Simon Marketing

Simon Marketing, Inc. was a marketing subsidiary of Simon Worldwide, Inc. During the late 1980s and 1990s, the company had licensing agreements with various motion picture and television companies and home video distributors, among them ABC Video Enterprises, DiC Entertainment, Random House Home Video, Vestron Inc., Live Entertainment (who acquired Vestron Inc. in 1991), Media Home Entertainment, HBO Video, Orion Pictures Corporation and New Line Cinema Corporation. Sometime in 1990-1991, it formed a home video division called Promotional Concept Group, Inc. The company's video releases were often duplicated in EP/SLP mode, and opened with this tracking disclaimer ID: "FOR MAXIMUM PICTURE QUALITY IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO ADJUST THE TRACKING CONTROL ON YOUR VCR." There were two variants of the tracking disclaimer ID, both with different fonts and different voice-overs. The first variant uses a voice-over that sounds like some British guy, whereas the text on this variant contains italic lettering. The second variant uses a very deep voice-over and the text on that variant contains semi-curved lettering.