Centaur’s major brands include Marketing Week, New Media Age, Pitch – a newly launched online interactive marketplace for marketers and agencies, Money Marketing, The Lawyer, Creative Review, The Engineer, Homebuilding & Renovating and Perfect Information.
Additionally, the AOP has also increased its Associate Members by 50% since it became independent in January 2010. The new members who have signed up this year include: ADTECH, Atex, CACI, Catalysts, Ooyala, SkimLinks, smartclip, Thoughtworks, Viadeo, Vibrant and 24/7 Real Media.
AOP Board, Associate and Affiliate members, now totalling 75, represent over 1,500 trusted publications and brands, which are producers of original, branded, premium and quality content for the B2B and consumer market across a broad range of newspaper and magazine publishing, TV and radio broadcasting and pure online media.
Commenting on the new Board and Associate members this year, AOP Director Lee Baker (pictured) said, "We are pleased to welcome Centaur and the new associate members to AOP. It is central to the profile of our association that we represent a comprehensive range of businesses in the B2B and consumer digital publishing arena. Through the changes we have been driving forward at the association to play a bigger role in the digital content industry, we demand quality suppliers who can bring new technologies, services and value to our publisher members. These new associates will enable all our members to share experience, enrich peer knowledge and innovate throughout our network."
The AOP Digital Publishing Summit is hosting its annual, one-day, flagship event with the theme “Building World Class Digital Media Businesses” to be held at Westminster Bridge Park Plaza on 15 October 2010.
About AOP
The AOP says: “The UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is the industry body representing online publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content. AOP champions the interests of companies from newspaper and magazine publishing, TV and radio broadcasting, and pure online media. The AOP raises awareness, and addresses concerns relating to all areas of online publishing to industry and Government; covering topics such as paid-for-content, online subscription models, data protection, copyright, content management, new technologies and audience measurement. AOP publishes original research including the annual Census now in its seventh year. It also hosts forums, conferences and events, where members can debate issues, meet peers and network.
The AOP hosts two annual flagship industry events, the AOP Digital Publishing Awards, held in June, and the AOP Digital Publishing Summit scheduled for 15 October 2010 at Westminster Bridge Park Plaza.
AOP Members include AN Media, Bauer Consumer Media, BBC, BBC Worldwide, BSkyB, CBS Interactive, Centaur, Channel 4 New Media, Condé Nast Digital, Economist Group, Financial Times, Future Publishing, Global Radio, Guardian Media Group, Haymarket Media Group, Incisive Media, Independent Print Limited, IPC Media, ITV, The National Magazine Company, News International Ltd, PPA, Reed Business Information, Telegraph Media Group Ltd, Thomson Reuters, Trader Media, Trinity Mirror, TSL Education.”
