and Bali, Brown Bag Films creates cutting-edge animation for the international market. Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1994 by Managing Director Cathal Gaffney and Creative Director Darragh O’Connell, and acquired by 9 Story Media Group in 2015, we remain 100% creatively-driven with a focus on producing the highest quality, cross-platform animation with strong stories and engaging characters. The studio’s much-loved TV shows are viewed by millions of children worldwide and include Doc McStuffins, Daniel Tiger’s Neigbourhood, Henry Hugglemonster, Bing, Peg + Cat, Peter Rabbit, Wild Kratts, Olivia, Noddy in Toyland, The Magic School Bus: Rides Again, and Octonauts. Brown Bag Films has earned numerous awards and nominations including eighteen Emmy® Awards and two Oscar nominations. Brown Bag Films is among the most technically-advanced studios in the world, with full animation, picture and audio post-production facilities in-house. Our motto is simple: “We love animation.” In fact, we love it so much we trademarked it! 'We Love Animation™.’
One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In April 2022 we launched Talk as a bold new voice in news, current affairs, debate and opinion. The major new TV channel is available to everyone across the UK, with presenters including Piers Morgan, Jeremy Kyle, Vanessa Feltz, Sharon Osbourne, and Julia Hartley Brewer. Piers Morgan Uncensored is a show dedicated to free speech with the world’s most provocative and engaging broadcaster at the helm. The show 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' has gained over 3 million subscribers on its YouTube channel and counting. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Bally’s Interactive is the digital arm of one of the world’s leading entertainment providers, with tens of millions of players across the globe and an unmatched ecosystem of products spanning across sports betting, iGaming and free-to-play. Our brands and sites include market movers and shakers like Jackpotjoy, Bally Bet, Vera&John, Virgin Casino and many more. We make our mark by embracing the diversity of our global team, challenging ourselves, and striving to make a difference for our players.
Fever is the leading global tech-enabled entertainment discovery platform with a clear mission: to inspire through live entertainment. Our mobile-first marketplace allows both discovery/inspiration and seamless 2-click booking. Fever has also created a media network where our online communities can look for inspiration and local information (Secret Media Network owner of media outlets like Secret NYC, Secret London or Madrid Secreto among others). Fever and its Secret Media Network inspires over 60 million people every month to discover the best experiences in their cities. The preferences expressed by these communities allow us to create new experiences, which we call “Fever Originals”. These are proprietary experiences in which we follow a data-driven content creation strategy, using analytics to understand audiences, develop and optimize new formats. Some successful examples include the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 3 million guests, the Los Angeles based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” co-produced with Netflix, or the “Mad Hatter G&T Party”, all launched in multiple cities across the world. Fever is a US company with a team of over 800 people, currently present in more than 80 cities, with offices in many exciting cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, or Sydney, and is backed by leading institutional investors, including Rakuten Capital, Accel, and Atresmedia among others. In order to pursue this objective we are looking for bar-raisers, people that want to work hard, have fun, and make history with us. Available for iOS and Android.
Founded to inspire a renaissance in high quality journalism in the UK, Mill Media has received financial backing from Sir Mark Thompson, the former head of the BBC and New York Times, and has been described as "one of the most interesting and impressive media startups of the last decade" by the FT's John Burn-Murdoch. Our journey started when Joshi Herrmann founded The Mill as a one-man-band in June 2020, a few months into the pandemic. The idea was very simple: would people start valuing and paying for local news again if it was done in a completely different way? More in-depth; more nuanced; with stories that were more enjoyable to read and weren’t covered in horrible advertising. From there, we have grown into a fully-fledged media company. We now have have publications in four cities – including The Tribune in Sheffield and The Post in Liverpool and The Dispatch in Birmingham – and more than 100,000 people have joined our mailing lists. Crucially, more than 7,000 paying members pay for and support our journalism, come to our events and shape what we cover. In 2023, we raised money from a group of investors including CNN chief executive Sir Mark Thompson, media investor Turi Munthe, the leading economist Dame Diane Coyle and Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston. Thompson told the Guardian: “I’m backing The Mill because of the exceptional quality of its journalism and because it’s such an interesting and encouraging initiative. Britain’s cities need great commercially-sustainable journalism to inform the public and hold powerful institutions to account. That’s what The Mill and its sister publications were founded to do, and what they are consistently achieving.”
ODEON Cinemas Group is proud to be Europe's largest cinema operator, with brands in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Spain, Italy, Germany and Portugal. We welcome 100 million+ guests each year to enjoy great hospitality while watching the latest films and entertainment in 290+ cinemas and 2,500 screens. We make movies better by developing world-class cinemas that deliver memorable entertainment experiences for our guests, while offering fantastic careers for our people. As an AMC company, ODEON Cinemas Group is part of the largest movie exhibitor in the world with around 950 theatres and 10,500 screens. Together, we make movies better. ODEON IN THE UK & IRELAND Founded in 1930, ODEON is the largest and best-known cinema chain in the UK and Ireland. Since then, the world-famous ODEON Luxe Leicester Square has hosted hundreds of Europe’s biggest film premieres and was the first Dolby Cinema™ in the UK. Perry Barr in Birmingham saw the first ODEON cinema open in 1930, and established the brand as not only somewhere to watch films, but somewhere to experience them too. Iconic art deco architecture and the very latest technology became synonymous with ODEON where you didn’t just go to see a film, you ‘went to the cinema’. As well as our amazing cinema colleagues, we have teams working behind the scenes across the region and in our support offices in London, Manchester and Dublin, as well as in our Guest Service Centre. OUR VISION Creating inspiring entertainment experiences for every guest, with safety at the heart of everything we do. OUR VALUES Fun & Passion Trust & Respect Quality & Service Co-operation & Accountability
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