BNET Industries
Market Cap:$811.6M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.4B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Warner Music Group, with its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, is the world's largest privately held independent music company. The company is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Atlantic, Elektra, Lava, Maverick, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. and Word. Warner Music International, a leading company in national and international repertoire operates through 37 affiliates and numerous licensees in more than 50 countries. Warner Music Group also includes Warner/Chappell Music, one of the world's leading music publishers, with a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
Number of Employees 3,800
NAICS Code Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers: 711510
Recent Events
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Warner Bros Records UK Announces Ben Durling As A&R Consultant
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Warner Music posts surprise 4Q loss; shares tumble
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WMG Reports Loss In Fiscal Q4
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Analysis: Hulu, Vevo And The Rise Of Streaming Video
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Business Matters: EMI, WMG, Radiohead, Guvera, Gibson
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WMG Inks Online Ad Technology Deal
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A rare rift in George and Ira Gershwin's harmony
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Business Matters: Qtrax, MySpace, Lala, WMG
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Warner Music Group looks to monetize music clips
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Warner Music Group Launches Web Strategy 2.0
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WMG Pacts With Outrigger To Monetize Videos
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Warner Music Group names producer Rob Cavallo chief creative officer
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WMG Names Rob Cavallo Chief Creative Officer
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Warner Music Group Appoints Renowned Producer Rob Cavallo as Chief Creative Officer
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Warner Music bringing music videos back to YouTube
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iMeem Wipes The Slate Clean With $6 million Funding
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iMeem: From Tens Of Millions In Funding To Fire Sale
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- 2009-11-18
As this is being written, negotiations between MySpace Music and social music startup iMeem are still underway with issues including how much staff would make the move possibly engineering and sales, whether cofounder and CEO Dalton Caldwell would come along a la iLike’s Partovi brothers—now execs with MySpace, possible...
Warner Music Hands Over Video Ad Sales To Outrigger
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- 2009-10-08
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has a vision for how it’s going to make money with digital content this time around—and it includes a few key tech platforms and sales partners. On the sales end in the U.S., the company is giving the reins to Outrigger Media, a New...
Report: Warner, YouTube Reach A Deal?With Talks For Vevo, Too
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- 2009-09-25
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) and YouTube have finally negotiated a deal that will bring music videos from artists like Madonna and U2 back to the video site, AdAge is reporting. Warner pulled all of its artists clips from YouTube in December, after the two companies could not agree...
Universal Music Buys International Rights To Sinatra Albums
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- 2009-08-20
Universal Music has purchased the international rights to Frank Sinatra albums from the Sinatra Family and Warner Music, the Financial Times reports. Under the terms of the deal, Universal can reissue albums that Sinatra released for Reprise, the record label he founded in 1960 and later sold to Warner...
Warner Expands Use Of Cisco's Eos For Artist Sites
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- 2009-08-13
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) signed on for the Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) Eos white-label social networking service in a dip-the-toe way in January. Now the label is putting the whole foot in the water by expanding its deal beyond sites for two artists to five, promising to add a...
Earnings: WMG Losses Widen; Digital Music Revs Up 5 Percent
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- 2009-08-06
While Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) certainly has been trying to make headway as music listening becomes more digital, it couldn't fight the wider economy and the downward spiral of physical record sales. The company's loss widened to $37 million ($0.25 per share) from $9 million ($0.06 cents per...
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