Most media you consume -- everything from news to internet to TV -- is owned by these six companies: Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Comcast, Viacom and Sony.

GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore. So that 6th company is now Comcast. And Time Warner doesn't own AOL, so Huffington Post isn't affiliated with them.

In 1983, fifty corporations dominated most of every mass medium and the biggest media merger in history was a $340 million deal. … [I]n 1987, the fifty companies had shrunk to twenty-nine. … ...

It turns out there are very few people who control these famous news media companies. In fact, the level of concentration of money and resources in the media industry is flabbergasting.

AudiencePlus, a new media platform from a long-time marketing executive, wants to put the media capabilities of these larger companies within reach of much smaller companies. Today the company ...