Who Owns What Brands In Digital Media

Traditional media conglomerates are increasingly bumping up against powerful tech and telecom companies in the rush to reach users and attract advertisers across as many screens and platforms as possible. This chart, though far from comprehensive, offers a glimpse into the vast holdings of some big media companies in the news.

Comcast Corp./NBCUniversal

Market cap: $146 billion

Brands

  • XFINITY
  • NBC: News, Sports, TV Network
  • MSNBC
  • CNBC
  • NBC Entertainment
  • Telemundo
  • Bravo
  • Sprout
  • USA Network
  • Syfy
  • E!
  • Philadelphia Flyers
  • Universal Pictures
  • DreamWorks Animation
  • Focus Features
  • Universal Studios and other parks and resorts
  • Golf Channel
  • Oxygen

Has stake in

  • BuzzFeed
  • Hulu
  • Vox Media: Vox, The Verge, SB Nation, Eater, Recode, Polygon, Curbed
  • The Weather Channel
  • Flipboard
  • Birchbox
  • Half.com
  • Houzz
  • Zenefits
  • AwesomenessTV
  • Esquire Network
  • Slack

Walt Disney Co.

Market cap: $151 billion

Brands

  • ABC: News, Daytime, TV Network
  • ESPN
  • Disney Channel
  • Freeform (formerly ABC Family)
  • Walt Disney Studios
  • Pixar
  • Marvel
  • Touchstone Pictures
  • Lucasfilm
  • Maker Studios
  • Disneyland, Walt Disney World and other parks and resorts

Has stake in

  • Vice Media
  • A&E
  • History Channel
  • Lifetime
  • Hulu

21st Century Fox

Market cap: $49 billion

Brands

  • FOX: News, Business News, Sports, TV network
  • National Geographic Partners: Channel, Magazine and other media assets
  • FX
  • Twentieth Century Fox Film
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • Blue Sky Studios

Has stake in

  • Vice Media
  • Hulu
  • Endemol Shine Group
  • Sky plc
  • Roku

Note

Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch is also executive chairman at News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, HarperCollins and other media. Murdoch’s original News Corp. conglomerate split into 21st Century Fox and the print-focused News Corp. in 2013.

Time Warner Inc.

Market cap: $68 billion

Brands

  • CNN
  • HBO
  • Warner Brothers: Entertainment, Motion Pictures, Television, Records
  • Cinemax
  • TBS
  • TNT
  • NBA.com
  • NCAA.com
  • TMZ.com
  • Adult Swim
  • Cartoon Network
  • DC Comics

Has stake in

  • The CW
  • Hulu

Note

An acquisition by AT&T is pending.

CBS Corp.

Market cap: $25 billion

Brands

  • CBS: News, TV, Radio, Entertainment, Sports
  • Showtime
  • Simon & Shuster
  • Smithsonian Channel
  • CNET
  • ZDNet
  • TVGuide.com
  • Last.fm
  • Metacritic
  • Chowhound
  • GameSpot
  • Watch! Magazine

Has stake in

  • The CW

Viacom Inc.

Market cap: $15 billion

Brands

  • Paramount Pictures
  • BET
  • Comedy Central
  • MTV
  • VH1
  • Nickelodeon
  • Spike
  • CMT
  • Centric
  • Logo TV
  • TV Land
  • Tr3s

Has stake in

  • Roku

Univision Communications Inc.

Market cap: Privately Owned

Brands

  • Univision: TV, Radio, Digital Networks
  • Uforia
  • Fusion
  • The Root
  • Jalopnik
  • Jezebel
  • Deadspin
  • Lifehacker
  • Kotaku

Has stake in

  • The Onion: The A.V. Club, ClickHole
  • El Rey Network

Verizon Communications Inc.

Market cap: $198 billion

Brands

  • Verizon Wireless
  • Fios
  • AOL
  • Huffington Post
  • Engadget
  • TechCrunch
  • Yahoo! (pending): Flickr, Tumblr, Rivals.com
  • go90
  • Terremark

Has stake in

  • Complex Media
  • RatedRed.com
  • AwesomenessTV
  • Seriously.TV

AT&T Inc.

Market cap: $227 billion

Brands

  • AT&T
  • DirecTV
  • Cricket Wireless
  • U-verse
  • YP.com (aka Yellowpages.com)
  • Sky Brasil
  • Time Warner and its properties (pending)

Amazon.com Inc.

Market cap: $388 billion

Brands

  • Amazon: Prime, Cloud Drive, Web Services, Marketplace, Echo, Fire TV
  • Kindle
  • Audible
  • Twitch.tv
  • IMDb
  • Goodreads
  • AbeBooks
  • ComiXology
  • DPReview
  • Zappos and other online retailers

Note

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos also owns The Washington Post.

Alphabet Inc./Google

Market cap: $553 billion

Brands

  • YouTube
  • Android, Chrome, Nexus, Pixel
  • Blogger
  • Zagat
  • Nest
  • Waze
  • Verily
  • Google: Search, Gmail, Hangouts and other apps
  • Chrome
  • Project Fi
  • Google Fiber (paused)

Facebook Inc.

Market cap: $371 billion

Brands

  • Facebook
  • WhatsApp
  • Instagram
  • Oculus
  • Facebook Messenger
  • Internet.org