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TMN is a Progressive Digital Media Group company. Progressive Digital Media Group Plc is one of the UK's leading digital marketing organisations serving advertisers with over 75 million annual visitors.

The Group has seven divisions operating across four territories and is prominent in five major channels:

  • display and email advertising
  • website publishing
  • affiliate advertising
  • prospect lead generation
  • online market research

The Group also features a series of proprietary, innovative technologies – including the award winning PureLead, owned by EDR, which offers lead generation cleansing and purchasing services, and AffiliateFuture's unique sales tracking technology, VeraciTag™.

Recent awards for its performance came at the Marketing Direct Connect Awards, for tmnmedia and EDR, the Data Strategy Awards for PureLead and the IMA awards for AffiliateFuture.

February 2008 Internet Business Group plc is merged into Progressive Digital Media Group Plcplc, adding AffiliateFuture, one of the UK's largest affiliate networks, to their portfolio. tmnpublishing is created to represent the increased website assets resulting from the IBG acquisition.
January 2008 Acquisition of TAPPS, Holland's largest email list management company
2008 Preliminary results for the year to 30 April highlight further successful growth, with the Group reporting revenues of more than £22m and profits in excess of £3.6m. The year is marked by further strategic acquisitions and evolution of the business. In addition iCD Research was spun out of The iD Factor during the year, offering clients market research analysis complimenting its fieldwork research through its extensive specialist panels with IDF.
December 2007 Peter Harkness appointed as Chairman, replacing Warren Tayler
June 2007 Craig Dixon replaces Peter Coveney as CFO
March 2007 Group wins Online Business of the Year category at the Fast Growth Business Awards
2007 Preliminary results published in April show that Progressive Digital Media Group Plc has successfully capitalised on the growth of the internet market with the Group reporting a turnover of £16m and profits of £3.2m. The Group plans further acquisitions to expand into Europe.
2006 By year end April 2006 themutual.net achieved revenues of £9m and profits of £1.75m. The Company changes its name to Progressive Digital Media Group Plc, to reflect its position as an organisation with a vision of bringing together consumers and advertisers through a unique network of email advertising, website portals and market research
December 2005 Acquisition of The iD Factor – an online market research specialist. tmnmedia created to offer list-management services to high quality email databases including Handbag, ASOS and thetrainline.com, allowing the business to represent the vast majority of responsive and credible branded email in the UK
November 2005 Acquisition of EDR – digital advertising agency specialising in email marketing
2005 By April 2005 themutual.net achieves turnover of £3.2m and profits on £800,000. Mark Smith is appointed CEO. The Company plans a series of strategic acquisitions to broaden its offering
April 2004 Turnover doubles to £2m and profits reach £650,000
September 2003 The Company completes the acquisition of MyPoints (now MutualPoints). Mark Smith joins the Company
2003 The mutual.net achieves turnover in excess of £1m and the Company has more than 400,000 members
2000 The mutual.net is admitted to AIM
1999 Progressive Digital Media Group Plc formed as themutual.net by Ben Heaton. themutual.net rapidly gains tens of thousands of users through innovative model that rewarded users with shares for joining in its forums and specialist web sites