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Live Nation is the largest live entertainment company in the world, serving as a concert promoter, venue operator, and ticketing platform. In addition, the firm generates revenue from sponsorships and advertising. With offices in 51 countries, Live Nation promotes concerts globally and it owned, operated, or had exclusive booking rights to more than 400 venues worldwide at the end of 2025, which the firm says makes it the second-largest operator of music venues globally. In 2025, Live Nation promoted nearly 55,000 events, drawing roughly 160 million fans. Ticketmaster is a dominant global ticketing service, selling nearly 650 million tickets in 2025.

Publicis Groupe is a French communications group headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris. Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet founded it in 1926, and it has grown into one of the largest advertising and communications groups in the world. The group provides creative, media planning and buying, digital marketing, data and public relations services to corporate clients through networks such as Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Zenith, Starcom and Performics. It operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 100,000 people. In the Czech Republic it ran its agencies through a holding co-owned with local co-founder Martin Stepanek from 1995 until it took full control of that holding in 2016. Revenue comes from fees and commissions on client campaigns and media spend.

Liberty Media is an American media and motorsport holding company headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, whose shares trade on Nasdaq as Formula One Group tracking stocks. Its main assets are Formula One, which it acquired in January 2017, and MotoGP organiser Dorna Sports, in which it took an 84% stake in July 2025. Both series earn revenue from race promotion fees paid by circuit hosts, media rights sold to broadcasters and streamers, and sponsorship, hospitality and licensing. In 2025 Formula One revenue rose 14% to $3.9 billion with operating income of $632 million, and MotoGP revenue rose 14% to $573 million. The original Liberty Media was spun off from Tele-Communications Inc. in 1991 under John Malone, who is now chairman emeritus; Robert Bennett is chairman and Derek Chang chief executive. The group has repeatedly reshaped itself through tracking stocks and spin-offs, splitting off the Atlanta Braves in 2023, combining its SiriusXM interest into a separate listed company in September 2024 and separating Liberty Live, holder of its Live Nation stake, in December 2025.

Omnicom is a holding company that owns several advertising agencies and related firms. It provides traditional and digital advertising services that include creative design, market research, data analytics, ad placement, and public relations. The firm operates globally, providing services in more than 70 countries; it generates more than one half of its revenue in North America and nearly 30% in Europe.

Informa PLC is an international events, digital services, and academic research group. Through various brands, products, and services, it connects businesses and professionals with the knowledge they need. The group's reportable segments are Informa Markets, Informa Tech, Informa Connect, Informa Festivals, and Taylor & Francis. The Informa Markets segment generates the highest revenue, connecting buyers and sellers across various specialist markets, including boating, pharmaceuticals, food, fashion, and infrastructure. This is achieved by delivering transaction-focused live events, such as exhibitions, specialist digital content, and targeted digital services, including data-driven demand generation products. It generates half its revenue from North America, followed by Asia.

Focus Media Information Technology Co Ltd is an advertising company. The company's main business is the development and operation of Life Circle media. Its main products are building media (including elevator TV media and elevator poster media) and cinema screen advertising media, etc., covering the work scenes, life scenes, entertainment scenes, and consumption scenes of the mainstream urban consumer groups, and integrating into a life circle media network.

Liberty Live Holdings Inc consists of its ownership in Live Nation, its wholly owned subsidiary Quint and other minority investments. Quint is a provider of premium sports and entertainment experiences. Through exclusive rights agreements with sports leagues, event organizers, and governing bodies, Quint designs, develops, and sells official ticket-inclusive hospitality and single to multi-day experiential packages that may include on or off-site experiences, transportation, and hotel accommodations, with involvement of Quint personnel throughout the multi-day experiences. Live Nation is one of the live entertainment companies in the world, and the producer of live music concerts in the world, based on total fans that attend Live Nation events as compared to events of other promoters.

CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA is a diversified media company that focuses on ticketing and live entertainment. The business is divided into two segments: ticketing and live entertainment. The ticketing segment produces, sells, and distributes tickets for a variety of leisure-based events. The company sells tickets for concerts, sports, and theater events, and provides travel services as well. The live entertainment business segment plans and organizes tour events, largely for music-based concerts. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue in Germany.

BlueFocus Communication Group Co Ltd provides marketing and brand management services in China and internationally. It offers marketing and brand management services across various disciplines, including strategy, digital, advertising, media, social, PR, design, branding, CRM, data, e-commerce, and mobile solutions to various multinational companies and Chinese enterprises, such as IT, automobile, consumer goods, real estate, finance, and entertainment industries.

Dentsu Group is the top advertising agency in Japan and the fifth-largest advertising network in the world. It is the oldest advertising agency in Japan, with the original company being established in 1901. Over the years, Dentsu expanded its global footprint through mergers and acquisitions. Currently, international sales account for about 60% of total revenue.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, WPP is the world’s largest ad holding company based on annual revenue. Its services, which include traditional and digital advertising, public relations, and consulting, are provided worldwide, with over 70% of its revenue coming from more developed regions such as North America, the UK, and Western Europe. WPP is the largest media buying entity in the world.

JCDecaux SE is an outdoor advertising company. The company focuses on three main business areas namely Street Furniture, Transport advertising, and Billboard advertising. Street furniture advertising relates to bus stop advertising, newspaper kiosks, public benches, and free-standing panels. Transport which focuses on advertising in land transport networks and airports and Billboard Advertising which concerns the marketing of billboards, neon-light billboards, and advertising wraps. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Street Furniture segment in the form of Advertising. The company has a geographical presence in Europe, Asia-Pacific, France, the Rest of the world, the United kingdom, and North America.

Outfront Media Inc is a real estate investment trust involved in the ownership of advertising space on its portfolio of billboards and transit displays. The Company generates revenue in the form of rental income by allowing other companies to advertise on its properties and structures under short-term contracts. Outfront Media segments its operations into the United States and International units. Although it also owns assets in Canada and Latin America, the company derives the vast majority of its revenue from billboard advertising agreements in the U.S. Roughly half of the U.S. division's revenue comes from its displays in the New York City and Los Angeles markets. Outfront Media's customers include entities within the retail, television, healthcare, and entertainment industries.

CyberAgent is a prominent Japanese media company founded in 1998. Its core businesses include internet advertising, online broadcasting platforms, and gaming.

Sphere Entertainment Co is a live entertainment and media company. The firm creates, writes, casts, produces, and tours shows and events. The group has two reportable segments: Sphere and MSG Networks. Sphere is a next-generation entertainment medium, and MSG Networks operates two regional sports and entertainment networks, as well as a direct-to-consumer (DTC) and authenticated streaming product.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp provides live entertainment, delivering unforgettable experiences while forging deep connections with diverse and passionate audiences. The company’s portfolio includes a collection of world-renowned venues - New York’s Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre - that showcase a broad array of sporting events, concerts, family shows, and special events for millions of guests annually. In addition, the company features the original production, the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, which has been a holiday tradition for 89 years.

Hakuhodo is the second-largest advertising agency in Japan, and one of the oldest advertising agencies, founded in 1895. Over the years, Hakuhodo has acquired many international companies, and overseas revenue currently accounts for 15% of total sales.

Stagwell Inc is the challenger holding company built to transform marketing. It delivers scaled creative performance for the world's ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with a technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. The company's segments include Integrated Agencies Network; Brand Performance Network; and Communications Network. It generates maximum revenue from the Integrated Agencies Network segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States.

Strive Inc is a structured finance company and institutional asset manager focused on disciplined capital allocation and long term value creation. The company has adopted bitcoin as its hurdle rate for capital deployment because of its fiduciary duty to maximize long-term value for stockholders, and compounding purchasing power over time. It operates in two reportable operating segments: the Asset Management segment, which provides investment advisory services and the Corporate & Other segment, which includes the company's bitcoin treasury operations. The majority of the revenue is derived from the Asset Management segment.

Stroeer SE & Co KGaA is a Germany-based holding company focused on promotional media services outside of the home. It operates in three main business segments, Out of Home (OOH) Media which generates key revenue, Digital & Dialog Media, and DaaS & E-commerce. The OOH Media segment encompasses the Group's entire OOH advertising business, comprising the Classic OOH, Digital OOH, and OOH services product groups. Digital & Dialog Media segment provides solutions for online advertising in the context of proprietary and third-party content. The scalable products marketed on this basis range from branding and storytelling to performance, native advertising, and social media. Geographically, it generates the majority of its revenue from Germany.

Founded in 2008 as a media content platform, Autohome is the leading online automobile platform in China, ranking first among automotive service platforms in terms of mobile daily active users, according to QuestMobile. Through its two websites, autohome.com.cn and che168.com, Autohome delivers comprehensive, independent, and interactive content and tools to automobile consumers as well as a full suite of services to automakers and dealers. According to iResearch, the company was the largest online automotive advertising and lead-generation service provider in China's online auto platform media advertising market, in terms of media services and lead-generation revenue.

Songcheng Performance Development Co Ltd operates in the performing arts industry. The company is engaged in the operation of Live performances, tourism and leisure, and Internet performance in China.

Havas NV is a communications group providing integrated advertising, media, and healthcare-focused communication services. Its has three business lines: (i) Havas Creative, which delivers creative services, from advertising, brand strategy and business transformation to digital and social media solutions as well as public relations and events; (ii) Havas Media, which is dedicated to delivering comprehensive media experiences, through media planning and buying, fan engagement, retail media and e-commerce, as well as data analytics services to optimize client advertising investments; and (iii) Havas Health, which focuses on healthcare and wellness communications, providing specialized marketing services to pharmaceutical companies. The majority of revenue is derived from Havas Creative.

4imprint Group PLC is engaged in the sale and distribution of promotional products. The company operates in two geographical segments; North America and the United Kingdom and Ireland, Out of which a majority of its revenue is derived from the North American segment. Its products comprise apparel, stationery, technology, and food products among others. The company's plan of action involves achieving organic growth. This implies the use of data-driven, offline, and online direct marketing techniques thereby capturing large and fragmented promotional product markets.

Guangdong Advertising Group Co Ltd is a advertising and marketing company. It provides professional marketing services.

Zhewen Interactive Group Co Ltd is engaged in digital marketing, with technology and data driving traffic operations, and digging into the value of traffic. It provides corporate marketing planning, corporate image planning, exhibition and display services; design, production, agency, and advertising.

Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality Inc is an attractions and hospitality company that owns and operates a collection of inspiring and unforgettable experiences at iconic destinations across the United States, Canada, Iceland and Costa Rica. Its elevated hospitality offerings include point-of-interest attractions and distinctive lodges, as well as integrated restaurants, retail options, and transportation that allow visitors to discover and connect with breathtaking national parks and renowned travel locations.

PVR INOX Ltd is a diversified media company engaged in the film entertainment industry. The company has two primary business segments, which includes Movie exhibition, and Others. The Movie exhibition business segment which derives key revenue, operates a chain of movie theaters, generating revenue through ticket sales, food and beverage sales, and in-cinema advertising. The Other business segment operates complementary ventures such as movie production, distribution and gaming, etc. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue in India.

CHEIL Worldwide Inc is a Korean-based advertising and media firm. The company mainly provides strategic, creative, experimental, digital and creative solutions. Its services involve brand activation and retail marketing. It also provides its clients around the world with integrated marketing solutions.

Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary Co Ltd operates in the advertising industry.

Plan B Media PCL is principally engaged in providing advertising media production, advertising space, and airtime rental services. The group has two principal reportable segments, which are the Out-of-home media segment comprising advertising media production, advertising space and airtime rental services, and Engagement marketing segment comprising sports marketing and artist management. The majority of its revenue is derived from the Out-of-home media segment.

GL Events is a France-based company engaged in providing facilities for meetings: congresses and conventions, cultural, sporting, institutional, and corporate events, trade shows, and exhibitions for professionals and the general public. It has three business divisions, namely GL events Live: Provides turnkey solutions for all events, whatever the format, from the consulting phase through to production. GL events Exhibitions: Design, Production, and Management of Professional Trade Shows and Consumer Exhibitions to Promote Key Sectors. GL events Venues: Manages a network of over 60 event venues around the world-convention and exhibition centers, arenas, etc.

Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento is a Mexican live-entertainment and experiential-marketing company. It produces and promotes concerts, theatre, family shows, festivals and sporting events, and operates venues used for public and corporate programs. Through its marketing businesses, CIE designs brand activations, sponsorship programs, trade events and customer experiences for corporate clients. The group has also participated in amusement parks, ticketing, advertising and event hospitality businesses across Latin America. CIE serves consumers buying event admission as well as brands and institutions commissioning marketing programs. Its shares trade on the Mexican stock exchange.

Funshine Culture Group Co Ltd is engaged in different types of business in various art events and cultural activities both domestically and internationally, including planning, art creation and design, stage arts design, urban landscape construction and the lighting and audio project designing theatre and art venues. The company operates in four segments namely events and stage lighting; landscape lighting and interpretation; multimedia creative production; live performance and cultural tourism synthesis services.

Runs the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai and owns IT park space and other commercial property. It also has an engineering business making industrial equipment and a food business. Based in Mumbai.

APG SGA SA is a Swiss out-of-home advertising media company. As a media company, it transports advertising messages into public and private areas with posters, screens, and related media as promotions and mobile advertising. This media performance is generated in streets, city centers, pedestrian zones, railway stations, shopping centers, airports, tourist resorts, and on the outside and inside of public transport vehicles. The company's regional segments are Switzerland, and Serbia, out of which a majority of its revenue comes from Switzerland.

Ollamani SAB is a holding company that operates through its subsidiaries in various businesses, including the Football Business, which is the Company that owns Club America, a professional soccer team with championships in Mexico and considered one of the popular teams. Estadio Azteca is the company that owns and operates the Estadio Azteca. Games and Sweepstakes Business under the PlayCity brand, the company operates eighteen casinos in Mexico with food and beverage service, as well as a website in the one that offers sports betting and casino betting. The Company's operations are classified into three segments: Football Segment, Gaming Segment, and Publishers and Distributors Segment.

Arabian Contracting Services Co is an outdoor advertising solution provider, offering clients expertise across a multitude of platforms and disciplines. It is mainly engaged in establishing and operating outdoor advertising billboards, including roadside and indoor advertisements. The group's operating segments are Advertising and Others. The Advertising segment, which generates a majority of its revenue, is engaged in the provision of indoor and outdoor advertisements. The Others segment includes all types of printing work and retail sales by mail. Geographically, the group derives maximum revenue from its business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and also has a presence in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

OOh media operates a network of out-of-home advertising sites with a commanding 35% share of the Australian market, and also has a sizable presence in New Zealand. It boasts a diverse portfolio of locations to service the needs of out-of-home marketers, and is particularly strong in the roadside billboard, street furniture and rail, and retail (shopping malls) segments. OOh!media offers these advertising services by entering into space lease arrangements with owners of out-of-home sites, and extracting margins on those lease concessions from firms advertising on those sites. oOh!media is effectively an intermediary allowing site owners to monetize their visible space in high-traffic areas.

Vector Inc is a Japanese-based company involved in four main businesses which are public relation (PR), Digital PR, Facebook marketing and Facebook marketing business. The company provides various services as per the requirements of companies and consumers. In addition, it also offers other services covering areas such as management, finance, accounting, human resources, administration, internal controls, and audits.

Entravision Communications Corp owns and operates Spanish language television and radio stations in the United States. The Company also owns and operates a smaller group of television stations that broadcast English language programming and has operations that provide programmatic advertising technology and services. The Company has organized its operations into two reportable segments. Its media segment includes its television, radio, and digital marketing operations. Its advertising and technology services segment provides programmatic advertising and technology services. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Media segment. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States.

Fiera Milano is an Italian trade fair and congress operator based in Milan, with exhibition grounds at Rho Fiera, and it has operated under that name since 1920. It organises and hosts international exhibitions and corporate events in its own pavilions and abroad, and it sells services to exhibitors such as stand fitting and logistics. The company is listed on the Euronext STAR Milan segment of Borsa Italiana. Its 2024-2027 Strategic Plan aims to grow its portfolio of proprietary exhibitions and to become an integrated service provider for exhibitors and visitors. In 2025 it bought a majority of the event logistics group Expotrans, and in February 2026 it bought 70 percent of the steel exhibition Made in Steel and 51 percent of the stand builder Stipa. Earlier acquisitions include the Ipack-Ima exhibition company in 2015 and 25 percent of Ge.Fi., the organiser of Artigiano in Fiera, in 2022.

Ciwen Media Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the investment, manufacture, and publication of movie and television plays. It is also engaged in the research, development, and promotion of games, artist brokerage business and the provision of information technology. The company distributes its products within domestic market and to overseas markets.

FS Development Investment Holdings is a Chinese marketing-communications group headquartered at Oriental Plaza in Beijing and listed on the ChiNext board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (stock code 300071); it was formerly named Spearhead Integrated Marketing Communication Group (Huayi Jiaxin). Its services fall into three lines: digital marketing, covering content, social-media, video, live-stream and private-domain marketing and influencer placement; experiential marketing built around brand events and interactive activities; and public relations and advertising, including brand strategy, media relations and crisis management. It runs its own AIGC tools, the DS AI Chain platform and the FlinkAI full-funnel marketing platform, and its public-relations subsidiary ranked 21st in PRovoke Media's 2024 global top 250 PR agencies. Clients are brand owners that pay fees for campaigns; carmakers supplied about 45% of 2024 revenue, with brands such as Changan Mazda, Ford, Wuling, Honor and Vivo among its award-winning accounts. In 2024 the group reported revenue of 1.22 billion yuan, down 11.5%, a net loss attributable to shareholders of 130.5 million yuan, and 787 employees. The company was founded in January 2003 and listed on 21 April 2010, raising 325 million yuan at 25 yuan a share. Chen Yongliang, its actual controller with a 10.2% stake, has been chairman since November 2020.

FILA-Fabbrica Italiana, known as F.I.L.A., is an Italian manufacturer of art, craft and school supplies founded in 1920 and headquartered in Milan. It is listed on Euronext Milan and sells coloring, drawing, modelling, writing and painting tools under brands that include Giotto, Das, Lyra, Canson, Daler-Rowney, Dixon Ticonderoga and Maimeri. The group has grown through a series of acquisitions, among them Adica Pongo, Dixon Ticonderoga, Lyra, Lapiceria Mexicana, Lycin, Daler-Rowney Lukas, Canson and Pacon, and in January 2026 it took control of Seven, a school backpack and stationery maker. It reported 2024 group revenue of 612.6 million euros with normalized EBITDA of 118.2 million euros, and holds a minority stake in the Indian listed company Doms Industries.

Maoyan Entertainment is a China-based company that mainly operates an Internet-empowered entertainment service platform. The company operates in three segments. The Online Entertainment Ticketing Services segment offers online ticketing services for comprehensive entertainment formats, such as movies and entertainment events. The Entertainment Content Services segment operates an integrated platform to provide entertainment content services, ranging from distribution, and promotion to production, for various entertainment formats including movies, TV series, variety shows, and entertainment events. The Advertising Services and Others segment serves advertisers in both the entertainment industry and other industries including automobile, electronics, and consumer products.

Innocean Worldwide Inc is a Korea-based company that conducts its business as an advertising agency. The company is engaged in the production of commercial advertising and promotional materials, and other related business activities. The group has a single segment of advertising agencies, from where it generates its entire revenue.

Beijing Quanshi World Online Network Information Co Ltd is engaged in providing customers with integrated internet marketing services and enterprise-level SaaS marketing services.