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This article showcases our top picks for the best English Media and Entertainment companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Media and Entertainment industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
Management
Societal impact

Top English Media and Entertainment Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

BBC

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BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.

Culture Trip

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Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core

Minute Media

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Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.

V-Nova

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Next-generation video and image compression that works today

Moonbug

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Moonbug is a global digital-first entertainment company for kids.

Papercup

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Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker

Live Tech Games

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Live Tech Games provides a live mobile entertainment experience.

Poplar Studio

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Poplar is a creative platform that enables brands and retailers to produce 3D and AR experiences on-demand, powered by a talent cloud.

Mixcloud

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Mixcloud is an online long-form audio platform providing content such as radio shows, podcasts and DJ mixes.

Electric Gamebox

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Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room

HYPERVSN

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HYPERVSN is a hardware-enabled technology platform that enables users to create and display 3D holographic content without any headgear.

Cinesite

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Cinesite is one of the largest and most creative visual effects companies in the world.

ITV

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ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.

OTHERWORLD

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The brick-and-mortar metaverse. An island paradise in the cloud reached through a growing network of multi-sensory immersion pods.

OnlyFans

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Content-sharing platform

Planet N Group of Companies

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Planet N Group is an emerging markets focused high-tech and social impact investment firm dedicated to development through digitization

Zapnito

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Zapnito is the expert online community platform. We connect brands with their communities.

Deep Zen

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AI company focusing on audiobook production and voiceovers with an audiobook marketplace (audiowhale.com)

Coda Platform

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Coda Platform is a publishing platform to enable free-to-play and casual mobile games to go to market.

Copa90

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Copa90 The voice of football fans around the world.

Jungle Creations

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Jungle Creations is a modern media company that specialises in building online communities.

Sohonet

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Sohonet operates the largest private network for Media & Entertainment in the world, linking over 400 leading studios and creatives.

Thrillz

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Personalised celebrity video messages and live experiences

Freeview

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Freeview is the biggest TV platform in the UK.

Dexerto

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Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.

Secret Cinema

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Secret Cinema provides an media platform that combining film screenings with interactive performances in purpose-built sets.

NumberEight

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On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors

Kukua

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The edutainment company for children of the 21st century

DAZN

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DAZN is the world’s first truly dedicated live sports streaming service.

Night Zookeeper

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Make Writing Magical

Vashi

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Vashi is a diamond jewellery brand that offers a genuinely unique, disruptive, and omni-channel retail experience.

NextUp

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The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.

Recast

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Recast operates as a sports Over-The-Top (OTT) platform.

Sportrecs

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Sports Streaming Service

Encore Technologies

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Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.

The Rattle

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A venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups

Monterosa Productions

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Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce

Instrumental

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Our TalentAI platform uses machine learning to discover emerging talent, predominantly for the music and entertainment industry.

Aggregion

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Intellectual property licensing and rights governance platform

Anything World

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Anything World is a platform to create worlds powered by voice and populated with anything you can think of – with AI behaviours applied!

unrd

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unrd is creating a new genre of entertainment by combining Hollywood quality plots with mobile storytelling techniques.

Fusebox Games

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Live the stories you love with Fusebox Games.

Bazaar Daily UK

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Bazaar Daily (UK) is the British counterpart to Bazaar Daily News, a massive online news agency founded by Sultan H. Khane II.

Sliide

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Mobile technology company that work with MNO, MVNO and OEM partners globally to increase engagement, drive revenue, and decrease churn.

KidsKnowBest

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A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.

Flat Iron

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A UK-based steak restaurant group .

Discover Film

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A technology and entertainment platform for short movies. Films can be watched online and via mobile and Smart TV Apps.

FilmDoo

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FilmDoo is a global media company utilising disrupting technology to distribute entertainment, cultural and language learning content.

Wonderhood Studios

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Wonderhood Studios is a creative company built to create ideas that shift culture for brands and broadcasters.

BBC Three

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The UK’s youth-focused online TV channel.

UnderPinned

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A SaaS that is changing the future of freelancing

Bigballs Media

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Bigballs Media is the world’s largest independent digital football media business.

Flight Club

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Flight Club is the home of Social Darts, Spectacular bar, Electric atmosphere, Mind-blowing experience.

Skylark

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The CMS and VMS for content-first businesses

DingIt.tv

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DingIt is a leading destination for premium eSports and Gaming content

Mirada

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Mirada offers a multi-screen approach to digital TV platforms with a complete suite of end-to-end modular products.

Caper

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Caper is a startup providing interactive entertainment to families.

Future Thinking

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Future Thinking provides its clients with insight across NPD and brand development, media and marketing communications.

Global

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Global is a media and entertainment company that operates commercial radio stations.

Volta

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Volta is an artist-driven VR platform that empowers them to create their own performance experience.

Coolabi

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Coolabi Group is specialized in the creation, development and brand management of children’s and family intellectual property rights.

Sing King

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Sing King is the world’s biggest online karaoke community.

Nuella TV

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Mobile-first video streaming platform for 1.2B Africans

The Cauldron

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The Cauldron operates as a technology-led entertainment studio.

Informa UK Ltd.

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Informa UK Ltd. offers print publishing, electronic publishing and consultancy services.

Xperience Plus

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X+ is the first extended-reality framework allowing companies and content creators to create 5 senses experiences

Emme Films

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Emme is a Multinational Media Production Company headquarter based in the UK cover Europe, Middle East and Asia regions.

Tin Roof Media Ltd.

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Tin Roof Media is a factual entertainment formats.

Latimer Group

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Latimer works with the best in youth talent to produce cutting edge film and digital media.

Nightset

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Nightset is a nightlife marketplace that connects people, venues, and brands on one platform globally.

Transterra Media

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video archive, stock and original stories for brands, agencies and publishers from journalists and filmmakers in 180 countries

Ascential Plc

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Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.

Walt Disney Company

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The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East and Africa is to be at the forefront of family entertainment.

Channel Mum

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Channel Mum is dedicated to shopping hauls and includes bloggers that give shopping and style tips.

Wave

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Wave offers software designed to transform single-board computers into smart home hubs which can make internet and energy freer.

Bright Little Labs

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Sesame Street For A Digital Age

Colony

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Colony is global video streaming platform connecting content owners to engaged audiences.

Framestore

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Framestore is a creative studio that offers production, pre-production, and post-production services for its users.

Vumicentral

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A single app for all your entertainment needs

Team Dignitas

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Team Dignitas offers e-sports organizations.

Isobar

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Isobar is a global, full-service, digital marketing agency with innovation at its heart.

Reach plc

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Reach plc is a newspaper publishing company.

Blurrt

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Blurrt is a social analytics & content software platform allows users to collect, listen, showcase, anaylse and engage with social audience.

The Narrative Digital Studios

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Digital production company and entertainment studio based in London. Every project we create is build on our data driven processes.

VEED

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Veed is a video editor designed to make producing short-form video content simple.

Make the most of your video by also adding memes in your video using a meme maker tool to make it more fun and exciting to watch. And do not forget to add great music to your video with the help of a music video maker tool to help you choose the perfect and relevant music for the content of your video. In this way, you are sure enough that you will have better quality and must-watch videos.