January 2010
The IMAX Theatre at the Maryland Science Center has adopted WWM’s showtimes management tool, csXpress, to help manage the showtimes information for their IMAX Theatre. csXpress provides 24/7 access to the WWM database and allows for mid-week changes, edits, or additions to the Showtimes Data that is distributed to the most heavily visited sites in the US. |
December 2009
WWM's latest movie theatre marketing tool has been adopted by two more Exhibitors. Florida-based Muvico Theaters and New York's Carmel Movie Theater both added mobile device optimization to their existing websites. Now their patrons can access showtimes, trailers, online ticketing from any web-enabled mobile phone. |
November 2009
Connecticut-based newspapers The Hour and The Wilton Villager have launched a WWM-hosted movie and events calendar, becoming the latest media outlets to come onboard for WWM’s “one-stop-shop solution” for entertainment listings. WWM makes it seamless and easy to display hyper local content within existing websites. |
November 2009
iPhoneAppSolutions, “the leading iPhone application development company that delivers custom products on time and within budget limitations,” has contracted with WWM to provide movie showtimes and movie-related information for the UK, US and Republic of Ireland. |
November 2009
Pacific Theatres, based in Los Angeles, switches to WWM to produce their directory ads in order to take advantage of WWM’s cutting edge data compilation technology, ad proofing software, and personalized customer service. |
October 2009
EventsAbout in Canada! EventsAbout, WWM's fully hosted local events and movie showtimes platform, is expanding internationally for Examiner.com. WWM will be supplying Examiner.com with robust 'what's going on around town listings' for Canada's top markets: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver. WWM's Event-Source division is now strongly on the entertainment listings map in Canada. |
October 2009
Yahoo! reinforced its partnership with West World Media by recently contracting for Spanish-speaking Latin America content. WWM will develop and host Yahoo! Hispanic Americas movie channels and supply movie showtimes, movie guide, box office charts and trailers. Countries included are Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and all Spanish-speaking US. |
September 2009
Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com has upgraded their movie showtimes supplier in signing with West World Media. |
September 2009
Google goes live with WWM showtimes data in Norway. |
September 2009
West Wind Drive-In now boasts a mobile website designed by West World Media. WWM offers two different mobile versions to accommodate a range of phones – one is text-based, one works with Opera browsers and iPhones. |
September 2009
Digital Spy, a Hachette Filipacchi website in the UK, has turned to WWM for UK and Ireland cinema listings, movie guide content and movie reviews. |
September 2009
Real Detroit Weekly, Detroit’s “most entertaining source for music, nightlife, movies, fashion, dining and all other things under the pop culture umbrella,” has contracted with WWM for movie showtimes for their online site www.realdetroitweekly.com |
September 2009
Acorn Newspapers in Agoura Hills has chosen WWM to provide printed movie showtimes for 5 community newspapers in southern California. |
September 2009
WWM has just celebrated its 300th exhibitor contract for marketing services. 7 of the nation’s top 10 exhibitors rely on WWM for their marketing needs. |
September 2009
North Jersey Media launched their WWM fully-hosted events and cinema calendar: calendar.northjersey.com |
August 2009
Kodu Ltd, based in London and developer of the application called “Movies Now! - the simplest way to buy movie tickets on the go,” has selected WWM as their provider of Movie Showtimes for the entire UK, US and Canada. |
June 2009
Breaking News: Congratulations to our partner Multiplied Media for winning the “Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service” award at the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix EMEA Tournament in Barcelona, Spain, showcasing the best-of-the-best in the mobile industry. Multiplied Media’s POYNT service utilizes WWM’s movie data, movie showtimes, and ticketing to power the movies section of their application for North America. During The Tournament in Barcelona, Multiplied Media bundled WWM’s International Showtimes along with other international POYNT services. |
May 2009
The Nielsen Company, one of the world’s leading marketing and media information companies, has partnered with West World Media / CinemaSource to verify North American theatre bookings for their products and services that track box office results. |
May 2009
WWM Global Update..
Movie showtimes in Norway, Finland, Sweden and New Zealand are now available, including local language movie info and geocodes right to the front door of the "kino," "elokuva," "biograf," or "cinema." |
May 2009
AlloCine, a leading international movie portal, has expanded their ScreenRush website to Canada and chosen WWM to provide Showtimes, Movie Meta Data, Movieticketing, and French Language translations.
AlloCine's new website, ScreenRush, is sure to be a hit with the large French Canadian audience throughout Canada as it tracks everything from big box office releases to art house and independent French, French Canadian, and English movies.
WM, already a leading provider of Canadian movie data, now has the endorsement of an established French brand as they move into providing multiple language datafeeds and services not just in the French Canadian provinces, but all over the world. |
April 2009
West World Media Launches New Fully Hosted Local Events and Movie Showtimes Platform with Examiner.com.
Examiner.com, one of the fastest-growing content Web sites, has partnered with West World Media to create a robust events section across all of its markets nationally. Featuring West World Media's database of approximately 200,000 listings at any given time, Examiner.com visitors can find out about movies, concerts, sports, family activities, and other events happening in their town, or in any location they may visit. Yahoo Finance |
March 2009
Newsquest Media Group, a subsidiary of Gannett Co., has chosen West World Media to supply UK cinema listings and film content across its network of local newspaper websites and mobile platform. Newsquest is one of the UK’s largest regional newspaper publishers and a major internet player with over 180 local newspaper websites and 5 million unique users per month. |
February 2009
Marquee Cinemas, based in Beckley West Virginia, has added newspaper directory ads to the marketing services they receive from West World Media. Marquee Cinemas operates 178 screens in 19 theatres in 10 states. |
February 2009
The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington has upgraded providers by choosing West World Media for their movie showtime and information listings. |
January 2009
West World Media was invited to present at the annual “Art House Convergence,” a 2-day conference in Salt Lake City just before the Sundance Film Festival. The Convergence brings together Art House leaders from across the nation to share ideas to strengthen these valuable community-based cinema art centers. Michael Lourie, WWM’s National Sales Director, presented a seminar on current technology and how online marketing tools can boost revenue. |
December 2008
México launched!
West World Media has amassed the most comprehensive database of "cines" and movie listings in México, covering more than 4000 screens country-wide. WWM now boasts coverage in all of North America! |
November 2008
Marcus Theatres,
the 7th largest theatre circuit in the U.S., has selected WWM to launch their new weekly spotlight email newsletters. The newly designed weekly email newsletters will allow Marcus Theatres’ movie-goers to select their favorite theatres for a weekly blast of showtimes, coupons and targeted marketing messages. |
November 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC),
the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises, has chosen WWM to compile and manage their print movie timeclock. With over a dozen exhibitors in the Atlanta area, AJC decided to seek out the best company to produce and maintain their timeclock. WWM’s cutting-edge technology and hands-on customer service provides AJC and their exhibitors an accurate, on-time print timeclock each week. Once again, WWM is getting people to the movies on time. |
October 2008
Flagship Media Group Selects WWM
Flagship Media Group, the largest independently owned B2B publisher in Northern Ireland, joined the West World Media family. Flagship publishes a range of high quality periodical publications and internet sites focused on distinct lifestyle, and business communities, in both Ireland and the UK, including www.thebiglist.co.uk. |
September 2008
West World Media En Español
West World Media is now proud to provide the most complete showtimes listings for Chile, Colombia and Argentina. From the large multiplexes to the art houses to “cine móvil” – we cover them all. In English and en español, of course. |
August 2008
West World Media Enters Worldwide Content Agreements
WWM has entered into agreements with its larger Search Engine customers to provide movie data, cinema information, and film schedules for worldwide coverage. West World currently supplies movie-related content for the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Algeria. The international expansion that will roll-out in the coming months includes: Asia/Pacific: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Viet Nam. Middle East/Africa: Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. Americas: Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela. Europe/Russia: Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine. |
August 2008
WWM and TV GUIDE (Macrovision) have partnered to provide their respective movie listings and TV listings to I.TV’s iPhone application, which will be available for download from Apple's new App Store. This alliance creates the first of many future ‘Super-Combo’ products featuring the world’s best movie listings along with the world's best TV listings, now available to customers everywhere. "We are excited about our new strategic alliance with TV Guide and look forward to packaging the best-of-breed content for both TV and Movie Listings" said West World Media Founder and President, Brett West. |
August 2008
WWM expands their long-standing partnership with The New York Times by adding the websites of THE NEW YORK TIMES REGIONAL MEDIA GROUP (NYTRMG) to other NYT properties already receiving WWM movie-related content. NYTRMG encompasses the following newspapers in the Southeast and California: TimesDaily (AL), The Gadsden Times (AL), The Gainesville Sun (FL), Times-News (NC), The Courier (LA), The Ledger (FL), The Dispatch (NC), Star-Banner (FL), The Press Democrat (CA), Herald-Tribune (FL), Herald-Journal (SC), Daily Comet (LA), The Tuscaloosa News (AL), Star-News (NC), News Chief (FL). |
August 2008
The fourth exhibitor in the past month choosing to upgrade Directory Ad providers is Laemmle Theatres, the largest chain of art-house movie theatres in Southern California. WWM is proud to welcome Laemmle aboard! |
