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Grupo Globo

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Organizações Globo Participações S.A.
Grupo Globo
Company typePrivate
IndustryMedia conglomerate
FoundedJuly 25, 1925; 99 years ago (1925-07-25)
FounderIrineu Marinho
Headquarters,
Brazil
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Brands
RevenueDecrease US$4.4 billion (2017)
Total equityIncrease US$542.5 million (2016)
OwnerMarinho family
Subsidiaries
Websitegrupoglobo.globo.com
Footnotes / references
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Grupo Globo (English: Globo Group), formerly and still legally known as Organizações Globo[3] (English: Globo Organization[4]), is a Brazilian private entertainment and mass media conglomerate based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1925 by Irineu Marinho, it is the largest media group in Latin America, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates.[5][6][7][8]

Grupo Globo's assets comprises over-the-air broadcasting, television and film production, pay television subscription service, streaming media, publishing, and online services. Its main properties include the flagship television network TV Globo; pay television content unit Canais Globo, consisting of cable television networks such as GloboNews, GNT, Multishow, SporTV, Viva, Gloob, and the premium film network Telecine; film production company Globo Filmes; radio operator Sistema Globo de Rádio; magazine and newspaper publishers, Editora Globo and Infoglobo; and the streaming service Globoplay.

Grupo Globo also engages in venture capital activities through Globo Ventures, and is the primary supporter of the Roberto Marinho Foundation.

History

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Logo of Globo's 100th anniversary (2025)

The company's first enterprise was the newspaper A Noite. With its success, publishing in the late afternoon, Irineu Marinho decided to launch the morning daily O Globo in 1925. After his sudden death, just weeks after its launch, his son, Roberto Pisani Marinho, became the company's director. Working actively in the media business, Roberto Marinho decided to invest in other areas and launched Radio Globo in 1944. However, the company only became recognizable nationwide after the launching of Rede Globo (now known as TV Globo), the world's second-largest commercial TV network in 1965.[9]

The company is currently run by the sons of Roberto Marinho: Roberto Irineu Marinho, João Roberto Marinho and José Roberto Marinho. In May 2013, a study released by media agency ZenithOptimedia showed Globo occupied the 17th place in a list of the top global media owners. It was the first time the company appeared on this ranking.[10] This ranking remained in 2015,[11] but in 2017 the company's fell to 19th place,[12] and in June of the same year Grupo Globo signed a joint venture deal with Vice Media.[13]

Assets owned by Grupo Globo

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  • Globo.com[15]
    • G1
    • Ge.globo
    • Gshow

Books, newspapers and magazines

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Other companies

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Former properties

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Corporate structure

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References

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  1. ^ "Grupo Globo explica reposicionamento". Meio & Mensagem (in Portuguese). 11 September 2014.
  2. ^ John Hopewell (23 February 2016). "Brazilian Giant Globo Reveals First Results, Strategies of New VOD Service Globo Play (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Organizações Globo adotam nova marca: Grupo Globo". O Globo (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Grupo Globo. 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  4. ^ Globo.com - Other Media, Rede Globo, archived from the original on 11 June 2015, retrieved 26 October 2017
  5. ^ "Grupo Globo sobe no ranking de maiores empresas de mídia do mundo". 29 September 2017. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Rede Globo se torna a 2ª maior emissora do mundo". O Fuxico (in Brazilian Portuguese). 11 May 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Maior grupo de comunicação do país, Globo tem novo comando executivo". Valor Econômico (in Brazilian Portuguese). 15 December 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Globo começa 2021 com nova marca". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 4 January 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Rede Globo se torna a 2ª maior emissora do mundo" [Rede Globo becomes the 2nd largest broadcaster in the world] (in Portuguese). O Fuxico. 11 May 2012. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  10. ^ "Top 30 Global Media Owners 2013" (PDF). Zenith. [dead link]
  11. ^ "Top 30 Global Media Owners 2015" (PDF). www.zenithoptimedia.com.cn. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  12. ^ "Top 30 Global Media Owners 2017". Zenith. 9 June 2017. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  13. ^ Lukas I. Alpert (22 June 2017). "Vice Media Signs Deal With Brazil's Grupo Globo". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  14. ^ Rede Globo. "Página oficial da Globo" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  15. ^ Globo Comunicação e Participações SA. "Globo.com" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  16. ^ "Sony Music acquires Som Livre". 1 April 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h Grupo Globo. "Grupo Globo". Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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