Busch & Glatz
| Busch & Glatz | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1980 |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| management | Timo Busch, managing director
Michael Bamberger, Managing Director Ulrich Höcherl, Deputy Managing Director / Chief Editor |
| Number of employees | 100 (June 2020) |
| Branch | Media company for the entertainment industry |
| Website | about.buschglatz.com |
Busch & Glatz (formerly Busch Entertainment Media , previously G + J Entertainment Media ) is a German specialist publisher that creates print and online publications for the entertainment industry .
history
Founded in 1980 by Ulrich Scheele under the name proVideo Verlag GmbH, the company initially devoted itself to providing advice on everything to do with the video market. In 1982 the first trade journal , the VideoMarkt , was published. In the same year the magazine VideoTipp was published, the world's first video rental customer magazine with a circulation of 250,000 copies. In the years that followed, more industry journals and specialist magazines were published and taken over by buying up publishers.
From March 1, 2008 to June 30, 2014, the publishing house was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gruner + Jahr and has been operating under the name G + J Entertainment Media GmbH & Co. KG since January 2010. On July 1, 2014 the Cologne publisher Timo Busch took over all shares in Gruner + Jahr. As a company of the Busch Group, the company has been operating under Busch Entertainment Media GmbH since September 2014. Timo Busch and Michael Bamberger are the managing directors, Ulrich Höcherl is the chief editor-in-chief, David Serjoscha Wolf is the chief art director. The company's headquarters are still in Munich. The company employs almost 100 people.
Since the company name was changed to Busch & Glatz, online services and marketing have increasingly been added to the service portfolio, while other publications have been discontinued.
Publications
The spectrum includes the specialist magazines Blickpunkt: Film , MusikWoche and GamesMarkt as well as online services. The online specialist information service mediabiz.de is the umbrella brand for most of the company's specialist presentations and includes blickpunktfilm.de , musikwoche.de and gamesmarkt.de .
Trade journals
- Blickpunkt: Film (3,850 copies)
- GamesMarkt (4,150 copies)
- Meedia
- MusikWoche (4,050 copies)
livepaper
- Focus: Film livepaper
- GamesMarkt livepaper
- MusikWoche livepaper
On-line
- mediabiz.de (450,000 visits, 2 million page impressions, as of 01/2014)
- Meedia
Former offers
With kino.de , what was then G + J Entertainment Media provided one of the largest cinema portals in Germany with more than 4 million visitors per month until 2014. Germany's cinema program, numerous trailers, photos, stars, as well as charts, film reviews and information about film and cinema were offered under the joint editor-in-chief with the specialist magazine Blickpunkt: Film. From 2009 to 2014 video.de presented innovations on DVD and Blu-ray and news about films, stars and technology. The two offers, kino.de and video.de, aimed at private users, were taken over by Ströer Media Brands in 2014 .
The specialist magazines and livepaper VideoMarkt , Treffpunkt Kino (710,000 copies) and VideoTipp (100,000 copies) were discontinued after the specialist publisher's restructuring. This also affected the specialist encyclopedia cinema manual (2,400 copies).
Awards
Busch Entertainment Media honored artistic achievements and commercial successes in the entertainment industry with its award ceremonies.
Box Office Germany Award (Bogey)
The Box Office Germany Award (Bogey) honored films that reached a certain number of cinema-goers within a certain period of time after their start. The simple bogey stood for 1 million visitors in 10 days or an average of 1,000 spectators per copy on the starting weekend. This was followed by silver (2 million in 20 days), gold (3 million in 28 days), platinum (5 million in 50 days) and titanium (10 million in 100 days).
Video champion
The Video Champion (formerly DVD Champion) has been awarded annually since 2000 as part of the Video Night awards ceremony to DVD and Blu-ray productions (Program Awards) and people in the music and film industry (Personality Awards).
Video Download Award
In June 2011, the first Video Download Award was given to Warner Bros. for "Inception", at that time for more than 100,000 views in 100 days in German-speaking countries. In 2013 the criteria were tightened for the first time due to the rapid market development and two variants of the Video Download Award were introduced with 150,000 and 250,000 downloads (gold status). A total of 84 Video Download Awards were given. The simple Video Download Award stood for 250,000 downloads (previously 150,000) in 100 days in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The golden Video Download Award was given to 500,000 downloads (previously 250,000) in 100 days in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
LARA - The German Games Award
In May 2007 LARA - The German Games Award celebrated its premiere. This prize was awarded to the best computer and video game programs as well as the convincing implementation of game content in other entertainment formats.
Web links
- Official website
- mediabiz
- Uncertain future for G + J Entertainment Media. In: DWDL.de of October 21, 2013.
- Timo Busch buys G + J Entertainment Media In: WuV.de from June 3, 2014
- G + J Entertainment Media becomes Busch Entertainment Media In: mediabiz.de on September 3, 2014