| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Graphic Design Web Design Web Development Public Relations Online Marketing |
| Founded | Chattanooga, Tennessee (January 1, 1999, as Cross Computer Consulting Incorporated as Coptix Inc., January 1, 2002, Rebranded as Medium April 9, 2009) |
| Headquarters | Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Key people | Josiah Roe, President Rob Righter, Vice President of Technology Andy Montgomery, Vice President of Operations |
| Employees | 25 |
| Website | Medium |
Founded as Cross Computer Consulting on January 1, 1999, incorporated as Coptix Inc. on January 1, 2002, and re-branded as Medium on April 9, 2009, Medium is a Chattanooga, Tennessee based graphic design, web design, and web development company with clients such as Rock/Creek, Chattem, redbox, Olan Mills, Hardees,[1] PGi, Alberto-Culver, and Yanmar. Medium is a member of the AIGA & the American Advertising Federation.
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Medium gained attention throughout the design community when in January 2007 it produced and distributed via YouTube a series of video spoofs of the Cahan & Associates promotional video featuring noted designer Bill Cahan.[2]
Medium gained national media attention in April 2007 after a prank in which, the previous month, they photoshopped a photo of White House advisor Karl Rove to make him appear to be holding a folder with the Coptix (the former named of Medium) logo on the cover. [3] Blogs such as Wonkette - which called the hoax photo "a crime scene"[4] - and DailyKos ran the doctored photo and claimed (as Wonkette put it) that it proved "without a doubt that Karl Rove is illegally running all the White House e-mail through a private company" to avoid the automatic archiving of the White House email system.[5]. Sites that fell prey to the hoax had failed to notice Sleestaks also had been added to the photograph in a television shown in the background.