John Brown Media is one of the world's largest content marketing agencies. It was bought by Dentsu Aegis in May 2015. [1] While originally formed as a magazine company, the company creates multichannel content for various brands, with services including social media, film and audio, mobile.
History
Originally based in Ladbroke Grove in London, the company was formed in 1987 by John Brown, who had previously run Virgin Books. The business was launched with two magazines: the adult comic magazine Viz, for which John Brown had secured the rights, and HotAir, Virgin Atlantic's inflight title.
In 1989 John Brown acquired the comics fanzine Speakeasy,[2] converting it to a proper magazine. In mid-1991 it launched the comics magazine Blast!.[3]