TORONTO, ON (September 29, 2016) – ole the world’s fastest-growing independent publishing and rights management company, announced today it has acquired rights management company Compact Media in a major deal that furthers ole’s commitment to delivering leading-edge IP rights management services across the globe.

London-based Compact Media, who manage Audio-Visual Secondary Rights for more than 700 clients around the world, will bring ole added commercial, data and systems expertise in the space and complements ole’s substantial, existing business in Audio Visual IP and AVSR.

Compact will remain under its own brand and direction of David Johnson. All of Compact’s staff members in London, the US and Australia, will join ole.

“ole is very excited to be adding Compact’s global capabilities as a leader in the AV Rights Management space, and we look forward to bringing the increased benefits to our mutual clients around the world,” said ole Chairman and CEO Robert Ott. “David and his team have built a formidable business and we welcome them to ole.”

The acquisition combines two world-class rights management infrastructures that together, will benefit both ole and Compact clients. Compact’s deep understanding and network in the A/V Secondary Rights space and its complementary data platforms will be augmented by ole’s broader rights network, multiple IP services and proprietary data analytics/BI systems.

“Compact Media is delighted to be joining ole,” said Johnson. “Over the last few years we have built up a loyal and varied customer base which we believe will benefit greatly from this new combination with ole. The team at ole has impressed us with the quality and breadth of their service offering which we think will provide an even better platform for us to serve our client base with the personal and expert levels of service they are used to.”

For more information please contact: 
Tye Worobess 
Manager, Communications 
tye_worobess@olemm.com 
647-202-6283

About Compact Media:

Serving content creators, Compact is the leading independent company that provides a global resource for ensuring long-term value of AV content rights, delivering international rights management and royalty collection.

With offices in London, Los Angeles and Sydney, Compact Media’s services include: secondary re-transmission rights collection, production finance, music publishing, revenue assurance and data and technology services. Across the whole group, more than 700 international companies select Compact as their preferred partner from large multinational names through to smaller specialist producers and rights holders.

For more information, visit www.compact.media.