Global Rights Fund II, L.P.

The Global Rights Fund II, L.P. is managed by Beringea, Ltd. GIB is both an investor and an advisor of the fund, which focuses on companies with intellectual property rights, branded content, or enabling technologies for media companies. The companies in GRF II are:

 

CardPoint, PLC

Cardpoint owns and operates an estate of independent automated teller machines (ATMs) in the UK. The machines are situated in high traffic areas such as retail outlets, hotels and service stations. Cardpoint’s significant estate of ATMs serves as a potential platform to display advertisements and other forms of digital media.
www.cardpointplc.com

 

Copyright Promotions Group PLC

Copyright Promotions Licensing Group Limited (CPLG) is one of the world's leading entertainment, sports and brand licensing and merchandising agencies, with almost 30 years experience in the business. Founded in 1974, CPLG has a unique structure in the licensing industry with almost 100 staff in seven offices across Europe and international agencies servicing the rest of the world.

CPLG represents the licensing rights of some of the world's biggest entertainment, media and sports companies including Lucasfilm, Viacom, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony, MGM, DreamWorks and The Football Association.

We create licensing opportunities for world renowned brands such as Star Wars, Star Trek, The Simpsons, Spiderman, The Pink Panther, Peanuts, The Mr. Men, The Beano, The Care Bears, The England Cricket team, Jordan Grand Prix, The Rugby Football Union and Chelsea Football Club.
www.cplg.com

 

Dotcast, Inc.

Dotcast enters the digital content delivery market with a unique technology for piggybacking a digital channel on top of a conventional broadcast channel.

The Dotcast Digital NetworkT creates a new, low-cost distribution channel that avoids congestion on the Internet by delivering rich media wirelessly to a variety of devices, including television set-top boxes, PCs, mobile devices, and handheld digital media players.

Dotcast provides broadband media delivery and management services so premiere entertainment, media and information companies can deliver movies, music and other rich media directly to their customers at a fraction of the cost of other approaches.
www.dotcast.com

 

eMotion, Inc.

eMotion's family of digital media management software and services allow media intensive companies to protect, manage and maximize the value of their digital media.
www.emotion.com

 

 

Espotting Media (UK)

Espotting Media (UK) is Europe’s leading performance-based advertising medium. During 2004 Espotting merged into FindWhat.com.

 

FindWhat.com - Performance-Driven Marketing - Home

FindWhat.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: FWHT) is a global leader in developing and providing performance-based marketing and commerce enabling services that help businesses grow.

FindWhat.com is set up to operate through the following divisions:

  1. Marketing Services: comprised of the FindWhat.com Network™, a performance-based, keyword-targeted advertisement service that distributes millions of advertisements throughout the Internet each day; FindWhat.com Private Label service, which offers large companies the opportunity to brand and sell their own performance-based, keyword-targeted advertising service using FindWhat.com's turn-key operation, or parts thereof; and the Espotting Network, a leading performance-based marketing company in Europe, operating keyword-targeted advertisement services in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
     
  2. Primary Traffic: currently offered through Comet Systems, by which the Company establishes a direct relationship with Internet users by, for example, providing connected desktop consumer software. This provides a direct source of traffic for the Company's advertisers, and the opportunity for the Company to optimize paid listings opportunities on the Internet.
     
  3. Merchant Services: a set of commerce enabling products and services that help online businesses capitalize on opportunities unique to transacting business on the Internet, including Miva ®, a leading online platform of software and services for small to medium-sized enterprises.

www.findwhat.com

 

Mergermarket

Mergermarket, based in London, England, provides a business development tool for advisors and corporate executives active in mergers and acquisitions.

The Mergermarket service covers a range of intelligence products spanning predictive intelligence, analysis, historical data, shareholder documentation, and streamed video content presentations to analysts, and shareholder documentation.

Mergermarket delivers this information directly to subscribers' desktop, PDA, or mobile phone. Since the service was launched in July of 2000, the company has built up a client base of over 130 blue advisors in Europe.
www.mergermarket.com

 
Porchlight Entertainment

PorchLight Entertainment is a multi-faceted company focused on the production and distribution of high-quality family entertainment. Since its formation in 1995 by veteran entertainment executives Bruce D. Johnson and William T. Baumann, PorchLight has produced the Emmy award-winning animated series, "Tutenstein", for Discovery Kids and Jetix (formerly Fox Kids Europe), "Jay Jay the Jet Plane" for PBS, the animated children's series "Adventures from The Book of Virtues" (PBS KIDS) and the animated long form movies "The Night Before Christmas: A Mouse Tale", "The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow", and "Christmas Dinosaur".

PorchLight is currently producing "Four Eyes" for France 3 and the Disney Channel UK, and direct-to-videos for the leading children's educational company Leapfrog, among other productions. The Company's distribution catalog consists of more than 100 feature films and 500 half-hours of series programming. 

www.porchlight.com.

 

Shout! Factory is a broad-based audio and home video entertainment company whose cofounders — Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos — share a passion for pop culture of the 20th century and beyond. Video and DVD projects include television programming spanning 75 years, live music concerts, animation and sports collections and special interest documentaries. Audio products from Shout! Factory consist of GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, anthologies and “best of” collections, as well as new music, soundtrack releases, deluxe album reissues and quirky compilations. Shout! Factory’s catalog features vintage and legendary performances from some of the greatest — and most eccentric — artists of our time.

www.shoutfactory.com

 

Sports Holding, Ltd.

Sports Holding, Ltd. (formerly The Sport Entertainment & Media Group) SEM is a leading UK based sports management business that manages, represents and provides services for over 80 football players in the UK and Europe, as well as for several major football clubs including Arsenal, Leeds and Celtic.

With a network of offices in the UK, Portugal and Hungary, SEM’s strategy is to develop its established activities in football, both for players and clubs, within the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. It aims to grow organically as well as by acquisition, particularly of football and sports agents in other European countries where it already has relationships. SEM is also expanding into other sports, notably boxing and Formula 1.
www.sportsentertainmentmedia.com

 
Spotlight Health, Inc.

Spotlight Health, Inc., is a creative marketing company specializing in media campaigns that promote dynamic changes in health behavior. Best known for its celebrity-driven work combining starpower, innovative communications tactics, award-winning creativity, and unbiased medical expertise, the company has achieved superior results for its customers by increasing product awareness among consumers and healthcare professionals.

Spotlight Health's notable work includes singer Carnie Wilson's dramatic gastric bypass campaign, broadcast live over the Internet to a record-breaking audience, driving a 1200% increase nationwide in demand for this life-altering surgical procedure; Merck's local market osteoporosis screening campaign featuring actors Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker; Aventis' deep vein thrombosis awareness campaign featuring former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, skater Tara Lipinski, and Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson; Guidant's abdominal aortic aneurysm campaign featuring actor Rodney Dangerfield, sports personality Bob Uecker, and the Hon. Robert Dole; and Pfizer's postherpetic neuralgia campaign featuring actress Rue McClanahan.

www.slhcorp.com

 

Starbridge Media Group

Starbridge Media Group is a Washington, DC-area based TV producer, publisher, rights owner, licensor, and sports marketing consultancy that is focused on the convergence of entertainment and sports - bridging stars and star sports brands with new and traditional forms of media.

Starbridge provides athletes, teams, and rights owners opportunities to drive incremental revenues, extend brand awareness and build fan loyalty via the creation of unique programming platforms and the maximization of core property assets.

 www.starbridgemedia.com.

 

UBC Media Group

UBC Media plc is a market leader in the supply of content to radio, internet and digital television industries in the UK. The Company owns or manages branded content in formats such as talking books and radio programming. It owns nationwide data distribution licenses, and its Radio Production Division is the largest independent producer of customized audio content to both the BBC and the commercial radio industry.
www.ubcmedia.com

 

Zenith Entertainment Ltd.

Zenith Entertainment Ltd. ("Zenith") is one of the UK's leading independent producers. From its origins in feature films and television drama, Zenith has now diversified into four core genre divisions: Entertainment, Music and Comedy (through its Blaze Television brand), Adult Drama, Children's Drama/Animation and Factual programmes, including Documentary and Lifestyle and Leisure programmes. Among its television production credits are Inspector Morse, 2000 Acres of Sky, CD:uk, and Byker Grove.

Zenith programmes have received 27 UK and international awards including 6 BAFTA's and 8 Royal Television Society Awards.

Zenith's reputation has been built through consistent delivery of high quality, highly rated shows for all the major UK broadcasters for over 18 years. It produces around 300 hours of television each year, including programmes for digital channels, generating over £20m in revenue.
www.zenith-entertainment.co.uk