Gracenote

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Gracenote, Inc.

Gracenote headquarters in Emeryville
Formerly	Compact Disc Data Base (1998–2000)
Company type	Subsidiary
Founded	October 5, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-10-05)[1]
Headquarters	Emeryville, California , United States
Key people	Sujit Dasmunshi(General Manager) Tim Cutting (CRO) Trent Wheeler (CPO) Roger Rached (CTO)
Products	Music Data Video Data Sports Data Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) Technology Digital Video Fingerprinting Acoustic Fingerprinting
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 and Nielsen Global Media. In October 2022, Nielsen Holdings completed the sale of Global Media, including the Gracenote subsidiary, to a private equity consortium.