Mediacom Business history

He then took a job as a production manager for Pfizer Pharmaceutical and after four years resumed his studies at Columbia, receiving an M.B.A. in 1975, at which point he began a successful, and somewhat hectic, business career.

Working at the bank during the day and the disco at night proved exhausting and he sold his share of the club to his brother in 1981.

Formation of Mediacom: 1985

Commisso called it "the defining acquisition" for Mediacom, which he believed had now achieved the scale to become the kind of company he had envisioned when he founded it in 1995.

1996: First cable TV system is acquired.

The company completed another four acquisitions by the end of 1997, at which point Mediacom had more than 60,000 basic subscribers in systems located in Arizona, California, Delaware, and Maryland.

In a preliminary step, the business was reincorporated in Delaware in November 1999, assuming a new name: Mediacom Communications Corporation.

Triax Acquisition in 2001

In the meantime, Mediacom still had to contend with the loss of subscribers to satellite providers, even as it began to post the first profitable quarters in its history as revenues topped $1 billion in 2003.

Before joining MediaCom in 2012, Kristin spent 11 years at Dyson, starting in the UK, then moving to set up marketing and eCommerce operations in Canada and China.

He has been an instrumental part of the transformational growth of MediaCom, leading to the company being awarded Agency of the Year twice since 2017.

Benjamin joined MediaCom in 2018 with the fundamental belief that audiences don’t delineate between media and creative, neither should we.

In 2021, The Internationalist recognized Adam as an International Agency Innovator - the same year where MediaCom was ranked the most winning agency by R3 and COMvergence, and Adweek named Adam a Media All-Star for the second time - an honor awarded to only 20 individuals in the industry each year.