Media Storm

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Media Storm, LLC is an advertising company 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. It is located in Norwalk, Connecticut.

According to Inc. magazine, Media Storm had $72.5 million in annual revenues in 2005 and 22 employees.

The company has attracted clients including Tribune Entertainment, The Golf Channel, SPEED Channel, Showtime Networks and, on the retail side, Gold’s Gym International and Finance America, a leading mortgage finance company.

[edit] History

It 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 successes was in helping to promote the debut of the FX program The Shield, which broke the record for the number of viewers for a cable television premier.

In May 2003, the company was ranked 14th on the "Hot 100" list of fastest-growing entrepreneurial companies in the United States, a list put together by Entrepreneur magazine and Dun & Bradstreet. 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 St., in the South Norwalk section of Norwalk.

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