Forbes Magazine Profiles AD Vision

Forbes financial magazine has profiled the massive success of AD Visison, from its roots in founder John Ledford’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’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.

Source: Anime News Network