Gracenote
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Gracenote, Inc. is a company and service that provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide.[3] Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. From 2008 to 2014, it was owned by Sony, later sold to Tribune Media, and has been owned since 2017 by Nielsen Holdings. In 2019, Nielsen Holdings announced plans to split into two separate publicly traded companies, Nielsen Global Connect and Nielsen Global Media. In October 2022, Nielsen Holdings completed sale of Global Media, which included the Gracenote division, was sold to a private equity consortium.
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Formerly | Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000) |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Founded | October 5, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-10-05)[1] |
Headquarters | , |
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Revenue | $98.76 million (2014)[2] |
Number of employees | 1,700+ (2016) |
Parent | Nielsen |
Website | www.gracenote.com |