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14West Technology Solutions is the business arm of The Agora, a network of more than 30 media companies. Altogether, Agora companies publish more than 300 books and 40 newsletters, reaching 1 million readers from around the world.
Advantage client since 2000.
Crain Communications, Inc. is one of the largest privately-owned business publishers in the U.S. with 30 business, trade and consumer publications and related Web sites in North America, Europe and Asia.
Advantage client since 1995.
Aller Holding A/S is the parent company of a media group, which is the leading publisher of weeklies in the Nordic countries with a weekly circulation of approximately 2.7 million issues. Aller Holding A/S was started in 1873 by Carl and Laura Aller and is one of the few companies in Denmark that is still family-owned.
Advantage client since 2012.
A-lehdet was started in 1933 with a single magazine. Today, the grandchildren of the founders manage the company which has grown into a publishing house with a portfolio of 18 magazines, covering topics from politics to gardening, with customer demographics ranging from teenagers to senior citizens.
Advantage client since 2011.
Air Business Subscriptions (formerly known as Quadrant Subscription Services) has more than 45 years’ experience in its field, serving many of the UK’s leading businesses across a diverse range of sectors such as publishing, memberships, associations and e-commerce. They provide an end-to-end service portfolio which includes subscriber acquisition and marketing strategy, worldwide postal and courier distribution, digital and mail fulfilment solutions and warehouse and freight logistics.
Advantage client since 2016.
Bayard, a press and publishing group present in 16 countries, is a major publisher in four market sectors: youth, religious, senior and nature. Through its different publishing brands, Bayard, Bayard Jeunesse, Milan and Twenty Third, the Bayard Group publishes more than 150 magazines worldwide.
Advantage client since 2006.
Duke University Press publishes over 30 academic journals and more than 100 new book titles each year. Duke University Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and issues a few publications for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine).
Advantage client since 2009.
The American Medical Association is the largest medical association in the world. It publishes 12 journals, most notably the flagship Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The association also markets books, DVDs and continuing education to its physician members.
AMA uses Advantage for management, fulfillment, and billing of all of their subscriptions and on-line content (AMB). They use the web module extensively to allow their members and subscribers access to their subscriptions.
Advantage client since 1997.
Located in the Østerbro borough of Copenhagen, Denmark, Bonnier Magazine Data ("BMD") is an internal provider of subscription management systems, CRM system functionality related services to Bonnier companies. BMD specializes in subscription management within the field of weekly and monthly magazines, publications and other media products.
BMD is wholly owned by Bonnier Publications (“BP”) and Bonnier Magazines and Brands (“BMB”) which are also two major customers. BP has offices in Copenhagen, Helsinki (Finland), Oslo (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden). BMB is represented in Stockholm. Between the two publishing companies, BMD systems manage around 2 million subscriptions. These companies are part of the holding company Bonnier AB, the Swedish media conglomerate, in the Bonnier Magazine Group business area. Bonnier AB is wholly owned by the Bonnier family, which has been running it for more than 200 years.
Advantage client since 2015.
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery has been the most valued source of information for orthopaedic surgeons and researchers for over 125 years and is the gold standard in peer-reviewed scientific information in the field. A core journal and essential reading for general as well as specialist orthopaedic surgeons worldwide, The Journal publishes evidence-based research to enhance the quality of care for orthopaedic patients. The Journal is published twice monthly on the first and third Wednesday, each time adding to a comprehensive archive dating back to 1889. Additional features online include: social sharing, instructional videos, podcasts, and continuing medical education activities.
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery is published in both English and local languages around the globe, specifically in Chinese, Czech, Korean, and Japanese.
Advantage client since 2018.
The publishing division of Our Sunday Visitor produces six periodicals, including its flagship publication, the weekly Catholic newspaper from which the company takes its name. In addition to the periodicals, Our Sunday Visitor publishes and markets over 500 products including books, tapes, software, and education materials.
The Offertory Solutions division of the company is the nation's largest supplier of offering envelope products and services to Catholic parishes throughout the United States, manufacturing over 800 million envelopes annually.
Advantage client since 1990.
The Massachusetts Medical Society is a professional association for physicians and medical students. Dating back to 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating state medical society in the USA. The MMS publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 12 specialties. NEJM is the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.
Advantage client since 1999.
Ogden Publishing publishes magazines and books for people interested in self-sufficiency, sustainability, rural lifestyles and farm memorabilia. Their ten magazine titles include Mother Earth News and Utne Reader. The company also offers products to its readers, including insurance and financial services.
Advantage client since 2001.
Ouest France is a large regional newspaper company based in Brittany. They publish 4 daily papers and their flagship--called Ouest France--is the largest daily newspaper in France, with 800,000 copies and 44 editions a day.
Advantage client since 2010.
InterVarsity Press has been publishing Christian books for more than 50 years. Their publishing program is focused on three imprints:
• IVP Books offers general-interest books in categories like Christian living, discipleship, evangelism, missions, apologetics and cultural critique.
• IVP Academic offers books designed for research and classroom use in areas such as biblical studies, theology, philosophy, science and psychology.
• IVP Connect offers study guides, multimedia curriculum and foundational resources for churches and small groups.
InterVarsity Press is a division of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.
Advantage client since 2015.
Wolters Kluwer Health provides information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, producing textbooks, reference products, and journals. Their bibliographic, reference and pharmaceutical databases, drug information software, point-of-care tools, web-based information systems and online continuing education products also support the delivery of health information via interactive formats.
The company’s relationship with Advantage is a long one, going back to when J. B. Lippincott became an ACS client in 1989. Through mergers and acquisitions, the company in turn became Lippincott-Raven, and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. More recently, Wolters Kluwer consolidated its various medical information companies into the Wolters Kluwer Health division.
Other than Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, major Wolters Kluwer Health brands using Advantage include Facts & Comparisons and several ADIS journals. In addition to many of their print and electronic media, WKH also uses Advantage for reprints, licensing, permissions and servicing societies, such as the American Heart Association (AHA).
Advantage client since 1989.
WORLD is a multi-media organization, producing print magazines for children, teens and adults (including WORLD, its flagship publication), online articles, email newsletters and podcast programs. They employ trained journalists to report on current events both global and national, grounded in facts and offering a biblical context for their readers and listeners.
Horizon Publishing Company, formerly known as Dow Theory Forecasts, Inc., publishes investment newsletters for individual investors nationwide, and books geared toward helping the individual investor take full advantage of the stock market.
Advantage client since 1999.
An independent, private-sector organization, the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) is responsible for the oversight, administration, and finances of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), and their advisory councils. FAF provides online, CD-ROM, print, and subscription services comprising the accounting standards promulgated by the FASB and GASB.
Advantage client since 2008.
Keesing Media Group is the largest publisher of puzzle magazines in Europe, with an annual print run of 96 million magazines. Based in Amsterdam, Keesing offers a wide range of puzzle magazines in many languages and countries including the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and the United Kingdom.
SRDS provides media rates and data for magazines, newspapers, television, radio, billboards, direct marketing, the internet, online video and tablets. Their database of media rates catalogs more than 125,000 media properties in all.
Advantage client since 1997.
The IET is a registered charity that is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing its members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers. It aims to inspire the next generation of engineers, and to promote engineering and the work of engineers to society. The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with over 168,000 members in 150 countries.
IET products include journals, E&T Magazine, books, publications, webinars, job boards, videos and a vast digital library. They also provide services to the industry such as expert advice to the UK’s Parliament, Government and other agencies on engineering-related policy issues. The IET also awards professional qualifications to safeguard standards, manages more than 1,500 events each year, awards more than £1,000,000 in awards and scholarships each year and works with education providers to help inspire young people’s interest in engineering and engineering.
Advantage client since 2017.
The company formerly known as Penton Media has been associated with Advantage since 1998. In that year, Intertec Publishing of Overland Park, Kansas became an Advantage client, with Duke Communications of Loveland, Colorado following in 2000. After going through several name and ownership changes in the interim, the two divisions were united in 2007 under the Penton Media brand. Another Advantage client, Farm Progress Companies was purchased by Penton in 2013. Penton Media was acquired by Informa in 2016.
AdvantageCS serves the groups that made up Penton Media---business publishing sectors including agriculture, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing and industrial design, and natural products and food.
Alma Talent is a B to B publisher based in Helsinki, Finland. Their history goes back to the year 1938 and the establishment of the financial journal Talouselämä. Alma Talent provides media, professional literature and online and information services for professionals whose interests range from technology, finance, management, health care and advertising to law. Additionally, Alma Talent implements training courses for these target groups and organizes events of various types. Its key products are magazines, books, online services, training and events.
Alma Talent operates in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Baltic countries and Russia. In the Nordic countries, Alma Talent has a total of some 1.1 million readers of journals and magazines and about 1.0 million users of the online services.
Mediahuis is a newspaper publisher in Belgium which was founded in 2013 as a joint venture of two Flemish corporations---Corelio and Concerta. The company’s roots, however, date back to 1879 when its first newspaper was published. Today’s Mediahuis encompasses radio stations, television stations, websites, and classified platforms, and, with the 2015 acquisition of the Dutch Telegraaf Media Groep, it added a large group of daily and weekly publications and doubled its circulation size.
Advantage client since 2017.
Black Book®--a division of Hearst Business Media--has been sharing data with car people since 1955. Their line-up of products and services includes new and used vehicle value services, custom data licensing solutions, as well as lender origination and risk analysis.
Advantage client since 2001.
Value Line provides investors with in-depth financial information, both in print and online, plus research, commentary, price projections, and analytical tools. Value Line has published The Value Line Investment Survey for more than seven decades, and has since added numerous specialized print and online investment publications and information services covering mutual funds, convertible securities, options, special situations and more.
Advantage client since 2010.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation created for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. AIP Publishing's portfolio includes 17 journals and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. AIP Publishing also publishes on behalf of several of AIP's Member Societies and other publishing partners.
Advantage client since 2012.
eSpired is an educational marketplace that has been providing curriculum, supplements and supplies to students in public, private, and home schools for more than a decade. Their goal is to provide fun and entertaining educational content that can be enjoyed and accessed at home, online or anywhere. At er, our mission is simple. We aim to make it fun for kids to learn so they can be inspired by education. At eSped, our mission is simple. We aim to make it fun for kids to learn so they can be inspired by education.
Advantage client since 2021.
Oxford University Press publishes well over 200 academic and research journals and online books, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. Subjects cover a broad range of subject areas in the fields of Humanities, Law, Life Science, Mathematical and Physical Science, Medicine, and Social Science. Oxford is the world's oldest and largest university press and has more than 500 years of publishing expertise behind them. The first book was printed in Oxford in 1478.
Advantage client since 2001.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide. Founded in 1848, AAAS serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals.
Advantage client since 2002.
Mary Ann Liebert publishes more than five dozen peer-reviewed print and online journals, newsletters, trade magazines and books in the areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and complementary medicine, law, philanthropy, environmental science and sustainability.
Advantage client since 2001.
CDS Global is a major provider of outsourced business solutions to multiple industries--including publishing--delivering a wide range of e-commerce, payment processing, marketing, order management and fulfillment solutions. CDS Global is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Corporation.
Advantage client since 2009.
Martin Media publishes around a dozen titles in the areas of education and psychology, hobbies (specifically genealogy, coin collecting and woodworking) and social work. They also publish books and teaching tools, as well as maintaining a number of websites.
Advantage client since 2010.
The London Stock Exchange Group (formerly Refinitiv) located in London and New York, publishes more than a dozen products for financial professionals. They provide news, analysis, and commentary on economics, currencies, securities, commodities, politics and more.
Advantage client since 2007.
The American Board of Surgery (ABS) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1937 to establish a certification process and national certifying body for surgeons practicing in the U.S.
Based in Philadelphia, the organization also produces educational and testing materials and administers the tests for continuous certification as well as the initial certification. Some 31,000 surgeons are currently board certified by ABS.
Advantage client since 2021.
The Upper Room is a global, ecumenical ministry and a part of Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The Upper Room offers a daily devotional guide, spiritual books, and formational programs to churches, individuals, and all who seek God.
The Upper Room was using several disparate systems and wanted to integrate everything into one system in order to offer a better customer experience. After an RFP process and software demonstrations, they chose Advantage as the solution that best met their needs. The implementation is in progress.
Advantage client since 2021.
Egmont is one of Scandinavia's major media companies, involved with magazines, books, movie theatres, movies, TV, comic books, school books, communities, games and game consoles. Egmont Publishing AB in Denmark publishes 17 consumer magazines in the areas of house and home, car and boat, parenting, computing, sports, leisure, travel and hobby, plus general men’s and women’s titles.
Advantage client since 2009.
Egmont Publishing AB in Sweden publishes about 60 magazines, mostly consumer, and many for children. Egmont Publishing AB has the Disney print and distribution license for Europe, and so their offerings include a lot of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Toy Story, etc. comics. They also publish titles for pre-teens. Their adult magazines cover a variety of topics such as travel, style, cooking, interior decorating, celebrity news, and more.
In 2014, Egmont Publishing AB joined their sister company, Egmont Publishing A/S in Denmark, which has been an Advantage client since 2009.
Advantage client since 2009.
