InterMedia (agency)

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,[9] the main task of which was to provide the Russian media with the most objective and impartial news and analysis of media industry.[10][11][12]

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.[13]

Every week Intermedia publishes album and singles charts of Russian Fedeation — consolidated charts, based on song sales and streaming data.[14]

Charts are published on the portals like Intermedia, Rambler, Yandex, Sputnik.[15][16][17]

For the first time in Russia, the news agency InterMedia began to seriously study the music market. Research covers more than a century, from 1898 to the present day.[18] Many studies of the music market were published exclusively in the Kommersant and Argumenty i Fakty publications.[19][20][21] 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.[22][23]

InterMedia collaborated with the National Federation of Phonograph Producers (NFPF) on the certification of sales of sound recordings in the Russian Federation.[24] In November 2018, the agency published an independent study “Culture and Cultural Industries in the Russian Federation”.[25]