Asia Media Partners are the publishers of iTV-Asia.com, Asia’s leading independent business website.

Originally founded as iTVJapan in 2004, the company and website have expanded to report on business in China, Japan and Southeast Asia.

iTV-Asia provides practical, real-time information on doing business in Asia and has more than 600 video interviews online along with articles, blogs, calendars of events, directories and job information.

More than 50 contributors—30 in China and 20 in Japan—help our viewers to understand how they can do business more effectively and efficiently, and our video interviews feature Asia’s top business people.

Connect with us on LinkedIn, where we have an iTV-Asia group with more than 1,200 members (1 June, 2011).

Canning Professional is a Tokyo-based talent development organisation. As part of the UK’s Canning Group, established in 1965, we have delivered programs to more than 120,000 executives of 70 different nationalities in over 70 countries.

Increasing globalization presents clients with many challenges:

• Division joins a global team without communication skills to influence strategy
• Japanese firm needs talented leaders for global growth
• Manager for promotion lacks English skills
• Team sent abroad doesn’t know the culture and its impact on business

These recent examples show we pride ourselves in the ability to design, develop and deliver highly customized programs to solve problems. With strong client partnerships, we use our expertise and experience in Talent Management, Business Communication Skills, English for Business Leaders, and Global Mindset.

Custom Media is an independent, creative publishing and design house and business communications agency based in Tokyo.

Our objectives are clear and we focus on the key elements vital for successful marketing and promotion:

• Create—deliver innovative concepts and solutions that address our clients’ ever-changing market demands
• Communicate—help our clients spread the word about their services, products and solutions effectively and quickly
• Captivate—bring a skillful and refined approach to visual identity and brand appeal that makes a powerful impact

Inspired Ideas, Creative Solutions

At Edelman Japan, our offering to clients is both simple and compelling.

For foreign clients seeking to build success in the Japanese market, we offer unparalleled experience in taking your messages and translating them into a solid strategy that resonates with Japanese stakeholders to produce measurable results.

For Japanese clients based in Japan, we offer access to the latest global expertise from one of the world’s largest global networks.

And for Japanese clients operating outside Japan, we offer an intrinsic understanding of local companies and the challenges they face outside the country, coupled with the ability to co-ordinate and implement programs.

Firebrand specializes in recruitment solutions for the marketing, creative and digital industries.

Firebrand, with nine offices in eight countries across Asia and Europe, has its headquarters in Sydney.

If you are searching for social-media managers, web producers, creative designers or marketing directors/managers we have the talent for you. We are truly one of the few global talent specialists which recruit only marketing, creative and digital management professionals.

Firebrand is formerly the permanent and search division of Aquent.

I&S BBDO is the Japanese arm of the BBDO Worldwide network operating in 79 countries. With nearly 500 employees in 10 key Japanese cities, we are the largest multinational agency in Japan. Our goal is to create world-class content that influences consumer behavior.

Five beliefs make up our overall philosophy:
• We believe that our clients’ business results always come first.
• We believe that unearthing deep consumer insights is central to creating truly powerful work.
• We believe that awareness is only the beginning and that our core goal is to develop work that affects consumer behaviors.
• We believe that each campaign is different, and that an effective and efficient communication solution requires its own unique media solution.
And finally:
• We believe that creativity has the power to move markets.

McCann Worldgroup is the world’s leading marketing communications network, with over 300 offices in 125 countries around the world, and is the leader in multinational integrated communications, handling more global accounts across borders than any other network.

Our mission is clear: through creativity, innovation and proven performance, we strive to create marketing solutions that transform our clients’ brands and grow their businesses.

McCann Erickson Japan is a key member of McCann Worldgroup and is the only true international advertising agency represented in Japan’s top ten and the only one that can plan and buy media independently with a media neutral perspective. Accordingly, we have been awarded substantial business from major Western and Japanese advertisers over the past 50 years.

The Financial Times, a leading business news organisation, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. As a trusted provider of extensive news, comment, data and analysis to the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 605,402 (Deloitte assured, 3 January to 3 April 2011)—the FT newspaper’s daily circulation is 381,658 (ABC figures March 2011), with 224,000 paying FT digital subscribers.

The FT has a combined print and online average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide (PwC assured, November 2010).

FT.com has over 3.4 million registered users.

The Wall Street Journal Asia, established in 1976, has been voted the most “important business reading” among international daily newspapers in Asia in every ABRS/BE:ASIA study since the survey’s inception in 1985. The Journal’s China staff won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for coverage of the consequences of the nation’s growth. The paper is edited and published in Hong Kong, and printed in 11 Asian cities. More than 75% of its subscribers are Asian. The Journal’s website for Asia is at www.asia.wsj.com and homepage for India is at www.india.wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal is also published online in Japanese at www.japan.wsj.com and in Chinese at www.chinese.wsj.com.

TrainTracks is a multi-disciplinary team of skilled professionals that bring together a wide range of expertise across PR and media fields, including event management, corporate and product branding, cross-media marketing and promotions.

As a one-stop communications and marketing solutions provider, our experience overseas and working with large international corporations domestically gives us a worldwide perspective on each of our projects.

Building on a platform of in-depth B2B and B2C experience, TrainTracks precisely configures and calibrates communications programs to help our clients synergize their communications activities to achieve a unified objective.

As a member of IPREX, one of the world’s largest independent PR networks, we can provide our services via 90 offices in 30 countries.

USN is a creative agency based in the heart of Harajuku, Tokyo. With our team of 21 we work with clients such as Red Bull, MINI, Tommy Hilfiger, P&G/Braun, Google and others.

Video Solutions produces videos from shooting to final product delivery that respond to your sales, marketing and communications needs, as well as helping you to broadcast them efficiently on the web and new media.