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Jupiter acquires Bigshot Media and BBM.net
Jupiter Media has just announced the strategic acquisitions of Bigshot Media and BBM.net. Bigshot Media is touted as the words first and largest collection of royalty-Free stock flash footage and was conceived by a group of folks at firstlight, a stock photo agency in Toronto, Canada. Alabama based BBM.net is an international group of commercial music composers and recording artists offering royalty-free flash music loops created by musicians from around the world. Alan Meckler (CEO of Jupiter Media) had the following statements about the acquisitions "Bigshot Media's leadership position in providing stock flash footage further expands JupiterImages' range of image offerings and makes JupiterImages the number one company in the rapidly growing field of flash imagery for Web sites.” “BBM.net's royalty-free music loops in flash and other formats adds yet another dimension to our image and media offerings," Specific terms of the acquisitions have not been disclosed and it is unknown whether the assets acquired include ownership of the content offered by each of these companies. Click here to review the original press release.
Update (12/07/05): Bigshot Media has confirmed that all of the flash movies are wholly owned by Bigshot Media Inc. The total number of movies within the collection is approximately 5500-6000.
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