Segment Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]

Segment Reporting, Reconciling Item for Operating Profit (Loss) from Segment to Consolidated [Line Items]

Information on reportable segments and reconciliation to consolidated income from operations is as follows (in thousands):



	Years Ended December 31,
	2014			2013			2012
Revenue by segment:
Business Cloud Services	$	431,475		$	390,104		$	361,684
Digital Media	167,814			131,146			9,712
Elimination of inter-segment revenues	(259		)	(449		)	—
Total revenue	599,030			520,801			371,396

Direct costs by segment⁽¹⁾:
Business Cloud Services	241,592			191,169			174,324
Digital Media	137,321			124,413			6,823
Direct costs by segment⁽¹⁾:	378,913			315,582			181,147

Business Cloud Services operating income	189,883			198,935			187,360
Digital Media operating income	30,493			6,733			2,889
Segment operating income	220,376			205,668			190,249

Global operating costs⁽²⁾	34,170			30,245			28,087
Income from operations	$	186,206		$	175,423		$	162,162

⁽¹⁾ Direct costs for each segment include cost of revenue and other operating expenses that are directly attributable to the segment such as employee compensation expense, local sales and marketing expenses, engineering and operations, depreciation and amortization and other administrative expenses.
⁽²⁾ Global operating costs include general and administrative and other corporate expenses that are managed on a global basis and that are not directly attributable to any particular segment.

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]



	2014		2013
Assets:
Business Cloud Services	$	883,587	$	818,722
Digital Media	378,381		333,286
Total assets from reportable segments	1,261,968		1,152,008
Corporate	443,234		1,781
Total assets	$	1,705,202	$	1,153,789

	2014		2013		2012
Capital expenditures:
Business Cloud Services	$	6,639	$	10,979	$	4,240
Digital Media	4,920		6,635		380
Total from reportable segments	$	11,559	$	17,614	$	4,620
Corporate	270		1,013		441
Total capital expenditures	$	11,829	$	18,627	$	5,061

Depreciation and amortization:
Business Cloud Services	$	39,699	$	24,148	$	20,473
Digital Media	22,483		14,963		1,167
Total from reportable segments	62,182		39,111		21,640
Corporate	771		677		512
Total depreciation and amortization	$	62,953	$	39,788	$	22,152

Summary On Revenues And Long-Lived Assets By Geographic Areas

j2 Global maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Japan and other countries. Geographic information about the U.S. and all other countries for the reporting periods is presented below. Such information attributes revenues based on jurisdictions where revenues are reported (in thousands).



	Year Ended December 31,
	2014		2013		2012
Revenues:
United States	$	403,279	$	369,507	$	233,585
Canada	70,434		73,130		79,656
Ireland	42,979		41,398		41,248
All other countries	82,338		36,766		16,907
Total	$	599,030	$	520,801	$	371,396



	December 31, 2014		December 31, 2013
Long-lived assets:
United States	$	216,099	$	170,247
All other countries	101,107		51,675
Total	$	317,206	$	221,922

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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