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 Gracenote headquarters in Emeryville | |
| Formerly | Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Founded | October 5, 1998[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Revenue | $98.76 million (2014)[2] |
Number of employees | 1,700+ (2016) |
| Parent | Nielsen |
| Website | www.gracenote.com |
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 (later known as NielsenIQ and sold) and Nielsen Global Media. In October 2022, Nielsen Holdings (by then consisting of the Global Media business), including the Gracenote subsidiary was acquired by a private equity consortium.
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