Media Storm, LLC is an American

United States

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 advertising

Advertising

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 and marketing

Marketing

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 company, in New York City

New York City

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 and Norwalk

Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...

, Connecticut

Connecticut

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, that helps entertainment marketers identify advertising vehicles, and then helps place the ads. The company also helps retailers place advertisements and markets video-on-demand programming.

According to Inc.

Inc. (magazine)

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magazine, Media Storm had $72.5 million in annual revenues in 2005.

The company has attracted clients including Tribune Entertainment

Tribune Entertainment

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, The Golf Channel

The Golf Channel

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, Speed Channel

SPEED Channel

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, Showtime Networks

Showtime Networks

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, Gold's Gym

Gold's Gym

Gold's Gym International, Inc. is an international chain of co-ed fitness centers originally started in California by Joe Gold. Each gym features a wide array of exercise equipment, group exercise classes and personal trainers to assist clients...

 International, and the mortgage

Mortgage loan

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 finance company Finance America.. The agency also specializes in advertising for entertainment clients and is the agency of record for: Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

, MTV

MTV

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, WE TV

WE TV

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, Food Network

Food Network

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, FX and TruTV.

It is unrelated to the Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, New York

New York

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, multimedia publisher MediaStorm

MediaStorm

MediaStorm is a New York City-based multimedia production and publishing company. The company produces online news stories using high-quality photography, audio, interactivity, and video, and consults on interactive web projects...

.

History

Media Storm was founded in November 2001 by managing partners Tim Williams and Craig Woerz, who formerly worked together at AOL Time Warner. One of the company's early projects was helping to promote the debut of the FX cable television

Cable television

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 program The Shield

The Shield

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.

In May 2003, the company was ranked 14th on Entrepreneur magazine and Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet

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's "Hot 100" list of fastest-growing entrepreneurial companies in the United States. In 2006, the company made Inc. magazine's "Inc. 500" list of fast-growing companies, coming in at No. 106, with 869.7% growth over three years.

The company is headquartered at 32 Haviland Street, in the South Norwalk section of Norwalk, Connecticut and also has an office at 170 Varick Street in New York, NY.