BPI Launches Online Information Service

Posted on July 28, 1998

BPI Communications Inc., publisher of 25 specialty titles including Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek and Mediaweek, announced the launch of an omnibus online information service for the entertainment, media and marketing industries. The service, BPIQ, is composed of three primary databases, updated daily, that include full-text current issues and archives from the relevant BPI titles. Individual monthly rates for BPIQ range from $19.95 for one database to $44.95 for the premium option that includes all three databases, plus per-report charges.

"BPIQ combines the resources of more than 500 journalists from some of the most respected business-to-business publications in the world," said Georgina Challis, BPI's senior vice president of corporate development. "It represents the convergence of the entertainment, marketing and media industries in an unmatched repository of full-text articles, charts, research, news and information," Challis said.