OUR STORY
ACUNMEDYA is an independent media and entertainment company empowered with the vision to deliver inspiring and creative content worldwide. ACUNMEDYA’s continuous and accelerating track record while creating original new formats, dramas and adopting world’s best-known shows for broadcasters around the world led to an expansion to more than 15 territories.
ACUNMEDYA delivers full production services on both scripted and non- scripted content in numerous countries along its footprints and owns the world’s largest open air reality production Hub in Dominican Republic hosting more than 10 countries.
With its established international team with more than 3000 members, ACUNMEDYA provides complete turnkey production services, with delivering the content ready to broadcast executing every step by dedicated professional teams from the casting to the broadcasting.
ACUNMEDYA’s experienced and dedicated team not only delivers and completes essential production processes but also provides extensive know-how starting from the most pivotal steps of a production through creative development, strategical planning, execution, market analysis and programming.
From the most watched- reality shows and dramas to international hit talent formats we’ve produced them all with the vision to create and spread the most captivating, compelling, and enjoyable entertainment around the world.
ACUNMEDYA Group has developed tremendous experience on broadcasting and commercializing strategies and cutting-edge technologies through its own TV channels, TV8, TV8,5 and with its OTT platform Exxen that has reached millions in less than a year.
By working on creative contents, establishing its widespread mark with drama, entertainment, reality and sports programs with the latest technology and meticulous and detailed setups, TV8, TV8,5 and Exxen aims to continuously grow and deliver innovative contents to the audience.
ACUNMEDYA Group while expanding in media and entertainment, the group continues to invest in several other sectors such as sports, gaming, e-trade, and retail
Acunmedya was founded in 2004 by Acun Ilıcalı, who began his media career in the 1990s.
As a production company, Acunmedya acquired the rights to many internationally recognized formats such as "Var Mısın Yok Musun," "Fear Factor," "Survivor," "Yetenek Sizsiniz," "Yok Böyle Dans," "Ninja Warrior," and "Rising Star," adapting them for the Turkish audience. These formats have been broadcast during prime time on the most-watched television channels.
Acunmedya incorporated the TV8 channel into its portfolio in 2013.
With a complete overhaul of the programming schedule, the channel's 1% viewership rate significantly increased thanks to Acunmedya's productions, making TV8 one of the most-watched TV channels in Türkiye.
TV8,5, a channel known for its sports content, launched in 2016.
Following its success in Türkiye, Acunmedya continued to expand its achievements internationally with new projects. In partnership with Greece’s Skai TV, Acunmedya produced formats such as The Voice, Survivor, Got Talent, and My Style Rocks. Programs aired on Skai TV achieved up to 70% viewership, increasing the channel’s monthly prime-time average from 1% to 43%, resulting in a significant boost for the channel. Following this major success, Acunmedya began undertaking large-scale productions worldwide, establishing itself with major projects across different countries.
After Greece, Acunmedya expanded into Brazil and Mexico with the launch of its original format, Exatlon.
Owned by Acunmedya, Exatlon is a sports-reality competition that demands physical and mental endurance, and it continues to achieve worldwide success with record-breaking ratings.
Acunmedya entered the Romanian and Colombian markets with its original format Exatlon and partnered with NBC Universal/Telemundo to bring Exatlon to Hispanic audiences in the United States.
With 15 years of production expertise, Acunmedya established the world’s largest and most innovative production center on an area exceeding 3 million square meters in the Dominican Republic.
At the ACM Production Hub, formats such as Exatlon, Survivor, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Here, Money or Love, and many others are produced simultaneously for multiple countries and turned into broadcast-ready content within just a few days.
The original format Exatlon premiered in Hungary and achieved record-breaking ratings.
Acunmedya continued producing formats throughout the pandemic, and Exatlon Challenge, featuring Türkiye’s famous YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram influencers competing, was released on Netflix as a 15-episode series.
Exxen, launched with the slogan "Türkiye’s Digital Platform," began broadcasting with a wide range of intriguing series, comedy shows, competitions, documentaries, sports events, movies, and entertaining, exciting content. It quickly surpassed 1 million subscribers.
Acunmedya Akademi was established in 2021 through a collaboration between Nişantaşı University and Acunmedya to train qualified and educated professionals for the industry.
Successful graduates from Acunmedya Akademi’s departments in television, gastronomy, digital media, and software have the opportunity to work and intern primarily at Acunmedya, as well as in many other sectors.
Exatlon, which has a large audience in every country it airs, has reached viewers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.
Hull City Football Club, one of England’s historic clubs, was acquired by Acunmedya and added to the group’s portfolio. Thanks to investments made, the value of Hull City, competing in the English Championship League, has more than tripled in just 1.5 years.
NK Maribor, established in 1960, is one of Slovenia’s most historic football clubs. In 2023, Acunmedya Group incorporated NK Maribor into its portfolio, continuing its investments in the European football industry.
Acunmedya has signed a strategic partnership with SPORT1, one of Germany’s leading television channels.
Through this agreement, SPORT1 has gained access to a wide range of Acunmedya’s successful international entertainment and sports programs. Formats such as Exatlon, Survivor, My Style Rocks, MasterChef, and Power of Love are now reaching audiences on German television via SPORT1.
