company structures

 Google is an international digital service that has acquired over 140 different company's, some vertical, others horizontally. Horizontal company's include services like Blogger and YouTube which integrate digitally with each other. Some others are just absorbed and added to existing products. As of current, Google owns over one-hundred and forty-five different company's.

 The BBC (or British Broadcasting corporation) is a service run under a Royal Charter, a set of protocols the BBC holds to. As such the company does not acquire other company's and incorporate them instead deciding to when necessary creating new services in-house and proceeding to expand outward. Different areas of the company are subsidized to provide the funding for projects and to support the main services provided.
 
creative assembly is a Games developer based in Horsham who specialize in the real-time strategy genre, with the award-winning series "total war." Creative assembly was brought out by Sega in 2005, Whilst real information exists on the structure of the studio, it is probably a vertical hierarchy.What is remarkable is that they have manged to keep their autonomy despite other British studios being absorbed and/or closed.


 http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/25/the-age-of-acquisitions/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-27-creation-legend-the-history-of-the-creative-assembly

the types of media industry's 

• Publishing (novels, books etc.)

 a single writer produces a manuscript that the publisher is responsible for editing and presenting to the public as a full feature novel

• Magazines

 a monthly or weekly production focused on products within a particualr genre or a lifestyle is produced

• Newspapers

 a daily paper containing all the current news and opinions of the writers and editors

• Animation

 an animated drawing shown as a film or tv show filmed using alternative methods

• Film

 a feature length video shown in cinemas as an experience

• Television

 a single or in the case of a series, set of small videos shown on tv, usally with advert breaks.

• Web 2.0

the current-day version of the internet, allowing for multiple types of media and information to be shared around the world

• Music

the music industry is made up of artists and publishers who generate music and provide via radio, physical media and concerts

• Radio

an audio only broadcast, providing music, information and talk shows

• Video Games

 an interactive program designed usually to challenge the player or players.

• Facilities

the many various types of equipment and location rental avadable to other media industrys, ranging from renting a office to a high tech camera.