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Dave Davis Contributor Dave Davis joined Copyright Clearance Center in 1994 and currently serves as a research analyst. He previously held directorships in both public libraries and corporate librarie

Nielsen is expanding its Marketing Cloud by plugging in smart TV viewership data from Gracenote. Kelly Abcarian, senior vice president of product leadership at Nielsen, explained that the goal is to b

Media metadata company Gracenote is looking to be the one-stop data provider for TV providers, device manufacturers and various media distribution services. To do so, the company has unified its vast

Tribune Media Company announced today that it has agreed to sell Gracenote (which provides metadata around TV, music and other media) to Nielsen. Gracenote says it provides the data for 12 million mov

Music and video metadata company Gracenote is launching a new product for a new vertical, getting into sports data for the first time. To power the new sports product the company has acquired a couple

Gracenote is looking to improve car audio with a platform for identifying music from different artists regardless of which service users are listening to in their car. In doing so, Gracenote hopes to

Another day, another Gracenote acquisition. The Tribune-owned entertainment information company has bought yet another metadata provider -- this time Australia's HWW for $19 million USD. The purchase

It looks like new Gracenote CEO John Batter is already making a mark on the company he only officially joined yesterday. Today the company is announcing that it’s acquired Baseline, another provider

Tribune has hired M-Go CEO John Batter to lead the Gracenote team as its new chief executive. There he'll report to Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori and be tasked with setting the strategic direction a

Today Gracenote announced that Rhythm, its Internet radio and music recommendation service, is becoming a bit smarter with new inclusion of social data from Musicmetric. Rhythm is a white-label servi

Tribune announced plans to acquire Gracenote from Sony for $170 million in cash, and to combine the company with its Media Services business. More specifically, Gracenote will be part of a recently fo

Global consumer electronics conglomerate Sony is getting a tiny bit leaner with the sale of Gracenote, a business unit that provides audio recognition and metadata solutions to a number of device manu

Imagine watching a classic mystery film or seasons of Lost while using a second-screen app that gives you unofficial insights and conspiracy theories as their plots move along. That's the promise of G

Most TV commercials are poorly targeted and show things you'd never buy. But not for long. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gracenote.com/solutions/">Gracenote</a>'s new ad replacement system combi