ALL MEDIA GUIDE (AMG)
The world's largest and most comprehensive entertainment information database for music, videos, DVDs and video games, All Media Guide offers expert reviews, biographies, ratings, images, titles, credits, and thousands of descriptive categories.
Since 1991, All Media Guide has collected, processed and linked information for both in-print titles and historical out-of-print titles in a sophisticated relational database, licensed for commercial use and available to the public through proprietary Web sites. All content is original, written expressly for All Media Guide by a worldwide network of over 900 professional staff and freelance writers specializing in music, movies and games.
Typically, customers license All Media Guide content to drive online sales of music, videos and video games. Seamlessly integrating All Media Guide's content into their e-commerce and content Web sites, licensees rely on its extensive data to provide consumers with the most in-depth entertainment product information available. The largest names in Internet retailing and content have licensed All Media Guide, including
Barnes & Noble,
Blockbuster,
CDNOW,
RealNetworks,
Ticketmaster,
MSN,
Yahoo!,
Microsoft's WindowsMedia.com,
UBL/ARTISTdirect,
Best Buy,
BlueLight.com(Kmart) and
Wal-Mart.
The public can also search All Media Guide's proprietary Web sites directly. Allmusic.com,
allmovie.com and
allgame.com offer unique search capabilities and millions of links and associations so visitors can discover new artists, movies and games and learn more about their favorites. The All Media Guide Web sites are favorites of entertainment insiders and fans alike.
All Media Guide is a part of the Alliance Entertainment Corp, family of retail solutions. As one of the nation's largest home entertainment product distribution, fulfillment and infrastructure companies, Alliance provides both traditional and e-commerce home entertainment retailers with complete business-to-business solutions. Alliance offers retailers an extensive product inventory, including recorded music, videos, DVDs, video games and related accessories and merchandise from all major and independent labels, studios and distributors, as well as cutting edge technology and wide-ranging support services.
Alliance customers include major independent and chain retailers across the country, both traditional and Internet retailers. Brick-and-mortar customers, representing over 5,000 accounts in more than 25,000 stores, include Barnes & Noble, Inc.;Blockbuster, Inc.; Trans World Entertainment Corporation; Musicland Stores Corporation; Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc.; Hastings Entertainment, Inc; Borders Group, Inc.; Walgreen Co. and Eckerd Corp. Internet customers include
Barnes & Noble;
Blockbuster;
UBL/ARTISTdirect;
CDNOW;
Yahoo!;
Microsoft's WindowsMedia.com,
BlueLight.com(Kmart),
Wal-Mart,
Best Buy and
Circuit City.
Headquartered in Coral Springs, Florida, Alliance was founded in 1990 and acquired in April 1999 by the Yucaipa Companies, a private investment firm based in Los Angeles, California, that invests in the retail, distribution, logistics and technology industries. In December, 1999 Alliance acquired RedDotNet. As a leader in the distribution of both entertainment product and its descriptive content to brick-and mortar and Internet retailers alike, Alliance is at the farefront of the evolving retailing and digital revolution.
