{"id":7691,"date":"2004-08-25T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/forbes-magazine-profiles-ad-vision\/"},"modified":"2004-08-25T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T15:35:00","slug":"forbes-magazine-profiles-ad-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/forbes-magazine-profiles-ad-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Magazine Profiles AD Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes financial magazine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/forbes\/2004\/0906\/178.html\" target=\"_blank\">profiled<\/a> the massive success of AD Visison, from its roots in founder John Ledford&#8217;s house to its present status of controlling a third of the American anime distrubution business. The article contains interesting and rarely revealed statistics, such as the fact that ADV pays $1 million to $2.6 million for licensing rights to anime series and $500,000 to $5 million for a feature film. Dubbing costs another $10,000 to $20,000 per half-hour; and AD Vision&#8217;s Anime Network hopes to break even on its relatively small $50 million start-up costs within three years, partially due to minimal content acquisition costs since the network already has access to 1,500 AD Vision titles.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/article.php?id=5386\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes financial magazine has profiled the massive success of AD Visison, from its roots in founder John Ledford&#8217;s house to its present status of controlling a third of the American anime distrubution business. The article contains interesting and rarely revealed statistics, such as the fact that ADV pays $1 million to $2.6 million for licensing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}