InterMedia
{{Short description|Russian international media news agency}}
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|location = Moscow, Russia
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|industry = News media
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|homepage =https://intermedia.ru (Russian version)
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InterMedia ({{langx|ru|ИнтерМедиа}}), is Russia's international media news agency, which is specializing in news of music, cinema, theater, and the life of stars.{{cite web | url=https://www.intermedia.ru/news/143100 | title=Новая марка Нфпф и старые проблемы | date=10 September 2002 }} The agency publishes a daily and round-the-clock news feed, publishes music charts of Russian Federation, and also publishes the Russian Music Yearbook. The music market research department of thefirm conducts continuous monitoring and marketing research of the music industry.
Since April, 2010, the album and song sales positions have been and contributed to Intermedia by approximately 5,000 music sellers.{{cite web | url=https://www.intermedia.ru/news/330072 | title=Чарты, рейтинги, хит-парады | date=29 November 2018 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.yamoskva.com/node/80712 | title=Старт|lang=ru}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.showroom.ru/firm_card.php?f=259|title=Фирмы InterMedia Информационное Агентство|lang=ru}}{{Cite web|url=http://os.colta.ru/music_modern/projects/164/details/13032/page3/|title = Поп-механика — OpenSpace.ru|lang=ru}} Russian independent newspaper Republic proclaimed Intermedia as an independent source of charts in Russia.{{cite web | url=https://republic.ru/posts/l/147064 | title=В России будет независимый чарт|lang=ru}}
For 10 years, the agency has collaborated with National Federation of Phonograph Producers (NFPF) on the certification of musical works in the territory of the Russian Federation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbes.ru/forbes/issue/2007-01/12909-lebedinaya-pesnya|title = Лебединая песня| date=2 January 2007|lang=ru}} In February 2018, NFPF was liquidated and certification authority was transferred to the InterMedia divisions.{{Cite web|url=https://sbis.ru/contragents/7730146414/773001001|title=НФПФ, НП, ИНН 7730146414|work=sbis.ru|lang=ru}}
History
The InterMedia news agency was founded in 1993, when Yevgeny Safronov, Alexander Shumsky and Dmitry Anoshin left the Turne agency to start a new project,{{Cite web|url=https://snob.ru/profile/28877|title = Snob-frontend|lang=ru}} the main task of which was to provide the Russian media with the most objective and impartial news and analysis of media industry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.intermedia.ru/content/176|title = О нас|lang=ru}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.rma.ru/personal/149/ |title=Сафронов Евгений Анатольевич |access-date=2019-02-19 |archive-date=2018-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911081821/https://www.rma.ru/personal/149/ |url-status=dead|lang=ru}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbes.ru/profile/361373-evgeniy-safronov|title = Евгений Сафронов|lang=ru}}
Publishing
In 1995, InterMedia published the book Musical Results of the Year, which in 1996 was named the Russian Music Yearbook. The Russian Music Yearbook contains information for professionals in the cultural and entertainment industry: an address and telephone directory, analytical information, official documents. In 2011, the 13th edition of the yearbook was re-released.{{Cite web |url=http://tv7.ru/content/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD-%D1%88%D0%BE%D1%83-%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0-6038 |title=Камертон шоу-бизнеса |access-date=2020-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126013318/http://tv7.ru/content/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD-%D1%88%D0%BE%D1%83-%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0-6038 |archive-date=2012-01-26 |url-status=dead }}
== Charts ==
Every week Intermedia publishes album and singles charts of Russian Federation — consolidated charts, based on song sales and streaming data.{{cite web | url=https://www.intermedia.ru/news/330072 | title=Чарты, рейтинги, хит-парады | date=29 November 2018 }}
Charts are published on the portals like Rambler, Yandex and Sputnik.{{Cite web|url=https://news.rambler.ru/other/41652601-muzykalnye-charty-za-nedelyu-lidiruyut-ariana-grande-big-baby-tape-tima-belorusskih-kazka-i-drugie/|title=Музыкальные чарты за неделю: лидируют Ариана Гранде, Big Baby Tape, Тима Белорусских, Kazka и другие|date=31 January 2019 }}{{Cite web|url=https://news.yandex.ru/story/CHarty_rejtingi_khit-parady--2f36f91d07473b5efd12766169dfd71a|title=Чарты, рейтинги, хит-парады|date=6 September 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.sputnik.ru/progress/1b88125b1847e14b1eca0cd4c961a81616dd5c8f|title=Спутник|access-date=2019-02-19|archive-date=2019-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219183408/https://news.sputnik.ru/progress/1b88125b1847e14b1eca0cd4c961a81616dd5c8f|url-status=dead}}
Analytical activity
For the first time in Russia, the news agency InterMedia began to seriously study the music market. Many studies of the music market were published exclusively in the Kommersant and Argumenty i Fakty publications.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1367385|title = Дырка от публики|date = 17 May 2010}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/culture/article/34815|title=Каждое новое поколение поп-звёзд живёт меньше старого|date=18 May 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.profile.ru/items/?item=19899 |title= ПРОФИЛЬ |website= profile.ru |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070422051528/http://www.profile.ru/items/?item=19899 |archive-date=22 April 2007 |url-status=dead}} Among the analytical works is a study of philharmonic activities in the field of academic music in the country by order of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (2010), as well as market research of concert and entertainment events in Moscow and St. Petersburg.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/dontknows/1222842|title = ...Как определяется популярность артиста|date = February 2011}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.rg.ru/2009/06/05/ezhegodnik.html|title = В Москве состоялась презентация Российского музыкального ежегодника| date=4 June 2009 }}
Music recording certification
InterMedia collaborated with the National Federation of Phonograph Producers (NFPF) on the certification of sales of sound recordings in the Russian Federation.https://www.intermedia.ru/img/tinymce/promo/rme_demo.pdf In November 2018, the agency published an independent study “Culture and Cultural Industries in the Russian Federation”.https://intermedia.ru/uploads/culture-of-russia-2018_web.pdf