BNET Industries
Market Cap:$1.0B
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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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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Chris Ancliff Named as General Counsel - International, Warner Music Group
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YouTube and Warner Music ink new deal
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Warner Music Taps Outrigger Media for Music Video Ad Sales
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A Tale of Toxicity: What Happens Next at EMI?
PaidContent
- 2009-11-18
Of the big four major label groups, EMI stands out as the most distressed. But what happens next in this tale of toxicity? The outcome depends on a number of volatile variables, though the rejection of a $1.67 billion injection proposal by Terra Firma is hardly an uplifting development. ...
iMeem: From Tens Of Millions In Funding To Fire Sale
PaidContent
- 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 sells own ads on branded YouTube videos
Strategy Eye
- 2009-11-12
Warner Music videos are returning to YouTube with extensive branding after YouTube owner Google signed a deal with the record label. Warner’s agreement allows it to sell its own advertising against the videos and take the majority of revenues. Warner...
Warner Music Hands Over Video Ad Sales To Outrigger
PaidContent
- 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...
Warner Music Group Launches Web Strategy 2.0
BNET
- 2009-10-08
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) –- Warner Music Group is calling on a startup to help execute the lynchpin in its new approach the web. The company struck a deal with Outrigger Media, a small group spun out of video site Veoh, to package artists such as Madonna, Ashley Tisdale and Green...
Outrigger to promote Warner artists online
Strategy Eye
- 2009-10-07
Warner Music Group is partnering with online video ad company Outrigger Media to help secure advertising and brand sponsorship for its artists. The popularity of music videos, photos, social networking and blogs has strengthened the relationship between artist and the online audience they attract. ...
Edwyn Collins Can't Give Away His Music Thanks To MySpace, Warner Music
BNET
- 2009-10-07
Investors in Imeem funding round revealed
Strategy Eye
- 2009-09-30
It has emerged that social music site Imeem raised USD6m in a funding round led by existing shareholders Warner Music Group and Morganthaler Ventures in May. However, Sequoia Capital, which previously backed the firm in its Series A funding round, opted not to re-invest after reportedly losing confidence in...
Warner Music agrees its return to YouTube
Financial Times
- 2009-09-29
Warner Music has made an agreement with YouTube to return before the end of the year to the online video site, on more favourable terms than it had before its abrupt departure from the service in late 2008.Shares of Warner Music rose 8 per cent after the announcement.The music...
Warner Music Negotiates More Control in New YouTube Deal
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-09-29
Jason Kincaid submits: YouTube has just held a conference call to announce that it has negotiated a deal with Warner Music Group WMG, the major record label that pulled off the world’s most popular video portal after feeling shortchanged by the revenue its videos were driving. Many details of...
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